The question "is there water in the garden?" tantamount to thinking about whether or not to be a personal plot at all. After all, it is life-giving moisture for garden plants, and for garden trees, and for domestic animals, and, of course, for humans.
This begs the only suitable option: equipment at the well site for water supply. This, however, is a laborious process, and not cheap. Whether a wooden blockhouse is placed or concrete rings are mounted - as a result, this translates into an amount that is not affordable for the owner of the site. And it is simply unrealistic to do the work on arranging the well .
Another thing, if attention is paid to the well. This alternative option of water supply both at home and on a personal plot has already been repeatedly tested and successfully applied. Most importantly: one person can do such work as
drilling a well with their own hands .
It’s best to do a “ground exploration” first: ask your neighbors how deep the water level in their well is relative to the surface. If 5 meters or less, such a well and an ordinary
garden drill will be mastered. But if it’s deeper - you can’t do without a homemade design.
Do not be afraid: any person who knows how to work with metal can do a drill for a well with his own hands. It is required to create a construction of three main parts: the drill itself, devices for its manual rotation and a detachable pipe. You will also need three logs for the construction of a simple tower in the form of a tripod and a cylinder winch with handles for rotation.
A spiral drill for a well is done like this. One end of a metal rod is sharpened. A 2-3 mm thick steel disk is cut in half. These halves are welded to the rod opposite each other 200 mm from the pointed end at an angle of 20 degrees to the horizontal so that the angle between them is 40 degrees. You will get two knives, the lower edges of which need to be sharpened sharply. Such a drill for the
well, created
with its own hands , will quietly pass the earth and sand, clay soil and fine gravel, but can not cope with the stone.
It is good if you have access to work in the factory or in suitably equipped workshops. Then a spiral drill can be made from a strip of tool steel. To do this, you need to heat it, twist it so that a spiral is obtained, the step of which is equal to the diameter, and then harden.
When a tool suspended under a tripod rotates, it cuts into the ground with its knives and goes to a depth. Then, using a winch, a drill for a well with its own hands is pulled out of the pit along with loosened soil. As the well deepens, it is necessary to build up the pipe. The connection of its segments can be threaded or sleeve, but in any case it must be firmly fixed with a cotter pin so that when the drill rotates in the opposite direction, there is no separation. Work ceases with the appearance of soil liquefied with water in a pit.
A do-it-yourself drill for a well, coupled with devices, allows you to cope with the task alone, but if two people take on the task, fast and comfortable work is guaranteed.