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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

This sounds like a fantsastic place; but I am confused.  Did the man with the 
pick axe dig a forty foot deep hole? what are the other approx. dimensions? 
And, what is holding up the sides of the hole?  I can't quite visualize what 
you are describing  .  ...bobford


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Does this idea stink?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 2:04 PM
> No, I'm deathly allergic to fish and shellfish. We live 
> five minues from a crystal clear river..if I should ever 
> overcome the problem and be starving to death, I'd get
> my 
> fish from there. (I actually enjoy fly fishing).
> 
> We'd like a place to store winter squash, potatoes, 
> onions, our home canning jars, etc. Most of the pioneer 
> homes around here had 'spring houses' for
> this...square 
> above ground concrete rooms with the top "floor"
> being a 
> container for the water pumped from the well. Our pioneer 
> well is outside the pump house with a large ground level 
> metal plate covering it weighted in place with some large 
> stones. The hole is rectangular, about the size it would 
> take a man with a pick axe to carve, and about 40 feet 
> deep with water flowing like a river in a sheet across a 
> deeper pool on the bottom of it. So there is also the 
> consideration of building something over the well for cool 
> storage, maybe attached to the well house like an 
> addition. The water comes out of the ground here at 65 
> degrees. Would this be a better solution?
> 
> --Sage
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:37:08 -0500
>   Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:34 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> This thing was custom poured, not prefab, probably
> when
> >> the house was built. The opening is roughly a 3
> foot
> >> square lid about two feet away from the house and
> about
> >> six feet from the kitchen door. It's at least
> six feet
> >> deep, maybe a 10 foot square. The wall away from
> the 
> >>house
> >> is perpendicular to the ground, but the wall
> opposite it
> >> slopes to somewhere under the house. The field
> line that
> >> once drained it's former function was clay
> pipe that
> >> collapsed (thus, the problem). As a container it
> appears
> >> relatively water tight (maybe good for a septic,
> not 
> >>good
> >> for a cellar?). If it leaks, it is minimal as we
> tested
> >> our well when all this came to light and they told
> us
> >> there was not enough nitrogen in the sample to
> have been
> >> contaminated by the septic tank.
> > 
> > Do you like to eat fish?
> > 
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