dick turpin

This character turned up in my garden recently.

My first thought was that it was a Norwegian Blue

parrot of Monty Python fame, pining for the fjords.

Even my trusty Birds of Thailand bible seemingly

failed to put a name to it 

Hurrah......heavy rain in Isaan last night.

Just now, Gweiloman said:

To add on to what @Mike Lister said, the pipe needs to be supported. If you  send it down a few metres without support, I imagine that it would vibrate violently when the pump is sucking up the water.

Have since decided to leave the existing well intact as a useful

back-up when water returns and instead look at other means of

digging/drilling deeper. 

Just now, brianthainess said:

Where I live to have a proper bore, first you need permission from the Amphur, they charge between 100k-130k guaranteed water. They go about 25 meters deep. A huge very noisy truck mounted rig is used.

A self dug well does not need permission, and each concrete ring costs about 1k plus labour.

Think officially you need permission from the Ampur, but most private dwellings,

don't bother(including us) as it is difficult to check, but larger hotels and resorts

around us do have to go the formal route.

Just now, Dante99 said:

Hand‑dug wells can range in depth

from about five metres deep, to deep

wells over 20 metres deep. Wells

with depths of over 30 metres are

sometimes constructed to exploit

a known aquifer

Will get my spade out and go for the 20 metres.

Another thought comes to mind, if going the borehole 

route could it be put down the existing well hole and

thus save a few metres of initial drilling.

Otherwise, might send up the cloud-seeding drone.

3 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

At a guess, I would say about 15 metres, give or take a couple of metres. Attached is a picture of a recent well dug, about 9 metres deep. I asked the digger if he could go deeper but he said not really, it’s quite hard to breathe down there.

 

Thanks, my thoughts exactly

2 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

From what I know, there are primarily 2 kinds of wells. The first, more basic type is hand dug to about 8-10 metres or so. The sides are reinforced with concrete hoops. The way it works is that groundwater will seep in to fill the well. Mind you, the surface of the water will still be a good few metres below the surface of the land. The approximate cost for this is typically around Thb 10-15,000.

 

The 2nd better option is a bore well. This requires digging with a mechanical drill at the back of a truck and can go as far down as 100m or more. There isn’t a big hole dug. Instead lengths of pvc pipes are being pushed into the ground. This doesn’t depend on ground water but instead hits the actual water table. At the end of the pipe is, not sure what it’s called, well feed or something like that. It has slits cut into it for the water to flow in and then up, using a pump of course. This can cost anything from Thb 100k - 200k, depending how deep needs to go, whether rocks encountered on the way down, difficulty of terrain etc.

Got me thinking, there must be a physical limit as to how deep you can go with

a basic hand dug well, before you are forced to go the bore hole route. 

Just now, NorthernRyland said:

Oh so "Issan-style" is a thing? In other words it's a really crap well that only poor people would make. 

 

Why are you asking the question then if you know what a proper well is? Of course you need to get rid of your well and make something better. If you're living in a bamboo house with metal roof you should replace that too.

Calm down

Just now, NorthernRyland said:

I'm going to be making a well in the coming years and I'm told it will need to be anywhere from 40 to 100 meters deep as the land in on a slope. I don't know anything about wells but isn't 16 meters kind of pathetic? My wives dad has a well that's 40 meters deep and hasn't gone dry in decades.

 

Seems like these Isaan people didn't have the money required to make a proper well so they need to reinvest in the project and it right this time.

You are absolutely correct, you appear to not know anything about Wells. An Isaan-style well is hand

dug and only goes down to the depth of the ground water. At our main property we have a borehole

type well that goes down to 70 metres.......and stilll am worried it will run dry.

Yes, you guessed, the well at our homestead has run dry.

It is a 16 metre Isaan-style well fitted with concrete hoops

down to its base.

All that remains is a muddy slop.

What to do, we are not staying there at the moment, so

rely on communal village advice, which includes digging

out the mud in the hope of finding water, or checking on

the internal pump.

The only positive at the moment is that we do have a

2,000 litre storage tank, which we can fill by hose via

a govt water pipe on the property.

Any suggestion welcome, my personal "extreme" measure

is to dig another deeper well, to avoid any future problems.

. 

Have seen so many of these type of accidents on Thai media,

where you cringe, because you cannot understand why the 

bike rider slams straight into another vehicle without

attempting to take avoiding action, likely because their

eyes were not on the road.

Just now, Tiber said:

Specifically not OAP,  but more to do with long term issues Pension Credit, UC, PIP AA payments, Sickness payments, housing and so on.

Absolutely correct, with the aim of tracking down many of the above payments

which are sent abroad by fraudsters. 

Unfortunately, this in turn will have the effect of ensnaring OAPs living abroad and

still claiming a UK address to maintain a full pension.

The good news is the DWP says it is only going to be rolled out on a test basis from

next year and then take five years to fully implement..

All the more satisfying the fact she never saw it coming.

Don't know about "profuse sweaters," but

got a rather nice M&S cardie for Christmas.

Just now, JoePai said:

Bent as a nine bob note - the lot of 'em !!

As queer as....?

Just now, scubascuba3 said:

You're probably on benefits back home, sponging money from hard working tax payers

No am here, sponging money from hard working tax payers.