Driving A Well Point With A Jackhammer

A pipe cap screwed snugly but not tightly onto the threaded end protects it from being damaged or deformed while being pounded from above.

Driving a well point with a jackhammer.

The jdk comes with a driving bit and hsp t4 hammer spacer. Use the post hole digger to augur a starter hole where you want the well to be located. The sand point a perforated pipe of. Basically a driven well is installed by hammering a sand point and pipe directly into the earth to tap groundwater that may be literally right under your feet.

If you have electricity available then many folks around here use an electric jack hammer from the rental store to drive the well pipe. The jackhammer bit fits a standard 1 1 8 in. Try an electric jack hammer to drive on the cap. The driven well point is pounded into the ground where the well is to be by hand usually with a sledgehammer.

Alot easier than lift and pound. The jackhammer driving kit is great for large projects where the fastest installation is desired. Once it s firmly planted a motorized pipe driver is set up. A deep well is over 25 feet and will need some other type of pump than vacuum to operate.

Jackhammer driver kit for large jobs. That is my plan as they rent those for about 50 and save allot of work. Plastic well point is engineered to provide an ideal combination of easy driving effective sand control corrosion resistance and strength. The hole only has to be 3 to 4 feet deep before you can start driving pipe down.

Works well driving point down some 39 ft. The threaded octagon shoulder prevents turning while driving and forms a hole large enough to allow clearance for pipe couplings. Plastic well this 1 1 4 in. Includes driver bit and t4 series spacer.

There are several methods of getting a well point down to the water table but the one most used by people in remote places today is the driving method in which the point is driven downward like a nail. I plan to drive a sand point later this summer.