Yes, I know what you mean. When we lived nw of Tallahassee everybody had to have (at least all the well drillers stuck together & said that) at least a 900' well. 25 yrs. ago people were having to finance the wells cause the cost was $5-7 grand for the drilling alone. No one would do less feet then that. DH & I got a 3" pigtail on 3/4 gal. pipe, turned with a big pipe wrench & hand drilled that sucker ourselves adding pipe as we got farther & farther. I had a serving spoon & would scrape the clay off every time he brought the pigtail up. Winter, drizzling rain the whole time. I remembered from school the entire US has a geodetic survey so called the state geologist in Tally & he came out with the geological map & told us approx. where & how deep underground streams were running. That's where we drilled. We went down 33', put a sand point on 3" gal. pipe, put it down. Dropped a pipe inside that & we had all the water we wanted, crystal clear & good for 3 of the worst drought yrs. there in history up to that time.
Yeh, we know the hard way. Been there, done that more than I care to remember. At first we just had a pitcher pump on it till we could afford a real pump & tank. Lived in a travel trailer till we got a 12 x 24 "shed" built --- we called it a cabin because of the small size not cause it was made of logs or anything. Was just wood siding.
Whatever I get in this house we deserve. All our life has been the hard way.
