Hand Auger Shallow Well

After our latest extended electricity outage I moved "hand dig a well" to the top of my to-do list.
The hand auger method works great here in South Georgia since it is ideal for a shallow well/hand pump combination.
My brother in law used my auger and dug one for himself a week later.
The video is a description of what was used and a visual of how to do it - not difficult at all but sometimes you're looking for that one bit of information that you don't have or don't understand.

Awesome video, we have tried a method quite similar using PVC pipe and water pressure. I will be trying your "hand auger and extensions" method this spring since I believe we have some shallow springs under us.

Thanks for the info

Thanks for the kind words.

Check out a couple of the other videos I made on the well digging. One is about making an airlift bailer to help clean the well, and the other is s better way to auger by changing the pipe extensions to square tubing.

Airlift Bailer


Improved Auger Digging


Good luck!

We had an extended power outage last week as well and we do what we always do; go old school, walk across the road to my grandmother's house (we own it now) and pull the cover off her hand dug well made in the early 1800's. I have to yard up a 5 gallon bucket on a rope, but it gets us by.

Perfect thanks again