How to dig a bore well, Indian style

First you can see that they are well underway at this point. The well is already about 20 feet deep. They drill out the first 15 -20 feet with a screw like device that goes fairly quick. Once they get to the water level though they have to switch to a laborious pounding device that slowly works it’s way down.




You can see the platform they have set up to work on. As they bore deeper the platform settles down until it hits ground level then they must add another 5 feet of casing on and start the process over.





You can see the piles of sand, they make these slowly by getting about 1/2 foot worth of sand then hauling it up to deposit it. It was about 98 degrees this day and they were trying to get done before the afternoon sun really started beating down. They finished two 25 foot wells in about 7 hours just beating the worst of the afternoon heat.