Todays Project - What did you do today?

[awemawson]

I finally connected up my bore hole pump to provide free water for the wife's horticultural activities.

Desperate for a source of cooling for my Induction Furnace as my 39 KW water chiller had died, and knowing that there was an abandoned bore hole on the farm 'somewhere' that had been used for public water supply up to 1962 before abandonment due to high iron content, I made intensive attempts to open a 24" manhole that we haven't been able to get in for the thirteen years that we've been here. It was rusted solid - ended up breaking the concrete surround to expose a darn great hole full of water!

I've measured it as 174 foot deep, and it;s not just a bore, it's VAST - opens up to about 6 foot diameter, and according to the records was sunk in 1922 when it was producing 150,000 gallons a day!!!!!! It is slightly artesian and with the man hole unblocked started to flow over - so much that I've had to incorporate an over flow pipe to our stream!

I've made a new furnace cooler based on a humongous heat exchanger.

Full story here:

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