Tag: shallow

Blasting & Digging A New Well

April 2, 2016 Article Social, Well Caps, Well Covers, Well Digging

No school like old skool when it comes to digging a well through rock. Blasting the rock was the only efficient way to continue sinking the well. Modern drills and breakers were struggling. We picked up on the Corallian sands aquifer within the Thames basin. We had to make a rather large sump and sand Read More

Very Old Belt Driven Well Pump

February 6, 2015 Article Uncategorized

This is a project we done last year. I have uploaded the video now to show the working of an old pump. This was before it was stripped and rebuilt. There would have been a rod which would have been connected to a hand dug water well pump to pump water from the well. There Read More