I need to get a hand pump that I can slap on my wellhead. A very shallow water table makes it easy to draw water from.
Good idea to get a hand pump for a shallow well. For deep wells, there are also solar pump systems and/or small diesel generator systems (pretty simple to have along with the regular AC pump with transfer switch if already powered by grid, electrical inlet, outdoor switch and 4-conductor generator cable with generator plug made to plug into inlet, see National Electrical Code).
I have a shallow water table as well and am going to get something like the following:
https://www.lehmans.com/p-1384-lehmans-own-galvanized-well-bucket.aspx