Simmons 1722-1 1-1/4-Inch by 36-Inch Well Stainless Steel Drive Points

The media could not be loaded. When you’re ready to put your sand point well in, be prepared for the labor! Lol It’s WORK, but well worth it! We hit water and kept going about 3-4 more feet, used a pitcher pump and pumped maybe 3 minutes until clear water was running. Highly recommend!! (Where we live, we went down 12 feet)

Very strong

I drove the drive point from Simmons with a metal post driver by hand about 25'. I used pipe made for driving and the drive pipe connecters rather than the common connecters for joining pipe. I have recently hooked up the pump and it works very well. I have driven 5 points in the area and have talked to people about what I would find under our initial layer of sand. I drove through 2 layers of limestone as well as sand. The limestone layers are about 6 and 15 inches thick. I could tell when I hit the limestone by the lack of swift progress while pounding in the point. It might go only a small fraction of an inch when going through the stone. The Simmons 1722-1 1-1/4 inch Stainless Steel drive point made it through without a problem. Before the drought in this area of Wisconsin, I had to only go about 8 feet to hit water, now after going down 25' I have 7-1/2 ' of water covering the point which is now flowing very well. I had been sucking air with water, which does not work. I felt that I purchased the best point, pipe and connecters for this well and it has proved to have worked with no problems.

Bought this to drive in a shallow well near my back flower garden. I researched and searched for the best drive point I could find and this fit the bill. This point is not cut with the long water intake slots but rather it has a couple hundred small holes, which is what I was looking for...Not even a razor thin rock has a chance of slicing into the inner mesh. The welds are heavy and durable and the threading is machined perfectly. The weight on the box states 9 lbs, I didn't weigh it but it feels a few pounds heavier than that. Only took a few days for delivery. I don't think I could have found a better drive point so I'm pleased with this purchase and would recommend it over what I could find at the bricks and mortar home improvement stores.

This is my second one which broke at the threads . First one I used a drive nut and thought maybe with the second one I should use a drive coupler and a nipple to get it started , and again the threads broke on the drive point , yet the threads on the coupler were pristine . It doesn’t seem like the wall thickness is not adequate for the application.

We put in a garden well in our backyard with this wellpoint. It worked as advertised and we're getting water. It's been in the ground about 2 weeks now and still is working. I recommend getting a good hand pump though and not a pitcher pump on Amazon. We got a couple online here and they were junk. Need to spend a bit more for a better pump. We went to electric pump and it's working great with the wellpoint giving us about 5 gpm.

I just received the Sand Point - it arrived on time and in good shape. I was beyond curious how the point was constructed so I began giving it a careful inspection. I ran a bore scope down it and discovered that essentially, the point is made by taking a section of 1-1/4" galvanized pipe and drilling rows of apx. 3/16" holes down the length of it. Over that - on the outside - is a single layer of very fine mesh stainless steel screen. And over that is a single layer of the much larger 'mesh' stainless steel covering. What I also discovered is that the inside is terribly contaminated with the filings from the process of drilling all the 3/16" holes in the pipe. Very obviously, NO effort is made to clean the pipe subsequent to the drilling process. Beware of this. I washed out enough metal filings to fill the palm of your hand. I'll do it again, but outside by running a garden hose into it with the point obviously inverted in order to wash all the filings out possible. But they obviously used cutting oil in the drilling process and so unless you use a solvent - and a LOT of it - you're never going to get all the filings out . . . but I advise you do the best you can. Many/most of the filings are quite sharp - as you'd expect. You will otherwise draw them up with the water - one reason not to drink water from one of these wells, but I wouldn't want a dog drinking water with the filings in it either. But more likely, most are of a size that they will very definitely become jammed and prevent a seal either in your pitcher pumps leather seal, or the seal in the check-valve if you use one. Or if down line you use a diaphragm pump like a Shur-Flo - without a filter - these will jam in the diaphragm and you'll have to clean and rebuild the pump. It's for the reason of the truly negligent manufacturing that I cannot give this 5-stars. See foto. Also, the threads are quite dirty - as you generally should with pipe - carefully clean the threads BEFORE joining your pieces together. These systems/pumps rely on air-tight no-leak seals - make sure you take your time and get the joints right the first time . . . you don't want to have to extract your hard work out of the ground and correct a preventable mistake. PS: I've added a couple of fotos I took that I hope will help show how a Sand Point is constructed - I turned out the lights, put a flashlight in the opening, and I hope it will help everyone see what are essentially the 3 'layers' that comprise this ingenious device.

Looks well made. Works great but needs longer threads to accommodate the collar for joining to a pipe. Was pretty easy to drive down through my sandy soil. Allows a good flow of water