Thanks guys. Update. My in laws had it drilled sometime after 1962. Water test showed too high in nitrates so it just sat with a rock over the top all these years. I suspect that it is cased so deep with open hole below. The driller would have been required to cement the casing through all the surface zones but don't know how far the casing runs. Don't know who the driller was but it was never completed. This is in central Kansas probably about 10 miles west of the equess beds but not in them where the good water is. Have no other information. I suppose I could always run a 6 inch PVC liner in the well if necessary.
I may try to run my go pro camera with a flashlight to see what can be seen. I can run a piece of pipe on a rope and hammer on the bottom for a while to see what it stirs up.
I bought a big pump because they are too expensive to buy and then find out I wasted money on one too small. Too expensive to have a driller move back in for a test. This will be an expensive test as it is with 300 feet of wire, etc. Knowing it had some sediment in it, I put a couple wraps of window screen clamped around it.
Tested tonight after 26 hours of rest. Added a pressure gauge and quarter turn hose nozzle. Started flowing with 10 psi. Started to close the valve and it jumped up to 135 psi. Opened it back up to flow steady at 100 psi. It flowed for 17 and a half minutes. Bucket test was 40 seconds for 5 gallons which computes out to 6.67 gpm. Total output was about 116 gallons which comes out to just under 4.5 gallons an hour recovery rate.
Still waiting on more pipe then I will pull it and run the camera etc. If the switch on a pressure regulator means it cuts off at low pressure and then I need to reset it manually to restart the pump then I can live with that. I will have to experiment with choking it to run at 60 psi. Thanks for your help so far. Will try another test tomorrow evening at 60 psi.
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