Digging a hole in China - GIFs

Digging a hole in China.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...665#post170599
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...440#post116871
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...054#post153382
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...725#post128929

Did he go down there to confirm that that was a hole?

This is called cable percussion drilling. It's an interesting technique. It's much slower than rotary drilling, but you can weld the tools together from junkyard scrap in an afternoon. The drilling can even be done by hand if you have the endurance for it.

The way they are going, they are going to end up in Kansas!

I don't think you could pay me enough to go down in that hole. I do wonder why and what he is doing. He is hold something in his hand when he goes down.

Ralph

I think he's holding the dumb end of the tape.

They have finished that hole long long ago........

Maybe to mushroom out the bottom so the piling doesn't sink. Same comment that there is NO way I'm going down a hole.

Wanna be confident the rest of the crew likes you!!!

Perhaps even pinch something the others wont leave without and put in ones pocket.

Ok ok I've got trust issues!

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Originally Posted by toeless joe

I think he's holding the dumb end of the tape.

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My father was a land surveyor. I haven't heard that expression in years! :)
Seasons Greetings Folks.... Stay safe and Stay well!

To elaborate on Elizabeth's post: Wellspring Africa's Hand Powered Percussion Drill

yea like the truck keys......

oh thats mosses, he's been going down holes his hole life we just call him holy mosses.:rimshot::rofl: I have dug well by hand, not that hard, just time consuming. I probably should of made a end like that, my brother said he or his neighbor had one, but nobody could seem to have time to find it. and Im not one for waiting around for somebody else to decide to get off thier ass. so i dug a 4" dia hole 6' deep then started the small hole. I got about 50'deep into some good h2o.but when I went to put the final well head down ther eapparently the water cam e up some and the walls colasped and it only went down about 25':angry: but it's still in water I was tired so it is what it is...I should of put liner in it as I was going down....I didnt.oh well it is what it is.someday..I wont redoo it.

I wonder that they did not send him down the hole head first.

:headscratch::sweating::idea::smash::soapbox: