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Dude hats off to you for doing this task alone + recording video + sharing knowledge.
I have no desire to drill a well, but this video seemed so preposterous I had to click. And I was pleasantly surprised at how well it all came together.
In Kenya bore hole drilling costs over 3million shillings 😇 34 years pension money 🫵this can cost me 10k,you are God sent man 🇰🇪
We can do it here with that little.
So many negative, "problem for every solution" comments. My God. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with us all! Enriching other's brains for free and they're still mad about it. 🤣
sometime you can add an improvement without knocking a mans method. I've put in several of this kind of well and this is similar to my style but...way better. but in my experience, I do see a small problem. Yet he overcomes it probably not even thinking about it. Still looks like he went 40 feet down and yeah he got water!
Thank you. I need a well drilled and I was told between 10 and 13k. I guess we all know what im doing
I got two friends of mine that are brothers Pete and Clay Moss. When we were little, they would always fight, and I must say that’s the only time I ever saw clay on top of peat moss.
I did this when I lived in FL to cut down on my water bill. I jet-drilled a 30 ft well as a means to ensure there was water for my lawn even in the worst drought. Most neighbors wells were at 19 ft and one year they struggled to keep their wells going. You have to have sandy soil for this process to work.
That's not very deep
WOW, I cannot believe it, i paid $1,500 to drill a well about 5 years ago ... i should i have watched your videos... meeeennnn thanks a billion ... great guy!!!
That's cheap
As a 6th generation water well driller, i commend you brother, great job. Id like to add that this application can be done in sand, for a regular well here in florida you would want to seat the casing into the limerock, but a cheaper and easy way to just get water you did an absolute great job for a sand point well. Cheers
Thank you for your positivity!
At the very last connection between the 1” suction pipe and the pump, you ought to introduce a Union coupling instead of using glue to join the PVC coupling. This way, should you need to replace the pump in the future, you could just easily unscrew the Union coupling without the need to cut the 1” suction pipe. Get what I mean?
My thoughts exactly
True. Or cut it if and when you need to. Lol. (He's that kinda guy).
Good job 👍
No worry there. Unlikely be able to pull it back out after wall caves in and settles. Should have cased the entire damned length
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kudos to you from a 35yr environmental driller in texas!
we can only pull that off
east of houston, here west of san antonio you’re not getting 2” w/out air or mud with a tci
or diamond bit.
if you’re doing any more there’s a few tools you can make cheap out of scrap that’ll make that one man stuff soooo much easier.
SLIPS ! mine’s just 3/8”diamond plate.
i put handles on each end & cut slots for
1-1/4, 2” & 4”
pvc. life savor when your arms can’t hold 100’ of pvc any more.
Do you have a picture of your “anti-slip” jig?
We lived in Tulsa, OK when I was a kid, circa 1952. I can remember my dad putting in a shallow well next to our house so he would have unrestricted water for his lawn in the new subdivision. If I recall correctly, he just used a manual auger type drill.
Wish I had known about that before I paid top dollar to have a shallow well installed on my property. Hello from Melbourne FL!
Hello from Sallisaw, OK formerly Melbourne FL!
You wouldn't be able to do this in Melbourne Florida, 6th generation water well driller in Ocala Florida here
@@352ish Why not? They even sell the equipment to do this at the local Home Depot.
@@MasterKenfucius limerock in Florida
@@352ish The guy who did my shallow well went to 65 feet and never hit any lime rock.
This is the best video on bore water pumping.
😂🤣😂 had a good chuckle when you shot the water over the fence. 🤣😄🤣
Awesome craftsmanship !!!
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge !!!
I have absolutely no need to dig a well, but I just loved going along with you on that journey.
Very nice video. Now build a solar pump house.
That's the plan!
I dig post holes and trenches with hydro power. Been doing it for many years. Never could figure out why nobody else was doing it.
Because they have hydraulic post hole diggers that don't make small lakes
I dig my post holes with c4 now you can chuckle 😂
What about rocks
I "hydrodrill" grounds for Amateur Radio and some station grounds for AM radio stations that exact same way. I seldom go past 20' for those grounds, but I have had problems with water flowing out of the hole after drilling. I used mortar mix to seal the grounding hole after drilling. However, I never knew this could be used for water well drilling - excellent idea!
Depending on your elevation a pump can only suck water from the 16 to 22 foot range. Deeper water requires a pump to push the water up and that requires a larger diameter well to accommodate the pump and casing. Hitting a rock would take all the fun out of drilling this way. Also, not sealing the hole around the outside of the well properly is a great way for surface water to contaminate your aquifer.
Neighbors aren't going to be very happy with you if you contaminate their well by not sealing it properly.
at the top of the hole you are supposed to dig a trench a few (3+) metres long to take away the silt that is pumping up to the surface. Dig a small catchment area at the end of the trench to allow the solids to be scooped out. This stops is going back down the shaft and contaminating the aquifer.
Thx very Helpful info.
What do you mean about properly? I saw in another video where they made up concrete and put around the well pipe. Is that what you mean by “properly?”
The other question is you saying 16-22’ can suck the water up, but if deeper can’t?
I want a shallow well for lawn only. My 2 neighbors did it themselves. I wanted to see if I could attempt myself why asking questions.
@@greenspiraldragon
How do you seal properly?
Put a "T" piece onto the top with the " T" at a right angle and +- 12 " extension to direct your oveflow away from where you're working..!!
Did that here in Florida for a yard well. Works good.
Excellent job step by step walk through 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you Sir for great demonstration, advice on easy well method.
Excellent... Excellent.. Excellent. The only word I can say.
U do it by yourself, alone.
Excellent job sir, you are a great teacher.
So i used the trash pump method and 30 ft of 1" hose to jet. I couldn't believe how fast it goes. After 4 attempted and only hitting rock the 5th try we made it to 30 ft. Thank you for your videos i have been watching them for over a yeat now. An i just really like the dedication you give by doing these videos. Thank you tons
Great video! Thank you for that and hats off for doing by yourself.
Great job solo. Nice work
Its amazing that there is water down there, and amazing that you can access it so easily.
Where I live in south East Louisiana anywhere you dig 50 feet down is good water
WOW CHUCK you made it look so easy! I wish it was in my back yard! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
genius - thanks much for sharing the knowledge
This is really 👍👍👍👍
Whatever you have showed is giving the great idea to open viewer mind. Even something could be improve, that’s was just a matter of whoever can do whatever they think better or sustain longer. But the main point, you are among hundreds of peoples that have applied various methods. Congrats 🤲🤲🤲👍👍👍
This just remined me about what you are doing when I was 18 and now I am 66, we used this method, it was a scaffold pole with a nylon head with slots in it this was attach to a hose and a high pressure pump these poles where sent into the ground and around the site to be excavated, then the pump was put in reverse to suck the water around the site to dry the ground so we could continue excavating down.
AWESOME WORK IM GOING TO DO THIS! 💯
So is the point of the well point at about 28 feet below ground level? Did you decide on that depth based on experience and where others are finding water in your neighborhood, or did you do some kind of testing? Thanks much for your great vids!
Thank you so much for that great ideas of yours..,we will try it…
I do it very similar. I use a self jetting point and add to it on the way down. Thing is, those points are expensive. They are made for dewatering construction sites and the sieve size is a bit bigger than I would like if I was to drink the water. Filtered before the pump is how to get around that. Should use a filter anyways. Depending on your ground it is possible to overdrive your well and miss the water. Sometimes the clay is the end of drilling. Great video.
Thank you so much. I. am encouraged
Nice video Chuck. Wow, this would save alot of money for irrigation here in Florida.
I don't know where you live in Florida but where I used to live you could just poke a stick in the ground and get water for irrigation lol
@@1100wing 😂😂🤣🤣 You're joking right?? I live within 5 miles of the beach, yet I need to drill 30 feet for a well.
@@VioletUpton Well, 30' IS relatively shallow for a well.
30' CAN be dug without a water jet or special equipment. Infact, in a lot of FL you can "drive" a well
I’m from Jamaica and plan to do some Farming with a difference ,
I will definitely use this,
Thanks for the information,
Very informative.
Great video, really good job finding help is almost impossible in today's world.
Hey CHUCK l’m in Mi. Question I need to have my water line buried three feet down so it won’t freeze in the winter. I know the one inch pipe has to come out the side of the three or four inch pipe and I hope you have some idea as to how to do this. Thanks so much for all your videos. Very helpful and informative.
Great job on this video!
Great video chuck !! Thanks for sharing! Stay rad 🤙🏽
This was a great and very helpful information, my wife and I are going to do this for water for our pond which always run dry but this will be the key to solve the problem. I'll keep you updated!! Thanks Patrick
Great demonstration and explanation of the process 👍
I learnt as a child the power of water to "dig" sand/soil when I used our garden hose to bore holes in a pile of brickies sand on the construction site next door. It went in so easy. I copped heaps from the builder AND my parents but it is a lesson I have never forgotten.
What's your job now? Demolition?
0:30 hell
Yeah I have a 110’ well and I have to drop my pump down to near the bottom. My problem is that I run out of water in 20-30 minutes and it takes about 3 hours to recover the approximate 150 gallons. I think it needs to be deeper so that the casing holds more water and of course I would have to extend the pipe and wiring to the pump. I’m on a fixed income so I have never talked to anyone about it and just try to make due. But it makes it tough to have a garden or anything that uses a lot of water. I need to upgrade my power panel and replace my hvac so it is not at the top of my list. It seems like every time I save money towards the things that I need something comes along and I have to start over again. But I’m blessed with the things I have and I can’t complain. I found the video very interesting and I am sure it will help some people! Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge!
That’s my issue also. I’ve had 3 professional bore holes pretty much run dry & now I am confident enough to educate myself more than the professionals & dig / drill my own.
Get a large holding tank maybe. Fill all day and night then it's ready to use.
This is my favorite water well drilling video. Thank You.
Fine job my man!
Love Chuck he's awesome!
Hey great video my brother! Absolutely amazing actually, that was fast as hell!!!!!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing.
Hello from Northern British Columbia Canada!. We recently moved off-grid and plan to try this out this summer to get ourselves water on the homestead. We have very clay rich soil here, maybe 6 inches of topsoil then hard packed clay. Hopefully this works for us. We have a few IBC totes and a trash pump already which we have been using to get water from the lake during the summer, but having water from our land itself will be such a massive improvement!. Hopefully the clay doesn't stop us in our tracks!. We plan to film the whole process and I'll come back here and give an update as to how well it went etc. Wish us luck!. Also any advice is much appreciated!. - Adam
Thanks for the idea!! Awesome
Well done..
Excellent work...
I love it when you say would be nice an extra hand
Thanks for this great video. 5⭐
Well...done!
The history of moving water is still interesting to me up until modern times. If only the ancients had the ability to do this so esay.
Great job, I would have added a connection where the pump innects to the one in the ground and also rant a plumb drop on a string to check the depth of water. A great job
Wait one minute! The day light dosnt change thru this whole demo. This happened in on e aftenoon? I've been spending months learning and prepping for a huge project. One Day?! I appreciate all your practicalities, less your dirty prime/gluing lol. The ending is especially rewarding, thanks you.
Wow, thank you very much
Great instructional video, what GPM are you able to get? I would like to set up something similar for my automatic sprinklers.
Good job mate👍! Obviously the sandier the soil the easier. In Australia’s outback could be like going thru concrete! But beats paying someone 5000 bucks! Or more..
Love the video. This works great in non rocky soil. I can't help but laugh at the fact that you moved the tools from an "In case it over flows" zone directly into an oops I sprung a leak zone.
Murphy strikes again.
Chuck, I thought you were nuts crazy when I started watching this video, but I watched it end to end and got a huge kick out of your ingenuity. I have a geothermal system installed in my house that uses 5 250 foot deep “wells”. Actually just 4 inch bores that are super deep. They installed PB pipe loops and circulate water down through them to essentially draw heat away from the a/c system. I remember they hit a little water but nothing significant even at 250 feet. I’m in central Texas and we rely on aquifers and surface water for supply at the municipal level. Not sure how deep a well needs to be to provide reliable clean water.
All to say I don’t think at reasonable depths I could try your trick here, but I wanted to shout out your ingenuity and positive attitude.
Keep those videos rolling! Love them!
Chuck, you're an inspiration. Always cheerful and you accept unplanned "problems" without a hitch. I have a thought that might alleviate the problem of the ground closing back in before you can insert the 1" suction pipe (after the mud pump shaft is removed). How about using a 4" pipe vs. a 3" for the initial 10" to give more space within that pipe? Then, feed BOTH the mud pump pipe/shaft AND the 1" well point suction pipe down together. The mud pump drilling shaft should clear enough space for both pipes at the same time and then we you hit your desired depth you can just remove the mud pump pipe. The 1" well point shaft would already be in place and you wouldn't run into the problem of the cavity closing in too quickly. It might take another person to help manage both pipes but could be worth the effort.
Yes! Great ideas
Water
But the direction values one way
Couldn't one just hook the mud pump to the pipe that has the well point on it? 🤔
Awsome, thanks for the video. ❤
This is great!!! How do you attach the pump hose to the pvc pipe? What type of fittings do you need?
Loved it. Great skills to acquire. Thanks for sharing.
nice proyect thanks for sharing Muchas gracias por compartir!🙏🟡
I've watched a lot of shallow well vids and I think I can do that . I'd just put a hand pump on it for off grid water. Could filter and drink in a pinch.
Has anyone tried this to drill a groundsource heatpump well? BTW Cheers to all you who put out these awesome DIY videos and TH-cam as well!! A great service to humanity!
You need about 200' deep to do that. It's easier to use the proper tools, cause you are going to hit rock, unless you are talking about and open loop system, then it might work, but the debris will be rough on geo pumps. All though you could dig horizontal loops.
@@jcarney1987 thanks !
I watched a utube video on diging down 6 or 7 feet and laying in non perforated weeping tile pipe running air through it to get 50 degree air for heating a greenhouse and it reminded me of years ago my father had installed a tank at a service station and restaurant the area between the tank and the building was 250 feet paved parking area and they didn't want it dug up with a trench so dad popped a hole in the basement wall and using a 5 inch pole hole augur drilled a hole through to run the pipe through since then I've used a vacuum cleaner to do drill post holes I'm thinking of trying a combination of the these 3 methods and another idea I used years ago for cleaning water tanks with a lot of settlement in them I put a sump pump in the vacuum cleaner bucket so I could vacuum up the water and sentiment the sentiment sank to the bottom of the vacuum canister and water was pumped out
Thank you for your skillful demo.It is very very impressed and useful.
Thank. You. Good job
That is great never saw that before.
Thank You 🌸
dude youre a genius.
Great job
Thank you very much. I have watched the video many times and I am excited to apply it. I hope it will be successful😍
I think you will have a great success! Good luck
Simply awesome! Can you list the materials you used in the comment box, please 🙏
Anyway you could post a material list? Including fittings? Be very helpful and thank you for your video
Great video 👍
Excellent! Looking into possible installing an emergency/irrigation supply at my house and this looks to fit the bill perfectly.
Great video!! I assume you’re in Florida or another southern state with the palms. The 1” pipe that you used as the jet line that was attached to the mud pump. Was that 4 lengths of standard pvc connected with couplings?
very cool. how big of a mud pump did you use? what brand and model
Good job 👏
This is a great video. I wish I had seen it two years ago when I drove my well down by hand. Took me a good two days and my arms were so sore I could hardly move them after that.
Hey Steve,
How deep did you have to go ?
@@rickconnock7578 I went 20' plus the 5' point. I wanted to go 25' but I was all used up. Sometimes around here you can hit water with post hole diggers.
@@oldmgbs2 Q
@@oldmgbs2 what size pipe were you driving?
@@patrickday4206 1 1/4"
Parabéns pelo trabalho ideia muito boa
Fastest and the easiest way i know is? To have a water well drilled for you! We went down to 800' to hit into a Aqua Duck. It soft, Excellent, well water, and its very very cold. The best water i have ever drank, around the world. YUM so refreshing
Yeah but 40 bucks per feet
@@luisarashirovideo It took a few years to fine some one who would do it, at the price we could afford. 💲💲It was very expensive back when we had it done, Years back. at 10k! but I'll tell yea. 👉👉 its been, well worth every cent of it 💦💦
Yup when building my dad's island cabin in the Gulf we not only used it for a well but also for digging holes for the cabin post and the boat/ fishing dock and before anyone asks yes you can have a fresh water well on an island surround with saltwater just in case if some of y'all didn't know that. Thank you for a great video
Hi we have an island on the Florida gulf coast as well. How deep did you have to go with your well? Did you use saltwater through your mud pump?
@@enjoinick yes we ran our intake with saltwater and how deep that just depends on fresh water table and I would suggest sending water samples to someone who can test it we sent ours to Texas a&m so I'm guessing you know how that works fresh water is lighter than salt so when it rains it will go down until hits the saltwater and it floats on top we don't just rely on that alone we also have rain catchment system
@@enjoinick oh sorry we made a few different holes and took several samples and the holes ranged from 10 to 20 feet and there should be info out there for your area I would check agriculture development and with local colleges they have a ton of information hope this helps and we installed 2 pre filters then reverse osmosis
@@YeshuaT-bm6ss ok thank you 😊 we have rain collection as well but winter months with little rain it can get low so a well would be nice supplement. We mainly just use that water for dishes and showers.
@@enjoinick we use ours for the same and a big ice maker but the main reason why we need more is because our cabin is used by 3 families and it sucks to get there and no water. So another project we are working on is being able to turn on the electricity and AC by remote so it's nice and cold and the ice machine starts making ice. Good luck hope it works out
I'm curious why you didn't pull out the 2" pipe, put a 2" wellpoint on it, and put that back down the hole?
above ground pumps what is your choice for a diy er and fell at doing it right the first time ...guy at home to water my yard etc. going to try your techs Here in west tn clay top soil i dont know how deep it goes the above ground pump is my question what unit to buy???
Chuck, that's so cool.
What cast iron pump do you recommend. I wrote it down while ago but can’t find it. Thanks
I’m just wanting to drill a well to keep my pond filled. 1/2 acre 14 ft deep. Would this be able to do that in the end ? Thank you
Excellent job and idea Thanks for sharing your experience 👍
Totally awesome.
The only improvement I would add is to put a tube of screen mash over the well head length over them cutout slots just for extra filtering of the water and possibly clogging them.
I am not sure if most above ground pumps can pump the water beyond 20 feet or so. I am not sure.
I suppose for drinking water one should really seal the outside area of the well to keep contaminated water from draining down below. For irrigation all is good.