Chalk me up as one of the wierd ones who still sometimes misses hauling water in a nice copper bucket.

Maybe if I'd let Mark upgrade from plastic buckets to copper buckets, he'd still want to be hauling. (But I'm sure I can find you water to haul next time you're out here, after you split our firewood.

Looks like an easy dig not much rock to deal with. I live in an old river basin and have river rock all over. When I put my line in I sleeved it with another two inch pipe to further protect it from root and rock damage. Is that the "pex" pipe you are using?

We're very lucky with our rock-free soil. Actually, it's more of a surprise to see a rock in a digging project than not here! I really like your idea about double pipes to protect the inner pipe, but I think we're going to see if we can get away with a single layer.

I'm not actually sure what kind of pipe we're using --- we get so much free stuff, and this is some of that. It was a pipe someone had used to bring water up out of a well...