We had another productive day in Milton. Dad and I met at the lot. We started trying to lift the well point up. When we worked on it last, we got greedy and tried to drive one more 4' section, hoping for more volume. We got the volume in the pipe, but it drove very hard, and our guess is that we are in a vein of clay. Our problem is that the point screen is probably clogged, so we're not having any luck pumping the water out. The plan is to try to lift the point backup, sacrifice some volume, and hope that we get above the vein we're in right now. We tried using the dump body on the 1 ton, but didn't have any luck. Next time the skid steer is up there, we'll give it another try.
After walking away from the well point, we focused on laying out the footing. Dad got working on that while I took off to get materials for mixing the concrete. By the time I got back, stakes were set and we worked together to make sure the forms were right where they needed to be.
Since we haven't had luck with the well yet, we went for a drive down the road to the closest river, and filled up a 30 gal trash can, and a few mud buckets. It took us a couple hours to get the footing poured. I mixed from the dump truck, and dad stayed in the hole. We had a "red neck concrete shoot" an old stove pipe screwed to a piece of scrap wood, tied to a wheel barrow, wasn't pretty, but saved our backs, that's for sure.
I went back the next morning to strip the forms, everything looks good. Time to form up the frost wall, center pad, and most of the main footings. We'll have a truck for that pour. Then back fill the frost wall and tie the main footings to the frost wall. We're getting there.
Here are some pics:
