So i would like to dig a well close to a dry run. It floods a bit when it rains a lot, and deposits rock.
I’m in a place that didn’t get glacial drift in the last ice age, so the formations have been there for a loooong time.
I have dug down 7’ to make a well pump room. It’s about 2’x4’x7’. Im in wisconsin, so i went below the frost line for the pump and pressure tank etc.
I dug by pick-adz and shovel.
I’m now trying to auger a deepish-shallow well. I may have a deepish well pump (more than 25’) depending on the depth.
I blacksmithed a rock breaker to put on my auger’s extensions to break up rock, but sometimes my auger grips the larger rock and doesn’t want to bring it up.
Any fancy tricks for this? I thought about attaching a large whisk and stabbing the rocks to get inside of it.
A grabber tool seems a bit difficult to wield, but ive thought of modifying a cheap post hole digger and have it close with a spring and pull it open with a rope.
I know, i
should just try a different area. It’s a bit of an alluvial clearing and the whole space is rocky.
It’s just for a temporary place to put a trailer home while i build something more earthy.
Ive been wanting to do rain catchment forever, but my gal is set on having a well, so here i am.
She’s a bit more open to it after she sees how hard it is without having a million dollars to get a company to drill to the aquifer.