In Malaysia we place a precast reinforced concrete (RC) cylinder upright on the site. We start digging on the inner ground and the heavy cylinder will lower by itself into the ground. When the cylinder is level with the ground place another cylinder on top and so on until clean water at the deeper level is obtained. Water will seep in between the cylinders into the well. The top few cylinder joints can be joined with sealant to prevent dirty water of top levels seeping in. No danger of wall collapse.
I'll be thinking of these hard workers every time i go to my kitchen sink, open the faucet and get a glass of cool clear refreshing water....respect ❤😪
I was a power lineman and working in the Irvine area and getting ready to set an hundred foot steel pole. Forty feet of it went into the ground. While digging the hole with a well digger we broke through the ground and there was a rushing river at the bottom of the hole. Frankly it scared the heck out of me. If you fell into that no one would ever see you again. We had to dump abound 20 yards of concrete to bring it up to where we could set the pole. We set the pole and encased it in foam.
My first job in 1968 was digging 8 foot deep and 3 ft. wide ditches for water services in Calgary Alberta Canada. The pay was $1.10 an hour. I could usually dig 8 to 10 feet long in clay a day. These fellas have my respect ! ! !
Wonderful work on the wells. Just amazing. I saw so many techniques that were used build these. The small can of water on the brick to check that it was level, the stick across the wall at it's center using the marked shorter stick to keep the round wall evenly round, the rope around the larger pipe for the 3 guys to turn the pipe and join it to the lower pipe. Most exciting video I have seen on well building. 😄
Using those folding sacks is a lot more efficient than filling buckets like most builders would use. Good idea to speed things up and save a lot of shovel work.
So much can be learned by doing manual labor as a young person. The benefits are physical and mental, and sometimes, it becomes clear that your energy has to be put in another direction.
