Customer Reviews

Portable Water Well Drilling Rig Plans Book (Drillcat.com)

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The only reason this book is 20 pages long is because the material list sheets are repeated about 5-6 times. My pages had lines through all the pictures and text-looks like it was printed on a home PC printer at the lowest resolution. If you can find your own water swivel and can get a post hole auger and weld a frame-thats all you need. Do 30 minutes of Google reearch and save your money.

This book is essentially worthless. It does not contain enough details to build a well drilling rig. It does not explain the most basic principles of how a rig is supposed to work, it does not contain a single drawing of parts to be built (only some unclear pictures). It doesn't contain any accessible sources for parts except the author's own company. It is only 20 pages long and poorly written. Given that much, I expect that if you did try to build what the author is talking about, it would not work well, if it is as poorly designed and done as his book. Sales literature from companies that sell these contains more useful information.

Unlike the other reviews I found this book to be very informative. If you do not have the mechanical aptitude to understand this book, you should not build any rig, let alone try to drill a well. Yes this book is not very slick and there is not much to it but it contains a wealth of ideas, and good ideas are priceless. I am glad I found this book, plus "The Water well trouble shooting Guide", before I attempted to build a rig and drill my own well. I will have no problems building this rig from the plans, but more than that it gives me Ideas designing my own rig. If you are mechanically inclined and would like to drill your own well, start here. If this book had been professionally printed I would have given it 5 stars.

I can't think of anyway to describe this except rip-off. First, it's not a book with only 20 pages: it's a pamphlet. Second, it does not contain 20 pages of information-much of it repeats and is useless for either drilling a well or building a well drill.

Whatever your needs or hopes, this cheap homemade handout will not help. The author obviously does not know what he is talking about.

I found the information presented to be relavent and understandable. I am, and have been, convinced that those cheap rigs for sale will not drill through rock or as deeply as they suggest. This author's assembly procedures should be adequate. With that said, I have yet to actually apply what he shows. While there are some grammar and spelling errors and it is not professionally bound, I wish other reviewers would give this guy a break. He's sharing his knowledge to help us save a few bucks.