Drill the well with your hands: how to make homemade drill

Do you want to build a water supply system on the site, having drilled a well on their own? Agree that the presence of water and sanitation significantly increase the level of comfort when staying in a private home or at the cottage. But experts call for arranging a well or wells will cost quite expensive.

You have decided to make a drill hole to pick up with your hands and a simple homemade version? We will help you in this matter - the article contains useful information about the process of manufacturing an improvised drill spiral type and drill-spoon.

A list of necessary tools and materials are selected and themed photo videorekomendatsii useful for the construction of drill-homemade.

Our detailed instructions, equipped with step by step photos make for a simple and straightforward even for a beginner drill.

Drills for manual rotary drilling

For self drilling submerged require simple device. It includes detachable pipe, which can be will increase with increasing depth construction, handle, with which, and will be rotated, and a drill - the main design element.

There are two kinds of drills, which are commonly used to perform work on the manual rotary drilling techniques:

• helical (screw) drill;
• drill-spoon.

Both of these tools have such design features that allow to perform work on drilling without additional equipment.

At its core, the spiral drill - drill is very large. He crashed into the ground his sharp carbide cutting edge, the edge is sharpened in the shape of a cone.

Above the cutting surface of the tool is twisted spiral along the stem. The largest diameter of the helix and determines such an important parameter as the size of future wells.

During rotation, the cutting edge bites into the soil and cuts it, then it is moved by the spiral strips and pushed through them out.

Thus, additional emphasis is created in the drilling direction. In the course of works on drilling the well is an accumulation of residual soil extracted from the mine, between the turns of the screw. Auger has to periodically retrieve the surface to be cleaned.

To make your own spiral drill, you can use a cylindrical rod, which is welded to the bottom of the cutting spiral made of steel strip. Carry out excavation work in such a tool, you can even crumbling and hard soils.

The structure of the drill-spoons includes a metal rod whose end is equipped with a cylinder of certain diameter. This cylinder has in its lower part a longitudinal or helical groove. Soil capture method was the basis for the name of the drill spoon.

Relative to the axis of the metal rod is displaced towards the spoon for about 10-15 mm. Due to its offset this tool a hole is drilled, the diameter of which exceeds the similar parameter of the most spoons.

Increasing the diameter required for installation in the production casing, the diameter of which must be greater than the diameter of the drill.

When performing drilling operations with a spoon should be simultaneously producing and installation of the casing. Apply this tool most effectively on plastic soils - sandy loam and loam.

Option # 1 - manufacture spiral drill

Make yourself at home drill conditions on the rod which is welded to the spiral - not an easy task. But to build a simpler model can anyone who has the skills to work with welding machine, grinder and other tools.

All that we need to work, prepare in advance:

• welding machine;
• grinder (LBM);
• roulette or other measurement means;
• steel rod the desired length to us;
• steel disc.

We will carry out all stages of work in order. First you need to saw steel disc on two identical semi-circle. Now both sides need to sharpen svezheraspilennogo disk.

This part of the work to perform well in the one who knows how to sharpen tools, because of the quality of sharpening will depend on how easy the instrument will go into the ground. And that means, and the overall speed of operation.

Theoretically, the spiral drill can be done using for this purpose a steel spiral. To do this, you need to take a strip of tool steel, heat it, then twist into a spiral with a pitch corresponding to the diameter.

strip followed by a temper, and finally welded onto the rod. But not in the factory do the job quality is almost impossible.

Option # 2 - Build a drill-spoon

If the soil in your yard is resistant to shattering, the drilling of the well is better to use drill-spoon. He is, as already mentioned, has a cylindrical shape with a longitudinal slit in the side of a spoon and a spiral-grip bottom.

The length of the cylinder is typically less than 70 cm, and the diameter of the tool may be different: it depends on the borehole parameters, we wish to obtain a result.

Ground that the driller to be extracted to the surface, must penetrate into the cylinder through the cavity and held inside due to adhesion and compression.

Before you make a slit in the cylinder, it is necessary to evaluate the quality of the soil on your site: the higher the flowability, the narrower the slot in the spoon.

Make drill-spoon yourself in two ways:

• take steel sheet and twist its predetermined diameter, giving the blank a cylindrical shape;
• use a piece of pipe, which is initially a form we need.

Use for finished steel tube, of course, much easier. For the manufacture of borax need a small segment of it. We can only do it at the end of the cuts, bend them and sharpen edges. Instead, you can use the exhaust pipe cylinder.

To perform the work, we need:

• hollow steel cylinder;
• Bulgarian;
• apparatus for welding;
• steel bar or rod;
• Drills for metal.

With grinder at the lower portion of the cylinder cut slot. Borax to facilitate the process of entering into the soil, can be welded to the bar strictly on its axis normal drill for metal.

Method steel sheet with more laborious. Steel billets will need to weld the seam, and to sharpen the cutting edge, so that it is easier entered into the ground. We need to weld and fix the drill bit by positioning it at the bottom of the cylinder.

If a suitable metal drill not there, it can be replaced by a narrow steel plate previously spearheaded its both sides. In this case, the drilling efficiency is not lost. The length of such a plate is approximately 15 cm.

The finished spoon cylindrical shape remains welded to the metal rod, which is biased in the direction of 10-15 mm from the axis of the tool.

When operating the drill, this offset will make the hole larger diameter. This occurs because the longitudinal cutting edge of the drill-spoon scraping soil from the surfaces of the side shaft.

Due to the fact that the diameter smaller than the diameter of the projectile casing, a drill can easily be used by being built inside the casing, which considerably facilitate their installation procedure. Themselves will protect the pipe hole from collapsing.

The loads during operation of the drill-spoons very high, so for its production need to use high strength tool steel. Strengthening the drill elements should ideally go through a process of heat treatment and quenching.

You may also be useful information about popular drilling embodimentsDiscussed in our other article.

Bringing a rotary drill to a working state

It is not enough to know how to make their own drill the well. It is necessary to ready the drill can be used to perform work. For this purpose it is necessary to provide a handle or knob and detachable drill pipe.

Making comfortable grip

Handle - an important feature. It is necessary to drill comfortably rotate. handle design is also not as simple as it seems.

It can be provided that it will be managed by one person, but sometimes a larger number of people can participate in the drilling operations. The complexity of the process depends on the quality of the soil and the depth of future wells.

The handle is made of a metal having a proper margin of safety. After all, this part of the drill need to withstand heavy loads, no springs and no dampening the efforts being made. To connect the handle and the upper edge of detachable pipe welding is used.

Construction detachable drill pipe

Boer - a multifunctional tool. It can be used not only to build the well, but also, for example, to dig a post. If you use it for gardening, it can be done without the drill pipe. Five-foot base will be sufficient to dig a shallow pit.

But we need a drill to drill with the help of quite a deep hole. What to do in this case? Sense to leave one-section bar and simply extend the no.

The length of the metal rod ability to resist twisting efforts are inversely proportional. Work long one-section rod will be impossible.

Yield one: it is necessary to make such a drill pipe, which will consist of detachable sections. The length of one section, detachable rod shall be 1 meter or slightly more. Such sections need to build as to the result to go to the intended depth of the well.

You may also be useful for information on selecting the pipe for a well outlined in this article: What is best for the well pipe: types, how to choose and why.

Capacity column length rods attached to the drill, is made gradually, as the drill will move inward.

There are several options in connection rods long drill rod is:

• The threaded sleeve. To create such a connection, within each section of cut thread, which will correspond to the sizes of the connecting member. The threaded sleeve is made of desired length. It remains to eliminate the possibility of spontaneous loosening the connection. For these purposes shplintovoy lock. This method is simple and reliable.
• Nut and bolt. Welded to the rods, made of small diameter pipes. It's fairly simple, but not reliable option. Welds will be in a thin-walled pipe, in which a connection is unlikely to get strong. In addition, to secure a threaded connection rods have to make an extra effort.
• Welded couplings. Cut from a tube, the diameter of which is greater than that of the rod. Then tightly welded sleeve to the pipe at one end section. In the same sleeve with the other hand free to insert the next section. Now we need to fix the sections so that they do not rotate. To do this, across the tube can be inserted bolt and lock nut on the other side.

For the manufacture of their own hands to drill deep wells connected a few bars. And better if their connection is extremely simple. After all, during the drilling tool will rise to the surface, so that it was freed from the land.

Each ascent drill accompanied by its division into its component parts, and each subsequent descents - new build and build-up.

In addition to the drill for creating a hole manually use other tools, which it is worth mentioning in this article.

For example, if the well is ready, and get to the surface of the ground tool was not so easy, you can use a lifting mechanism which operates on the principle of the lever.

When the drilling procedure is delayed, and do the drillers are losing strength, it would be very helpful tools to help you scroll through the drill within the wellbore and to screw it in its recess.

Bur for cable-drilling

Drill a hole at the site can not only rotating the drill, but also shock-rope method. For this type of work requires special installation, which can also be done on their own from scrap materials.

With such equipment is all the work can be done without any assistants, so we consider the process of manufacturing the impact drill.

To understand how and what we will be tinkering, consider in general are shock-rope work.

With large height at the scheduled using shovels or screw position for future point reset intake tube-shell - bailer for wells. At the top is welded to the drill eyelet for the rope.

Laterally at the top of cut withdrawal opening drilled rock.

The lower edge is sharpened or equipped with teeth, optimizing soil loosening. For 5 - 7 cm above the bottom inside pipe conditional arrange ball or spade valve for gripping and retaining the loosened rock.

Bailer - an indispensable tool in the sinking of the loose sand, gravel, gravel deposits. It is often used in combination with other Boers. Alternated with a screw or a glass, unable to remove loose and water-saturated sediments.

Non-cohesive soil particles inside the bailer delayed due to valve located at the bottom of the housing. We screw, bells, cups do not have such advantages.

The procedure of dropping the drill is repeated many times. The result of the process becomes a third enclosure filled with soil and increasing by 30-40 cm hole in the ground surface.

Bailer filled is removed from the barrel by means of a winch, turn down hole and purified heavy hammer blows.

The process then cable-drilling is resumed and repeated until the location of incidence of the drill hole is not formed that the depth of which planned to receive.

Do not necessarily buy the finished plant - can be independently produce Bailer for drilling and cleaning.

Create one bit in this case is meaningless, however we describe how to construct the whole drilling rig with the projectile.

• choose placeWhich according to our calculations and assumptions to be well positioned. We envisage it doing with an ordinary shovel small depression.
• Set on a tripod fossa height 2-3 meters. Top tripod equip well anchored boxes for ropes. It needs more and winch, which is attached to the supports. Well, if there is an electric winch, but the manual is also nice.
• Prepare yourself percussion drill. For this purpose, we will need a thick-walled pipe, the diameter of which corresponds to the size of the mine of the future wells.

For manufacturing the drill take a strip of thick metal and welds it to the upper extremity of the tube, placing it perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the projectile.

By our axial line of the pipe is welded to a metal strip drilled hole corresponding to the thickness of the rope, which is fixed to the projectile.

The lower end of the pipe, too, needs to be treated: it can be done on the gear or ring sharpening. If there is a muffle furnace, it is possible to harden it after sharpening drill procedures.

Bur for cable-drilling it is not so easy to clean up from the ground nabivshegosya it. To speed up this routine operation can be made the window-opening, and a vertical slot extending through almost 2/3 in the top tube.

The heavier the drill, the faster you can achieve the desired result, but you must take into account the capacity of the winch, which will pull the drill bit from the wellbore to the ground.

So, if its power still allows the projectile can be heavier, placed at the top of the pipe removable metal loads.

You may also be interested in information on well completion, washing after drilling and insulation for the winterDiscussed in our other article.

Conclusions and useful videos on the topic

In this video, visual and accessible talked about how it is using the available materials and simple-to-use tools to make reliable and functional spiral drill.

It is obvious that a person who has skills of work with the welder and the most common locksmith tools to cope with the manufacture of the drill by hand.

Using a home-made bomb, you can manually perform the drilling operations on his summer cottage. That significantly reduce the overall costs, which were planned to provide water to your area.

You have done a drill, homemade another design? Or you know the secrets of the projectile improvements? Perhaps you do not agree with the theory and the recommendations set out in this article? Please write about it in the comments below.