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Originally Posted by Just call me Sean
I wonder how long it takes an Amish family to drill a well.
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They apparently had a professional "English" well driller out her to look at it, so it will be done with modern equipment. Funny, they won't drive (or have a drivers license) but they will hire "the English" to taxi them around when needed. There was some guy in a big van that brought them out here yesterday.
The "lunatic A-hole" had an outfit out here drilling a couple years ago. Apparently they went down 100' and didn't hit water and that was the end of it. I don't know if the new folks are going to have that well drilled deeper? Unless you're right in the crick bottom you have to go pretty deep to hit water around here, and sometimes not at all. Our well is 300' but the water came up to 50-60 feet from the surface after they hit the aquifer. You could
almost siphon it down into the coulee.
The "lunatic A-hole" was real nice when he first bought the place. He and his brother stopped by to meet me and we chatted for a couple hours. We called them the "Georgia Boys"
Jolly old Rednecks, my kind of people. Then I guess he started taking pills for his back and got addicted and started pulling stunts to get more pills. He had a bunch of dogs and would let them run loose even when he (apparently) went to town for several weeks at a time to stay with his brother. That's when the trouble started but it was like six years after I shot one of the dogs and we hadn't talked to him all that time that he stopped me out on the road when I was on horseback and threatened to kill me. (I think I told that whole story on the old "neighbors" thread a while ago.)
It's really pretty sad but still he's been a real detriment to an otherwise nice little community so I don't have much sympathy. I don't think he has any bodies buried up there, but
I don't know about the other place behind us because of the now long gone guy that owned it when we moved out here
One of my daughters used to have a cadaver dog and I always wanted to have her check out the place. There's a nice young couple back there right now, but we've told them that if they ever want to sell that we will be first in line to buy it!