Thursday and Friday

Thursday and Friday were both late nights and long days. We ran into some unforeseen complications as one thing after another either broke, or stopped working. Yesterday (Thursday) we started off the morning with our drill in the hole, at 195ft, and cleaned out the hole by circulating out the cuttings that had settled. Next, we removed the drill and attempted to put pvc casing in the whole. But somehow, our well had collapsed at 75ft. So we tried to push the casing down, but it wouldn't budge. So we pulled it out, and re-drilled the well. After pulling out the drill a second time, we put casing back into the hole. But again, it got stuck at 80ft. We did our best to push in the casing as far as we could, but I wouldn't go any farther. Thursday, we also had a great Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Adolpho's wife made us a Thanksgiving feast. A full turkey with mashed potatoes, meatloaf, pumpkin desert, and sweet tea. All of which were home made. It was a long day. Today we did not think would be a long day, expecting to finish our work in half a day, and have a bit of time to relax, but that was not the case. We finished our tower, complete with solar panels. We used the 80ft of casing we were able to put in (even though the plan was to drill to 200ft). We put on the pump, and watched it pump over 1400 gallons. A problem came up that when we dropped the pump to 60ft, it didn't pump anything. So we had to pull it out, manage it on the surface until it worked again, and put it back in the ground at 40ft. Working til late this evening, we had to work with a generator in getting the pump to work, because solar panels would not work after dark. We finally got everything working. Praise The Lord. Tomorrow we will be returning home, and Mr. Douglas will be going to Guatemala to help out with the next week. 

Our thanksgiving meal.

This is Mr. Douglas melting heat shrink around the wires at the hands of Mr. Adolpho holding a home made torch.

Putting metal galvanized pipe in our well. This pipe has a pump attached to the end, and is pretty heavy. So three strong men have to hold it from falling down into the well.

Our finished tower with solar panels on it. 

Putting the tank up before finishing the tower. 

Our team.