Operation Water Pitcher Sinking for water well bucket

So will this rock just smash the ceramic pitcher, as I lower them into the water hole?

Maybe.

But I need to sink the pitcher and otherwise it's too buoyant.

If it does sink - this will be a lot more water per haul, then the 12 ounce mug.

This is my floating displacement with the rock in it - with the handle - then there's a bit of a wobble to the "ship" - so it should take on water with a bit of force in dropping it into the water from above.

So what about the pitcher as a whole? How big is it!?

So that's probably 36 ounces? I can check how much I get with the rock in it.

yeah I get 40 ounces!! Good guess.

So 64 ounces is a gallon?

Only HALF a gallon? Wow.

Well 40 ounces is a lot better than 12 ounces.

I hope this thing works.

Now I gotta make a harness of some sort. I could wait till I'm up there to use the rope up there. But I'll just try something here first.

So the pitcher with the rock weighs 3 1/2 pounds. I wonder what kind of physics I had to do to figure out the water displacement. Where's Archimedes? Hard to believe it STILL floats! But just barely.

 So if your bucket displaces one gallon of water, the water will push up on the bucket with a force as strong as the weight of that gallon (about 8 pounds). If the bucket weighs less than 8 pounds, it'll float. If it weighs more than 8 pounds, it'll sink.

Is that my foot? How embarrassing.

So now the rock is covered in pink cotton and is not moving around much at all. Should be padded enough.

Turns out - this pitcher is 6 1/2 inches wide - so now I'm gonna read my old blog to see if I mentioned how wide my auger was. Either 8 or 6 inches. Better be 8 inches!!

So I didn't blog on the auger hole.

From the photo I took of the old mug and the hole - the auger must have been at 6 inches. I think I remember that also.

So I need to lose a half inch on this pitcher - so the handle has to come off without breaking the whole pitcher. So I'll use a file.

filed it a third way through and then snapped it off!

The widest point - the bottom is now - five inches!!

It's a go!!

I'll just add another round of twine since I lost those handle ties.

4 way handle strap so it doesn't slip around.

don't drop it!!

about to fall?

Close call!!

So now I tied a bunch of twine around the bottom connection - so it holds it centered better. Also this will give me a bit of safety against the iron rod at the bottom of the well. The big issue now is how much water is recharging as the water table. If it is too low to fill this jug then obviously I have no choice but to dig another well hole.

If I dig another well hole - then I don't have the problem of busting the jug on the metal rod or gravel I had poured in.

Still digging another hole is at least two days work - or one long day of working very hard. You have to balance the auger up against the tree - as it is 20 feet long of heavy iron.

Actually if I just redig the hole I already made - the 2nd hole that is in the drainage ditch - that should be way easier. There won't be any rocks and the fill should be soft.