Getting a water well drilled usually means bringing in heavy machinery, and that is the problem this build takes on. Cypsmen put together a portable rig for water drilling that rolls on its own wheels, with a mast that sits horizontal until it is swung upright where the work happens.
The frame begins as rectangular steel tubing, cut and held with magnetic welding squares, then MIG welded into a rolling base. Fixed axles with pneumatic wheels and a pivoting dual-wheel caster assembly carry it along, and an upright T-shaped handle stands on the base frame. Twin vertical stanchions welded to the frame take a pivot pin for the mast, a heavy steel I-beam. A hydraulic long-ram jack actuates the mast between horizontal and vertical, and outdoors the maker tilted it up using the ram handle.
The sliding carriage plate runs on four grooved steel roller bearings riding the I-beam flanges, secured with bolted hardware. Mounted on it is the drive: a heavy electric motor with an integrated gearbox and output sprocket, with a downward-facing output shaft and flange or gear coupling beneath the gearbox, set up to drive a vertical tool like an auger or drill stem. The motor was moved into place on a hand truck. Lifting duty falls to an electric winch labeled MAR-POL on the base frame, with steel wire rope routed through pulleys, and a yellow wired pendant control raises and lowers the carriage.
What stays open for me is downforce. The working method is to drill one pipe section down, lift the carriage, thread on another section and repeat, and I keep wondering whether the weight of the motor and a stack of pipe gives enough push against hard earth or rocks, and whether the frame holds up against reaction torque. That answer has not surfaced yet.
Project by Cypsmen. Watch it on their YouTube channel: