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Well Depth - Semtav - 05-31-2013
Any water well experts out there?
Just wondering how deep a well is if it takes 9 seconds from the time you drop a quarter in it till the quarter hits water and the sound gets back to you.
RE: Well Depth - Kurt - 05-31-2013
Dont know Brian.
But it takes about 11 seconds when you bail out of a plane at 1150" and your chute dont open when you hit the ground!
So much for John Wayne saying count to 10 and pull the rip cord
RE: Well Depth - Don McDowell - 05-31-2013
That'ld be a couple hundred feet or more, I'ld think.
RE: Well Depth - Don McDowell - 05-31-2013
(05-31-2013, 11:24 PM)Kurt Wrote: Dont know Brian.
But it takes about 11 seconds when you bail out of a plane at 1150" and your chute dont open when you hit the ground!
So much for John Wayne saying count to 10 and pull the rip cord
Sheez Kurt I figured you old plumbers would be able to tell to the inch how deep a well would be
Got the Gibbs mould and 50 bullets from the new baco ready to bring up to you.
RE: Well Depth - Kurt - 05-31-2013
I fell out of airplanes more then I did down wells
I have the cases all charged and ready for the bullets
RE: Well Depth - Don McDowell - 06-01-2013
I have a few of those Gibbs at 1.35 and 1.1 want me to bring em along? They're not wrapped so you'll have to suit yourself on that.
The BACO's aren't wrapped either , so be sure and bring your patches or the template.
RE: Well Depth - Gunlaker - 06-01-2013
(05-31-2013, 11:29 PM)Don McDowell Wrote: That'ld be a couple hundred feet or more, I'ld think.
Yeah, that's one heck of a deep well. If you neglected air friction and ignored the time required for the sound to get back, then a quarter will go more than 400 yards in 9 seconds.
Even if you took a second off for the sound to get back and added a bit of air resistance you are still talking several hundreds of feet.
I'll be that sucker would need a good pump :-)
Chris.
RE: Well Depth - Don McDowell - 06-01-2013
I know it seems like a half hour till a pipe wrench hits the water if something accidently happens to said wrench when pulling a windmill
RE: Well Depth - Timberlake - 06-01-2013
Around here, if you have your ear close to the well head, you'll get wet from the splash. Suspect that out there in Wy where Don lives you'd die of old age waiting on the sound to come back.
RE: Well Depth - Don McDowell - 06-01-2013
In places it's pretty deep, but other places like here at the house its 18 ft to water. Over on the school section the southwest corner they drilled a well and it was 250 ft, that windmill by the corrals 25 ft puts you to the bottom of the hole, and the windmill up on the north side there's 5 joints of pipe to the cylinder, and I'm not sure if that's the bottom of the hole or not.