Project: Water Well For the Girlfriend's Sister's House

I wasn’t in the Philippines when our well was originally dug. The girlfriend took a couple of pictures, but didn’t save them. So, I didn’t have any good pictures of the local crew digging our well. Fortunately, my girlfriend’s sister bought land near our house and is building a house.

In an earlier post, I talked about digging water wells in the rural Philippines, but I didn’t have any good photos to share at that time.

Step #1 is digging a water well. I used this as an opportunity to get the pictures I wanted from our well.

This is after four days of digging.

Sometime towards the end of the second day, they had to switch to the jackhammer.

On the fourth day, the well digging crew’s jackhammer died.

Luckily, I have a jackhammer. In the interest of keeping the girlfriend happy, I let them use mine. Under my supervision, of course.

That’s my brand new jackhammer in the next photo just before it started its first day at the bottom of the well. It’s not that clean now. It probably never will be again.

Here’s how we lower the jackhammmer, pointy end first, to the bottom of the well. There’s a guy down there waiting to catch it. Let’s hope that knot holds.

This is how water is removed from the well during the digging process.

This is rock being removed from the dig.

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