The work in action
The hand auger at work
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See the hand auger drilling a well. This portable tool made well-building possible in island communities that a large drilling rig could not reach.
Transcript
Read in English
Automatically transcribed from the audio; may contain errors.
We actually drilled wells. It's an auger that you drive two people walk around in a circle
and you turn it, it pulls about a foot of dirt, foot by four inches of dirt out of
the ground and you, one foot at a time, you drill a well and once you start to hit water
you keep going and ideally you go about as far as you can go down unless you engage
rock or something impenetrable. We've got this hole in the ground. We take plastic
pipe that we've cut perforations in. We slip this down as far as the hole goes
and we put gravel around it. Once we've got that in the ground we can now drop
our pump down in the ground. You've got a well.
Read in Spanish · translation
Draft translation of the automatic transcript; may contain errors.
En realidad perforamos pozos. Es una barrena que se maneja con dos personas caminando en círculo
y haciéndola girar. Saca del suelo aproximadamente un pie de tierra, un pie por cuatro pulgadas de tierra,
y así, un pie a la vez, se perfora un pozo. Cuando se empieza a encontrar agua,
se sigue bajando. Lo ideal es llegar lo más profundo que se pueda, salvo que se encuentre
roca o algo impenetrable. Tenemos este agujero en el suelo. Tomamos un tubo de plástico
en el que hemos hecho perforaciones. Lo bajamos hasta el fondo del agujero
y colocamos grava a su alrededor. Una vez que está en el suelo, podemos bajar
la bomba al pozo. Ya tenemos un pozo.
