By far one of the most exciting videos since the announcement of baby! You guys, this is super awesome news. We have 1/2 gallon a min, feeding into cistern and get plenty to live on! Congratulations to you!
Our second well, was almost 1,000 foot deep, during drought seasons, we had problems, also large pump was used. Our plumber convinced us to bury a 1,000 gallon tank in our yard, added an additional smaller pump in the house to draw from the tank. After calling a water company to fill the tank, we never had to worry about “burning out” the larger pump, and never had water problems again. If we were to lose water during a drought, we could always call the water company to fill our tank. PS ten years later, we created a neighborhood water district, and hooked up to a permanent source of water. To live in fear of losing water, sucks! We improved our home values, water is life!
I've been waiting for a post for you guys to do a well for over 3 years! We have followed your journey almost step by step. I found your blog and have been doing exactly what you guys have been doing from day 1. We bought a RV, searched landwatch for land, looked for seller financing, bought the land, living in RV, even bought the same water containers as you guys....hahaha. We are 1 year into our journey and I want to thank you for what you have done for us. We would have never taken this jump without watching you guys. We are building a stick frame home only because that is what I feel comfortable with building my self without any help. The only difference is we don't have a cool hot tub like you guys, but we do have 9 kids to keep us busy lol Congratulations on the new addition in Alyssa's tummy, who will bring a whole new level of joy into your lives.
on our farm (320 acrs /2 quarters end to end ) when my dad had the well drilled (30 yrs ago) we drilled 3 wells - first on the n quarter near an old house site with a dug well(where i put my home eventially) got about 5 gpm . 2nd at the half mile line again 5 to 10 gpm . went to the s end of the farm about 100yds from the road an old windmill with a sandpoint(screen poreifferated pipe driven down on the end of the steel pipe) the driller went down the old hole! we were verry happy when he told us we could irrigate with it some where around 500 gpm . is some of the best water around even tho we had to lay over a mile of pipe to get it to all the places we needed it for the cattle (and the house site) . we are blessed !! my folks are on rural water system and the old dug well there is so gippy it killed the fruit tree mom planted when they moved to that farm. good luck with your well
So happy for you! When we drilled our well on the farm here in Kentucky, our neighbor witched the well. He found two streams of water and followed them out, driving stakes every few feet. The stakes from one drew a line in the direction of his house, and he had a good well. The stakes from the other pointed at another neighbor's house, and they had a good well also. He found where the two streams crossed, and told us to drill there. The drill hit one stream of water at 30 feet, which was sweet, but not very strong. They hit the second at, you guessed it, 87 feet, which was one of the strongest wells they'd ever hit, but sulfur. I don't know if it is still the practice now, but back then they'd bring in big pumps and pump the well dry, to get all the sediment from drilling out of the well. They brought in their biggest pumps and could not pump that well dry. Even during a really bad drought when all our neighbors had dry wells, we had water. It just stank to high heaven.
WAAAAHOOO!!! CONGRATULATIONS......At least you didn't have to dig it by hand. The Well that sits on our families cabin was dug by my Grandfather, my father and his brother.....80 ft....By Hand We know have "city" water for the cabin....the well is used for all the plants. Even though I've followed you two from day one....I don't have ANY Questions towards your water system. Why ? Watching how you've prepped for this moment..pre-planned for the "Down the Road" Goals....that you have it all laid out. I'm 1000% confident that you two have a plan....I'm going to just enjoy watching you two do what you do and learn.
Congrats on the well. Here in the mountains of AZ my neighbor has a 850’ deep well. Another is at 1400’. I hauled water for a while but now buy it from my neighbor using 900’ of irrigation hose to my 2000 gal holding tank. Keep your cistern with a couple of float switches to keep a good water level. You never know when a pump fails and you need to have it hauled.
Nice update. My well in North West Wyoming required bentonite seal as well. I think it is a Wyoming state law. The well was drilled a year and half ago at $35 a foot with steel casing. The well is 71 ft with static water at 50 ft. and flow of 25 gallon per minutes estimated. The driller just watched the water being blown out of the well by the drill to give that estimate.
Fyi get a rubber bladder pressure tank and a 40-60 psi pressure switch and skip the red jacket pump and go straight to the Goulds brand with water at 60 feet you could get by with only a half horse pump which will save some cost and electricity usage. I worked at a plumbing heating and electrical contractor for many years and have put 100's if not 1000's of goulds pumps in and only remember 1 or 2 that did not run flawlessly! It's so nice to see someone put in a well and not have to go to some crazy depth. I have put pumps down around the 600 foot mark and frankly they suck. Oh and btw the technical term for using a weight and string to determine the height of the water is plunking!!! woohoo as if you care LOL. Anyway your videos rock as always really enjoy them, even though I grew up in the trades and sometimes wonder why you would do some things a certain way cuz there are easier ways in some instances. As you try to bring out in your vids its all about the journey and learning as you go! Kudos to you both for tenacity! God bless!
I had a well dug in Eastern WA IN 2006. I PAID 28 GRAND FOR 340 FEET. Ended up with 4 gallons a minute. The finance company for the guy buying the property wanted 5 gallons a minute before they would finance it. My dear neighbor gave me 5 gallons a minute from his well so I could sell the property. Cherish thy neighbor!
The small town where I live in Missouri is 436' above sea level. We are on the edge of what was once a swamp. In 1958 the city decided to put down a new city well, it is a 12" well pipe and it went down 1100' the water is very good but high in limestone. I don't remember how much of the well is cased, a friend of my fathers was working on the project and told me about it, including the length of casing but it was a couple of hundred feet or so. The water came within 35' of the top of the ground, you are really lucky and the price for the well is much lower than what I would have anticipated. Good luck with all the rest of your work.
You can never tell with well drilling. My parents didn't drill for water for 40 years and relied on shallow hand dug wells that ran out for months every year because their neighbor had drilled 3 1,000' attempts to get 2 gallons a minute of extremely hard water with sulfur taste. Finally my sisters and I paid to have a well drilled for them so that in their golden years they would not need to suffer, and they reached 15 gallons a minute at 100' of nice soft water. On my own house, all my neighbors had 300' to 500' deep wells, while I hit minimum of 20 gallons a minute at 30' of soft water! Job complete in less than half a day! Pure luck!
Congrats on the well, only 75 feet deep. Our well at Cocolalla Lake, ID ended up at 500 feet with only 2 gallons per minute. I recommend getting a pitless adapter and locate the pump controller and iron filter in the garage out of the weather. We had a pump house initially near the well, it had to be heated and became a thing we constantly had to check in the winter. A warm pump house attracts mice and yellow jackets. Terminating the well in the garage will give you the option to filter the water and directly feed the house.
When my parents had our well drilled just over 31 years ago, if I remember correctly we hit water at around between 25 and 50 feet deep. But we continued down to around I think 120 or 125 feet. We had 20 to 25 Gallons per minute flow! The Well driller said that was unusual for around where we live! Most of the wells drilled in our area were over 200 feet, some were even deeper than 300 feet. I think one good thing for us is we only live a little over 100 yards from the Delaware River, but we live up on a hill. Fortunately we only had to pay for 80 feet of casing. So far our well has not run dry, even when several wells in the area have gone dry and people had to drill deeper wells, during dry spells. I remember one person who lives less than a 1/2 mile up the road and lives a little closer to the river than we do, they had a slightly shallower well than we do, it went dry the one year and they had to drill a deeper well. One thing I would do, if it is legal in your state, is add a rain catchment system and add another water storage tank. You can use the Rain water for watering the garden, you can add filters and use the water for drinking water, cooking, washing clothes, and even bathing. You do not have to do that now or have a Big system now. You can add small rain Barrels and use that for watering the garden. Then later you can expand it and make it bigger. Got to love Bugaboo, He sleeps right through the Well drilling!! lol THen after it is done and you walk in to pet him he looks at you as if to say: "Can't you let me sleep a little longer? I am so comfortable, I just want to sleep ALL Day!" ROTF LMAO
So Happy for you both. Now you have the access to decent water flow and hopefully it will eliminate the need to haul water in the future. In time you may wish to consider installing a water treatment system including a Reverse Osmosis filtration system for drinking water and for the ice maker. I can’t tell you how much difference that has made in the life of our appliances (e.g. the ice maker and coffee machines) but the water doesn’t taste like chemicals and the piece-of-mind that were’ drinking chemical free water is a major relief too.
We once drilled at a location my husband thought convenient . It went 500 feet and got 1/2 cup per minute. We capped it. $5,000 down a hole. We then did a geophysics study where they used satellite and equipment to read the minerals in the ground. They told us where to drill. The next well was 60 gpm at 300 feet. It cost $12,000 (about 25 years ago) but we got water in dry ole So. California.
I came off a farm from New Zealand we hoped of hitting oil hehe . I'v seen three Well's drilled it's amazing to watch these guy's .My Grandad heart rate up there haha. Love watching you two thankyou so much
It was interesting to see how drillers in different parts of the country do some things differently. A driller that charges by the foot but then advises you to stop drilling rather than going deeper is exceptionally an honest guy. BTW, there are 1,440 minutes in a 24 hour day. So 10 gallons a minute is 14,400 gallons per day. That might be enough! :)
Having your own clean chemical free water supply is a huge deal. I'm happy that you can raise a family without having to worry about lead and fluoride poisoning.
A well and cistern is a good combination. That is what I have. A bonus is when the cistern is high enough to provide gravity flow water to home when power to cistern pump stops, ie power outage. Wife can still flush toilet. That is important. Now need to set pump and water lines. enjoy
Glad it worked out for y'all. You definitely want a good filtration system. Bugaboo knows when to let y'all deal with things and he stay warm. Of course you will have to hear from him if he isn't satisfied with the work 🐈🤪😁
I realize the timing of this video, time has already passed but after boring our well (at 35') we decided to "clean" it out by pumping out as much as we could before hooking it up to the house. To get as much sediment out as we could. Hubby had heard this helped avoid issues. Congrats! We have a fantastic well that has 3 veins feeding it. I can do laundry all day, take a completely filled tub, etc without having issues. I'm so happy you had a better outcome than what was expected. Given some of the homestead challenges, you deserved to have this break.
Good to see Alyssa again. Been missing you, Lady, and you're looking good. God has once again blessed you guys with the well and I'm so happy for you! xoxo
First time to see a well dug and great explanation! I grew up in coeur d’alene about 35 years but disabled vet living in Vietnam now 51 yrs old I’m happy for you guys!
Way to go Alyssa & Jessie...Great news that you struck water at a so shallow depth, saved a lot of money that you can spend on something fun or other important stuff especially since you had to redo your electricity.
AWESOME!....grace happens....consider a Bison hand pump addition to your well head...great backup and does not interfere with your electric pumping system...always have water available whether or not electric is up and running...easy to install and to use...ck them out
Our situation is similar in that every well in the area is at a different depth and with varying flow rates. We are at 5600 ft. Water was hit at 240' at 3 GPM. Drilling was continues for another 100 feet where we were still at 3 GPM. We decided to stop there. We don't have a cistern but our well has a static level of 50'. With the depth of the well and that static, we have around 400 gallons retained in the well. I did a test with a garden hose. According to tables I found on the web, 100' of 5/8" hose should flow 1000 GPH at 50 PSI. It took well over an hour to dry the well. Since then, we've never run out of water. I should mention that our well was drilled in solid granite. The cost was significantly higher than your well, $16,000.
Wowsers - happppy waters H20 ! Our well in PNW is ~ 600 ft, and then 900 feet to the house. Such a well here is about $30k. We have always been concerned for you two about the well. Its so important that everyone we've ever heard of had their well put in BEFORE putting alot of $$$$ into the other infrastructure. You are blessed and dodged a water totin' bullet !!! Very relieved for you both !!
My neighbor is a well driller and he's hit water at a number of his customers within 50-100 feet and they wanted him to stop drilling and tried to suggest going to at least 500 feet. He has had 29 customers in 30 plus years of drilling stop him at less than 100 feet, every single one complained about the additional expense of calling the the well driller back in in summer when the well ran dry. They drilled to an average of 500 feet or more to hit a reliable supply of water. Better to pay now then pay later. Cheers and congratulations on the well.
Great going! I built a pump house and poured a concrete floor. My pump house is kept warm (40 degrees in winter at 20 degrees outside temp.) with a 60watt light bulb (incandescent Lightbulb). Cannot wait to see what you do for a pump system. One piece of advice I would have for you is to install a good filter system.
I am right in the middle of it, in Fishers (north side of Indy) and the rain is now turning to sleet/ice/snow/rain. Then -7° temps tonight...yeah, if we don't lose power, it will be a minor miracle. Hope you are safe.
Great !!! Now a 120 volt submergible pump , 2 solar panels, 2 batterys, a ball float in the water tank , 3000 watt inverter, , and gravity feed the house. all set. This is what I have and it works great.
Fantastic results, Congrats! I drilled 20 years ago in an area with 1,200 ft/ 5 GPM wells. In mid January at -20 degrees they hit aquifer sand 265' down and tested out at 35 GPM+, the best well in the township! $1,500 for the screen and installation and no water problems since. The happiest I've ever been to write a $15K check. Cheers!
Wow. You guys scored. Super happy for you guys. Delicious water and pretty much as much as you want! It’ll probably pay for itself after 7-10 years and then last for the rest of your lives. Say goodbye to driving to pick up your water!
I don't want to rain on your parade Jessy, but you are not able to celebrate until you test quality of water? You do not have a well in my experience (a 50 year veteran driller) until the first dry spell or you test!
Another cause for high cost wells are Artesian wells, my parents hit water at 145 feet, only problem was it was Artesian and flowed 95 gal per minute, so it had to be diverted with pipe to a pond 1/4 mile away, this was in the early 1960s and it is still flowing today.
I just found this We live in Arkansas and just had two wells dug on our property. They were 135 feet, they actually still here through red rock and red clay till they get to what is called "water sand". Our is cased with pvc and has a layer of bentonite clay around it and a special sand they use to put around the pvc. We are getting 38 gallons minute which is insane. Our was a base price of 5,000 for the first 100 feet and 15 a foot afterwards. So our well was around 5,500$
You need a Grundfos bore hole solar power pump they are ultra reliable and I have sold / installed over 3,000 across Australia, with almost no recall on them and most are working in very remote locations fully unattended. They can also if need be powered by just plugging them in if the solar is down, Are you going to pump into a settlement tank first before using the water? Use a larger size tank then you have water for crops and fire fighting, thinking ahead.
Your very lucky with your well. Had my done back (circa 1987 ) when it was @ $18.00 per foot, Drill {176' Ft.} & metal casing 8" in., Washington state / Snohomish county. With sealing the well with the Bentonite, and a sand screen, just over $4200.00. Pump just went out 2016 summer, replace pump & change out metal (galvanized) pipe to schedule 80 PVC $4375.00.
Congrats to you. I remember when I was a kid My friends Grampa drilled for a well and at 2500 feet they gave up. I never knew it then I just remember him talking real grumpily and slurred later that night. LOL.
I had a well drilled once and they hit solid limestone 20 feet down. The next 140 feet was through solid rock, which doubled the cost per foot. You could see the pressure gauge when they hit it climb up 30%. But, there is no better water in the world than a limestone well. Clean, pure and very tasty. We also installed a 1 hp pump. We were getting 80 psi @ 14 gpm.
As we have had many bores drilled on our property , we found the water flow you have is great , but its all about the quality . Most important to get a full analysis done on the minerals (major and trace elements) as it may appear ok but it will kill plants with to much sodium etc
Shows how time changes things. I had a well drilled in central NC 19 years ago, 120' deep with 60' of it through rocks. Had awesome water and only cost $2200.
You two totally lucked out. Easy easy drilling and so shallow. Around here solid granite starts 18" down and you drill till you find a fissure with flow. Don't skimp on the pump. There is a lot of head to the cisterns. Pulling a pump can cost a lot especially in the winter.
Don't forget to send the water off to the county agent for testing. In 1984 I dug 840 ft will home drinking water 2" pipe that flowed with a 2hp submersible pipe set at 20 gpm, and first irrigation well at 180ft 8" pipe 60 hp 3 phase motor 3000 gpm all for less than 5 thousand. Times they change.
Okay so now you have a well! Now you need to put in a pitless adapter and run that underground and up into the garage level. Inside you should have a small setup to filter the water to make it nice and clean before going to the cistern. If the water need an iron or maganese treatment, do it! Or the inside of those tanks will get Naaaaaaaaaaasty!! Congrats on a nice short well!
Thankyou Teachers! FYI - Your Bentonite more than likely came from Wyoming. Where I have seen large patches of. And if you end up on one of these patches with your vehicle & it's wet, you are stuck! This stuff is slicker then ice, Crazy.
By far one of the most exciting videos since the announcement of baby! You guys, this is super awesome news. We have 1/2 gallon a min, feeding into cistern and get plenty to live on! Congratulations to you!
Our second well, was almost 1,000 foot deep, during drought seasons, we had problems, also large pump was used. Our plumber convinced us to bury a 1,000 gallon tank in our yard, added an additional smaller pump in the house to draw from the tank. After calling a water company to fill the tank, we never had to worry about “burning out” the larger pump, and never had water problems again. If we were to lose water during a drought, we could always call the water company to fill our tank. PS ten years later, we created a neighborhood water district, and hooked up to a permanent source of water. To live in fear of losing water, sucks! We improved our home values, water is life!
Just a hop skip and a jump over in Montana, my family had the same experience as you guys. We hit water at 60'! Congrats on this major milestone!
I've been waiting for a post for you guys to do a well for over 3 years! We have followed your journey almost step by step. I found your blog and have been doing exactly what you guys have been doing from day 1. We bought a RV, searched landwatch for land, looked for seller financing, bought the land, living in RV, even bought the same water containers as you guys....hahaha. We are 1 year into our journey and I want to thank you for what you have done for us. We would have never taken this jump without watching you guys. We are building a stick frame home only because that is what I feel comfortable with building my self without any help. The only difference is we don't have a cool hot tub like you guys, but we do have 9 kids to keep us busy lol Congratulations on the new addition in Alyssa's tummy, who will bring a whole new level of joy into your lives.
on our farm (320 acrs /2 quarters end to end ) when my dad had the well drilled (30 yrs ago) we drilled 3 wells - first on the n quarter near an old house site with a dug well(where i put my home eventially) got about 5 gpm . 2nd at the half mile line again 5 to 10 gpm . went to the s end of the farm about 100yds from the road an old windmill with a sandpoint(screen poreifferated pipe driven down on the end of the steel pipe) the driller went down the old hole! we were verry happy when he told us we could irrigate with it some where around 500 gpm . is some of the best water around even tho we had to lay over a mile of pipe to get it to all the places we needed it for the cattle (and the house site) . we are blessed !! my folks are on rural water system and the old dug well there is so gippy it killed the fruit tree mom planted when they moved to that farm. good luck with your well
That price was not bad at ALL....and that company let you videotape them and put them on your channel so double bonus! Seemed like a good company.
So happy for you! When we drilled our well on the farm here in Kentucky, our neighbor witched the well. He found two streams of water and followed them out, driving stakes every few feet. The stakes from one drew a line in the direction of his house, and he had a good well. The stakes from the other pointed at another neighbor's house, and they had a good well also. He found where the two streams crossed, and told us to drill there. The drill hit one stream of water at 30 feet, which was sweet, but not very strong. They hit the second at, you guessed it, 87 feet, which was one of the strongest wells they'd ever hit, but sulfur. I don't know if it is still the practice now, but back then they'd bring in big pumps and pump the well dry, to get all the sediment from drilling out of the well. They brought in their biggest pumps and could not pump that well dry. Even during a really bad drought when all our neighbors had dry wells, we had water. It just stank to high heaven.
Congratulations on the new well. Been watching sense the beginning. Look forward every day to your next video. Love you guys, your fan, Etta.
WAAAAHOOO!!!
CONGRATULATIONS......At least you didn't have to dig it by hand.
The Well that sits on our families cabin was dug by my Grandfather, my father and his brother.....80 ft....By Hand
We know have "city" water for the cabin....the well is used for all the plants.
Even though I've followed you two from day one....I don't have ANY Questions towards your water system.
Why ? Watching how you've prepped for this moment..pre-planned for the "Down the Road" Goals....that you have it all laid out.
I'm 1000% confident that you two have a plan....I'm going to just enjoy watching you two do what you do and learn.
I’m happy for y’all....! After all y’all have been through, it’s good to see some good things happening for you.
.......and Bugaboo slept through the whole process. Ya gotta luv that cat!🐯
Bugaboo has the right idea. :)
I love you guys😇 it's about dam time a video dropped I was so used to the schedule you guys had. I would stay up till 2:00 a.m to watch your videos
Congrats on the well. Here in the mountains of AZ my neighbor has a 850’ deep well. Another is at 1400’. I hauled water for a while but now buy it from my neighbor using 900’ of irrigation hose to my 2000 gal holding tank. Keep your cistern with a couple of float switches to keep a good water level. You never know when a pump fails and you need to have it hauled.
Nice update. My well in North West Wyoming required bentonite seal as well. I think it is a Wyoming state law. The well was drilled a year and half ago at $35 a foot with steel casing. The well is 71 ft with static water at 50 ft. and flow of 25 gallon per minutes estimated. The driller just watched the water being blown out of the well by the drill to give that estimate.
Fyi get a rubber bladder pressure tank and a 40-60 psi pressure switch and skip the red jacket pump and go straight to the Goulds brand with water at 60 feet you could get by with only a half horse pump which will save some cost and electricity usage. I worked at a plumbing heating and electrical contractor for many years and have put 100's if not 1000's of goulds pumps in and only remember 1 or 2 that did not run flawlessly! It's so nice to see someone put in a well and not have to go to some crazy depth. I have put pumps down around the 600 foot mark and frankly they suck. Oh and btw the technical term for using a weight and string to determine the height of the water is plunking!!! woohoo as if you care LOL. Anyway your videos rock as always really enjoy them, even though I grew up in the trades and sometimes wonder why you would do some things a certain way cuz there are easier ways in some instances. As you try to bring out in your vids its all about the journey and learning as you go! Kudos to you both for tenacity! God bless!
I had a well dug in Eastern WA IN 2006. I PAID 28 GRAND FOR 340 FEET. Ended up with 4 gallons a minute. The finance company for the guy buying the property wanted 5 gallons a minute before they would finance it. My dear neighbor gave me 5 gallons a minute from his well so I could sell the property. Cherish thy neighbor!
The small town where I live in Missouri is 436' above sea level. We are on the edge of what was once a swamp. In 1958 the city decided to put down a new city well, it is a 12" well pipe and it went down 1100' the water is very good but high in limestone. I don't remember how much of the well is cased, a friend of my fathers was working on the project and told me about it, including the length of casing but it was a couple of hundred feet or so. The water came within 35' of the top of the ground, you are really lucky and the price for the well is much lower than what I would have anticipated. Good luck with all the rest of your work.
You can never tell with well drilling. My parents didn't drill for water for 40 years and relied on shallow hand dug wells that ran out for months every year because their neighbor had drilled 3 1,000' attempts to get 2 gallons a minute of extremely hard water with sulfur taste. Finally my sisters and I paid to have a well drilled for them so that in their golden years they would not need to suffer, and they reached 15 gallons a minute at 100' of nice soft water. On my own house, all my neighbors had 300' to 500' deep wells, while I hit minimum of 20 gallons a minute at 30' of soft water! Job complete in less than half a day! Pure luck!
Such great luck, Congrats! I grew up on well water, and it was definitely the best drinking water I've had
Glad for the update! So long between videos and I started to wonder of something awful had happened.
Congrats on the well, only 75 feet deep. Our well at Cocolalla Lake, ID ended up at 500 feet with only 2 gallons per minute. I recommend getting a pitless adapter and locate the pump controller and iron filter in the garage out of the weather. We had a pump house initially near the well, it had to be heated and became a thing we constantly had to check in the winter. A warm pump house attracts mice and yellow jackets. Terminating the well in the garage will give you the option to filter the water and directly feed the house.
Bugaboo is clearly ecstatic about the new well.
When my parents had our well drilled just over 31 years ago, if I remember correctly we hit water at around between 25 and 50 feet deep. But we continued down to around I think 120 or 125 feet. We had 20 to 25 Gallons per minute flow! The Well driller said that was unusual for around where we live! Most of the wells drilled in our area were over 200 feet, some were even deeper than 300 feet. I think one good thing for us is we only live a little over 100 yards from the Delaware River, but we live up on a hill. Fortunately we only had to pay for 80 feet of casing. So far our well has not run dry, even when several wells in the area have gone dry and people had to drill deeper wells, during dry spells. I remember one person who lives less than a 1/2 mile up the road and lives a little closer to the river than we do, they had a slightly shallower well than we do, it went dry the one year and they had to drill a deeper well.
One thing I would do, if it is legal in your state, is add a rain catchment system and add another water storage tank. You can use the Rain water for watering the garden, you can add filters and use the water for drinking water, cooking, washing clothes, and even bathing. You do not have to do that now or have a Big system now. You can add small rain Barrels and use that for watering the garden. Then later you can expand it and make it bigger.
Got to love Bugaboo, He sleeps right through the Well drilling!! lol THen after it is done and you walk in to pet him he looks at you as if to say: "Can't you let me sleep a little longer? I am so comfortable, I just want to sleep ALL Day!" ROTF LMAO
So Happy for you both. Now you have the access to decent water flow and hopefully it will eliminate the need to haul water in the future. In time you may wish to consider installing a water treatment system including a Reverse Osmosis filtration system for drinking water and for the ice maker. I can’t tell you how much difference that has made in the life of our appliances (e.g. the ice maker and coffee machines) but the water doesn’t taste like chemicals and the piece-of-mind that were’ drinking chemical free water is a major relief too.
We once drilled at a location my husband thought convenient . It went 500 feet and got 1/2 cup per minute. We capped it. $5,000 down a hole. We then did a geophysics study where they used satellite and equipment to read the minerals in the ground. They told us where to drill. The next well was 60 gpm at 300 feet. It cost $12,000 (about 25 years ago) but we got water in dry ole So. California.
Mar B, I guess that's the new standard for water witching? Quite interesting.
WOW!!! You folks really lucked out with your new WELL!!!
I came off a farm from New Zealand we hoped of hitting oil hehe . I'v seen three Well's drilled it's amazing to watch these guy's .My Grandad heart rate up there haha.
Love watching you two thankyou so much
Well done! The magic thing for all of us, the drill guys allowed filming! Thanks guys would only have been half the story without seeing the details.
It was interesting to see how drillers in different parts of the country do some things differently. A driller that charges by the foot but then advises you to stop drilling rather than going deeper is exceptionally an honest guy. BTW, there are 1,440 minutes in a 24 hour day. So 10 gallons a minute is 14,400 gallons per day. That might be enough! :)
unless it's just a 1000' gallon water pocket in between the clay layer above and the blue clay below which wont fill up quickly ;)
Now I know where to go buy my water when SHTF. This video is an asset for the surrounding neighbors to know what to expect when they consider a well.
5500 +$ !!! You have a home run on that one, Congratulations.🌊👀👍😃🎁🥇
Having your own clean chemical free water supply is a huge deal. I'm happy that you can raise a family without having to worry about lead and fluoride poisoning.
A well and cistern is a good combination. That is what I have. A bonus is when the cistern is high enough to provide gravity flow water to home when power to cistern pump stops, ie power outage. Wife can still flush toilet. That is important. Now need to set pump and water lines. enjoy
So happy for y'all. It's always good to come in on time and under budget; not to mention the time savings of hauling water.
Electric and water and baby, oh my! Excited for y'all.
Great news! That is a terrific well! Congratulations to a great couple!
Glad it worked out for y'all. You definitely want a good filtration system. Bugaboo knows when to let y'all deal with things and he stay warm. Of course you will have to hear from him if he isn't satisfied with the work 🐈🤪😁
I realize the timing of this video, time has already passed but after boring our well (at 35') we decided to "clean" it out by pumping out as much as we could before hooking it up to the house. To get as much sediment out as we could. Hubby had heard this helped avoid issues. Congrats! We have a fantastic well that has 3 veins feeding it. I can do laundry all day, take a completely filled tub, etc without having issues. I'm so happy you had a better outcome than what was expected. Given some of the homestead challenges, you deserved to have this break.
Good to see Alyssa again. Been missing you, Lady, and you're looking good. God has once again blessed you guys with the well and I'm so happy for you! xoxo
Your dice roll was 7 and 5 or 75 you hit gravel at 60 ft and stopped at 83ft . I think God was telling you 75 ft was perfect :D. God Bless you both.
First time to see a well dug and great explanation! I grew up in coeur d’alene about 35 years but disabled vet living in Vietnam now 51 yrs old I’m happy for you guys!
You guys had a "give me" coming. God bless. Enjoy your videos don't miss any.
I'm a well drilling contractor in Michigan you did good very lucky
Way to go Alyssa & Jessie...Great news that you struck water at a so shallow depth, saved a lot of money that you can spend on something fun or other important stuff especially since you had to redo your electricity.
We’ve not had snow here in the UK sw yet but it’s coming soon, I can feel it. Stay warm guys 👍
So glad that went well for you guys! How’s mommy feeling? So much happening with your family! ❤️❤️
So interesting, thank you for taking the time to document this!
AWESOME!....grace happens....consider a Bison hand pump addition to your well head...great backup and does not interfere with your electric pumping system...always have water available whether or not electric is up and running...easy to install and to use...ck them out
Our situation is similar in that every well in the area is at a different depth and with varying flow rates. We are at 5600 ft. Water was hit at 240' at 3 GPM. Drilling was continues for another 100 feet where we were still at 3 GPM. We decided to stop there. We don't have a cistern but our well has a static level of 50'. With the depth of the well and that static, we have around 400 gallons retained in the well. I did a test with a garden hose. According to tables I found on the web, 100' of 5/8" hose should flow 1000 GPH at 50 PSI. It took well over an hour to dry the well. Since then, we've never run out of water. I should mention that our well was drilled in solid granite. The cost was significantly higher than your well, $16,000.
Ah, when things go way better than expected and you feel skeptical, you have achieved wisdom. ;)
Wowsers - happppy waters H20 !
Our well in PNW is ~ 600 ft, and then 900 feet to the house. Such a well here is about $30k.
We have always been concerned for you two about the well. Its so important that everyone we've ever heard of had their well put in BEFORE
putting alot of $$$$ into the other infrastructure. You are blessed and dodged a water totin' bullet !!!
Very relieved for you both !!
Don't understand why you put all that money in a cistern & then drill a well? Why not just drill the well first?
My neighbor is a well driller and he's hit water at a number of his customers within 50-100 feet and they wanted him to stop drilling and tried to suggest going to at least 500 feet. He has had 29 customers in 30 plus years of drilling stop him at less than 100 feet, every single one complained about the additional expense of calling the the well driller back in in summer when the well ran dry. They drilled to an average of 500 feet or more to hit a reliable supply of water. Better to pay now then pay later.
Cheers and congratulations on the well.
Great going! I built a pump house and poured a concrete floor. My pump house is kept warm (40 degrees in winter at 20 degrees outside temp.) with a 60watt light bulb (incandescent Lightbulb). Cannot wait to see what you do for a pump system. One piece of advice I would have for you is to install a good filter system.
Congratulations , another thing off the bucket list.
🛠️🏗️🏡 good day to you guys !! thanks for the update and adventures on & off the homestead whilst building your dream house 🏡🏗️🛠️
Good for you folks. You have things going for you now. Congratulations, thanks for sharing.
I hope all goes well for you guys..we're having a bunch of snow and ice here in Indiana
I am right in the middle of it, in Fishers (north side of Indy) and the rain is now turning to sleet/ice/snow/rain. Then -7° temps tonight...yeah, if we don't lose power, it will be a minor miracle. Hope you are safe.
In central Indiana. Nothing here yet.
Great !!! Now a 120 volt submergible pump , 2 solar panels, 2 batterys, a ball float in the water tank , 3000 watt inverter, , and gravity feed the house. all set. This is what I have and it works great.
WOW. I can't believe how cheap it is to drill there. I would have guessed $15,000. Congrats, you two totally deserve this!
So happy for you !! Water, power and a home! What more could you ask for?? Have a wonderful 2019!
Fantastic results, Congrats! I drilled 20 years ago in an area with 1,200 ft/ 5 GPM wells. In mid January at -20 degrees they hit aquifer sand 265' down and tested out at 35 GPM+, the best well in the township! $1,500 for the screen and installation and no water problems since. The happiest I've ever been to write a $15K check. Cheers!
Thanks for posting today! ☺
good to see you both smiling again, great result
Wow! This was a surprise. I thought your well was further down your to-do list. Well I guess that is one less trip to town, no pun intended.
Wow. You guys scored. Super happy for you guys. Delicious water and pretty much as much as you want! It’ll probably pay for itself after 7-10 years and then last for the rest of your lives. Say goodbye to driving to pick up your water!
Thanks for sharing your Well Drilling Process it was very Educational !
I don't want to rain on your parade Jessy, but you are not able to celebrate until you test quality of water? You do not have a well in my experience (a 50 year veteran driller) until the first dry spell or you test!
The cisterns (and alternate municipal water source) largely eliminate both concerns.
Another cause for high cost wells are Artesian wells, my parents hit water at 145 feet, only problem was it was Artesian and flowed 95 gal per minute, so it had to be diverted with pipe to a pond 1/4 mile away, this was in the early 1960s and it is still flowing today.
Nice to get a win once in a while! Happy to watch more vids
Lucky on the depth. I had to drill 1150 feet in Arizona for our well, that was back in late 70’s. Glad I live in Idaho now.
Congratulations nothing like having your own well that is a excellent water flow rate still have to test the water later
I just found this We live in Arkansas and just had two wells dug on our property. They were 135 feet, they actually still here through red rock and red clay till they get to what is called "water sand". Our is cased with pvc and has a layer of bentonite clay around it and a special sand they use to put around the pvc. We are getting 38 gallons minute which is insane. Our was a base price of 5,000 for the first 100 feet and 15 a foot afterwards. So our well was around 5,500$
I Laughed I Cried I Cheered Them On !!! Smile 👍👍👍👍👍😜
You need a Grundfos bore hole solar power pump they are ultra reliable and I have sold / installed over 3,000 across Australia, with almost no recall on them and most are working in very remote locations fully unattended. They can also if need be powered by just plugging them in if the solar is down, Are you going to pump into a settlement tank first before using the water?
Use a larger size tank then you have water for crops and fire fighting, thinking ahead.
we drilled our well in 1971 and hit a artesian well best water we ever had. then in 1987 the city dug a big well and killed ours. broke our hearts
Wow !!! Real water no more hauling it. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
I have a 330' well in North Carolina it cost me $5500.00 for the drilling and another $1000.00 for well pump and wiring so a total of $6500.00.
Great decision on the well. No more hauling water from town. YAY!
My dad used to do water drilling for a living . Now he is the one that does the water witching in central Ca
"Ca"? Canada? California?
Glad it worked out, happy for you guys.
YAY IM SO HAPPY FOR YALL!!!
Your very lucky with your well. Had my done back (circa 1987 ) when it was @ $18.00 per foot, Drill {176' Ft.} & metal casing 8" in., Washington state / Snohomish county. With sealing the well with the Bentonite, and a sand screen, just over $4200.00. Pump just went out 2016 summer, replace pump & change out metal (galvanized) pipe to schedule 80 PVC $4375.00.
Congrats to you. I remember when I was a kid My friends Grampa drilled for a well and at 2500 feet they gave up. I never knew it then I just remember him talking real grumpily and slurred later that night. LOL.
So glad you didn't try to dig the well by yourselves! :) Congratulations! that's an awesome flowrate.
Very informative video. I learned a lot. So happy for your blessing of easy water!
I had a well drilled once and they hit solid limestone 20 feet down. The next 140 feet was through solid rock, which doubled the cost per foot. You could see the pressure gauge when they hit it climb up 30%. But, there is no better water in the world than a limestone well. Clean, pure and very tasty. We also installed a 1 hp pump. We were getting 80 psi @ 14 gpm.
Good to see you again!
107 Feet...That's what it took us a few years ago..we hit a artesian well..no pump needed, ice cold water year around.. :))
As we have had many bores drilled on our property , we found the water flow you have is great , but its all about the quality . Most important to get a full analysis done on the minerals (major and trace elements) as it may appear ok but it will kill plants with to much sodium etc
Wow that's about as good as it gets, great outcome!
Shows how time changes things. I had a well drilled in central NC 19 years ago, 120' deep with 60' of it through rocks. Had awesome water and only cost $2200.
was really getting vid withdrawal, need to see bugaboo lol
This seems to be a bit early for well but glad it's here. Good vlog! Hope things are going well for Alyssa!
You two totally lucked out. Easy easy drilling and so shallow. Around here solid granite starts 18" down and you drill till you find a fissure with flow. Don't skimp on the pump. There is a lot of head to the cisterns. Pulling a pump can cost a lot especially in the winter.
good deal guys been proud of your progress inside of the time frame congrates on new baby love it
So pleased for you with the well. Really interesting video... and the bonus was seeing Bugaboo.
Don't forget to send the water off to the county agent for testing.
In 1984 I dug 840 ft will home drinking water 2" pipe that flowed with a 2hp submersible pipe set at 20 gpm, and first irrigation well at 180ft 8" pipe 60 hp 3 phase motor 3000 gpm all for less than 5 thousand. Times they change.
Okay so now you have a well! Now you need to put in a pitless adapter and run that underground and up into the garage level. Inside you should have a small setup to filter the water to make it nice and clean before going to the cistern. If the water need an iron or maganese treatment, do it! Or the inside of those tanks will get Naaaaaaaaaaasty!! Congrats on a nice short well!
pitless adapter would that have a spool in it? lol
Thankyou Teachers! FYI - Your Bentonite more than likely came from Wyoming. Where I have seen large patches of. And if you end up on one of these patches with your vehicle & it's wet, you are stuck! This stuff is slicker then ice, Crazy.