Pretty cool find

[Bad Habit]

And yes I plan on covering it and also have let the timber cruiser know. I plan on saddle hunting there this year and don't want to fall in

You gonna saddle a Clydesdale?

[TheVisorGuy]

You gonna saddle a Clydesdale?

Took long enough. I thought y'all were getting slack around here

[Tha Dick]

We had to lower the wench cable down with my dad on the end one time when I was a boy to retrieve one of our pointers.

Yep, My dad and uncle did the same thing to save my grandpa's lab one year on a dove hunt. I was approx 10 years old at the time. Just had to stand back and watch. didn't realize how dangerous that crap was till few years don the road!!

[Swift Strike]

Found this just today while clearing a lot on my development hidden way back in the woods...Was surely known by someone, but was not advised of it's existence by previous owner...Unprotected and at least 30' to the water...Would have made for a bad day to fall into that.

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[Smilee]

Think about the folks that dug wells like this. Amazing work in my opinion.

[quack head 11]

Can you imagine having to dig that by hand and building the walls from rocks……dang it son

[quack head 11]

I may have been the only one wondering how they dug these wells but I did a little digging online and found this.

Pretty interesting



Here's how it was done (at least in his case), in case you're interested: You get a large cast-iron ring manufactured for this purpose, and set it on the ground where you want the well to be located. I don't see why this ring could not also have been made of stone, or even wood, but it was cast iron in this particular case.

Then, you begin digging out the center of the ring, gradually undermining it. As it sinks, you start building the brick lining on top of the ring, ABOVE ground. You keep this up, and the lining sinks under its own weight as you dig, sliding into the ground. Soon, you have one person digging at the bottom... and another up top, adding the bricks and emptying the buckets of dirt. Eventually the water starts coming in, and you keep digging until you can't continue. He said that the farmers typically waited until until the dry season - the dryer the better... that way, they could be sure that they would have water year round. If they were then hit with a long-term drought, they could use the opportunity to dig existing wells even deeper, by simply starting up the process again - send one person down the hole to dig, and have another up top adding bricks. Cool huh?

[TheVisorGuy]

Back when men were men for sure

[charlie horse]

Their asses were cold too.

[TheVisorGuy]

Probably from Mississippi too.