Guy’s finished up the rough cut in for my road today.
Meeting with the power company again Thursday morning to get there approval so they can trench in 250 yards to my site.
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Shelby supervising?
I was thinking the same thing.
Lilly is very observant for a cat. She watches anything that is new to her or people that are new to her. She follows me and watches me working on things. I work in between her head getting in the way while working on something. If she isn’t sleeping in one of her hammocks she is with me and watching what I do.
Underground power is approved 
Now water is a different story 
Didn’t the dog find a deep hole with water in it 
Any of y’all ever dealt with a shallow well?
I’m thinking my property is condusive to doing this just based on the high water table on parts of the property and sandy soil.
Closest I’ve came to that is the first house I bought had a spring and Fannie Mae wouldn’t underwrite a mortgage with a spring so I had to drill a well. Iirc it was only like 70’ with extra depth for a storage. Never had any issues with it other than hard water.
We leased an old farm house and about three hundred acres for hunting years ago in near coastal Virginia. It had a hand dug well about 30-40 feet deep. As long as there was sufficient rain every thing was fine. In drier times the water level would drop and we would get some sand intrusion.
At times enough to clog up the foot valve. Had to drop down into the well and clear the sand a couple of times. YMMV
Yes sir exactly what I’m thinking @thlee43
I don’t think I would need a “hand dug” per say.
An auger with enough extensions might do the trick.
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**Edit
A portion of my property has water flowing to the surface. I also have a creek a hundred yards off my property line.
Not sure how safe it would be for drinking but I guarantee it will clean my azz 
Yep, the well I’m talking about was probably dug in the early 1900’s; complete with a windlass and one gallon galvanized bucket.
Long narrow bucket w/valve on the bottom? Been there too.
@thlee43
I have a hardwater well no longer in use. I jumped on a gov’t grant about 8 yrs ago when city water was being laid.
Well had a submersible pump, bladder tank and water softener in the crawl space. I don’t have to crawl anymore to do maintenance. But l do have a $56 minimum @ 2000 gal bill.
@Jammo
I am so happy for y’all! FINALLY making it happen brother!!!
In order to get a value of my neighbor’s property that I had to pay for my easement I hired a real estate agent - land appraiser.
Well we met again today for the third time and he might have a buyer that wants it more than I do.
The county that I’m in is very desirable and my piece doubled in value after one year and is still increasing.
I might be in the camper for a while longer
It was the tree stand that bumped the value…
The tree stand did play a part in it actually.
It looked down over a bottom headed towards the little spring he hadn’t seen yet
Brother…I’m thinking…artifacts!!! See any flint yet?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Indians would make camp around springs like this also frontiersmen and the military would also. You could have a gold mine in artifacts. If you find any thing keep it to yourself or share it with us. Absolutely don’t tell the state or a museum because the next thing you know you can’t even use your own land from red tape and governmental BS.
