Getting Started: Well Drilling

Throughout my first series of blogs I will be writing about water well drilling. Over the past several years that has been my occupation, and I found it to be quite and interesting job. In this occupation you never no what your going to find at a job, and by that I mean no two jobs are ever exactly the same, with this going down to the slightest detail of a well. Therefore in the following blog I will begin by briefing the history of water well drilling. Including the earliest known water well, what people made it, and where is was located, along with the time frame. Within the history blog will be information on the earliest designs and how they created them, as to the fact they didn’t have the machinery we have today. Knowing that having water was a big part of the process in our country’s advancing into a civilization and being capable of industrializing, water well’s are a big part of not just the country but the world.
In succession I will talk about how water well drilling has evolved over the years. This will include earliest equipment used to drill the well’s up to some more recent well drilling equipment. Machinery use to be built by using just a wooden frame that was equipped with a system of pulleys and had to be towed to the location it was to be used for drilling. The early equipment is what we call a pounder and using this type of machinery is becoming a dieing art. Whereas today the more widely used machine of choice is called a rotary. On top of that will be the first well designs, compared to what they more recently, and how they have built up to this day. Well drilling has gone from taking us days and days to complete a well to being able to do one in a matter of hours. However it all depends on the depth you have to drill, the material your drilling through, and the power of the machine. Well drilling is becoming more advanced everyday.
What well drilling has becoming to this day is quite extraordinary. From near fully automated drilling machines to the complexity of materials you must use to keep them to code. Being a well driller requires as much intelligence as a doctor. I say this because being a well driller requires you to remember everything step by step. For every step or mistake made you could be costing yourself a fortune because well drilling is not a cheap trade to take up. Therefore in my final blog about well drilling I will talk about new machines, materials used at what depth, neat tools to make certain jobs easier, and experiences I have had being a well drillers assistant. Although I have only had several years of experience in this line of work I have gotten quite a wide variety of problems or jobs already and has sparked my interest of learning more. Following my well drilling series I will go into my small collection of hats (different work experiences and qualifications) that I have acquired over working most of my life and the different types of working I have done.