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Tapping Into Water Book

SKU: 100013785

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DIY guide for low-tech well drilling using common materials and tools.

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Description

Discover Low Tech Well Drilling Techniques and Tools!

This do-it-yourself book gives you the guidance you need for well drilling on "the cheap." Learn how to utilize common materials for fabrication of percussion bits, sludging pipes, bailer valves, casings, screens and more. Plus, find step-by-step instruction on how to rig and operate these low tech drilling devices for making your own personal well up to 100 feet deep.

Product Highlights
  • Filled with instructional diagrams, photos and illustrations
  • Paperback
  • 129 pp.
  • 9" x 6"
  • Sawyers

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Contents

Preface
1. Percussion Drilling to Create a Well Hole
2. Sludging (Reverse Jetting) to Create a Well Hole
3. Hand Auger to Create a Well Hole
4. Drive Points for Creating Ready Made Wells
5. Well Installation for Creating Ready Made Wells
6. Water Flow Development of New Wells
7. Hydrology Basics & Locating Ground Water
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