After reading all the stories makes me tell the stories I was told.
An old neighboring farmer who was in his late 60's when I was 16 told me when he was a kid he dug wells. Getting the bricks started was the hard part while water was running in. Said he wouldn't ever do it again.
My Uncle told me that they would use the steel rings off of wooden wheels and lower it down as you dug to make sure the whole was round. Then as you went deeper you always made sure the dirt bucket was in the center of the hole. This told you that you were digging straight down and not at an angle. My uncle had the old home made wooden hoist they used to lower the buckets up and down with. One full bucket of dirt would come up while the empty was going down. Then just the opposite with the bricks. Full buckets going down with empties coming up.
Then the last story I was told was one my Dad told us. When he was a kid he said they had a neighbor who went down in a well with a lantern to check out and clean the well. Lone behold when he got down deep enough there was flammable gas that was heavier than air that had settled into the well. It ignited -exploded and killed the man. So be careful when going into a well.
We have a well back home that was under a windmill. It's 93ft deep and all brick lined. Use to have 13 of water in it.
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