Posted: 7/14/2014 4:20:46 AM EDT
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A few hand tools, a couple of buckets and an industrial sized barrel of elbow grease. 
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I can't see your image but I am doing one right now. Lots of hard work but it is pretty fun. Here ya go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuzDyFquyqw |
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There is no doubt the guys are hard core workers... But that's a dam good way to get yourself killed...If you don't shore up the sides of that well. Buried alive would be a terrible way to meet your Maker.  Did you even see the type of soil they were digging in? They do need to oil that pulley though. |
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There is a bubble of fresh water sitting on top of salt water on a sand island like that. If you pump too fast you will draw brackish water though. http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/publications/techpublications/techpub-8d/F8fwlens.gif Quoted:
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Wouldn't a well that close to the ocean produce brackish water? There is a bubble of fresh water sitting on top of salt water on a sand island like that. If you pump too fast you will draw brackish water though. http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/publications/techpublications/techpub-8d/F8fwlens.gif That's a very generalized, almost best case scenario in that diagram. Saltwater wedge or toe is the google key word for more research on the topic. |
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Wouldn't a well that close to the ocean produce brackish water? I used to stay at a remote beach house (in Mexico no less) that was right off of the surf. When I asked the owner where his tank was, he told me that all the running water was from a well that's no more than 8 or 9 feet down. It wasn't potable, but it was clean enough to shower and flush turds with. I'm close to the beach, and at an elevation of about 25'. I hit my first pocket of water at about 7 feet, and it wasn't salty. My neighbor hit "sweet" water at about 30-35'. |
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Wells are still dug by hand when it is the only way it can be done.
Most of our 13 city wells were hand dug, the last pair was done in the 1970's, 15' dia 200 ' deep. Shore up with lumber going down ...line with brick coming up... pump 20 MGD when done out of each. |
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I'm impressed that there wasn't any bitching or moaning. They just got to work and did it. Quoted:
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They have their act together. 20 years ago in Belize I watched urban renewal. Buckets of wet cement carried up scaffolds by hand. I'm impressed that there wasn't any bitching or moaning. They just got to work and did it. Mexicans are not afraid of hard work, and approach it cheerfully. We could learn a lot from them. |
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Mexicans are not afraid of hard work, and approach it cheerfully. We could learn a lot from them. Quoted:
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They have their act together. 20 years ago in Belize I watched urban renewal. Buckets of wet cement carried up scaffolds by hand. I'm impressed that there wasn't any bitching or moaning. They just got to work and did it. Mexicans are not afraid of hard work, and approach it cheerfully. We could learn a lot from them. Yep. When I was 19, I worked for a construction company in south Tx. Mostly tearing off and shingling homes. Hot, tough work. Usually only 4 of us. 1 guy was straight from Mexico. Great guy. He didn't speak a lick of english, nor I a bit of spanish. He was the hardest worker I have ever met. He also always had a smile on his face and was always singing. Cool guy. |
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They have their act together. 20 years ago in Belize I watched urban renewal. Buckets of wet cement carried up scaffolds by hand. I got you beat. I saw a guy in Malaysia welding two parts of a ramp together without wearing a welding mask. It's cool though because he was wearing a pair of el cheapo sun glasses. Gotta think safety, you know. |
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Why couldn't we have those types of mexicans coming here? Or why couldn't they teach others that type of work ethic? Really? You ever worked a manual labor job with Mexicans? Or watched a crew tear off a roof? We have LOTS of extremely hard working Mexicans in this country. |
| There was a mexican I worked with when I worked building houses in High School. We called him pony tail and he couldn't speak a lick of english. We were about to start digging the water line and the excavator tore up so we thought we were done until Pony Tail grabbed a shovel and started digging. We wound up having to dig 200 feet of water line with 2 shovels and a Mattock all because he grabbed that damn shovel. Otherwise we would have waited until the excavator was fixed. He didn't even think twice. He knew it had to be done so he went to work and got it done. The older generation of mexicans and guatemalans are hardworkers and have very good values. It is the younger ones who have been corrupted by the white trash americans who have destroyed them. I rent to a mexican and he is truly a good man and hard worker. Don't think that the non working pieces of shit learned that in Mexico. They learned it right here in the United States. |
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Really? You ever worked a manual labor job with Mexicans? Or watched a crew tear off a roof? We have LOTS of extremely hard working Mexicans in this country. Quoted:
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Why couldn't we have those types of mexicans coming here? Or why couldn't they teach others that type of work ethic? Really? You ever worked a manual labor job with Mexicans? Or watched a crew tear off a roof? We have LOTS of extremely hard working Mexicans in this country. this, I worked with a crew of roofers yesterday, that damn near killed me, those guys were some hard workers. I tell you what, if a buttload of them get amnesty and are legal to work at a normal job, I know a bunch of white people that are going to be looking for work. speed |