Plus 200 foot hand Dug Well

[Riverdan7mmo8]

How did the guy in the hole get fresh air?

I remember reading about this process and the limit to the hole being how to get fresh air to the digger. Enjoy the videos and your perspective on things at a differrent economic level than myself.

[donze52]

@Riverdan7mmo8

Well they just survived, air did get to be a problem, but life was not worth much, and

people taking risks were common place, yes some did die in such activities.

this ol boy speaking is the salt of the earth, nicer man, I have never met.

[CERBERUS300ify]

i would love to see some more like this bill! the knowledge and stories need to be passed on ! :D ty!

[donze52]

@CERBERUS300ify

problem is many of people either fear or avoid camera. will talk your leg off until I turn on the camera

and of course legal permission is a must. but with that problem I hope to this fall when my work slows.

[5lkk]

200 ft. that's deeper than the Greens burg, KS well is that well still in existence? The Greensurg well is billed a the worlds largest hand dug well. 32' in diameter 106' deep. Needed a lot of water for the trains. google for it I wished youtube allowed URLs

Good interview

[donze52]

@5lkk

I have spoken to a number of well diggers that did it by hand, but his is the deepest on record around these parts. Hope to get other old timers to allow me to share their stories, but many fear being bothered.

[snappydog357]

Please do more of those kinds of videos. I love to listen to the old timers tell stories about how things were back in the their day. Kids today don't know what hard work is.

[donze52]

@snappydog357

this interview is one of dozens I have, but so many of the old timers as you call them refuse

to allow me to publish, it is for their own kids, but I am working on the problem.

[CelticSouthland]

I guess you are lucky to have soil that will allow you to dig over 200 feet.

Where I am now, a well would probably collapse in less than 20 feet, except that you would hit solid rock before you got down 20 feet.

[donze52]

@CelticSouthland

yep the soil in places does down to 300 feet in places, while other hit bed rock next to the Republican River at 20 feet down. also know in my life time a number of well and ditch diggers killed by cave ins around here.

only dug one cave as a kid but in the next town a couple kids dug one and his sister was killed, so my father

made me fill it in. lot harder to fill in that dig I am here to tell ya.

[poacher247]

i was going to say a water witcher there is certainly something to that water dowsing dount care what anybody says intresting all the same maybe you could ask him next time you see him

[donze52]

@poacher247

Will ask him next time I visit. still shakes me to think of being down a hole 200 feet

filling a bucket of dirt, plus riding up and down on a rope in the bucket. I do fear tight

places!!!!

[poacher247]

good video mr bill intresting the health and saftey brigade would have a field day today if you dug a well like that by hand ha ha . how did the home steaders decide were to dig the wells ?

[donze52]

@poacher247

Wish I had asked him, but assume that someone like my mother a water witcher found it.

she was paid to find water using a y shaped stick, dang if she wouldn't find water. I tried and

never got no where with that form hunting. There are a lot of places in south west NE> there just

aint no water underground.

[awesomeseekerdude999]

Cool. I love learning about history. What editing software do you use?

[donze52]

@awesomeseekerdude999

Aint sure of what soft ware, kid gave me her old used machine, so what ever that is.

I am like the car driver that can put gas in the car and air in the tires but that is about it

so it is with computer.