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Old Well Point For Hand-Driving a Well (Or Use As A Nifty Paperweight)

$ 6.83

Availability: 58 in stock
  • Type: Not Available
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • Condition: Open box
  • Material: Carbon Steel

    Description

    I purchased this homemade well point from a man in my community 35+ years ago.
    He had used a point just like this to drive his own well in his back yard using galvanized pipe.
    The end opposite the point is 1-23/64" diameter (just under 1-3/8") and it is 1" long. It is (he told me) is sized to fit in the end of the galvanized pipe.
    The shoulder (at the base of the point) is 1-3/4" diameter
    Total height = 4"
    He told me that he drilled numerous holes in the first section of pipe for the water to come into the well.
    He then drove the pipe into the soil using a sledge hammer (probably with a protective cap, or sacrificial short section of pipe to pound on).
    Additional lengths of pipe were added with couplings.
    He only had to go down about 20 feet to get a good supply of water.
    He pounded a well to have a source of free water for his yard and garden. Water through the house cost him because he lived in a town with municipal water supply.
    I bought this point off him because I wanted to do the same thing on my property (I was building my own home on some rural property at the time).
    But I never used the point. I had a backhoe dig at a spring. Then, years later, I had a real well pounded in (60 ft and plenty of water). đź‘Ť
    So I've saved this little piece of hardware for all these years. It was shiny when I got it. It now has a nice patina of oxidation. But it's still solid.
    So what do you think?
    I will promptly ship this unique little chunk of promising steel to you by USPS Priority.
    Thank you.