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Well Water Woes

Everybody does stuff different I guess. There are tons of wells where I live irrigation and domestic and we have had some since way before I was born and never heard of an 8 inch case on the surface reduced down on a well of that depth. All the more reason to put in new and know for sure what u got.
 
The old cable rigs had a baler, 20 ft piece of pipe with a plug in the bottom, run it down the hole it fills from. The bottom up. The plug will let a lot of junk in to be hauled to the top. Just need a rig with a sand line that can cycle fairly quick. The banging around in the hole don't hurt any.
 
cowman52 said:
The old cable rigs had a baler, 20 ft piece of pipe with a plug in the bottom, run it down the hole it fills from. The bottom up. The plug will let a lot of junk in to be hauled to the top. Just need a rig with a sand line that can cycle fairly quick. The banging around in the hole don't hurt any.
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Ah...cable tools! I like all sorts of rigs--my experience with cable tools was a Bucyrus erie 36L---budda engine that would burn about anything flammable--nat gas, gasoline, diesel , kerosene---rigged up on a tandem carrier ==and pulled by a 57 chevy tandem, complete with 25T winch and gin poles, this little rig was rated at 2500' of 36" hole--if memory serves---and it's knda outa service---but all you had in the hole was your tool and some cable---slow, but cheap to run.

ok---your bailer has kinda a ball and socket on the bottem, with kinda a spud shaped chisel sticking out, that'd open it when on bottem ===you'd kinda snap it off bottem, try to get a good seal--when you got it outa the hole, you slacked off into a little trough that got the mess away from rig---it was on it's own hoist, when done bailing you just kinda shoved it over outa the way and leaned it against the derrick

common bit also looked like a chisel, it's cable was hung on a walking beam that picked it up a spudded it repeatedly, you kept slacking off on that line as needed---tool would twist this way that way on cable, hit different about every lick
 

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