>How does the water get in the well? It doesn't seep in through the well casing, right? So if it all gets in through the bottom, what's pushing it up and into the well? Is it the weight of the surrounding water?
>What's the best way to pump water by hand from a well deeper than 25 feet? Anything less involved than a hand crank bucket system?
>what's pushing it up and into the well? Is it the weight of the surrounding water?
Yes, the same way as any water level.
>What's the best way to pump water by hand
Archimedes' screw.
youtube.com/shorts/2gNrOhO3G0o
>Archimedes' screw.
Can you build one vertically? Otherwise it would be quite useless for a well.
Does not work vertically.
This is particularly stupid advice. Consider how much metal you're moving relative to water. And how you will support the bearing given that the screw weighs a hundred times more than the water output. And slant drilling? Ask saddam how that goes.
This system was actually designed to move water between dykes, where you're only lifting the water a foot. But people quickly worked out how to use bullock and mills to achieve the same thing.
There's a bunch of YouTube videos on this
Water flows through the ground
Modern wells don't have cavities, just the screened inlet at the end of a long pipe down where there's clean water
>Modern wells don't have cavities, just the screened inlet at the end of a long pipe
What sort of well is that? In freedomland every well is more or less like pic related, where the pump is attached to a long pipe that is lowered inside a larger pipe.
>It doesn't seep in through the well casing
depends on the casing sport.
>what's pushing it up and into the well? Is it the weight of the surrounding water?
this is what when you have schools that teach "diversity", and "critical theory" and nothing useful.
Answer the question you worthless homosexual piece of shit
Other people already answered it, stupid head.
How cute. It is "diversity" and "critical theory" that makes Americans stupid. Yeah. Right.
It certainly is, you communist homosexual. Now frick off and we'll get back to talking about bores and wells, you vapid c**t.
The cheapest way to get water up is a 12-48v brushed pump that's about $70 and runs off a DC battery. You'll need to buy the 1" well pipe, a black poly sort of pipe, probably $1 ft.
And get the proper fitting from the pump thread to the 1" barb. These pumps come from china and have a rinky connector.
I want to use a hand pump system because I don't want to have to rely on electricity for my access to water. The whole point of getting a well is that it gives me access to infinite clean water for free, but if I use an electric pump, then I can't access my infinite free water without a steady supply of batteries, gas for a generator, solar, or something else.
You literally need any old car battery and a solar panel with a charge controller. Yes that's another $200 but when you look into the cost of a hand-pump for deep water it's $500+.
Hand pump is fine to wash your damn hands or grab a drink for you. Cows take 35 gallons a day, for instance. You want to irrigate your garden? Good luck.
I'm not a cow farmer. I don't plan on keeping cows anytime soon.
I know you can install a hand pump and an electric pump simultaneously. I want the hand pump because I don't want to have to rely on electronics to access water from my well.
There is an abundance of information on the internet about electric well pumps, because lots of people are buying them for new wells or to replace manual pump systems on old wells. I asked specifically about manual systems. Do you really have to argue with me that I'm wrong for looking into a manual system?
vvv 60 - 70 ft lift vvv
https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/pvc-manual-well-pump-zmaz00jjzgoe/
> is not a cow farmer
> doesn't understand how livestock turns useless grass into fertile soil, meat and milk
Enjoy a 100% lettuce based diet!
>> doesn't understand how livestock turns useless grass into fertile soil, meat and milk
Do I need to be a cow farmer to understand this
>Enjoy a 100% lettuce based diet!
No thanks, I mostly eat meat
>or something else.
That's cool
>I want to use a hand pump system
>The easiest option is a hand pump.
You're going to draw brake fluids, motor oils, anti-freeze, etc. into your drinking water supply.
Look up the H2o Mechanic YouTube channel. Water Well driller in Virginia that has tons of videos on the whole process start to finish, repairing broken water wells, they do frac'ing as well to increase the GPM of existing wells. Neat channel.
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Don't know if it's the correct way but looks interesting.
>How does the water get in the well? It doesn't seep in through the well casing, right?
The bottom section of the well casing is often a sand point. A perforated section of pipe. So yes, it does just seep through the well casing.
>It doesn't seep in through the well casing, right
Pretty sure the lowest sections of casing are perforated for this in most wells
By the time you've pulled 20 litres of water by hand you're going to have wished you'd set up a better system.
The easiest option is a hand pump. They work, they're cheap, reliable. Then there's a windmill which basically just turns a hand pump. Then there are siphon/vacuum force systems, kind of niche.
>How does the water get in the well
Stick a piece of pipe into a swimming pool's water. The pipe is instantly full of water. Put a lid on the top end to prevent bugs and dirt from falling in and you have yourself something that's just like a well in principle.
Two-stage pump and a high-mounted water tank will give you your desired autonomy in case of a pump failure, but really, pumps mostly fail from wear or from short cycling when a pressure tank is faulty. Most pumps will last 20 years in service.
Check out this old house, they have a segment on replacing a well pump and upgrading the pressure tank.
See the baptist method for drilling a well in non rock.
There are two common types of residential well pumps. Shallow, which injects into the well to create lift and deep well which is a submersible.
I hate the injection pumps. They suck
The most common repair of the submersible pumps is the torque breaks the wires. I've always installed 2 baffles on the pipe, one just above the connection to the well pump and the second about 9 ft up.
Always ensure the check valve is good between the tank and the water tank
^ well and water tank ^