pneumatic post driver vs gas powered post driver

#PNEUMATIC POST DRIVER VS GAS POWERED POST DRIVER PLUS#

Another show stopped is the pipe will be significantly weakened on the tapered ends where its threaded, and the drive couplers will rip it apart under pressure. It hits one rock or stone, its going to flex and the more that you drive in, at some point its going to cork screw and not get close to that. Two, even if it doesn't collapse, a hollow pipe isn't going to stay straight being driven that deep. One, the point isn't going to hold up being driven that deep. You aren't going to drive a 2' pipe 80' deep for several reasons. I've driven shallow wells by hand and using a pneumatic driver. My best advice to anyone.learn from MY mistakes so you don't make the same ones. I have to admit, that when I compared the wall thickness to the wall thickness of the pipe I ultimately used from a well supplier, the Menards was about half the thickness. I can't imagine even trying 80', and the pipe that I originally bought from Menards is still setting in a corner of a barn waiting to get used for something someday.but not a well.

#PNEUMATIC POST DRIVER VS GAS POWERED POST DRIVER PLUS#

This 2' barn well at 25' plus a 5' well head? Pneumatic, but am sure it all twisted and angled off even at 30'.

Pulled a 1' well at about 10' plus the well head, replaced with a 1.5' at about 15' plus the well head, and about a decade later pulled it and replaced with a 2' at 20' plus the well head.and sold the house, down all by hand which is a lot of work. Good for that is a once car axle welded to a 100 pound hunk of steel.the axle goes down inside of the pipe, and the whole thing gets lifted and dropped repeatedly on a drive couple that gets beat so bad it can never be used, but saves the pipe from getting beat up. I've driven wells by hand as deep as 25', and that's work. Takes about 30 seconds to drive, but the vibration takes its toll and will loosen drive couplers that should actually twist and bind tighter and generally do. You figure a 5' section of pipe, drive couplers, and a section of pipe to be driven by the driver and beat to snot, to hoist a pneumatic driver up that high takes a lot of umph, hence tractor loader to lift it and set it on the pipe. This is a 2' using a one horse pump and I had to use a tractor and load because of the weight of the driver. That's what a pneumatic driver can cause if you're not careful. And for two years, I had a problem loosing prime until it finally sealed. 25' is near max on a shallow well, but since I don't use it much. Down in one of the barns though which is down a hill into a valley, I only had to go down probably 25' for the water table, although I went down 25' plus a 5' well head, 30 feet total.which is wrong. Why 80 feet? Are you in the hills and that's where the water table is? I have a deep well feeding the house for water quality, but in reality where our deep well is, I would have had to go down probably 50 feet.

Yep, $4,000 is a lot of money, especially these days. That gets bored and generally sleeved 4' with a submersed pump that then feeds a 2' well pipe. Why 80 feet deep? That's deep well territory.

Pneumatic post driver vs gas powered post driver