Jeff's Blahg

Well, well, well. Who would have ever thought this could be so much fun? We called a month or so ago about getting a well dug (ok, drilled) on our land. We were told that the price was $48 / foot and they wouldn’t be able to get to us until next spring.

No problem. We knew we were going to have to wait a bit… time to save some money for it.

Well… they called a week or so ago and asked: “Can you meet us at your land in 30 minutes?”. I guess they had some other job fall though and since our land is close to where the drill was they wanted to come do it NOW. Wow. That’s cool and all, don’t get me wrong, but the thought of finding that extra 10K to pay for it right now was a big unnerving. But more unnerving that that was having no idea how deep this sucker was really going to have to go… 120′, 166′, 200′, 300′, 400′ ??? We have people around us at all those different depths… one even down to 700′!!! Now that is a pricy hole in the ground.

Well… a couple days later they were at it. I just sat back and watched them go… $4 per inch… every pound of the drill … cha-ching. Every 20′ casing that went down.. $960 worth of cha-ching. Wow, that was nerve racking to me.

Well… It all turned out well and we only had to go down to 157′, which was nice because I was planning on around 200′. So, we didn’t have to spend quite as much as I was planning on.

Man, I wish I wasn’t such a worry wart sometimes! But, on the flip side, I now know quite a bit about the whole process… which probably won’t come in handy anytime soon.