garymc
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My cousin offered me the use of a piece of farmland his pivot wouldn't reach that had not been farmed in several years to create a muscadine vineyard. The first thing we did was to put in a well. I'll describe the steps taken in this thread with some pictures. I selected a location for the well and we went shopping for a 20 foot stick of 2" PVC pipe, a 5' length of two inch well tip, a cap for the well tip, an elbow, PVC glue, and a PVC to male Banjo fitting. I dug a hole about a foot deep and 18 inches across, another, slightly bigger, hole about a foot away from it and a shallow trench between the two. Then another shallow trench to the first hole about a foot from the prospective well location. Then we towed in a water tank on a trailer with a 2 inch gas engine trash pump on it. We attached a suction hose (long enough to put it 25 feet into the ground) to the discharge of the pump and the intake was attached to the water tank. The long hose has a 3 foot piece of metal 2 inch pipe attached to the end, "the drill." In the picture I'm holding the pipe end of the hose getting ready to start washing down the well.