Old dug well 75 feet

Posted by Jim Elbrecht on October 23, 2009, 10:39 am

>I plan to fill in this well. Any particulars known? It has concrete box
>around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete, dump it
>down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle and dump
>it down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel dumped on the
>well so most if it falls down the hole and use my tractor to push in the
>rest with the bucket loader. Then top it off with loam and grass seed.

I'd start with the sand/gravel. [creek run would be my choice- it is
cheap & flows nicely.]

You could dump a few big chunks of concrete down there that get lodged
1/2 way & you'd either not know about it, or you'd have a bitch of a
time clearing it.

Fill it to where you can see what you're doing- then put its own
chunks in. [that will also make it easier to reach the mouth of the
well while filling.]

Jim

Posted by Jules on October 23, 2009, 12:27 pm

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:39:27 -0400, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

> You could dump a few big chunks of concrete down there that get lodged
> 1/2 way & you'd either not know about it, or you'd have a bitch of a
> time clearing it.

Totally agree there. I've been to a lot of old underground military
sites; standard practice post-WWII was to smash the above-ground entrances
and throw the bits into the hole, then fill over with dirt. After 30 or
more years the dirt's migrated through and they've all opened up again...

The only way to sort anything like this out is to completely fill it with
smaller particles (dirt, gravel, whatever) and expect it to keep settling
for a few years and needing more packing.

Posted by John H. Holliday on October 23, 2009, 11:56 am

>I plan to fill in this well. Any particulars known? It has concrete box
>around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete, dump it
>down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle and dump it
>down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel dumped on the well so
>most if it falls down the hole and use my tractor to push in the rest with
>the bucket loader. Then top it off with loam and grass seed.

Save the gravel. I can think of a whole lot of politicians that I'd want to
throw down there instead...

Posted by Kurt Ullman on October 23, 2009, 12:14 pm

> Save the gravel. I can think of a whole lot of politicians that I'd want to
> throw down there instead...

But then you have to worry about poisoning the water table.

--
To find that place where the rats don't race
and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"

Posted by Jules on October 23, 2009, 12:22 pm

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:14:39 -0400, Kurt Ullman wrote:

>> Save the gravel. I can think of a whole lot of politicians that I'd want to
>> throw down there instead...

>
> But then you have to worry about poisoning the water table.

Plus they'd decompose and the ground would sink. Maybe encase them in
concrete first?

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