They are drilling a new well close to my compound, and given that well drilling is in our family thought I'd share the pictures. I was a initially self conscious about taking the pictures, but as you can tell by my smiling driller, he took absolutely no offense. I just showed him my camera and shrugged... he posed, I was thrilled. The equipment appears antiquated, but I'll tell you these guys had this baby cranking.
See the mud? Now, there's an intersting story I followed for a few days (hey, I live in Afghanistan with little outside entertainment). It apparently made sense to them to shovel the mud into wheel barrels and then dump it in the open sewers we have all around us. Once the sewers were filled up preventing any flow, I believe they discovered this was not such a good idea and emptied them out by shoveling the mud back into the wheel barrels and dumping it elsewhere. While I'm not a professional well driller, even I figured that one out. So, I'm walking by the day after that significant level of effort and found them dumping mud into the sewers again... saga repeated. I think this happened about three times before they resolved the problem. Hey David, there's lots of work here for intelligent well drillers!
Unlike NH getting mountains of snow, Kabul is suffering horrible draught conditions. Not sure even these guys will be able to drill deep enough. Could you send some snow our way please? From what I hear from Chaput, most of you would be open to this.
Okay, gotta dedicate this blog to PHIL BRIEN WELL DRILLING... David, Karen, Tia, Nick!
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