Not where I live, but across the White river, the ground was sandy, and water table low. People used to drive wells often. There is a screened point that screws onto a 2 inch well casing that they use, to drive the well. They did not go but maybe 20-25 ft. Then they used sucker rods and a hand pump, but back then you could get jack pumps that ran on electric. They would pull the sucker rods up and down kinda like an oil well does. Water is deeper where I live, and lots of clay to go through. Most all water well here now are 4 inch plastic casing with submersible pumps. Not much trouble except for lightning hitting the motor but would be a hard do it yourself. probably could dig through the clay and then drive the last few feet, but even that would be hard. miles
