What is a manual drill for a well

Autonomous water supply of a country house is an excellent alternative to centralized water supply, and indispensable in the conditions of impossibility to connect to the main. Many homeowners prefer yet uninterrupted and predictable in terms of the ability to control the quantity and quality of water consumed - their own autonomous production and supply of a “source of life”.

At the same time having unhindered access to connect to the centralized water supply.

Own well

At the mention of drilling, many represent a complex process, which entails the assistance of a contracting organization owning the experience and skills of such work. Also possessing special heavy boring equipment. In fact, it is not so difficult, and in most cases is available for implementation with your own hands..

Usually those who want to save money on hired labor resort to this. After all, the price of professional services is not so small, and equipment and consumables will have to be spent considerably.

Note! Manual drilling can be the only possible way in the conditions of constraint of the site allotted for the well.

Drilling equipment

For drilling to different depths you may need:

• For shallow sand wells hand drill for wells.
• For deep artesian wells a bigger set:

• Directly drill.
• Tower for installation of equipment (tripod).
• Winch for lifting rods.
• The rods themselves.

Note! In addition, in any case, it is necessary to prepare casing. The diameter of the casing should not exceed the size of the blades of the drill.

A hand drill for a shallow well device can be purchased at the store, in private (from the hands) or made by hand (but this is of course for the craftsmen). We will talk about the first two options.

There are two types of Boers:

• For percussion drilling. The drill bit is made of durable metal and used for hard rock. It may not be useful to you if you conduct a preliminary analysis of the soil.
• For rotary drilling:

• Bur-spoon is used to work with soft, moist and non-crumbling soils. Such a device is a rod with a cylinder at the end, mounted offset from the rod. The diameter of the cylinder can be different, the length is about 70 cm. The cylinder has a longitudinal or spiral-shaped slot for grabbing the soil.

• The spiral drill is practically a drill of the huge size used in the showered and firm soil. The lower part of the drill is equipped with blades pointed at the ends, located on the rod in a spiral. The cutting steel parts of the drill must be hardened. The cutting edges of the blades are sharpened.

Note! For drilling a well, it is possible to purchase or rent a mini-drilling rig, which are presented in a wide range on the market of construction machinery and mechanisms.

Manual drilling

Let's proceed directly to the process of drilling a well, provided that you have completed the steps:

• Geological exploration for the detection of aquifers. For this, a trial digging is performed. If there are existing wells at the neighbors, this procedure can be avoided, just ask them what kind of soil is in the area.
• Permit-agreement point. Without additional paperwork, you can drill a well only on the first aquifer. Actually, the manual equipment is only possible.
• Designing a well and the entire house water supply system.

Tip! To perform drilling directly with a hand drill, it is better to invite a partner and turn the drill together.

Next step-by-step instruction on the device wells using manual equipment:

• Before drilling, to prevent soil from entering the well, one should dig a pit with dimensions of, for example, 1x1x1 meter.
• Screw the drill and pass no more than 30-40 cm, then pull it out to remove the soil from the blades.
• With the deepening of the base are attached special rods for lengthening.
• When reaching the aquifer, you should try to drill a little more to the waterproof layer of soil. When the desired depth is reached, casing can be installed. Will fit both metal and polyvinyl chloride pipes. Drill a few holes in the bottom for filtering.
• After installation of casing pipes, a well is necessarily pumped to remove dirty first water. Pumping occurs, as a rule, two to three days before the complete purification of the water supplied from the well.

Note! In this way, you can drill a well to a depth of no more than 20 m.

It is in such an uncomplicated way, even if it is laborious for a long time, that the well is carried out manually. It is necessary to understand here, if you have a lot of free time, then this task is within your reach;

Conclusion

The main difficulty that may arise in front of you is the insufficient length of the equipment, since the necessary level of water may lie much lower than expected. It is possible to solve this problem in two ways, either to be content with the water that will flow through the pipeline, or to hire special equipment.

In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.