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I assume you mean “2 guys and some heavy equipment”? As a kid it took me a whole summer of on-and-off digging to make a 1 meter deep hole for fun.

• oliveshell 5y ago
  That’s what they mean. My neighbor had one drilled and the contractors showed up with a huge well-drilling truck. It’s just a huge vertical drill with segments you add on as it goes deeper, like an oil well drill.
  • hectormalot 5y ago
    Correct, it's big but I wouldn't say huge (maybe 4.5x2.5m). This is the machine they used: https://conrad-stanen.nl/nl/producten/boxer-200 https://conrad-stanen.nl/nl/producten/boxer-200
    • oliveshell 5y ago
      Most drills I’ve used fit in your hand. Compared to that, it’s huge :) (although on rereading I didn’t mean to say ‘huge’ twice in my previous post)
• dpark 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, what were you digging with? Unless you were digging with a toy sand shovel or making a very large hole, that seems like a very long time. As a kid, my cousin, my sister, and myself were able to dig a hole deep enough for me to be completely inside in an hour or two using a post hole digger. (Yes, this is a very stupid idea.)
  • jmacd 5y ago
    You have to make sure it's straight, drop sheathing in to the hole, and then cap it if it isn't going to be used right away. More importantly, geothermal/ground source is rarely 1 well either, in our case it was 8.
  • NavinF 5y ago
    A shovel. I couldn't get past 1m because of the rocks were too difficult to shatter.
    • dpark 5y ago
      That’s fair. We were not digging through rocks.