Monday, November 12, 2007

Digging a well...it sucks!

Nothing spiritual about this post. Just giving you the scoop about a project I had going on around the house. Being the frugal person I am, I thought it would be good to save a lot of money and dig my own well. Yeah, "digging my own well" is just as it sounds...with manual tools. All in all I will have $300 in my well and it usually costs anywhere from $1,800 - 2,000.00 to have a driller come in and dig a well. So I saved money, but I can barely make a fist with my hands (I'm a wuss!).

So if there were ever to be a meaning in this meaningless post, I'm celebrating the end of the sand bucket process which is the brunt of the manual labor. Today I put my gravel pack on the outside of the casing to stabilize the formation. See, I can even speak the terminology!

So what have I learned from this process? That I'm super cheap and hand digging a well sucks!

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