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Re: OT-WELL ideas please
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Posted by T_Bone on August 06, 2005 at 02:10:50 from (4.240.39.36):
In Reply to: Re: OT-WELL ideas please posted by Richard H. on August 05, 2005 at 15:19:17:
Hi Richard, A 4" casing with a 55ft static head will hold about 35gal. You can use a weight on a string to tell well bottom then use a float on a string to tell static head. I've also built a small static head detector from a 9v battery, electronic buzzer and T-stat (thermostat (cheap)) wire, under $50 including wire for 250ft. Just series wire the buzzer on one lead from battery, negitive or positive don't matter, and hook the other lead to the T-stat wire. The other t-stat lead will be on the battery post. Strip the T-stat wire ends 1/2" on both drop leads with a weight on the end (plumb bob works well). When the bare leads touch water the buzzer will sound. I've used this detector to 1000ft with good results. I would then trash pump the casing to see just how much water you can get from your test measurements. Pump into a known quanity container, 55gal drum?, and then time it, until you run out of water or pump sand/mud. That will tell you how much gpm your well will produce at that static head. A trash pump will pump small rocks and mud without damage. You can rent them pretty cheap just make sure it can pump at the suction head depth you need. Could be that the bottom of casing is full of mud/sand not allowing a strong static head. You can make a hand baler if this is the case if you can't pump it out. Do a google search to see how a well baler is made. Here we can not get a wellman to mess with a unkown well hole as he's at risk of loosing eqipment. Of course our wells are 500ft plus so he has more to loose. T_Bone
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