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[isdntekvideo]Drill A Well In Your Own Backyard!
Are you one of those people who has always wanted your own well... but could never afford it?
Are you tired of paying huge monthly bills and dealing with restrictions and limits to your water supply?
Would you like your own source of virtually free, pure, fresh water?
Well now you can have it! With our new revolutionary DIY Terragrinder you can drill a well in your backyard at a fraction of the cost of other water well drilling systems - so cheap in fact, that your well will probably pay for itself just by saving you the cost of a few water bills - and then start making you money!
Terragrinder is unlike any you\'ve ever seen before; it doesn\'t involve derricks and trucks, it doesn\'t involve heavy steel pipe, it doesn\'t involve endless hammering and pounding, and it doesn\'t involve thousands of dollars worth of special equipment. You don\'t need to be a mechanical genius and you don\'t have to have bulging muscles like Rambo. In fact, most of the work is so easy a child can do it! Most of the components will fit in a checked suitcase, making it ultra portable!
It works like this: a small but powerful air-powered drill is attached to the end of a length of 1” PVC pipe. The drill turns a specially designed drill bit which cuts the hole. Simple enough, right? Now comes the cool part: the exhaust from the air tool is ejected up the back side of the drill, and up into the pipe. This creates a vacuum at the back of the drill, which sucks water into the pipe. This water is then blown up the pipe and out on the ground, which in turn creates a new vacuum, which sucks in water, which gets pumped out... and voila! We have a pumping system to remove tailings from our well!
Water is added to the hole from a local source such as a hose or 55 gallon drums but it does NOT have to be pressurized! Its only job is to dilute the tailings in the hole, the air exhaust from the drill is what does the pumping. The pipe itself never twists, only the bit at the very end of the pipe turns. And since this system IS so simple, and since there are so few parts to this system it is incredibly inexpensive when compared to every other home well drilling system on the market, which often cost several thousand dollars!
Terragrinder can drill through rock, clay, sand, and any strata that is drill-able. Of course, like any rig, rocks and clay will slow it down substantially. And there are some types of strata that even the big rigs have trouble drilling, such as glacial murrain (a lot of smallrocks varying in size between a thumb and a toaster). Obviously, if the big rigs can\'t drill it, neither can we. But if a home drilling system can drill it, ours will do it for a fraction of the cost of the other systems out there.
And there are ways to work around glacial murrain in many cases, so talk to me if that may be an issue for you. Terragrinder kit comes with a deluxe bit for 4\" casing (actual bit size is 5.75\") which is the best bit we have been able to design after 20 years of testing. Made of hardened steel with a special caroffere-matrix hard surfacing, it rarely needs sharpened or replaced.
Also included is our Make-Your-Own-Wellscreen Tool, which allows you to make all the wellscreen you want for only the cost of a piece of 4\" pipe!
This system is designed to drill a large enough hole for 4” casing. We also offer bits that drill a hole for 6\" casing. On the other hand, if your needs can be met by drilling a 3” or 2” well, the system will drill much faster and if you expect difficult drilling you can drill out a small hole and then ream it out to a larger one later. If you have special needs for your well, please contact me and we may be able to design a special kit tailored to suit you.
It comes with our field guide/shopping list and 4-hour DVD instructional course, to help you through the step-by-step assembly process as well as coach you through any troubleshooting you might need!
This item is our Deluxe Ready-To-Drill Terragrinder kit. It contains most things you need to start drilling your well, which is the following items; enough of each is included to drill up to 100\' deep in most areas:
*Terragrinder drilling tool
*Deluxe clay/rock/sand drilling bit
*Make-your-own-wellscreen tool
*Air-powered water pump
*Inline air style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">*Quart of food-grade vegetable based air tool oil
*Pint of drilling mud (to help reduce cave-ins!)
*Troubleshooting and field guide booklet
*2-DVD set with over 4 hours of instruction covering every aspect of well drilling
The actual drilling process is so effortless it usually is done from a lawn chair! Invented here, we\'ve been helping people drill wells using this system for 15 years, and it is listed now at only a fraction of the cost of other well drilling kits on the market! And this system, properly maintained, can be used to drill well after well with only the occasional replacement of a few very inexpensive parts!
There are only a few things that you will have to find locally to start drilling your well; 150\' of 3/8\" or 1/2\" air hose; 300\' of 1/4\" rope; 160\' of 1\" PVC pipe, 100\' of 4\" PVC pipe, 4\' of 6” thin-wall PVC pipe, an air compressor (if you don\'t already have one capable of delivering at least 17 CFM@90 PSI, we suggest renting one), a few scraps of 2” and 1” pipe and a few small odds and ends which you may already own such as duct tape, and that\'s it!
If you\'ve always wanted your very own well, I believe this or one of our other kits to be the cheapest, easiest, and best way you can get it. If you have any questions about the items included in this kit, or the process itself, please feel free to contact us!
But first, you should check out our frequently asked questions page, visit us at drillawell.
