Who’d have thought a man with a digger who ‘append to turn up on that Colin Furzes channel would be just as interesting to watch. Keep them coming Tom Lamb, good job
And that would explain why Colin Furze is currently tunneling through Lincolnshire limestone!!. Very good video Tom, now I know how they drill boreholes👍👍
Good posting Tom. My sister who lives in Wales gets her water from a well dug back in the 1800s and it is the best water ever. where she lives the only services are electric and phone/internet. She lives nearly 2 miles from anything. just a road going past her cottage laid in for farm and forest use. So peaceful. when it gets dark down there boy is it dark. She has a small diesel generator and a ATS switch. The place is well remote....
Thanks for another no nonsense video . I have never seen it done. I work for a Garden Centre, they had one drilled to flush the toilets and water the plants . They also reduced the size of water metre for the property that greatly reduced the water bill . The size of water meter makes a huge difference to the standing charge on your water bill.
I absolutely love watching this! I’m so glad I found your channel from your digging up Collins driveway! Awesome content. Great to know that I can look up the USGS and find info for my area here in the US.
Those borehole records are fascinating. I can't imagine them doing such work nowadays. Great investment for the farm Tom - gotta save a few quid while you can 🙂
I’m so glad you said that about the outlay! I always see the videos saying how to get free this and free that for life but, they don’t mention the 50 grand outlay 😂😂 great video as always
Hi Tom here in my village is a company godwin pumps they started drilling bore holes for water over 100 years ago and they have made there own pumps since then they are famous all over the world we have many of their wind powered pumps around the cotswolds still working today they are owned now by a Swedish company called xlyem and they specialise in huge pumps for big water projects and fire fighting on oil rigs and in oil refineries, the village is called quenington you might have heard of them good luck with your bore hole, roy
Cracking Video Tom - I was really interested to see how easily you can look up what other bore holes were around you, and see what to expect when you drill - it was also interesting to see that it doesn't always go completely smoothly, but that you got there in the end. Out of curiosity, do they typically charge by depth, or by the hour - or just for the end result? And roughly what does a bore like that cost? Looking forward to barn part 2 - nice to see some real day to day farming projects.
Hi tim I think it’s a standard charge it only takes about 10mins to go another ten foot deep so not much in it really. If they drill a hole and don’t find water there is still a charge but obviously don’t have to pay for all the liners and gravel pump ect. About 7k for full set up all installed so not just drilling a hole.
Hello Tom, I came over to your channel after seeing you with that mad Plumber. I love what he does but your channel to me is like a public information film! Digging and building garage pits, bore holes, all a bit of me. Wouldn't mind knowing how much that bore hole costs. I remembered you saying you will get your money back in a few years but you will also save on man hours and stress when that main bursts again. Bloody madness keep repairing a couple of meters at a time, dig it up and do the job properly. Now if only they knew a man with a 360.
Brilliant vid just joined after seeing you on farmer p and olli hope ok hope you had a good day on lamma . Just remember you on the lad made a hole under his garden and wheeler dealers 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Colin is digging under his house hoping to find any kind of cave or small cavity and you can't stop finding them with blind drilling, I bet you two laughed about that.
Absolutely fascinating. Every video teaches me something new and interesting. I'm off to have a look at the BGS survey records now. Thanks Tom from a newcomer to your channel, from seeing you on Colin's channel.
Great video, looks like they had the Pea Gravel to the surface, it is a good idea to pack the last 10 m ts with Bentonite clay to prevent contamination of the well with surface water. I take it the casing was'nt cemented in?
Great video really interesting to see the basic of sinking a bore hole. Years ago a brewery I worked at in the Thames valley sunk a bore hole where the water was held in a layer of chalk. They drilled the hole then pumped acid down to dissolve the chalk and create a cavern which would fill with water to be pumped out. Interesting thing they still had to pay some for the water removed as Thames Valley Water held the rights to all water even below your land.
Tom get some bee hives on the farm , your partner can work them no problem why not you ? , well women do say men can’t stand pain so she can get stung no problem (for you )😂😂
We had a float valve in our header tank, pump was cutting in and out too often. Put in some level probes, tank level drops to about half then pump cuts in and fills again. Should result in a longer pump life.
Tom you have been running this for a year now, and I'd be interested in what your power bills are like. Dairy farmers in Canterbury (around Christchurch NZ) have to drill to 300 feet, and need at least two pumps (one at the bottom and another half way up) and their power bills are as much as NZ$10,000 a month. They are taking way more than 19 cubic metres a day though. Domestic wells where I live in Marlborough, only go down to 15 metres (50 feet), and that's only to be sure of clean water. We had to have a new bore put in after the foot valve failed in the old bore, and I watched the new well being drilled. He hit water with the second pipe, so less than 20 feet. We are consented to 15cm a day, but it is not metered, and we use a lot less than that even with irrigation going all day.
Yes saves a lot on our water bills. We have solar panels on the roof running the pump but it’s only on a low setting that fills a massive 30 thousand litre tank 24/7 then we use the water out the tank so that we always have a large amount of water on demenad
I did one about 7 years ago. Simerlar reasons low pressure and cast main down in the village. Brilliant thing but last year irnso.ii replaced pretty much everything from pressure vessel to pump to controller. Aim to write that side off every 7 years to get better idea of cost, still cheap water tho. Add a flow meter, doesn’t cost much but will soon tell you if you have a leak. My system runs at 5 bar as pumps across whole farm and old joints can't stick it. Flow meter tells if i have a leak, turn off various stop cocks until you get rough idea where.
Hi Tom, very interesting about the BGS records you mentioned. Will your drilling contractor register the bore hole for you? I had one drilled about 8 years ago. 25m deep & 20l/min. Doesn't seem to be on the BGS record. 🤔
What was the cost of this Tom, my parents live above the local reservoir, so they have to have their water pumped up to them from a pumping station, so a well sounds like a much better idea.
what's the wattage of the water pump? it'd be interesting to know the ongoing running costs. Interesting to see them using compressed air. the only other well drilling vids I've seen are from north america where they seem to use water.
Interesting stuff pal ! And free water 🥳 just a question are you on solar panels on the farm which in turn can supply free power to the pump which then it truly is free water
I’m very interested in getting my own well. It’s a fantastic idea. Can you tell me how much a well costs to be bored. You don’t have to include the pump and lining for the well just the well it’s self. Thank you.
Great content, thanks!!! Question: What bar are you able to get out of that or does that depend on the pump you use? Is the pump choice limited to just the one for such a task?
I am in Western NEW YORK in the USA . my well pump is 80 foot down in the ground don't know how much deeper the well is I had to change the pump a few years ago ..just bought the home 4 years ago .
Out of interest Tom, what does a Dairy Cow drink in terms of litres per day? We used to reckon on around 70 litres per day for a suckler cow with a calf at foot.
Maybe this is why your local pipes are breaking all the time : Since privatisation in '89, the water companies have taken on £60 billion in debt, which with all the profit made, has funded the £78 billion paid out to shareholders !! Bill payers have funded the few infrastructure improvements to date and had to service this debt. The British public were duped into believing privatisation was a good thing - It should be treated as criminal !
Im over in Ireland now, originally from Grantham, Lincolnshire... daft question i had to get well dug for my house site, to get water, is this the same process
Really great video, so interesting and helpful. Would you be able to tell me the cost of drilling and installing the hole and pump? Am very interested to do this myself
proper brilliant that is. first video ive watched from you and i love no frill good content and usefull info. the drilling rig expensive to get on site? 10k plus? keep it up tom
I thought that there would be some requirement to register your bore hole and pay some fee, after all this is England and in my experience very little is void of some legislative requirement these days. Great video though Tom!
I'm surprised you didn't go with a 6 inch bore pipe, you would have had more reserve water. I'm not sure of the capacity of the storage tank, how many cows you have, or even the the mean summer temperatures where you live. But I do know cows need a lot of water.
Well done! 19.5 cubic meters, without the need to pay utility companies for sheer greed, also don't take more than 20 cubic meters a day or you'll need a licence to abstract😉
In our part of the world, London/Surrey, the water authority charge for water extracted from boreholes by way of a licence that also controls the volume extractable
Who’d have thought a man with a digger who ‘append to turn up on that Colin Furzes channel would be just as interesting to watch. Keep them coming Tom Lamb, good job
thanx for that... I knew I'd seen him before. ♥
Great content, Tom. No noisy music or annoying editing, just the real deal. Keep it coming! 😀
What is the noise level, no ear protection in use.? Interesting vids otherwise.
It'd never occurred to me that there'd be a searchable record of those boreholes, every day's a school day, thanks!
And that would explain why Colin Furze is currently tunneling through Lincolnshire limestone!!. Very good video Tom, now I know how they drill boreholes👍👍
Good posting Tom. My sister who lives in Wales gets her water from a well dug back in the 1800s and it is the best water ever. where she lives the only services are electric and phone/internet. She lives nearly 2 miles from anything. just a road going past her cottage laid in for farm and forest use. So peaceful. when it gets dark down there boy is it dark. She has a small diesel generator and a ATS switch. The place is well remote....
Amazing
Sounds like paradise.
Thanks for another no nonsense video . I have never seen it done. I work for a Garden Centre, they had one drilled to flush the toilets and water the plants . They also reduced the size of water metre for the property that greatly reduced the water bill . The size of water meter makes a huge difference to the standing charge on your water bill.
I absolutely love watching this! I’m so glad I found your channel from your digging up Collins driveway! Awesome content. Great to know that I can look up the USGS and find info for my area here in the US.
Pleased it helps
Those borehole records are fascinating. I can't imagine them doing such work nowadays. Great investment for the farm Tom - gotta save a few quid while you can 🙂
I’m so glad you said that about the outlay! I always see the videos saying how to get free this and free that for life but, they don’t mention the 50 grand outlay 😂😂 great video as always
Hi Tom here in my village is a company godwin pumps they started drilling bore holes for water over 100 years ago and they have made there own pumps since then they are famous all over the world we have many of their wind powered pumps around the cotswolds still working today they are owned now by a Swedish company called xlyem and they specialise in huge pumps for big water projects and fire fighting on oil rigs and in oil refineries, the village is called quenington you might have heard of them good luck with your bore hole, roy
Brilliant idea tom, i bet its a game changer for your farm, always wondered how water got pumped out of boreholes so thanks
Brilliant work Tom not only saving money but a continuous water supply. Another interesting video.
Cracking Video Tom - I was really interested to see how easily you can look up what other bore holes were around you, and see what to expect when you drill - it was also interesting to see that it doesn't always go completely smoothly, but that you got there in the end. Out of curiosity, do they typically charge by depth, or by the hour - or just for the end result? And roughly what does a bore like that cost? Looking forward to barn part 2 - nice to see some real day to day farming projects.
Hi tim I think it’s a standard charge it only takes about 10mins to go another ten foot deep so not much in it really.
If they drill a hole and don’t find water there is still a charge but obviously don’t have to pay for all the liners and gravel pump ect.
About 7k for full set up all installed so not just drilling a hole.
In Wales they quote it all for a certain depth (think it was 60 or 70M) and charge extra if have to go deeper
I was half expecting Colin to emerge from that hole 😂
Your most "BORING" video, Tom. I'm only funning with you!
It's great to see Tom's Lamb's Farm back in action!
Hello Tom,
I came over to your channel after seeing you with that mad Plumber. I love what he does but your channel to me is like a public information film!
Digging and building garage pits, bore holes, all a bit of me.
Wouldn't mind knowing how much that bore hole costs. I remembered you saying you will get your money back in a few years but you will also save on man hours and stress when that main bursts again. Bloody madness keep repairing a couple of meters at a time, dig it up and do the job properly. Now if only they knew a man with a 360.
I think about 8k all in
Brilliant vid just joined after seeing you on farmer p and olli hope ok hope you had a good day on lamma . Just remember you on the lad made a hole under his garden and wheeler dealers 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Colin is digging under his house hoping to find any kind of cave or small cavity and you can't stop finding them with blind drilling, I bet you two laughed about that.
Fascinating Tom. Always wondered how these were cut.
New to the channel Tom and this is the first video I have watched. Very good and interesting.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Absolutely fascinating. Every video teaches me something new and interesting. I'm off to have a look at the BGS survey records now. Thanks Tom from a newcomer to your channel, from seeing you on Colin's channel.
Great video, looks like they had the Pea Gravel to the surface, it is a good idea to pack the last 10 m ts with Bentonite clay to prevent contamination of the well with surface water. I take it the casing was'nt cemented in?
I could watch content like this all day 👍
Great video really interesting to see the basic of sinking a bore hole. Years ago a brewery I worked at in the Thames valley sunk a bore hole where the water was held in a layer of chalk. They drilled the hole then pumped acid down to dissolve the chalk and create a cavern which would fill with water to be pumped out.
Interesting thing they still had to pay some for the water removed as Thames Valley Water held the rights to all water even below your land.
A rock cavity? Has that Furze bloke been round there?
Bore hole video was really good thank you
Glad you liked it!
Tom get some bee hives on the farm , your partner can work them no problem why not you ? , well women do say men can’t stand pain so she can get stung no problem (for you )😂😂
Great video Tom really interesting 👍
We had a float valve in our header tank, pump was cutting in and out too often.
Put in some level probes, tank level drops to about half then pump cuts in and fills again. Should result in a longer pump life.
that makes sense
Hi Tom , Colin has been at my place this week top bloke
Very informative video.
Thank you for makjng it.
Tom you have been running this for a year now, and I'd be interested in what your power bills are like. Dairy farmers in Canterbury (around Christchurch NZ) have to drill to 300 feet, and need at least two pumps (one at the bottom and another half way up) and their power bills are as much as NZ$10,000 a month. They are taking way more than 19 cubic metres a day though. Domestic wells where I live in Marlborough, only go down to 15 metres (50 feet), and that's only to be sure of clean water. We had to have a new bore put in after the foot valve failed in the old bore, and I watched the new well being drilled. He hit water with the second pipe, so less than 20 feet. We are consented to 15cm a day, but it is not metered, and we use a lot less than that even with irrigation going all day.
Yes saves a lot on our water bills.
We have solar panels on the roof running the pump but it’s only on a low setting that fills a massive 30 thousand litre tank 24/7 then we use the water out the tank so that we always have a large amount of water on demenad
Demand
I did one about 7 years ago. Simerlar reasons low pressure and cast main down in the village.
Brilliant thing but last year irnso.ii replaced pretty much everything from pressure vessel to pump to controller. Aim to write that side off every 7 years to get better idea of cost, still cheap water tho.
Add a flow meter, doesn’t cost much but will soon tell you if you have a leak. My system runs at 5 bar as pumps across whole farm and old joints can't stick it. Flow meter tells if i have a leak, turn off various stop cocks until you get rough idea where.
Great video, do you need any kind of permission from the council to bore or get water from the ground?
@leonrees9060 not if using under a certain amount each day
Great content Tom 👌
Great video very interesting to watch.Thanks
first time to ever see this proces. very interesting Tom 👍
Hi Tom.
That was great well done bud.
Saw you on Collins Channel.
Will subscribe now
Cheers mate.
Thanks for the sub!
Good old Collin, He did our bore hole sound chap.
Great video.
Your full of great ideas !!
Hi Tom, very interesting about the BGS records you mentioned. Will your drilling contractor register the bore hole for you? I had one drilled about 8 years ago. 25m deep & 20l/min. Doesn't seem to be on the BGS record. 🤔
Yes they do all the registration.
That way it keeps a record online for future generations like all the other records online show
Could you ask them ....not ...to register it?
Also. How long did they take to drill each hole
And it's good to show, you have to plan for alternate sites, may be 50m apart
Great idea can you not have one for your own use ie house use.
Loads of people do
Being a Yankee - I love how you switch between Imperial and Metric …
We still use both in the uk
It's depends what your measuring. However almost anyone can talk to anyone between the two.
E.g. It's about 3foot to a metre long.
How much dose it cost? Awesome content. 👍👍
Good question. Germany 80€/m. And why drilling for water?
How much does it cost to put a bore hole in Tom?
He answered another poster but it was £7,000
I am watching this from Jacksonville, FL, USA
Excellent thanks for the video
Brilliant, is it for human consumption because I thought it had to be treated first if so?
No it’s not only yard use
Awesome video, great work. Thank you sir.
Great job, will you not get the water tested before you use it? Also what about a treatment plant for the water or reverse odmoses!?
Goverment gona see this video soon and come up with a way of taxing your free water 😂
It just runs through a filter
Loads of people do it
What if you'd of struck Texas T , oil that is !
Congrats Tom another project completed 👍👍
Great video! Won’t be long until Rishi puts a stop to free water!!
That comment didn’t age well 😅
👍🏴
What sort of cost are we looking at to get to this stage?
100*12*4=4800?
What was the cost of this Tom, my parents live above the local reservoir, so they have to have their water pumped up to them from a pumping station, so a well sounds like a much better idea.
About 8
Great job, Tom !!!!
what's the wattage of the water pump? it'd be interesting to know the ongoing running costs. Interesting to see them using compressed air. the only other well drilling vids I've seen are from north america where they seem to use water.
@@treeoflifeenterprises it just plugs into a normal house plug
Interesting stuff pal ! And free water 🥳 just a question are you on solar panels on the farm which in turn can supply free power to the pump which then it truly is free water
Yes
I thought this video was very boring. Haha - I'll get my coat 😉👍
I’m very interested in getting my own well. It’s a fantastic idea. Can you tell me how much a well costs to be bored. You don’t have to include the pump and lining for the well just the well it’s self. Thank you.
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@@Tomlamb980 thanks.
nice,, work tom pal, love it,
Did you find Phil mcaverty
Great content, thanks!!! Question: What bar are you able to get out of that or does that depend on the pump you use? Is the pump choice limited to just the one for such a task?
You have another pump to pressurise the mains
Hi tom , I had my well dry up, in 2022, so we put a borehole in.
Do you have a filter system on it.
If using for drinking yes
@Tomlamb980 my new borehole is only 30 ft or so from, my well, and filters, it then goes to my bungalow and farm.
My borehole is 85ft.
I am in Western NEW YORK in the USA . my well pump is 80 foot down in the ground don't know how much deeper the well is I had to change the pump a few years ago ..just bought the home 4 years ago .
Out of interest Tom, what does a Dairy Cow drink in terms of litres per day? We used to reckon on around 70 litres per day for a suckler cow with a calf at foot.
Maybe about the same to be honest
Tom I'm really enjoying the videos -extremely interesting content! Thank you. One question: Do you need a licence or permit to abstract groundwater?
Sometimes
Bad ass thank you that was informational. So not only if you apply enough force anything will fit, if you good deep enough you will hit water.
Really good vid. 27 metres of water. How long do you think it will last?
Well done Tom is it still going strong a year later?
Seems to be
@@Tomlamb980 oh good, not a cheap job I shouldn't think.
Got one done in Thailand it cost £800 including the solar panels and pump and could fill a swimming pool in a day easy 🙏 best way to go
What a bargain, do you know the depth they had to go?
Maybe this is why your local pipes are breaking all the time :
Since privatisation in '89, the water companies have taken on £60 billion in debt, which with all the profit made, has funded the £78 billion paid out to shareholders !!
Bill payers have funded the few infrastructure improvements to date and had to service this debt. The British public were duped into believing privatisation was a good thing - It should be treated as criminal !
how much did rig cost to drill .
The irony is, if you didn’t want to find water, it’d occur without fail. Well done though. 👍👍👍
Im over in Ireland now, originally from Grantham, Lincolnshire... daft question i had to get well dug for my house site, to get water, is this the same process
Yes
@@Tomlamb980 fantastic, cheerz
Tom - how clean is that water that’s coming out of there? Would you trust to for human consumption??
If so why don’t we all have these!!
Most people do you just don’t know about it
Something I would like to do here Tom, What's the power requirement for the pump? lifting water that high must pull a bit of juice.
No it doesn’t use much power only a normal household plug.
It’s only ticking over
@@Tomlamb980 Thank you.👍
Tom, do you have to inform any authority when you drill a borehole please?
Not if you don’t extract more than 20t a day
great video tom
Hi Tom, is it necessary to get the water tested by a chemist?
Just goes through a filter and goes through a uv light as well and then it’s fine
😂 the water board will not be happy with you achieving free water!!
Why thousands of people do it just fill the correct paper work in and it’s legal ?
@@Tomlamb980 I already have free water! 😜 but what’s the cost of the installation?
Really great video, so interesting and helpful. Would you be able to tell me the cost of drilling and installing the hole and pump? Am very interested to do this myself
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@@Tomlamb980 thanks for the info, really appreciate it! And which company did you use?
Can you give me a rough idea how much those bore hole drillers charged for your install?
About 8 but he retired a long time ago
Cost of drilling the bore hole?
About 7-8 k
@@Tomlamb980 thank you.
proper brilliant that is. first video ive watched from you and i love no frill good content and usefull info. the drilling rig expensive to get on site? 10k plus?
keep it up tom
found the answer in other comments
8k for full job done
Great video Tom, don’t you have to pay anything at all to extract?
Pay who ? It’s a natural product
I thought that there would be some requirement to register your bore hole and pay some fee, after all this is England and in my experience very little is void of some legislative requirement these days.
Great video though Tom!
Only have to pay if you use over a certain amount of water per day
Have you had the water tested for quality yet?
@@VadoVoodoo yer it goes through a filter
Well, well, well, three holes in the ground...I'll get my coat. I was half expecting you to get Colin F to dig it for you, that'd only be fair.
Do you need to get planing permission for something like this or a survey of any pipes that may be below
No
And the Water companies are not there with their hand out for a license? 😀
So how is the water, taste and hardness?
It’s fine if you run it through a filter
Hi Tom another great video very interesting what was the cost to do a job like that did have a grant to help with the cost??
No grant but about 8000
I don’t know where you live, but ground water isn’t always a common good. Many places you need to declare your well, and sometimes even meter it.
Yes you have to do all that
I'm surprised you didn't go with a 6 inch bore pipe, you would have had more reserve water. I'm not sure of the capacity of the storage tank, how many cows you have, or even the the mean summer temperatures where you live. But I do know cows need a lot of water.
Definitely an interesting topic, keep up the good work.
Is digging holes in the ground and extracting water for self consumption even legal?
Yes thousands of people do it
Only if you take over 20thousand litres a day
Don’t tell the local water board, they’ll be all over that and still ask for money from you,
@@NeilFirbank-en1yd 1000s of people do it
How much does it cost
7-8
Good video…
You didn’t show us the lads putting down the steel casing until they met rock
Good video. helpful. Well done.
Thanks
Well done!
19.5 cubic meters, without the need to pay utility companies for sheer greed, also don't take more than 20 cubic meters a day or you'll need a licence to abstract😉
In our part of the world, London/Surrey, the water authority charge for water extracted from boreholes by way of a licence that also controls the volume extractable
Only allowed 20thousand litres a day
What do you do with that first hole afterwards?
@@greenglowamour fill it in
@@Tomlamb980 does it take long to do?
@@greenglowamour no 5 mins
@@Tomlamb980 cheers!