In Malaysia we place a precast reinforced concrete (RC) cylinder upright on the site. We start digging on the inner ground and the heavy cylinder will lower by itself into the ground. When the cylinder is level with the ground place another cylinder on top and so on until clean water at the deeper level is obtained. Water will seep in between the cylinders into the well. The top few cylinder joints can be joined with sealant to prevent dirty water of top levels seeping in. No danger of wall collapse.
Digging in this type of soil by hand is HARD, backbreaking work, and all done without the benefit of heavy machinery. Looks like quality workmanship. Respect from the United States of America.
Our forefathers did the same. Often smaller, for a farm family, but township wells also had to be dug sometimes. ALL of those who do what it takes are deserving of respect. I think many of us have no idea what it took and STILL takes for some people to survive. And in many cases thrive. These folks, poor as they may be are WINNERS.
Also extremally dangerous. It doesn't take much for the soil to collapse on the workers burying them alive. Seen some people almost get buried that way. All the special services had a lot of work that day. Employed every excavator in the area they could find, just to hopefully dig the poor saps out alive (they got lucky).
@@tomswinburn1778 эти люди не бедные! Они умеют РАБОТАТЬ и строить! Дать рыбу, или удочку? Они выбрали удочку. А другие - рыбу. Рыбу съели, а удочки нет!
I was a power lineman and working in the Irvine area and getting ready to set an hundred foot steel pole. Forty feet of it went into the ground. While digging the hole with a well digger we broke through the ground and there was a rushing river at the bottom of the hole. Frankly it scared the heck out of me. If you fell into that no one would ever see you again. We had to dump abound 20 yards of concrete to bring it up to where we could set the pole. We set the pole and encased it in foam.
and people wonder how the pyramids were able to be built....maybe aliens helped them, how could they possibly have done it?? Well...after watching this....imagine what 10,000 people could do. It makes sense now!
I'll be thinking of these hard workers every time i go to my kitchen sink, open the faucet and get a glass of cool clear refreshing water....respect ❤😪
Using those folding sacks is a lot more efficient than filling buckets like most builders would use. Good idea to speed things up and save a lot of shovel work.
My first job in 1968 was digging 8 foot deep and 3 ft. wide ditches for water services in Calgary Alberta Canada. The pay was $1.10 an hour. I could usually dig 8 to 10 feet long in clay a day. These fellas have my respect ! ! !
@@Shaky_Premise Hmm, Interesting. I haven't had to dig and now live in a mountain environment compared to the prairies where I worked as a youth on a shovel but you mat have something there. Gravity is a powerful beastie eh.
Wonderful work on the wells. Just amazing. I saw so many techniques that were used build these. The small can of water on the brick to check that it was level, the stick across the wall at it's center using the marked shorter stick to keep the round wall evenly round, the rope around the larger pipe for the 3 guys to turn the pipe and join it to the lower pipe. Most exciting video I have seen on well building. 😄
@@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist What you mean is "dependable, and more accurate than most gadgets". I have a quality laser level, and in bright sunlight, it is hard to see. Mentioning that its batteries could run out is lame, so I'll mention instead that using a string or a piece of wood to measure things is super fast and accurate. You do need to know what you're doing a bit. But it works wonders for ratios. Ex. If you have wooden beam twice as high as it is wide, guess what you could quickly use to both measure the mid-point (on itself, or on where you'll mount it), the width and various other multiples? That's right, a thin slice of that very beam. Even with a speed-triangle doesn't get close to the speed and accuracy. That said, this video is clickbaity and trash. The original footage would have been cool at regular playback speed, perhaps.
Fantastic to see people doing what hard working people have been doing for thousands of years. My grandfather dug his families well in Yorkshire 1890s my father did the same when he returned from the war in 1945. I built the house We live in. Hard work never did anyone any harm. So ask yourself this " why are we always being aske to give Millions to Water Aid to provide water for village around the world?" Seems like much of the third world has learned to sit back and and let others supply the water while the drink it. Just a thought. India for one. Landing space satellite's on the moon while millions still starve and have no clean water.
Я правильно вас понял? Вы предъявляете претензии к работникам научной сферы за полёты на Луну, а не к долларовым индийским миллиардерам которые сосут кровь как с научного бюджета страны так и с данных рабочих, не давая им ни каких шансов использовать специальную технику?
I would make sure the guy up top has control of the bucket before starting back to work. Impressive work. I like how he slings the bucket onto his shoulder.
Take a long look, ladies. Those three badasses are what we call "men." They don't get hung up by pronouns or their precious little fee fees. Instead of wasting time and emotional energy on nonsense, they actually get things done. Mad respect to those guys.
Note: this is hard, valuable, skilled work done BY MEN for the benefit of the WHOLE COMMUNITY. We need to use real examples like this to remind those who go on about 'toxic masculinity' just what real men do.
It's hard to appreciate just how much hard work goes into making something like a hand dug well, just by looking at it. But your video really shows not only how incredibly hard working these men are, but also that they do theor work with a high degree of skill and discipline. Thank you for the insight.
Here in Central Australia, my ancestors dug their well with a different principal, the didn't just go straight down but in an angle, this way they would create a staircase that goes down to the water which was covered by grass as a filtration system, and a canopy would be placed over the well to keep the water cold during the summer, people would come to the well for days until they move to another location, there they would dig up another well in the similar way as the first one, now days we can't dig wells anymore because of the feral animals that was introduced by colonisers, these animals would destroy the well and the most precious resource know to both man and beast, like the video 👍 keep it up😁🇦🇺
Im a big muscular gringo and I had to dig out some enviro-latrines due to design failures in Suchitoto, El Salvador. I was working with some locals and I was much bigger them. they started digging and after about 10 minutes, I asked to join in. Man, I stabbed the ground as hard as I could and it was like cement. Those little guys were MUCH stronger in their hands than I was. THe workers there demolish buildings and roads by HAND: They were just laughing at how soft I was.
I remember how my arms seemed to want to raise up involuntarily after a days worth of digging and tossing the shovels full of clay up and out of the hole. So glad to be retired!! Mucho respect for all those that still do!!
Proprioceptors keep track of the position of our body. It makes us less clumsy. Overstretching them can cause weird things to happen as you have observed.
So much can be learned by doing manual labor as a young person. The benefits are physical and mental, and sometimes, it becomes clear that your energy has to be put in another direction.
I think the biggest lesson you learn is just how much can be done. People who start out in sheltered conditions, learning construction by books, they think work like this is impossible. Like all the people who think the pyramids couldn't have been built without help from an alien civilization.
Looks like a soft soil to start with, probably a silty loam until about 20' deep when they got to the rocks. So dangerous to be standing in a deep hole with soft walls like that with no shoring. Glad they made it.
OSHA has laws and regulations for a reason. That is a stupid risk of everyone’s lives. Any excavation deeper than four feet needs to be supported to prevent a cave-in. It happens so fast there is no time to rescue everyone before the suffocate.
These guys are machines! Looks great. In the early’60s, when I was a little kid, my Uncle from the Adirondack Mts area of upstate NY, he and some other men built an artesian well in his front yard, I’m not real sure how an artesian well works, but his water still comes out of there iced cold! He passed away a couple years ago.
Artesian water is located at great depth, on average 100 meters from the surface of the earth. And there is quite a strong pressure because of this, artesian water comes out under pressure itself from the well, without the use of a water pump. Unlike groundwater, which is located very close to the surface of the earth and requires a water pump for pumping. Артезианская воды находится на большой глубине, в среднем в 100 метрах от поверхности земли. И там довольно сильное давление из-за этого артезианская вода выходит под давлением сама из скважины, без применения водяного насоса. В отличии от грунтовых вод, которые расположены очень близко к поверхности земли и требуют для выкачивания водяной насос.
I'm familiar with the area, most wells there are technically water table wells, water flows from the ground near the bottom of mountains after having fallen as rain and passed through hundreds of feet of rock and soil. My father has a similar well in Ticonderoga.
У нас в дачных поселках по Подмосковью артезианские скважины ещё с советского времени, вода изумительная. Набирается в большой резервуар, а из него по трубам подаётся к каждому участку. Поселки по домов 600-800.
Nothing more than good old fashioned hard work. I know it's not something you see nowadays so watch closely young generation this is how you should be working.
For 20 years I have made a good living running work with workmen from all over central and south America. These men have a tremendous work ethic just as the many I was privileged to work with. BTW it kinda prove how overboard we've gone on safety here in the USA.
No shoring on any of these wells. Wonder how many guys died before they figured out how to get the dig process down correctly or when they could tell when one was about to collapse on them.
Breaking those stones looks hard work, sledge hammer bouncing off! Good to see the old shell and auger rig at the end there, I used to wok on one of those, escaped with all of my fingers.
My father and I here in Dubbo western nsw Australia dug a well in the backyard for veg garden. 65 feet deep 4 feet diameter before we hit water and then dug another 10 feeg with the aid of a water pump.. That was a job !
Yeah there's no way. First off you ain't digging 65ft deep by hand in 4 feet wide you would hardly be able to move. On top of it with no shoring to be at a depth like that is dangerous. Stop telling stories kid
@@ronnieswindski825 You have no idea what you are talking about.. I've worked on old gold fields here in Australia, where there are exploratory holes dug by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s are regularly found 2.5 feet diameter (not wide) and go to a depth of 40 to 50 feet . Your understanding of manual labour and mining technique is limited. Even calling me a kid shows your incompetence, I'm 63 years old.
@@charliepearce8767 I do excavating for a living.... gtfoh you might have everyone else believe that but not me. I know for a fact you're not fitting in a 4 ft diameter ditch with a shovel. On top of it, in soil that soft to be able to shovel 65 ft deep, you would need shoring you would have cave ins along the way. You're a rеtаrd.
We ( father started business ) had bore well for water drilling business in India from 1965 to 1989, intially up to 1984 we did all by manual drilling without any power machinery then we bought rotary machines and one impact machine build ourself.Our south gujarat area gets good sand water at level of 40 feet to 170 feet.we did for home use to agriculture, small village water works etc, installing centrifugal, jet,hand ,submercible pumps. This guys were digging wide well initially so that simple centrifugal pump can be used at bottom of well as centrifugal pump can not suck water below 30 feet.
The video was edited to increase video length. It actually took them negative 3 seconds to finish. So when they got the idea to build a well it was already up 3 seconds ago. VOOM VOOM VOOM fast fast! They work so fast that my face skin is being pulled back like a Rollercoaster by just watching
These men are very lucky. My condolences to the families of all the other people who have watched this video, tried this method, and died when the walls collapsed in on them.
Almost looks safe, doesn't it? Lol. Reminds me of the video I saw of a East Indian installing an A/C unit like 15 stories up on an outside ledge with the unit strapped to him while he's navigating a 1 foot ledge at best to get it installed.
@@Nirotix Every year in the US.......THE USA!!!!.......there are several men who are killed because their employer sent them down in a ditch for whatever reason, & the employer was too cheap to have one of those heavy steel trench boxes put in the trench to protect the workers. Personally, I think those employers ought to be crucified right there next to the trench. Literally crucified. Nailed to a cross. I can see where these guys might do it because they're digging a family well to keep family from dying of thirst. But to send men down into an unsafe trench just to save a few bucks........
@@terrencefoley509 I've been in the construction industry/industrial mine site industry since I was 17. 28 years of experience here, I know where short cuts are taken. 😉
@@Nirotix Bless you. It's sad. Everyone takes shortcuts. But taking shortcuts with people's lives where people die is criminal. And unfortunately, people with money don't usually pay in full for their crimes.
yep, not to mention running a gasoline engine near the hole with people in the bottom of it. People who mock USA safety regulations are usually people who have not seen people die in the bottom of a hole from a lack of O2 or a collapse. All that had to happen is the guy hauling up the bucket to drop it and hit a guy in the head and one man is dead. There is a reason people in the USA do not hand-dig wells anymore. It's not just because it is hard work, because it obviously is. On the other hand, you gotta do what you gotta do. These folks obviously don't have the luxury of money or education. So hats off. You got it done and no one died...that they showed us anyway.
@@LegendLength hard work fulfils a sense of existence, it's meaning and purpose. They are not adopted activities like hobbies or working for currency to buy things - this doesnt fulfil the void.
What hard labor have you guys ever done? Fun? Day after day after day for their whole life? They are doing this to survive. It ain't watching TH-cam videos from the comfort of your couch with the A/C on and the fridge in the next room. You think any of these guys wouldn't trade places with you?
Кувалда Лопата трубы специальные и мешки из клиёнки и трактор самый слабый белорус 15 лошадей. Внизу центробежный насос видимо качать будет периодически на соседний высокий неглубокий колодец отстойник без фильтра. После завершения работ думаю будет красивее сверху. Так как у них нет пилильных устройств блоков камня то использовали кирпичи что менее долговечное.
Fantastic hard work with great ingenious solutions to problems. I shiver a little about 30 feet of wall with nothing to prevent collapse...but to each their own soil conditions. :) Love the tractor cable hoist combos done here.
the bricks reinforce themselves being in a circular shape. basically, there is not enough space for it to fall through. you could build it to any depth and it would not cave in built like that. its the same for tunnels, which are circular and not squared =)
BUT do you know how to go the other way: to make the well walls while you are digging downwards? My Dad made a well 27 feet deep through sand to reach rock. He told me how he built timber form-work, that became the frame for concrete ( a layer at a time). He dug into the earth (the sand) taking the form-work down with him and filling it with concrete to dry out and cure. The well is still there almost 100 years now. Dad was born 1916, me 1961. You can do magic ...
When I was 10 my grandfather and I dug our well to 50’ by hand, we used a post hole auger till it got too soupy, a 3’ stick of pipe at a time, then we went to the barn and built a Can-D bailer and a rock breaker chisel pipe, the well made 25 gallons a minute of the nicest water!
@@infinitycosmos4723well, you need a good understanding of the geographic situation around you, (a) geography is fascinating (b) it also telling, above and below ground, you can see it above ground and that which is below has history in the wells that have Ben sunk around you, find out. (C) ask around about Water Witcher’s, invite 3 out on 3 different days, prepare them a fine spread in trade for a witching, mark and rate 1,2&3 of each Witcher’s best 3 spots with a rocks unbeknownst to the others, they had ought to hit pretty close to each other.
@@ronnieswindski825just because you were hiding inside doesn't mean everyone else was. Some kids were out working on farms. The summer I was 11 was spent moving dirt, 550 yards of black loamy dirt shoveled into a small 2 yard trailer by hand, and hauled with a Honda Big Red 250ES. The next year we had a leak in our irrigation system so I got to dig that up and repair it 15' down in clay, with a pick axe and a shovel.
I always wondered how the ancient people built complicated and architecturally challenging structures, and here I am watching these two guys make something like this in 21st century with only innovative tools. I have nothing
I've dug several artisan wells by hand. These guys are risking their lives and anyone else's who sees this and thinks it's a good idea. All it takes is a soft layer of soil under a hard layer and that well will fill in on top of them and bury them alive. The way hand wells are actually dug (by people who know what they are doing) is you dig the hole down three feet then place a concrete tube inside. Then you continue to dig inside the tub and it will begin lowering as the dirt is removed. When the tube is at ground level, you place another one on top. That way the tubes protect you from a cave in and you don't have to try and work your tubes into a deep hole where they get stuck and wedged in. If you want to use brick instead of a tube, fine, just place the brick as you go so you continue to protect yourself from a cave in.
Я ебашу каждый день так что тебе не снилось.Ты поработай так как они,каждый день в этой грязи.Я пять месяцев работал каждый день в дождь, мороз.Землю в мороз ломом пробивали , канализации,воду, газ вели и это каждый день по 12часов.Я пять месяцев ,а они всю жизнь.
Может им нужно пожелать приобрести специальную технику для выполнения донного вида работ? Ну , а здоровья пожелать, конечно можно и нужно любому человеку в любой сфере деятельности. Если они сами хотят лопатой, ведром и верёвкой копать колодец как до нашей эры, то тут уж некого винить.
Heavy equipment operator here. If that clay undermines by the water, which can easily happen, they would be buried in an instant. Should have had some remedial shoring on their way down. You don't survive being buried caved in up to your waist. I know. I lost a partner because he was where he should not have been. Soft sand caved in and buried him up to his waist. 6 hours later the hospital called. What a tragedy.
Watched a guy use a gasoline water pump and 250 gallon tots to push a pipe straight down using the water to push the soil out of the way. Seemed far more ingenious than hand digging that massive hole in the ground. 😅
You have to wonder how many times those wells caved in on the men down in the bottom of the well. The Health and Safety board would have a field day fining everybody if digging for a well was dug like this in a first world country.
I grow up in South America and me 12 years old my father like 60 years old Don Celimo like 70 years old, dig one 20 feet down with precast 6 feet wide concrete cilindres till we found water and continue 5 feet more down pumping water out with gas pump about 3 days took as to finish
when I was young I saw 2 half children boys(young teens) dig a hole of around 5 meters deep by hand in half a day, they had no ropes or ladders, and even came to us to lend a bucket from us since they only had a shovel. they would dig down the round hole and when it was to deep one person would be inside, first throw the bucket up to the other, later when it was to deep for that they would use pressure against the walls to climb up and down without tools(so pressing on the 2 opposite sides). this was in a local forrest, it is a forrest with sand dunes, so it wasn't like clay or rocks, but that hole was super deep and somehow they also managed to keep the sides stable enough to even climb up and down using them.
No Health and Safety concerns for these Heroes. An hour or so spent on a bit of Wood shoring might have been a wise investment. Nothing stopping that lot caving in on top of them! Bare feet too. Eeejits !
How about let grown men decide for themselves. Take into consideration that these are primarily poor populations; poor populations that *hand dig* wells.
@@JesusSaves86AB How simplistic can you get? Yes, they're compelled to "decide for themselves" because the nation in which they live does not have the money to provide a Western-world public water supply; far less a Health and Safety executive with officials and legislation to enforce the wearing of personal protection equipment, which they can't afford anyway. Meanwhile their wives and children are working in factories on a couple of dollars a day making soft toys, T-shirts, and shiploads of other junk for us in the West to buy and throw away. Too many clowns with soft hands down here talking about the "dignity" and "fun" of hard work. Brainless barstool rhetoric.
I like how the second group of guys did their well! It wasn't as messy of a job as the first group! The second group built the well first and then drilled into the ground last, and installed a pump. Even though their water was much further down. The first guys water was no where near as far as the second group!
Excelente terapia ,some insônia extresse e um montão de síndromes passa bem longe do sujeito ,parabéns guerreiros que DEUS os abençoe abundantemente. Do Ceará para o Mundo.
In Malaysia we place a precast reinforced concrete (RC) cylinder upright on the site. We start digging on the inner ground and the heavy cylinder will lower by itself into the ground. When the cylinder is level with the ground place another cylinder on top and so on until clean water at the deeper level is obtained. Water will seep in between the cylinders into the well. The top few cylinder joints can be joined with sealant to prevent dirty water of top levels seeping in. No danger of wall collapse.
I see how that would work great. No worry of cave in.
do you have a video of this method?
В России так же как Вы копаем колодцы
Genius.
Much Moore ingenious to dig inside precast wall.
Digging in this type of soil by hand is HARD, backbreaking work, and all done without the benefit of heavy machinery. Looks like quality workmanship.
Respect from the United States of America.
Indeed this is backbreaking work. Much respect to those who must do it without relying on modern technology. And yes, the workmanship is excellent :>)
Our forefathers did the same. Often smaller, for a farm family, but township wells also had to be dug sometimes. ALL of those who do what it takes are deserving of respect. I think many of us have no idea what it took and STILL takes for some people to survive. And in many cases thrive. These folks, poor as they may be are WINNERS.
Also extremally dangerous. It doesn't take much for the soil to collapse on the workers burying them alive. Seen some people almost get buried that way. All the special services had a lot of work that day. Employed every excavator in the area they could find, just to hopefully dig the poor saps out alive (they got lucky).
@@tomswinburn1778 эти люди не бедные!
Они умеют РАБОТАТЬ и строить!
Дать рыбу, или удочку?
Они выбрали удочку.
А другие - рыбу.
Рыбу съели, а удочки нет!
divided states of america. you lot hate one another.
I was a power lineman and working in the Irvine area and getting ready to set an hundred foot steel pole. Forty feet of it went into the ground. While digging the hole with a well digger we broke through the ground and there was a rushing river at the bottom of the hole. Frankly it scared the heck out of me. If you fell into that no one would ever see you again. We had to dump abound 20 yards of concrete to bring it up to where we could set the pole. We set the pole and encased it in foam.
Interesting story thanks .
Irvine?
UN believably HARD work! Hats off to these men! I have always wondered how on earth this was accomplished! Very clever indeed!Thank you!
С одной стороны думаешь, как было бы хорошо помочь этим людям. А с другой стороны видишь как портятся люди, когда начинают жить в достатке.
and people wonder how the pyramids were able to be built....maybe aliens helped them, how could they possibly have done it?? Well...after watching this....imagine what 10,000 people could do. It makes sense now!
А если видео ускорить еще в 2 раза и обрезать его тоже в 2 раза, то они выкопают колодец ещё быстрее (в 4 раза)
Start the video at the end...
🤯 mind blown
Я один не понял в чем изобретение быстрого копания?в том что копает бригада,а не 1 человек??
Самый простой дедовский метод и никакого нового изобретения !!!
I'll be thinking of these hard workers every time i go to my kitchen sink, open the faucet and get a glass of cool clear refreshing water....respect ❤😪
Using those folding sacks is a lot more efficient than filling buckets like most builders would use. Good idea to speed things up and save a lot of shovel work.
Well done!
My first job in 1968 was digging 8 foot deep and 3 ft. wide ditches for water services in Calgary Alberta Canada. The pay was $1.10 an hour. I could usually dig 8 to 10 feet long in clay a day. These fellas have my respect ! ! !
The ground was easier to dig back in the 60's and 70's
@@Shaky_Premise Hmm, Interesting. I haven't had to dig and now live in a mountain environment compared to the prairies where I worked as a youth on a shovel but you mat have something there. Gravity is a powerful beastie eh.
So what were you doing after lunch?
@@markrainford1219 LOL, More digging. I was 16 and had endless energy. oh to be young again.
@@Shaky_Premise.'\-~
Amazing! I always wondered how this was done. Unbelievable strength and skill. Such craftsmen
Wonderful work on the wells. Just amazing. I saw so many techniques that were used build these. The small can of water on the brick to check that it was level, the stick across the wall at it's center using the marked shorter stick to keep the round wall evenly round, the rope around the larger pipe for the 3 guys to turn the pipe and join it to the lower pipe. Most exciting video I have seen on well building. 😄
С одной стороны думаешь, как было бы хорошо помочь этим людям. А с другой стороны видишь как портятся люди, когда начинают жить в достатке.
Outdated technology, right here
Where are the feminists and equality screamers when needed? I'd like to see them here, even one in the whole world, just one! show me! lol
Unfortunate that people living in less developed countries are basically in the pre-industrial age. With primitive equipment at best to use
@@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist What you mean is "dependable, and more accurate than most gadgets".
I have a quality laser level, and in bright sunlight, it is hard to see. Mentioning that its batteries could run out is lame, so I'll mention instead that using a string or a piece of wood to measure things is super fast and accurate. You do need to know what you're doing a bit.
But it works wonders for ratios. Ex. If you have wooden beam twice as high as it is wide, guess what you could quickly use to both measure the mid-point (on itself, or on where you'll mount it), the width and various other multiples? That's right, a thin slice of that very beam.
Even with a speed-triangle doesn't get close to the speed and accuracy.
That said, this video is clickbaity and trash. The original footage would have been cool at regular playback speed, perhaps.
Fantastic to see people doing what hard working people have been doing for thousands of years. My grandfather dug his families well in Yorkshire 1890s my father did the same when he returned from the war in 1945. I built the house We live in. Hard work never did anyone any harm. So ask yourself this " why are we always being aske to give Millions to Water Aid to provide water for village around the world?" Seems like much of the third world has learned to sit back and and let others supply the water while the drink it. Just a thought. India for one. Landing space satellite's on the moon while millions still starve and have no clean water.
Я правильно вас понял? Вы предъявляете претензии к работникам научной сферы за полёты на Луну, а не к долларовым индийским миллиардерам которые сосут кровь как с научного бюджета страны так и с данных рабочих, не давая им ни каких шансов использовать специальную технику?
Much respect for your work! All the best to you! Cold, clear water!
быстро выкопать - это сделать нарезку разных этапов работы и получится ролик на 1 минуту.
I would make sure the guy up top has control of the bucket before starting back to work. Impressive work. I like how he slings the bucket onto his shoulder.
Take a long look, ladies. Those three badasses are what we call "men." They don't get hung up by pronouns or their precious little fee fees. Instead of wasting time and emotional energy on nonsense, they actually get things done. Mad respect to those guys.
I never would have thought of using a spade for digging. Ingenious indeed!
It was ingenious the way they started at the top and worked down !
so amazing and ingenious of these guys to use their muscles and backbreaking labor to dig a well by hand. Bravo, mates!
It's fake bro. Excavators did all the work.
Most just wait for someone to come and fund a well. Bring in a well driller to do the job while some charity pays for it.
Note: this is hard, valuable, skilled work done BY MEN for the benefit of the WHOLE COMMUNITY.
We need to use real examples like this to remind those who go on about 'toxic masculinity' just what real men do.
It's hard to appreciate just how much hard work goes into making something like a hand dug well, just by looking at it. But your video really shows not only how incredibly hard working these men are, but also that they do theor work with a high degree of skill and discipline.
Thank you for the insight.
I'm amazed to see them climb out with all of their toes intact
Here in Central Australia, my ancestors dug their well with a different principal, the didn't just go straight down but in an angle, this way they would create a staircase that goes down to the water which was covered by grass as a filtration system, and a canopy would be placed over the well to keep the water cold during the summer, people would come to the well for days until they move to another location, there they would dig up another well in the similar way as the first one, now days we can't dig wells anymore because of the feral animals that was introduced by colonisers, these animals would destroy the well and the most precious resource know to both man and beast, like the video 👍 keep it up😁🇦🇺
How many die from the top side collapsing?
Im a big muscular gringo and I had to dig out some enviro-latrines due to design failures in Suchitoto, El Salvador. I was working with some locals and I was much bigger them. they started digging and after about 10 minutes, I asked to join in. Man, I stabbed the ground as hard as I could and it was like cement. Those little guys were MUCH stronger in their hands than I was. THe workers there demolish buildings and roads by HAND: They were just laughing at how soft I was.
Such skill,strength and stamina !!
I remember how my arms seemed to want to raise up involuntarily after a days worth of digging and tossing the shovels full of clay up and out of the hole. So glad to be retired!! Mucho respect for all those that still do!!
Proprioceptors keep track of the position of our body. It makes us less clumsy. Overstretching them can cause weird things to happen as you have observed.
So much can be learned by doing manual labor as a young person. The benefits are physical and mental, and sometimes, it becomes clear that your energy has to be put in another direction.
I think the biggest lesson you learn is just how much can be done. People who start out in sheltered conditions, learning construction by books, they think work like this is impossible. Like all the people who think the pyramids couldn't have been built without help from an alien civilization.
The guys doing the digging have faith in the guy pulling the bucket up with a rope. One slip & WAMMO!!!
OSHA would have a field day here. But it's really cool to see some tough men doing traditional work!
Well done to the teams that did this back breaking work,
Чрезвычайно изобретательные строители?))) Бери больше - кидай дальше!))) Великое изобретение!)))
Looks like a soft soil to start with, probably a silty loam until about 20' deep when they got to the rocks. So dangerous to be standing in a deep hole with soft walls like that with no shoring. Glad they made it.
imagine, no hard hat , steele toed boots, safety vest,and they manage to live through it.
Speed-wise, no matter how long it took, still faster than getting a permit, or waiting for a code inspector to show up...
At least osha didn’t show and enforce mandates
Bureaucracy is the same anywhere.
@@texanbalaban6777 qq
OSHA has laws and regulations for a reason. That is a stupid risk of everyone’s lives. Any excavation deeper than four feet needs to be supported to prevent a cave-in. It happens so fast there is no time to rescue everyone before the suffocate.
Yeah and I wonder how many people have died while excavating a well in their village without any regulation
These guys are machines! Looks great. In the early’60s, when I was a little kid, my Uncle from the Adirondack Mts area of upstate NY, he and some other men built an artesian well in his front yard, I’m not real sure how an artesian well works, but his water still comes out of there iced cold! He passed away a couple years ago.
От воды?
От старости
Artesian water is located at great depth, on average 100 meters from the surface of the earth. And there is quite a strong pressure because of this, artesian water comes out under pressure itself from the well, without the use of a water pump. Unlike groundwater, which is located very close to the surface of the earth and requires a water pump for pumping.
Артезианская воды находится на большой глубине, в среднем в 100 метрах от поверхности земли. И там довольно сильное давление из-за этого артезианская вода выходит под давлением сама из скважины, без применения водяного насоса. В отличии от грунтовых вод, которые расположены очень близко к поверхности земли и требуют для выкачивания водяной насос.
I'm familiar with the area, most wells there are technically water table wells, water flows from the ground near the bottom of mountains after having fallen as rain and passed through hundreds of feet of rock and soil. My father has a similar well in Ticonderoga.
У нас в дачных поселках по Подмосковью артезианские скважины ещё с советского времени, вода изумительная. Набирается в большой резервуар, а из него по трубам подаётся к каждому участку. Поселки по домов 600-800.
I was told short handled shovels were invented by priests! These men are rightous hard workers.Salute!
Nothing more than good old fashioned hard work. I know it's not something you see nowadays so watch closely young generation this is how you should be working.
Incredible. Thoroughly impressed.
For 20 years I have made a good living running work with workmen from all over central and south America. These men have a tremendous work ethic just as the many I was privileged to work with. BTW it kinda prove how overboard we've gone on safety here in the USA.
Bureaucracy is the word for it.
No shoring on any of these wells.
Wonder how many guys died before they figured out how to get the dig process down correctly or when they could tell when one was about to collapse on them.
Tractors are perhaps the greatest machines ever invented.
Breaking those stones looks hard work, sledge hammer bouncing off! Good to see the old shell and auger rig at the end there, I used to wok on one of those, escaped with all of my fingers.
My father and I here in Dubbo western nsw Australia dug a well in the backyard for veg garden.
65 feet deep 4 feet diameter before we hit water and then dug another 10 feeg with the aid of a water pump..
That was a job !
Yeah there's no way. First off you ain't digging 65ft deep by hand in 4 feet wide you would hardly be able to move. On top of it with no shoring to be at a depth like that is dangerous. Stop telling stories kid
@@ronnieswindski825
You have no idea what you are talking about..
I've worked on old gold fields here in Australia, where there are exploratory holes dug by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s are regularly found 2.5 feet diameter (not wide) and go to a depth of 40 to 50 feet .
Your understanding of manual labour and mining technique is limited.
Even calling me a kid shows your incompetence, I'm 63 years old.
@@charliepearce8767 I do excavating for a living.... gtfoh you might have everyone else believe that but not me. I know for a fact you're not fitting in a 4 ft diameter ditch with a shovel. On top of it, in soil that soft to be able to shovel 65 ft deep, you would need shoring you would have cave ins along the way. You're a rеtаrd.
I love the hard hats and steel-toe-capped safety boots...
Wow! A well that will last for generations and be sustainable. Way to go!
You have to admire men that have a great work ethic 👏👏
We ( father started business ) had bore well for water drilling business in India from 1965 to 1989, intially up to 1984 we did all by manual drilling without any power machinery then we bought rotary machines and one impact machine build ourself.Our south gujarat area gets good sand water at level of 40 feet to 170 feet.we did for home use to agriculture, small village water works etc, installing centrifugal, jet,hand ,submercible pumps. This guys were digging wide well initially so that simple centrifugal pump can be used at bottom of well as centrifugal pump can not suck water below 30 feet.
Damn! It only took them 4 minutes to build that first well! That's indeed amazing!
The video was edited to increase video length. It actually took them negative 3 seconds to finish. So when they got the idea to build a well it was already up 3 seconds ago. VOOM VOOM VOOM fast fast!
They work so fast that my face skin is being pulled back like a Rollercoaster by just watching
thought that joke would be to cheap, you proved me wrong
I played it on 2x speed and they dug it in 2 minutes!
Man! What a tedious pain-in-the-ass! These guys are incredibly patient and tireless workers!
That just looks like hard work. Very impressive.
These men are very lucky. My condolences to the families of all the other people who have watched this video, tried this method, and died when the walls collapsed in on them.
Almost looks safe, doesn't it?
Lol.
Reminds me of the video I saw of a East Indian installing an A/C unit like 15 stories up on an outside ledge with the unit strapped to him while he's navigating a 1 foot ledge at best to get it installed.
@@Nirotix Every year in the US.......THE USA!!!!.......there are several men who are killed because their employer sent them down in a ditch for whatever reason, & the employer was too cheap to have one of those heavy steel trench boxes put in the trench to protect the workers. Personally, I think those employers ought to be crucified right there next to the trench. Literally crucified. Nailed to a cross. I can see where these guys might do it because they're digging a family well to keep family from dying of thirst. But to send men down into an unsafe trench just to save a few bucks........
@@terrencefoley509 I've been in the construction industry/industrial mine site industry since I was 17. 28 years of experience here, I know where short cuts are taken. 😉
@@Nirotix Bless you. It's sad. Everyone takes shortcuts. But taking shortcuts with people's lives where people die is criminal. And unfortunately, people with money don't usually pay in full for their crimes.
yep, not to mention running a gasoline engine near the hole with people in the bottom of it. People who mock USA safety regulations are usually people who have not seen people die in the bottom of a hole from a lack of O2 or a collapse. All that had to happen is the guy hauling up the bucket to drop it and hit a guy in the head and one man is dead. There is a reason people in the USA do not hand-dig wells anymore. It's not just because it is hard work, because it obviously is.
On the other hand, you gotta do what you gotta do. These folks obviously don't have the luxury of money or education. So hats off. You got it done and no one died...that they showed us anyway.
Legend has it that they are still trying to break that rock to this day.
Really? Why don't they just put a rope around it and heave hoe it out?
That rock was the only thing left in existence after the Thanos snap
I heard they were hired by the folks at Oak Island.
It's amazing that they can dig a well this deep in 12 minutes.
two wells in less that 13 minutes.. truly amazing!
Modernity really takes the fun out of hard work. Much respect to hard working people of the world.
@@LegendLength hard work fulfils a sense of existence, it's meaning and purpose. They are not adopted activities like hobbies or working for currency to buy things - this doesnt fulfil the void.
Yeah, really looks like fun.
Hard physical work.... Life expectancy 40 years. Honestly, there is no nobility in labour.
What hard labor have you guys ever done? Fun? Day after day after day for their whole life? They are doing this to survive. It ain't watching TH-cam videos from the comfort of your couch with the A/C on and the fridge in the next room. You think any of these guys wouldn't trade places with you?
Для того что бы утверждать , насколько тяжёлая работа приносит удовольствие , надо самому так поработать . Думаю , что мнение изменится )
Сдаётся мне что им в руки попал чертёж маяка. Только они его кверх ногами смотрели.
Если судить по тому какой ширины они вырыли колодец, то так оно и было.
Another example- Hard work pays off , fantastic human beings, nothing is impossible for them.
Man, those guys using that old tractor with the PTO shaft was cool!
Truly talented and very hard working individuals!
Some people think sitting on their bum pushing a pen in a air-conditioned building is hard work...
Полная механизация ручного труда 😂👍
Кувалда Лопата трубы специальные и мешки из клиёнки и трактор самый слабый белорус 15 лошадей. Внизу центробежный насос видимо качать будет периодически на соседний высокий неглубокий колодец отстойник без фильтра. После завершения работ думаю будет красивее сверху. Так как у них нет пилильных устройств блоков камня то использовали кирпичи что менее долговечное.
Great job, men! I would very good at watching. 🙂
Certainly makes you appreciate your taps.
No Bud light there and only real men on site...Respect as Labor Day approaches
Fantastic hard work with great ingenious solutions to problems. I shiver a little about 30 feet of wall with nothing to prevent collapse...but to each their own soil conditions. :)
Love the tractor cable hoist combos done here.
the bricks reinforce themselves being in a circular shape. basically, there is not enough space for it to fall through. you could build it to any depth and it would not cave in built like that. its the same for tunnels, which are circular and not squared =)
I was thinking the same thing. Extremely dangerous to dig with no protection while working. Don’t take much dirt to kill someone.
@@bigal25938 Yeah, trench collapsed on a guy near us, didn't even cover his shoulders but he died anyway when it induced a heart attack.
@@bhatkat😂
Удивительного и быстрого я тут не увидел, но работы дофигище было проделано. Тяжко в пустыне рыть колодец...
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Вода в колодце получается морская))) смысл в нем
@@user-qi5hm7on4x , в чём? не понял.
@@KafirBeTagut Для чего им колодец с морской водой.
@@user-qi5hm7on4x , мыться, поливать растения и стирать вещи.
These chaps are crazy ! They are digging without securing the sidewalls ! At any moment the hole can collapse, burying the workers !
Fantastic and creative idea😍
This is amazing all that work done with very minimal machinery
Thank you for sharing your way of making a well.
Much appreciated! 😊
many hands make light work. I'm very impressed. It is really amazing what people can accomplish when the work as a team.
BUT do you know how to go the other way: to make the well walls while you are digging downwards? My Dad made a well 27 feet deep through sand to reach rock. He told me how he built timber form-work, that became the frame for concrete ( a layer at a time). He dug into the earth (the sand) taking the form-work down with him and filling it with concrete to dry out and cure. The well is still there almost 100 years now. Dad was born 1916, me 1961. You can do magic ...
When I was 10 my grandfather and I dug our well to 50’ by hand, we used a post hole auger till it got too soupy, a 3’ stick of pipe at a time, then we went to the barn and built a Can-D bailer and a rock breaker chisel pipe, the well made 25 gallons a minute of the nicest water!
How does a person know where to dig??
Plz 🙏
@@infinitycosmos4723well, you need a good understanding of the geographic situation around you, (a) geography is fascinating (b) it also telling, above and below ground, you can see it above ground and that which is below has history in the wells that have Ben sunk around you, find out. (C) ask around about Water Witcher’s, invite 3 out on 3 different days, prepare them a fine spread in trade for a witching, mark and rate 1,2&3 of each Witcher’s best 3 spots with a rocks unbeknownst to the others, they had ought to hit pretty close to each other.
No you didn't. Everyone on here saying they dug 50-80 feet by hand. BS! I'd love to see you dig even a 10 ft hole. Especially at 10 years old? Gtfoh 😅
@@ronnieswindski825, Yes, I did and I have the receipts, what we like to call… pictures, doughhead!
@@ronnieswindski825just because you were hiding inside doesn't mean everyone else was. Some kids were out working on farms. The summer I was 11 was spent moving dirt, 550 yards of black loamy dirt shoveled into a small 2 yard trailer by hand, and hauled with a Honda Big Red 250ES. The next year we had a leak in our irrigation system so I got to dig that up and repair it 15' down in clay, with a pick axe and a shovel.
I always wondered how the ancient people built complicated and architecturally challenging structures, and here I am watching these two guys make something like this in 21st century with only innovative tools. I have nothing
Damn 21 century I like stone age 😂 because everything was free during stone age haha 🤣
innovative means inventive, you mean primitive
@@CyCloNeReactorCore I think he was referring to the laser levels, conveyor belt, and Bluetooth headphones.
@@carlsaganlives6086 oh fs, definitely innovative tools.
What is amazing is, No one lost a toe.
I remember back in the 60's when well drillers, Oh who am I kidding I wasn't born till 1966. LOL
13 минут два колодца. быстрее я не видел. Ну и конечно же изобретательность строителей на высоте. Копать лопатой я бы ни за что не догадался.
Если смотреть на скорости 1.5, то выкопают они еще быстрее
@@user-nd1hf1gc2x посмотрел на 2х - Нотр Дамм померк в сравнении с колодцем
Во жгёте мужики....ржали бригадой ))))
Да тут все этапы - ох..ть какая "изобретательность"!✌😎
What bad ass dudes some really great working skills and strengths 💪 👏
Why you said bad ass.. They have pretty round ass🥺
I've dug several artisan wells by hand. These guys are risking their lives and anyone else's who sees this and thinks it's a good idea. All it takes is a soft layer of soil under a hard layer and that well will fill in on top of them and bury them alive. The way hand wells are actually dug (by people who know what they are doing) is you dig the hole down three feet then place a concrete tube inside. Then you continue to dig inside the tub and it will begin lowering as the dirt is removed. When the tube is at ground level, you place another one on top. That way the tubes protect you from a cave in and you don't have to try and work your tubes into a deep hole where they get stuck and wedged in.
If you want to use brick instead of a tube, fine, just place the brick as you go so you continue to protect yourself from a cave in.
Thirteen minutes to dig a well!!! Freaking amazing.
А когда с перемотками смотришь, тогда ещё быстрее получается копать колодец!
копаю, копают, а воды так и нет .
Хороший коммент))
Видать не первый колодец копают, спецы.
Бедные люди,какой тяжелый труд.Всю жизнь на лопате,дай им Бог здоровья.
не только на лопате, у второй группы уже ДВС применялся для бурения.
И чем это они бедные? Если ты офисный планктон, который тяжелее ручки и листа формата А4 не держал, то не стоит всех мерить своей линейкой.
Я ебашу каждый день так что тебе не снилось.Ты поработай так как они,каждый день в этой грязи.Я пять месяцев работал каждый день в дождь, мороз.Землю в мороз ломом пробивали , канализации,воду, газ вели и это каждый день по 12часов.Я пять месяцев ,а они всю жизнь.
Может им нужно пожелать приобрести специальную технику для выполнения донного вида работ? Ну , а здоровья пожелать, конечно можно и нужно любому человеку в любой сфере деятельности. Если они сами хотят лопатой, ведром и верёвкой копать колодец как до нашей эры, то тут уж некого винить.
Видеть заработать в их краях на оборудование не так легко,ну и в любом случае работа такая ,каждый день одно и тоже земля ,камни.
Heavy equipment operator here. If that clay undermines by the water, which can easily happen, they would be buried in an instant. Should have had some remedial shoring on their way down. You don't survive being buried caved in up to your waist. I know. I lost a partner because he was where he should not have been. Soft sand caved in and buried him up to his waist. 6 hours later the hospital called. What a tragedy.
Pretty deep subject,, glad I dropped in.
I was feeling lower than a well digger’s posterior but this sort of brought me back up.
Awesome, yet very dangerous work. A collapse will kill whoever is in those holes. Pray for these men's safety.
Very hardworking and skillful people !
Watched a guy use a gasoline water pump and 250 gallon tots to push a pipe straight down using the water to push the soil out of the way. Seemed far more ingenious than hand digging that massive hole in the ground. 😅
You have to wonder how many times those wells caved in on the men down in the bottom of the well. The Health and Safety board would have a field day fining everybody if digging for a well was dug like this in a first world country.
Love the required "SAFETY" equipment!
I grow up in South America and me 12 years old my father like 60 years old Don Celimo like 70 years old, dig one 20 feet down with precast 6 feet wide concrete cilindres till we found water and continue 5 feet more down pumping water out with gas pump about 3 days took as to finish
прикольно, выкопали колодец и потом пробурили в нём скважину, а копали наверно, что бы меньше было сверлить
Это накопительная ёмкость.
И что то я воды так и не увидела
@@user-dy6ic7mk7j из там несколько миллиардов, вся вода выпита давно.
when I was young I saw 2 half children boys(young teens) dig a hole of around 5 meters deep by hand in half a day, they had no ropes or ladders, and even came to us to lend a bucket from us since they only had a shovel.
they would dig down the round hole and when it was to deep one person would be inside, first throw the bucket up to the other, later when it was to deep for that they would use pressure against the walls to climb up and down without tools(so pressing on the 2 opposite sides).
this was in a local forrest, it is a forrest with sand dunes, so it wasn't like clay or rocks, but that hole was super deep and somehow they also managed to keep the sides stable enough to even climb up and down using them.
When I was a kid we had two wells on our property that was hand-dug exactly like this
Молодцы! Шикарные строители!!! Замечательные парни!!!!😁
Это кликбейт, чушка
No Health and Safety concerns for these Heroes. An hour or so spent on a bit of Wood shoring might have been a wise investment. Nothing stopping that lot caving in on top of them! Bare feet too. Eeejits !
Oh, and maybe some eyewear when sledgehammering those rocks!
Caution REAL MEN @ work
How about let grown men decide for themselves. Take into consideration that these are primarily poor populations;
poor populations that *hand dig* wells.
@@JesusSaves86AB Got no problem with that, mate. It's known as Culling the herd
@@JesusSaves86AB How simplistic can you get? Yes, they're compelled to "decide for themselves" because the nation in which they live does not have the money to provide a Western-world public water supply; far less a Health and Safety executive with officials and legislation to enforce the wearing of personal protection equipment, which they can't afford anyway. Meanwhile their wives and children are working in factories on a couple of dollars a day making soft toys, T-shirts, and shiploads of other junk for us in the West to buy and throw away. Too many clowns with soft hands down here talking about the "dignity" and "fun" of hard work. Brainless barstool rhetoric.
I like how the second group of guys did their well! It wasn't as messy of a job as the first group! The second group built the well first and then drilled into the ground last, and installed a pump. Even though their water was much further down. The first guys water was no where near as far as the second group!
They get shit done. I love people who work. Amazing!
Never dig in a hole deeper than it is wide without supports.
Unless you have few, or no options, and need to get the job done.
Pretty sure it's circumstantial but ok
12:12 ... a 50 foot deep well, with NO WATER... brilliant.
Er, dig in the dry season.
Very courageous to get down in those holes and risk the sides collapsing. Hats off.
That's some seriously ball busting work right there. I was thinking the "ingenious" part would have been how to avoid that level of toil.
Excelente terapia ,some insônia extresse e um montão de síndromes passa bem longe do sujeito ,parabéns guerreiros que DEUS os abençoe abundantemente. Do Ceará para o Mundo.
Vdd irmão
some os 20 generos dessa nova geração
Да действительно! Очень изобретательно, просто техническая революция!!! Лопатами колодец копать. Ролик так назвали чтобы хоть кто то посмотрел.
Этот колодец служит две функции. 1) колодца
2) бомбоубежище 😂
We need a WOW button.
Picks / shovels / buckets. . . . .totally Ingenious!