I am building a well bucket for my well I hand drilled last summer. I am using schedule 40 , 3 inch pipe and a rubber ball in the bottom to allow water in. this is all my idea and home made #diy #water
Did you borrow that design from those old galvanized water buckets? They worked just about like that. They were a galvanized tube just about that same size, attached to a pull rope and pulley. When the water was pulled up there was a trigger at the top of the bucket. You held your container under the bucket and pulled the trigger. The water came out the bottom. Uncle had about an 80 ft drilled well in a limestone aquifer. Don't know how many times as a kid and on a hot July day I begged my Uncle to pull some of that fresh cold sweet water up from the bottom of that well. Cold enough to give you a brain freeze and sweet as soda pop. He always did because he was proud of his water.
Hey Justin! THAT was a very clever solution! Your were certainly, "thinking outside the box", on this one. Dare I say it?! Well Done! (I dared.) The Mark II version might have a perforated end cap and the ball attached to it with a short length of string. The perforations would let the water come in... the ball would still form a seal... and the end cap would keep the ball from falling out.
Justin I do the same type stuff . Like making things and thinking outside the box . Good job 👍. Can you use a old fashion hand pump on that size well pipe?
Excellent job!! I made one back in the early eighties when we first bought her place they were no City water out here so we had a well-drilled we didn't even have electricity here so I had to make a wheel bucket and could not afford to buy one I took a piece of 3 inch PVC pipe put a reducer on 1end from 3 inch to 1inch put a tennis ball full of sand so it wouldn't float with a nylon stream attached to the tennis ball on the inside of the wheel bucket worked very good for many years you have a great idea there thanks for sharing
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