Do yourself a drilling ram how?

[dedeleco]

Okay, apart from burying the pool which does as much work with less flint on the surface ???
In the Vosges there is a lack of water in winter (too cold)?, It's in summer for watering.
Good luck digging, because it is not easy resting the hard flint blocks and my wishes so that the water arrives quickly. !!

[bernardd]

Just a few "crazy" questions, because I have no experience with flint blocks (my ancestors may be but the memory is lost :-))

If you take out the sand / earth in pressurized water, the flint blocks will come down and make a "hollow" filling of your well, which is pretty good, isn't it?

What is their size?

What happens if you pierce them with a modern hammer drill?

[Forhorse]

They are ten kilos.
If I take out the earth (clay) in which they are located they will actually go down a little and very quickly pile up to the point it will no longer be possible to get anything out with the water.

With the perforator, the flint bursts sharply into several pieces. it also works with a pickaxe or a crowbar with the disadvantage that it resonates a lot in the joints.

[bernardd]

Egyptian method: you attach them to a balloon full of air and you fill with water :-)

Otherwise I dream of a modern high frequency hybrid water jet: easy to use and inexpensive to drill 50mm up to 10m.

[coucou789456]

Good evening

mmmm .... by Egyptian method, I thought for a moment that you would offer slaves, that also works and it's less tiring, except for the one who gives the lashes!

without laughing, actually blocks of flint of ten kilograms, it's not nothing and difficult to get out ... but the presence of these flints of this size in clay seems strange to me, especially this size. would it be backfilled land? otherwise I do not see how they managed to find themselves in clay soil, clay certainly deposited in the alluvium of an ancient watercourse.

jeff

[chatelot16]

it reminds me of a good way to dig a well without getting tired

the chateau de joux near pontarlier: the sir de joux we made their castle at the top of the mountain and locked their prisoner in the well to be dug: they only came back up if they had dug enough ...

according to my recollection this well was at least 5 m in diameter!

[dedeleco]

Otherwise I dream of a modern high frequency hybrid water jet: easy to use and inexpensive to drill 50mm up to 10m.

I too dream of a drilling robot that digs with camera and manipulator arm, waterproof under pressure to dig in any direction, at the end of a flexible pipe.
Technically it is possible with imagination, but you have to tinker with it from a perforator motor and manipulator arm mechanisms to direct and unlock it in all circumstances.

I have a 70m deep sand well with pump blocked to go back to the practical level !!!!!!

In addition ideal for drilling and storing heat underground in summer and recovering it in winter !!
Why do tankers not have such a system, except at the bottom of the ocean?

[dedeleco]

It going ?? spring and horses keep busy ???
I will have to make a tree or bamboo windmill, miss the pulleys !!!

[Forhorse]

Okay, so I bring up this subject to say that the idea of ​​the well or drilling is more or less abandoned.
I found another source of water (this is the case to say)
Having had the opportunity to recover not far from 300m of PE irrigation hose of 16, I was able to install a catchment in the source of a neighboring plot (with the kind permission of the owner) and the small but sufficient elevation gain allows me to bring water to my stable without any external energy source.
The length and the huge pressure drops mean that the flow rate is very low (around 600l / 24h) but that ensures me a constant and largely sufficient supply throughout the year (even there, at the end of the year, after a dry summer the source gives 10 times more than I would ever need)

The only concern will arise in winter, during the periods of frost, but I will try to bury the pipe little by little and in passing to increase the diameter section by section (bury the PE of 25)
I will use the hole that I have already dug for my well in order to bury 2 tanks of 1000l (I recovered another during the summer) in order to put them out of frost.
At worst I would therefore end up with about 20 days of autonomy in winter. It is rare that we have such long freezing periods, and I really hope a few days of thaw between each period in order to replenish the reserves ... while waiting to bury the entire pipe and have a supply constant.

[tigrou_838]

hi, you're lucky to have a source not too far from home, in addition with the right drop to bring the water by gravity, the problem will arise in winter, you will have to bury the pipe at a good depth to avoid freezing especially in the Vosges, when a pipe is frozen, it takes a long time for it to thaw completely and flows normally, given the length, it will be hard hard.

you have to see how deep it no longer freezes in you.

I offer you another solution:

leave the hose as long as you need water in your tanks, and especially when you no longer need, completely empty the water hose with compressed air.

I know that in the Vosges the weather can be very cold and very long, so I do not know if the pipe even in the middle of the day will not freeze due to the diameter.

oupssss i just went back up and saw that the drilling will be in the seine and marl, so you forget what i said on the Vosges. SORRY.


tigrou