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you could drill your water well with a variety of methods, but it would be wise to spec the job and bid it out. if you are doing this just for the mud, you might find it cheaper to drill the well w/ one method and obtain the mud from a supplier (like george mentioned)...the amount of mud you would get from drilling is totally dependant on the depth and diameter of hole you ultimately drill....hard to say....what depths are the aquifers? Thanks, Dave. We're not drilling just for the mud...we need the water well as it is. We have a driller coming in. We were just hoping to get some good dirt out of it without having to have more brought in. We figured that the forage ponds will need to be sealed and we might have the right kind of clay with the drilling. It seems that was wishful thinking. Worst case scenario: we'll have the well drilled anyway and find another way to seal the ponds. I'm not sure how deep the other water wells are in our area. I'm guessing ~200 feet to decent water. Don't know how many gpm we'll get. The Carrizo aquifer would be the most ideal, but a turn-key well to the Carrizo would be $100k. No thanks.
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Yep Eric, it was definitely a cable tool rig. The bit was screwed or welded onto a long piece of 8 to 10 inch pipe which was picked up and dropped, actually pounding and pulverizing the rock. Five gallons of water was added to the hole to suspend the crushed rock. After awhile, the bit was pulled and a long pipe was put down to bail out the crushed rock/water slurry. Then start again. When the tip of the bit got worn down, it was refreshed by welding with some super hard welding rod and semi sharpened.
The real character builder was when the bit found a softer spot at the edge of the hole and started going off center. This could cause the whole works to hang up and the rig started jumping around, breaking cables and causing a life threatening situation. Run, Forrest, Run! We watched carefully to see that it was still dropping/pounding straight. Then the rig was shut down, repairs made, and try to fish the pipe attached to the bit out of the hole. Sometimes it was dynamited downstairs to attempt to free the bit. Sometimes we had to abandon the hole and start over. All that for $6.00 a foot in 110+ degree temps.
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