sandpoint

I just installed a new 1-1/4” sand point well. I’m currently at about 20 feet down. It’s all sand to about 19 feet and then it feels like gravel. I can feel it if I turn the pipe with a pipe wrench. I initially drilled a pilot hole with 1” pvc pipe and a water pump. Worked fantastically until I...

Hey all, thanks in advance for any and all advice! Here at my cottage in Ontario, we pull from a sand point with a piston pump into a tank which ends up just over half water to air and then up an approximately 15' vertical rise to the cottage system. This system has worked for 30+ years with...

I'm interested in building a vertical axis wind turbine. I'd like it to be useful in generating DC voltage along with the ability to run a pitcher pump (with the right gearing so I don't destroy it). I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on using a rear differential to "convert" the vertical...

OK so I started driving a 1-1/4 inch well point, got down to around 30 feet checked and had about 9.5 feet of water in pipe. so took waterhose ran down the pipe and turned on tried to clean out the pipe. after it finally reached top of the well pipe. the water would drain back down at a good...

Hopefully you can see diagram of my sandpoint well below. I have an old cabin and had to replace the sandpoint. I put in 2" pipe as shown below, with check-valve up at the top. I was told the shallow well jet pump I had would pull water 20 feet, and as you can see below, I am at only 16 feet...

Hi! I purchased a house that has a sandpoint well installed in ~1990. This is a direct driven point well (no casing) that is a 2" steel pipe that is only used for an underground irrigation system. When I did the washer-on-a-string method, I measured a depth of 23 feet until I hit the bottom so...