Drilling wells is so interesting. These well drillers must be having a lot of fun especially when they hit that water : ) I know I find it pretty cool and how the earth works. Thanks for documenting it : )
45 years in contractor business ..word to wise Never ever use DBL vapor barrier..IF you have one on outside never use one inside plastic on ceiling will make mold
I'm a drilling consultant that specializes in that rig they were using, a Foremost DR24. They sent out a quality driller, with the best overburden drilling rig on the market, and constructed the well using heavy wall casing. I'd say you chose a very good drilling contractor and it was money well spent.
Most well drillers can tell you how deep your neighbors wells are, we wanted to drill a well to water the yard as city water by us is 6 dollars for 1000 gallons . The local driller knows how deep the wells are in his area. He told us that 800 feet in our area was most likly. Add that 1/4 mile away they were mostly around two hundred feet . Just goes to show how much the land can change. He had maps for the area, he was honest up front.
@@BEANS-O-MATICtransmissions we had a well drilled in northern Cali early 2020 , 300’ for 26,000. That included well, pump,wire to controller plus controller itself, pressure switch plus trenching and plumbing to tank location (about 30’). I ran electrical from house panel to tank shed. We used our own 300 gallon tank.
Holy moly!!! the farm my family has had since before the land run in oklahoma is basically sitting on one of the largest aquifers in the country... we have never had a problem getting water... you can walk out and say this looks like a great place for a well, start digging and have water... we have an old windmill that was used before the electric pump was put in for the well.... that windmill powered a pump that put water into the cattle tank... I can’t imagine having to dig 600 feet to find water!
That "pudding" as you call it, you can put it in a jar and use it as a polishing compound for steel and other metals. If it drys up you can just stir in water.
I got lucky, we found a spring up the hill behind the house and taped it with a 3/4 inch pipe. This was5 years ago and it's still flowing strong. I test it every year it's good water.
I live off grid and collect enough water using a 40 foot gutter on my cabin. Perhaps your area doesn't receive enough rainfall. My system uses an RV style water pump. I have it connected to my 270 gallon water storage tank. About the time I use 30-40 gallons of water, it rains again.
We just had our deep well activated a couple months back. It's roughly 180ft deep, free flows around 85gpm . A 3hp pump was installed and flow is limited to 30/35gpm. That was roughly $5600.00 Canadian for materials and labour. When we build the house a such we will run power to it. Currently it's powered by a 12KW generator when we need to fill a holding tank.
You have Amazing Patients and Attitude. Wow, I pray that your well provides you and your wife what you need for as long as you need it. God Bless you both.
Julie, buy a wood mizer and harvest cedar wood and many others. Every chance you get plant trees for the future. Most trees can be harvested in twenty years. never burn high dollar trees. plant you a future firewood lot. most state forestry will help you out.
I watched a well being dug deeper and at 263 feet there was burnt wood coming out. From a fire a million years ago? After going another 60 feet the water was awesome. Like a well is supposed to be.
Sounds expensive how long to recoup the cost including maintenance on pump and control gear as opposed to a simple rain storage & filtered gravity fed tank system, with basic non bio filtered water for washing machine and toilet flushing?
He will go until he runs out of rods, I've owned my drilling co since 1984. ,,I am in NC,, Good luck. Reverse circulating is a great way to drill. I wish I had been watching this when you tried your shallow well , it would have worked ..good luck. Wayne T ..
I know what you mean about the well drilling. They did a great job. When I had my well drilled, it went down only 180 feet, and I got 75 gallons per minute. Wish you guys the best. Place is looing great.
That was the best description of a well drilling ever. Great job and congratulations. Here in the S Appalachians we hit full Artesian high flow with 25lbs pressure at the well head at 300 feet. First 10 years we ran the entire homestead without a pump. Then just about the time a new neighbor hit high flow Artesian a half mile away we dropped to about 15 lbs so we assumed the inevitable finally happened and we purchasd a booster pump. Well we were in for a surprise as the water ran foul for a couple three days and voila our natural pressure came back in spades and better than ever. It apparently just needed a good flushing which the booster did apparently. I ended up putting the booster on the bladder tank pressure switch (which I had installed but never needed) and we run at 40 to 60lbs pressure now. Sorry about the long saga but I find it very interesting to go through all that and come out better off for it👍😎👌
I know the feeling watching one pipe after the other going down. My well is 500 feet, but when I see your soil condition, I'm happy with my solid rock, even the well don't produce much water.
I saw a well driller go 80 feet and the drill just unloaded. The old man by the drill said they hit a cave. Pulled out the bit and fiddled around 20 minutes and walked over to my buddy who hired him and said “you hit the jackpot. We hit an underground river.”
@@dougtaylor7724 there is over burden material that holds water ....there are no under ground river or lake what u drill it to is a gravel pit... the aquifer!!! Be drilling for 50 yrs started with my father at age 13!!! Under ground river!!! Lol !!!
@@markmcgarry1878 They exist. We jack hammered a 4ft wide hole in customers basement floor up, dug down another four, poked around with a heavy shale bar, and you could hear the water running through. Very small, not a river, but definitely moving.
I feel your pain. My well failed because the cowboys who did it didn't put a seal between the regolith/soil layer and the bedrock, so silt leaked in and filled the well. Got a driller in and they sank a new shaft about 12m away from original and got down to about 120m and it was dry. Had to get an excavator in to carve out a bank to get the rig around to the other side of the house and at about 100m they hit great water in large quantities. 16 years later and all's well...
Love the dollar sound as the well gets deeper, I can almost see your wallet getting lighter. But don't feel bad our well is 450 foot deep and cost us $30k from start of drilling to water in our house. Hope your well stays clear and produces good water for years to come. :)
Chch ,New Zealand here. I was a water well Diller for 27 years. Some of our wells are 100 mtrs deep some 130 mtrs. Our yields are up to 350 gallons per minute. This is with air devopment. As in useing a large compressed to pump air down the well. It lifts the water and brings the sand and grit though the screen. Better than wearing out pumps. I did Cable tool and top drive drilling. Cable was the best IMHO, you get a very accurate sample as you go. Cable tool is best for Test drilling for this reason. All part of my drilling. Cheers to all.
Great video!!! We're in the mountains 10 minutes south of Coeur D Alene. We drilled a new well 2 years ago. Our son, who shares the property with us (two houses on 5 acres) learned how to locate water and witched it for us with a copper divining rod. The drilling rig hit 15 gallons at 38 feet !!! Eureka. It ended up at 5 gpm the next day, but that was good enough and not worth going deeper for more. There's a law that prevents going back to 38 feet once you dig any deeper. One neighbor had to go 450 for water. Another went 650 and got nothing! We were blessed with our son's new talent. No...he's not for hire.
In my country we have people walking around with a stick and telling folks where to dig out the well. It's quite the sight having this old semi-magically thing happening with all the modern and expensive equipment just waiting to start up.
its really easy to search for water, , just google on how to do it and I guarantee you can do it, 2 bic biros, old wire coat hanger and wire cutters to cut it and youll be getting results in seconds, you can discover water, electric cables, sewer pipes , I have found them all, even in the floor of a house where I have to find the water pipe! works much more accurately than the electronic machines you can buy.
@@sitgesvillaapartmentneilsc7924 yeah it's not the hardest thing in the world to do I think part of why I'm really good at it and I can actually discern between an electrical line and a water line is because I'm typo negative I think that has something to do with it.
Some friends of ours down in Harrison on lake CDA stopped at 500ft because the average well depth in the area is around 320ft. They decided to bury a few of the tanks and haul water in. They are playing with the idea of using the dry well as a geothermal system.
FYI: that glacial silt is loaded with minerals. Use it in your garden, mix it with compost, sprinkle around veg, don;t use it on your face, will sting eyes, and hard to get out.
Yesterday I was thinking if I made a dumb decision on getting a well drilled at my Upstate NY Adirondack Mountain camp as the drilling started. I watched this very well done video before. My neighbor said his well is 600'. We can put people into space but we don't have the technology (as far as I know) to find an aquifer before you start drilling. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging here because I do feel your pain of your expensive well. We hit an aquifer in gravel at 95 feet and 25 GPM! Of coarse he had to drill through a boulder probably the size of a bus to get there. The ground was vibrating! I was overjoyed thinking the gods were smiling on us yesterday since we are pouring our life savings into this camp and future homestead. I wish everyone was as lucky with their well drilling job a we were. Thanks for the video!
Had a house in Poconos, higher point up in the "mountains". Well was pushing 1000 feet. Good quality water, thankfully never had issues with the well/pump.
Friends had a well drilled, at 60’ they hit great water. Driller decided to drill another 20’ to keep them in the water, it ruined the well. They hit bad water and couldn’t plug it.
I missed it somewhere. How much did this well end up costing. I’m impressed they were able to find that narrow band of sand to pull water from. Very skillful. Where I live in Massachusetts we are very lucky. House well. 80 feet. 17gpm. Shop well. 120 feet. Over 10 gpm. Pretty much 30 feet of overburden to granite. Then they get down to the water level and hydraulically fracture the stone. And up comes the water.
Our well is 25 foot deep and was hand dug and lined with limestone. It hasn't been dry for 35 years and it went dry because I was watering the garden. It had water in the 1930's when other wells went dry.
Well, dang it, y'all. I'm so sorry this is how your well drilling experience turned out. At least in the end there is clear water, but gosh I hate y'all had to deal with the stress of getting there. I pray the screen holds up and does it job for years and years to come.
We used Universal 1.7 miles west of Sandpoint summer of 2022. 225 feet, 10 plus gallons a minute, we're super pleased. Some of our neighbors went to 600 feet for less than half of what we're getting. Universal is a no nonsense, no fuss operation, I highly recommend them.
Greetings from Scotland!! Sorry you had such an issue with your borehole. Mine is down 110 feet was mostly through shattered rock, but so far water is good without treatment or filtering.... guess I was lucky!!
I am glad where i live drilling a water well is no more than 90 feet tops. Most wells are between 60 to 70 feet deep to go any deeper is salt water but on down below the salt is more fresh water. A lot of people think you are drilling through rock all the way down but that is not the case, you have sand beds and big gravel beds. Here the first water you reach is around 15 to 20 feet down and it is really surface water which is still good water. The water level is based on the level up and down of the creek level water.
For those folks considering relocation: We have wonderful water here in the Ozarks of SW Missouri. There is a huge aquifer under SW MO called the Ozarks Plateau Aquifer. I just drilled a new well on my acreage. I went about 80ft deeper than I actually had to. I took it to 560' and got 75+ GPM. Yes, that is correct. The static water level came up to 180' below the surface. It took 147' of casing. The water is very hard here. Runs about 40 grains hardness. So, a softner is about mandatory if you want your faucets to last.
Oh this is SO well done! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (I just went through an agonizing five months to restore an irrigation well, so I so appreciate your story even more!)
My well up here on the mountain is 500', with the pump located at 480'. It's a slow well at 1qt per minute, but with a static line of 112' we've never had a water issue yet, even when we went through almost a month drought.. Good luck, I hope it works out.
Last well I installed a pump on was just around 420 feet, and we’re on ancient glacial lakebed over ancient ocean bed. They’re not allowed to go much deeper, as that puts them into oil and gas territory. That well produced, but more often than not, the holes don’t produce, so most people install cisterns and truck water in. Myself included.
Depends on area for North America. The area I'm in we have a lot of area where deep below it's just sand and clay. Where I used to work making holes. The water table was sometimes only 20 feet down, sometimes I never seen any. There's lots of sand in some areas.
I thought a house was a money pit, but I am corrected. I live in SC with a 200 foot well with beautiful water and great taste. Maybe it's location, location, location. Glad it worked out.
drilled many wells myself back in the 80's as my neighbor had a well drilling business for 40 years! only ever went to 600' a few times but most were 250-350' range! At that depth your TDH would warrant a 1.5HP submersible to ensure pump life longevity! .... Look forward to hearing what you guys end up with! .Also curious if you will have a generator to power it as needed or ? those big pumps have a really high initial surge watts to begin with!
Mid 1980's I lived in Vermont and built on my wife's old family farm that her father had repurchased in the 60's. Her brother who lived at the lower end of the farm, dug a 55' well with over 35 gals/min. Water actually seeped out of the top of the well year round. 200 yards further up her dad dug his well to 85' with a little over 20 gals/min. !/2 mile further up the road we had our well dug. 360' with 5 gals/min. I feel your pain. At that time in Vermont well over 50% of homes were supplied with spring water that was captured in cisterns in the basements or pump houses. We considered it as an option but knew it would make for a more difficult resale of the property as financial institutions frown on such "primitive" technologies. The budget took a "deep" hit that day. Keep smiling. You have water!
i know that feeling, i just had a well drilled in vermont they got bedrock in 15 ' so not much casing needed . got to 385' had 1 gpm, went to 405' and got 20-30 gpm. my mothers well 300' away and 70' higher in elevation ws only 285' deep with 6 gpm and my neighbor down the hill about 800' away has an artesian well that just flows all the time. forest gump would say drilling wells is like a box of chocolates.
Universal just drilled my well last week in Libby. I lucked out at 285' with 15-20 GPM. They did a great job and was very informative and willing to help. Congrats on water. ITs the one thing we cant do that requires a contractor to do.
I live in Far Western Ky and my well is 280 feet deep. When it was drilled, they drilled until they hit white sand with believe it or not it had shells in it!
I feel your pain. We are also located in a glacial valley and had a similar issue with ultra fine silt. After years of dealing with plugged whole house filters we finally implemented a system that cleared our water - a automated yard watering system. Since we have installed the irrigation system, our water has cleared significantly. We measure our sucsses by the lower frequency of toilet cleanings. Best of luck to you and wishing your bank account feels better soon, ouch that was a deep hit.
@@dhuck470 sadly there is water, then there is usable water, then there is the question of quantity. I can dig with a post hole digger here and hit water. but its at least 30 foot for any usable amount for irrigation. and water I would drink is more around 60-125 foot.
no not really you got jobs were you have to get more.there is very little bad well drillers. and it is not easy work.there are jobs were you don’t end up getting water. and these people did in wrong. you should be drilling the well first never build and then look for water. building with out water is nothing but a Storage building.seen a whole Condo complex built to the very end and we did Five different wholes and got nothing but salt water.
My wife and I feel very blessed, our well driller hit spring water at 200 ft. and with 55 gallons per minute it has 20 ft. head which means it's 10 ft higher than the creek bottom 50 ft. away.
Haha! My wife was visited in her dreams by a white haired fairy who told the water was under the orange tree in the yard. 80’ down yielded the sweetest water I’ve ever tasted and by far the best in the neighborhood. Maybe my wife should pay a visit🤪
They should use old tricks to find water under ground willow branches will bend downward when you walk above an underground water source and metal rods will cross each other.
@@rogerroger7734 Um, when you're drilling thru mud and sand the casing does go to the bottom, except the 10 foot of screen protruding. Watch the video again.
Boy, was looking bleak there for a bit. So thankful you were able to go with that second option and that it worked to give you guys water! I loved the timelapse and cash register sounds of each section of pipe going down. That was a really fun way of showing it!
Yup all i seen was a deep hole with no water until they filled it with 7 thousand gallons of water from a truck i wonder how long the water will last .
Chickens have it tad too cold. They lay better if it is warm. Quails can handle some cold. Tin roof without heat isolation - cold in the winter, too hot in the summer if it is on the sunny side. My guestimation is that the winters ahead won't be as warm as they have been lately.
May Lord Jesus give ease your hand working for best your home for your long life with your wife, daughter, and son, Pak Martin.... He's not leave u always and forever... 😇🙏🕊🕊🕊💪💪💪
Oh my! I had a well drilled in Pennsylvania, 200 foot. The water was not that great. I feel your pain. When I moved to Florida I hit water at 30 foot and its good!
@@BEANS-O-MATICtransmissions that was back in the mid to late 80's? Around $3000 back then, including the pump, plumbing, tank, etc.... It was In western PA about 500 foot from a road, it was not easy getting a drilling rig back in there. Talk to building contractors in your area, they can usually steer you to who does the work at reasonable prices. Good Luck!
I'm a UK geologist - now retired. There have been multiple glaciations over the last 2 million years (maybe ~50 of them in the UK). The wood you found will have formed in one of the interglacial (warmer) periods and then buried when the next glacial period came along. The advancing cold probably killed off the trees, then buried them under snow and then ice, and the glaciers rolled over the top of the trees and buried the timber under a layer of clay, sand and rock flour ground off the rocks higher up. That mass of clayey ground is called till - forming under a glacier it's a lodgement till. That's what you have there, lodgement tills. If you found a gravel body in the till (formerly a stream, now buried) it's not necessarily connected to water - it may have some in when you hit it, but you could pump it dry if it's not very big.
Only if the idiots that believe in man made global warming would do a little research they would understand that the earth goes through cycles naturally
AFJ - It’s very interesting to hear your take on of the geology and your conclusion unfortunately suggests it’s not likely to result in a sustained supply of water. That’s not the best outcome for Martin, I’m afraid. Perhaps all is not lost if it fails to sustain water, the hole could be drained and adapted to produce geothermal heat source?
That slurry is the product of the drilling which consists of pulverized rock and water. Drilling is typically stopped once you find the water output you're looking for... unless you're doing the drilling and charging by the foot.
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crazy you need a giant pump
Drilling wells is so interesting. These well drillers must be having a lot of fun especially when they hit that water : ) I know I find it pretty cool and how the earth works. Thanks for documenting it : )
You made some really nice graphics that helped me understand the drilling really nice. Cool. Nice work! : )
What was the total cost with the screen and pump installed?
45 years in contractor business ..word to wise Never ever use DBL vapor barrier..IF you have one on outside never use one inside plastic on ceiling will make mold
I'm a drilling consultant that specializes in that rig they were using, a Foremost DR24. They sent out a quality driller, with the best overburden drilling rig on the market, and constructed the well using heavy wall casing. I'd say you chose a very good drilling contractor and it was money well spent.
They did a great job! 😃
600feet I can drill with my hand. Believe it or not we go down till 4000feet here in yemen.
Most well drillers can tell you how deep your neighbors wells are, we wanted to drill a well to water the yard as city water by us is 6 dollars for 1000 gallons . The local driller knows how deep the wells are in his area. He told us that 800 feet in our area was most likly. Add that 1/4 mile away they were mostly around two hundred feet . Just goes to show how much the land can change. He had maps for the area, he was honest up front.
Universal did our well a couple of months ago, we couldn't be happier with the job Scott and the boys did !
Great company. Happy for you guys!
Could you tell me what it cost? Then i can figure out price per foot. Thanks
@@BEANS-O-MATICtransmissions we had a well drilled in northern Cali early 2020 , 300’ for 26,000. That included well, pump,wire to controller plus controller itself, pressure switch plus trenching and plumbing to tank location (about 30’). I ran electrical from house panel to tank shed. We used our own 300 gallon tank.
@@juliejohnson9531 thanks for this great video! 👍👍👍
@@micronautseven thank you!
The cash register sound is very appropriate for well drilling ! $$$$
Holy moly!!! the farm my family has had since before the land run in oklahoma is basically sitting on one of the largest aquifers in the country... we have never had a problem getting water... you can walk out and say this looks like a great place for a well, start digging and have water... we have an old windmill that was used before the electric pump was put in for the well.... that windmill powered a pump that put water into the cattle tank... I can’t imagine having to dig 600 feet to find water!
I love the money💰💰 sound effects as each piece of pipe goes down! That's definitely the truth when it comes to wells....
Making a well is expencive because of the machinery. Truck and drill are very expencive equipment to own 🙃
That "pudding" as you call it, you can put it in a jar and use it as a polishing compound for steel and other metals. If it drys up you can just stir in water.
I got lucky, we found a spring up the hill behind the house and taped it with a 3/4 inch pipe. This was5 years ago and it's still flowing strong. I test it every year it's good water.
Great Vid, when we had our well done here in the desert the company drilled 650ft deep, cost with pump was about 35k.
I live off grid and collect enough water using a 40 foot gutter on my cabin. Perhaps your area doesn't receive enough rainfall. My system uses an RV style water pump. I have it connected to my 270 gallon water storage tank. About the time I use 30-40 gallons of water, it rains again.
2 benefits of my system. I get small amounts of algae and tree pollen in my rain water.
We just had our deep well activated a couple months back. It's roughly 180ft deep, free flows around 85gpm . A 3hp pump was installed and flow is limited to 30/35gpm. That was roughly $5600.00 Canadian for materials and labour. When we build the house a such we will run power to it. Currently it's powered by a 12KW generator when we need to fill a holding tank.
You have Amazing Patients and Attitude. Wow, I pray that your well provides you and your wife what you need for as long as you need it. God Bless you both.
Well depth and no building codes are my 2 most important considerations when I sell here at the beach and build my farm.
Yes, I can't imagine buying property to live on without knowing if it's possible to get a well.
Julie, buy a wood mizer and harvest cedar wood and many others. Every chance you get plant trees for the future. Most trees can be harvested in twenty years. never burn high dollar trees. plant you a future firewood lot. most state forestry will help you out.
I like the cash register sound with every 20’ pipe added - fun edit!
I still have to get mine drilled and its prob 500' I'll hear that same soi d I'm sure
I watched a well being dug deeper and at 263 feet there was burnt wood coming out. From a fire a million years ago? After going another 60 feet the water was awesome. Like a well is supposed to be.
My well was 4ft of casings then 150ft through limestone. Great water and never runs out for family of 5
Sounds expensive how long to recoup the cost including maintenance on pump and control gear as opposed to a simple rain storage & filtered gravity fed tank system, with basic non bio filtered water for washing machine and toilet flushing?
He will go until he runs out of rods, I've owned my drilling co since 1984. ,,I am in NC,, Good luck. Reverse circulating is a great way to drill. I wish I had been watching this when you tried your shallow well , it would have worked ..good luck. Wayne T
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I know what you mean about the well drilling. They did a great job. When I had my well drilled, it went down only 180 feet, and I got 75 gallons per minute. Wish you guys the best. Place is looing great.
That was the best description of a well drilling ever. Great job and congratulations. Here in the S Appalachians we hit full Artesian high flow with 25lbs pressure at the well head at 300 feet. First 10 years we ran the entire homestead without a pump. Then just about the time a new neighbor hit high flow Artesian a half mile away we dropped to about 15 lbs so we assumed the inevitable finally happened and we purchasd a booster pump. Well we were in for a surprise as the water ran foul for a couple three days and voila our natural pressure came back in spades and better than ever. It apparently just needed a good flushing which the booster did apparently. I ended up putting the booster on the bladder tank pressure switch (which I had installed but never needed) and we run at 40 to 60lbs pressure now. Sorry about the long saga but I find it very interesting to go through all that and come out better off for it👍😎👌
It would seem like you hit a vertical rock fissure of primary water.
@@safffff1000 we're pretty close to the base of the mountain. So yup. Lots of other people hit it too. Most do not however.
WOW there is a lot involved in putting a well in.
I live in an old log home where our water supply is from a spring
So blessed!
Blessed
I know the feeling watching one pipe after the other going down. My well is 500 feet, but when I see your soil condition, I'm happy with my solid rock, even the well don't produce much water.
I saw a well driller go 80 feet and the drill just unloaded. The old man by the drill said they hit a cave. Pulled out the bit and fiddled around 20 minutes and walked over to my buddy who hired him and said “you hit the jackpot. We hit an underground river.”
The bottled water people seem to love the stuff. Shallow underground aquifers are tapped everywhere in north Florida.
No such thing !!! Under ground river! Bologna!!!
@@markmcgarry1878 Are you kidding me? You’ve never heard of underground streams and rivers? WTH???
@@dougtaylor7724 there is over burden material that holds water ....there are no under ground river or lake what u drill it to is a gravel pit... the aquifer!!! Be drilling for 50 yrs started with my father at age 13!!! Under ground river!!! Lol !!!
@@markmcgarry1878 They exist. We jack hammered a 4ft wide hole in customers basement floor up, dug down another four, poked around with a heavy shale bar, and you could hear the water running through. Very small, not a river, but definitely moving.
Drill to a consolidated rock and find the water sand below the rock! I am a Petr Engr.
I feel your pain. My well failed because the cowboys who did it didn't put a seal between the regolith/soil layer and the bedrock, so silt leaked in and filled the well. Got a driller in and they sank a new shaft about 12m away from original and got down to about 120m and it was dry. Had to get an excavator in to carve out a bank to get the rig around to the other side of the house and at about 100m they hit great water in large quantities. 16 years later and all's well...
I had to subscribe, because anyone who can still smile knowing the cost gets my vote!
Love the dollar sound as the well gets deeper, I can almost see your wallet getting lighter. But don't feel bad our well is 450 foot deep and cost us $30k from start of drilling to water in our house. Hope your well stays clear and produces good water for years to come. :)
Holy sh! Are you serious!!!!!!!!!!!! That's highway robbery!!!!!
@@Amanda-kw1vi Hahaha. Might be but whatcha going to do. Had to have a well and there was only 2 drillers in our area at the time. :)
That is exactly what I was thinking. Lots of money.
I went 975 feet in Massachusetts. 20 years ago that cost me 22K.
Wow! Ours went 650 feet and cost us 17k.
kaching was the right sound effect for every drill section used!
Chch ,New Zealand here.
I was a water well Diller for 27 years.
Some of our wells are 100 mtrs deep some 130 mtrs.
Our yields are up to 350 gallons per minute.
This is with air devopment. As in useing a large compressed to pump air down the well.
It lifts the water and brings the sand and grit though the screen.
Better than wearing out pumps.
I did Cable tool and top drive drilling.
Cable was the best IMHO, you get a very accurate sample as you go.
Cable tool is best for Test drilling for this reason.
All part of my drilling.
Cheers to all.
Great video!!! We're in the mountains 10 minutes south of Coeur D Alene. We drilled a new well 2 years ago. Our son, who shares the property with us (two houses on 5 acres) learned how to locate water and witched it for us with a copper divining rod. The drilling rig hit 15 gallons at 38 feet !!! Eureka. It ended up at 5 gpm the next day, but that was good enough and not worth going deeper for more. There's a law that prevents going back to 38 feet once you dig any deeper. One neighbor had to go 450 for water. Another went 650 and got nothing! We were blessed with our son's new talent. No...he's not for hire.
How much did it cost?
In my country we have people walking around with a stick and telling folks where to dig out the well.
It's quite the sight having this old semi-magically thing happening with all the modern and expensive equipment just waiting to start up.
I can witch for water. Maybe you can also.
its really easy to search for water, , just google on how to do it and I guarantee you can do it, 2 bic biros, old wire coat hanger and wire cutters to cut it and youll be getting results in seconds, you can discover water, electric cables, sewer pipes , I have found them all, even in the floor of a house where I have to find the water pipe! works much more accurately than the electronic machines you can buy.
@@sitgesvillaapartmentneilsc7924 yeah it's not the hardest thing in the world to do I think part of why I'm really good at it and I can actually discern between an electrical line and a water line is because I'm typo negative I think that has something to do with it.
Some friends of ours down in Harrison on lake CDA stopped at 500ft because the average well depth in the area is around 320ft. They decided to bury a few of the tanks and haul water in. They are playing with the idea of using the dry well as a geothermal system.
FYI: that glacial silt is loaded with minerals. Use it in your garden, mix it with compost, sprinkle around veg, don;t use it on your face, will sting eyes, and hard to get out.
That is what I was thinking.
Yesterday I was thinking if I made a dumb decision on getting a well drilled at my Upstate NY Adirondack Mountain camp as the drilling started. I watched this very well done video before. My neighbor said his well is 600'. We can put people into space but we don't have the technology (as far as I know) to find an aquifer before you start drilling.
I don't want to sound like I'm bragging here because I do feel your pain of your expensive well. We hit an aquifer in gravel at 95 feet and 25 GPM! Of coarse he had to drill through a boulder probably the size of a bus to get there. The ground was vibrating! I was overjoyed thinking the gods were smiling on us yesterday since we are pouring our life savings into this camp and future homestead. I wish everyone was as lucky with their well drilling job a we were.
Thanks for the video!
OMG, my well is 135 ft. in Western Pa. 640+ !!! Good Luck. I hope it keeps producing for you guys.
640 in western pa. And you would hit oil and or upper levels of natural gas.
That is crazy. The depth of wells here in PA rarely get any deeper than 200 feet
Most are around 100 feet
Had a house in Poconos, higher point up in the "mountains". Well was pushing 1000 feet. Good quality water, thankfully never had issues with the well/pump.
Friends had a well drilled, at 60’ they hit great water. Driller decided to drill another 20’ to keep them in the water, it ruined the well. They hit bad water and couldn’t plug it.
Probably ruined the water for many others in the area.
@@jeffsfolio fortunately nearest neighbors were 50 miles away.
Reminds me of St Helen's Ash in 1980.
I wouldn't be surprised that's what it really is .
I missed it somewhere. How much did this well end up costing. I’m impressed they were able to find that narrow band of sand to pull water from. Very skillful. Where I live in Massachusetts we are very lucky. House well. 80 feet. 17gpm. Shop well. 120 feet. Over 10 gpm. Pretty much 30 feet of overburden to granite. Then they get down to the water level and hydraulically fracture the stone. And up comes the water.
Our well is 25 foot deep and was hand dug and lined with limestone. It hasn't been dry for 35 years and it went dry because I was watering the garden. It had water in the 1930's when other wells went dry.
And this is exactly why I drilled my well before doing anything. Welcome to the big gamble.
Had we done that we wouldn’t have had shelter the first winter.
Well, dang it, y'all. I'm so sorry this is how your well drilling experience turned out. At least in the end there is clear water, but gosh I hate y'all had to deal with the stress of getting there. I pray the screen holds up and does it job for years and years to come.
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When the headline says you won't believe what we found.....I come straight to the comments.
We used Universal 1.7 miles west of Sandpoint summer of 2022. 225 feet, 10 plus gallons a minute, we're super pleased. Some of our neighbors went to 600 feet for less than half of what we're getting. Universal is a no nonsense, no fuss operation, I highly recommend them.
When we bought our property in SC we first dug a well. No water no house. We got lucky thought neighbors wells pumped 4-7 gpm, we got 250 gpm.
Sounds like enough water for like 50 families to do self-sufficiency gardening and orchard in or so, are you running a farm?
So excited for the well!!
Me too Heather! 😃
Greetings from Scotland!! Sorry you had such an issue with your borehole. Mine is down 110 feet was mostly through shattered rock, but so far water is good without treatment or filtering.... guess I was lucky!!
As a sideline bottle a lot of that and sell it as a valve grinding compound and make enough to pay for CV the drilling !!!
I am glad where i live drilling a water well is no more than 90 feet tops. Most wells are between 60 to 70 feet deep to go any deeper is salt water but on down below the salt is more fresh water. A lot of people think you are drilling through rock all the way down but that is not the case, you have sand beds and big gravel beds. Here the first water you reach is around 15 to 20 feet down and it is really surface water which is still good water. The water level is based on the level up and down of the creek level water.
Happinesses is getting a well drilled, up n functioning!
Holy cow! My well is 85 ft., and I never run out. I'm in NW Wisconsin.
For those folks considering relocation: We have wonderful water here in the Ozarks of SW Missouri. There is a huge aquifer under SW MO called the Ozarks Plateau Aquifer. I just drilled a new well on my acreage. I went about 80ft deeper than I actually had to. I took it to 560' and got 75+ GPM. Yes, that is correct. The static water level came up to 180' below the surface. It took 147' of casing. The water is very hard here. Runs about 40 grains hardness. So, a softner is about mandatory if you want your faucets to last.
We have really hard water here to, but after a shower, you literally squeak after rinsing off !!
@@augustreil LOL! At least you can honestly say that you're "squeaky clean" (I know, that's a groaner).
Oh this is SO well done! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(I just went through an agonizing five months to restore an irrigation well, so I so appreciate your story even more!)
My well up here on the mountain is 500', with the pump located at 480'. It's a slow well at 1qt per minute, but with a static line of 112' we've never had a water issue yet, even when we went through almost a month drought.. Good luck, I hope it works out.
Last well I installed a pump on was just around 420 feet, and we’re on ancient glacial lakebed over ancient ocean bed. They’re not allowed to go much deeper, as that puts them into oil and gas territory.
That well produced, but more often than not, the holes don’t produce, so most people install cisterns and truck water in. Myself included.
I'm glad you got still a decent water giving well.
My heart hurt when I saw that mud coming out....I'm so happy it all worked out.
I know! 😁 Thanks for sympathizing!
In Japan, a 10-meter well is on the deep side. If you dig a 10-meter well on flat land, you will have a high probability of getting clean water.
Depends on area for North America. The area I'm in we have a lot of area where deep below it's just sand and clay. Where I used to work making holes. The water table was sometimes only 20 feet down, sometimes I never seen any. There's lots of sand in some areas.
It always interested me digging seeing dirt, hit clay then get to sand. It's interesting area was either glacier passage or part of the ocean.
Very thankful for my well, we drilled a total of 42ft and have 60+gpm.
I thought a house was a money pit, but I am corrected. I live in SC with a 200 foot well with beautiful water and great taste. Maybe it's location, location, location. Glad it worked out.
drilled many wells myself back in the 80's as my neighbor had a well drilling business for 40 years! only ever went to 600' a few times but most were 250-350' range! At that depth your TDH would warrant a 1.5HP submersible to ensure pump life longevity! .... Look forward to hearing what you guys end up with! .Also curious if you will have a generator to power it as needed or ? those big pumps have a really high initial surge watts to begin with!
GREAT humor.. When I realized each cycle of 20' section was noted with a Cash Register sound .. LOL !
I think the only thing I would have done different was doing it in the summer.
that glacial till is EXCELLENT polishing compound ... it may not be finished quality BUT it is definitely a fine ....
What a dream location. No one thinks about the water source.
In the South,in many places ,you can hand drill your well.
Mid 1980's I lived in Vermont and built on my wife's old family farm that her father had repurchased in the 60's. Her brother who lived at the lower end of the farm, dug a 55' well with over 35 gals/min. Water actually seeped out of the top of the well year round. 200 yards further up her dad dug his well to 85' with a little over 20 gals/min. !/2 mile further up the road we had our well dug. 360' with 5 gals/min. I feel your pain. At that time in Vermont well over 50% of homes were supplied with spring water that was captured in cisterns in the basements or pump houses. We considered it as an option but knew it would make for a more difficult resale of the property as financial institutions frown on such "primitive" technologies. The budget took a "deep" hit that day. Keep smiling. You have water!
It’s so uncertain right? 😆
i know that feeling, i just had a well drilled in vermont they got bedrock in 15 ' so not much casing needed . got to 385' had 1 gpm, went to 405' and got 20-30 gpm. my mothers well 300' away and 70' higher in elevation ws only 285' deep with 6 gpm and my neighbor down the hill about 800' away has an artesian well that just flows all the time. forest gump would say drilling wells is like a box of chocolates.
Putney, Vt. 880ft, 30yrs ago, tons of water though, around 7K. That hurt !
I’ve had a few Wells drilled on different property’s, the deepest 450’ the shallowest 56’ it’s not cheap but what can you do with no water.
i use to do this job. we kept busting hydraulic hoses and the smell from the diesel engines is nauseating. This is a job is rough
Sir LurksaLot :diesel fumes cause cancer
Yeah, diesel fumes gag me.
Universal just drilled my well last week in Libby. I lucked out at 285' with 15-20 GPM. They did a great job and was very informative and willing to help. Congrats on water. ITs the one thing we cant do that requires a contractor to do.
I live in Far Western Ky and my well is 280 feet deep. When it was drilled, they drilled until they hit white sand with believe it or not it had shells in it!
Yeah, well that was seafloor at one time in history. Southern Indiana's limestone deposits are a remnant from that time.
I feel your pain. We are also located in a glacial valley and had a similar issue with ultra fine silt. After years of dealing with plugged whole house filters we finally implemented a system that cleared our water - a automated yard watering system. Since we have installed the irrigation system, our water has cleared significantly. We measure our sucsses by the lower frequency of toilet cleanings. Best of luck to you and wishing your bank account feels better soon, ouch that was a deep hit.
😂 right?
My well driller gave me 2 guarantees!
1) when he was done there would be a deep hole in my yard
2) He was going to cash the check.
Water is within 100 feet in 95 percent of the us. Thats what my deep rock well drilling company has told me
@@dhuck470 sadly there is water, then there is usable water, then there is the question of quantity. I can dig with a post hole digger here and hit water. but its at least 30 foot for any usable amount for irrigation. and water I would drink is more around 60-125 foot.
At least he was honest
I always looked at how much pipe the drillers bring. How much pipe they have is how far they plan on going.
no not really you got jobs were you have to get more.there is very little bad well drillers. and it is not easy work.there are jobs were you don’t end up getting water. and these people did in wrong. you should be drilling the well first never build and then look for water. building with out water is nothing but a Storage building.seen a whole Condo complex built to the very end and we did Five different wholes and got nothing but salt water.
My wife and I feel very blessed, our well driller hit spring water at 200 ft. and with 55 gallons per minute it has 20 ft. head which means it's 10 ft higher than the creek bottom 50 ft. away.
Bentonite clay expands when it gets wet. Plumbers use it to seal cracks and also spaces between things.
Haha! My wife was visited in her dreams by a white haired fairy who told the water was under the orange tree in the yard. 80’ down yielded the sweetest water I’ve ever tasted and by far the best in the neighborhood. Maybe my wife should pay a visit🤪
They should use old tricks to find water under ground willow branches will bend downward when you walk above an underground water source and metal rods will cross each other.
Lord this had to of cost a fortune! That steel casing isn’t cheap!
I hope your being sarcastic?
@@lawrencecarpenter638 I don’t know what you mean! Yes this had to have cost a fortune as deep as they had to drill. Steel casing isn’t cheap!
@@Bradannas1 the casing doesn’t go all the way down to the bottom.
@@rogerroger7734 Um, when you're drilling thru mud and sand the casing does go to the bottom, except the 10 foot of screen protruding. Watch the video again.
Well driller in eastern Idaho. I work on a rig like this one. Good video! New subscriber here.
What would something like this cost at say 500'?
@@BEANS-O-MATICtransmissions 30-40 bucks a foot or double that if in the mountains plus 5-10 k for a pump system installed. Spendy
Boy, was looking bleak there for a bit. So thankful you were able to go with that second option and that it worked to give you guys water!
I loved the timelapse and cash register sounds of each section of pipe going down. That was a really fun way of showing it!
You have an amazing attitude. Glad you hit water.
Yup all i seen was a deep hole with no water until they filled it with 7 thousand gallons of water from a truck i wonder how long the water will last .
That was amazing! Hope the water lasts forever.
This is when my drillers head would spin and say we're coming out at 3 o'clock in the morning
The "cha ching" sound effects of the old cash register is appropriate
Chickens have it tad too cold. They lay better if it is warm. Quails can handle some cold.
Tin roof without heat isolation - cold in the winter, too hot in the summer if it is on the sunny side. My guestimation is that the winters ahead won't be as warm as they have been lately.
Nice your spending time with your dad
Friends in Sagle have a 50gpm well, lucky they are.
May Lord Jesus give ease your hand working for best your home for your long life with your wife, daughter, and son, Pak Martin.... He's not leave u always and forever... 😇🙏🕊🕊🕊💪💪💪
I think you will have to go at least 375 feet
Feel good that my well was only 79' and 15 gpm.
Don't have the resivoir they have.
Should help someones treasury (we've drilled oil wells for less)
Holy cow! We live in Oregon. Our well is 65 feet. I didn’t realize how lucky we were. Great video
Oh my! I had a well drilled in Pennsylvania, 200 foot. The water was not that great. I feel your pain. When I moved to Florida I hit water at 30 foot and its good!
What did that cost? I'm not far from PA in upstate New York
@@BEANS-O-MATICtransmissions that was back in the mid to late 80's? Around $3000 back then, including the pump, plumbing, tank, etc.... It was In western PA about 500 foot from a road, it was not easy getting a drilling rig back in there. Talk to building contractors in your area, they can usually steer you to who does the work at reasonable prices. Good Luck!
Did you consult with a hydrologist prior to drilling?
Obviously not . Probably didn't even get some one to come out and use the sticks for witching the location
How does witching work?
Awesome!!!!!!! Remember if you don't already a UV light filters are a great upgrade. 🥸🤙🦅
Thanks! 😃
There supposedly off grid, they aint,
I feel like I just watched an episode of “The Curse of Oak Island” hahahaha kept waiting to see what they pulled out. Yep, not a thing
I hate when people use click bait like that! Kind of dishonest!
@@BryanM362 very much so. I guess they got their “view” though.
My guess you don't get the idea of glacial till. Maybe? 12 gallons a minute won't even run a small sheep farm in Oklahoma.
Really hate Oak Island. Watched the first 348 episodes and got bored, bit like this well really
520 ft.....they found more dirt..... UNBELIEVABLE 😂😂😂😂
Bubbling crude… oil that is… Texas tea?
Well, the first thing ya know old Jed’s a millionaire, ken folks said Jed move away from there…
When we drilled out new well 21 years ago it was about $12. per foot so I would guess it about 20-25$ per ft now
Nice vid!
I was waiting for this video
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I'm a UK geologist - now retired. There have been multiple glaciations over the last 2 million years (maybe ~50 of them in the UK). The wood you found will have formed in one of the interglacial (warmer) periods and then buried when the next glacial period came along. The advancing cold probably killed off the trees, then buried them under snow and then ice, and the glaciers rolled over the top of the trees and buried the timber under a layer of clay, sand and rock flour ground off the rocks higher up. That mass of clayey ground is called till - forming under a glacier it's a lodgement till. That's what you have there, lodgement tills. If you found a gravel body in the till (formerly a stream, now buried) it's not necessarily connected to water - it may have some in when you hit it, but you could pump it dry if it's not very big.
Only if the idiots that believe in man made global warming would do a little research they would understand that the earth goes through cycles naturally
AFJ - It’s very interesting to hear your take on of the geology and your conclusion unfortunately suggests it’s not likely to result in a sustained supply of water. That’s not the best outcome for Martin, I’m afraid. Perhaps all is not lost if it fails to sustain water, the hole could be drained and adapted to produce geothermal heat source?
That slurry is the product of the drilling which consists of pulverized rock and water. Drilling is typically stopped once you find the water output you're looking for... unless you're doing the drilling and charging by the foot.