We are so very lucky. We bought our property in 1981 here in south central IL and have virtually no rock (compared to you guys) to contend with. Our well was a dug well (by hand and lined with brick by the first owner back in the mid 1800's) It's a fantastic well, about 6 ft. in diameter and only 28 ft. until he hit a spring. We have a spring fed well and it has never gone dry. Water is amazing. We love it. We have our water tested every 4 years and it has been excellent. We bought a Berkey Water filter for our kitchen a few years ago simply because we wanted to be sure of no contaminates. I can't imagine having to dig that deep for a well. You all live on top of granite so that well digging has got to be a lucrative business out there. So great to see your progress. Put in a good pump Al. You don't want problems down the road w/a well that deep. We have learned over the years that money spent on the front end is money in your pocket in the long run.
We live in the country on a ridge and build about 7 years ago. The well..... took 4 dry holes before getting to the 40 gal a minute. And 10K. The closet community water comes from a 2 inch main 3/4 mile up and down hills to the house. Virtually no water pressure. And we have lot of deer too!
Our New Hampshire well was "pounded" in 2016. 1952 rig! We could not get a drill rig that size up our logging road and into the woods. 200 feet deep. You were fortunate to be out in the open. Congrats on having water! Drilled wells average deeper, however, it gives you a larger water resevoir. We appreciate the security of our own water source. Our neighbor's drilled well was 600'.
Hydro Fracking is pumping water back into the well under tremendous pressure to fracture (crack) the rock layer to allow water to migrate to your well.
Now that the grass is growing, that clearing is beginning to look very pretty. Especially with the leaves changing colour. Its going to be a beautiful spot to live.
i realy learnd a lot about water wells i loved watcing this i now know howl much work go,s into it wow its a lot to me but please show me more of your videos i learn alot from them thank you robert lay
Hydro fracing is when they use a special bit that's got diggers plus nozzles that pressurize water to bust thru tough rock and clay. And they hook water up to rig that shoots water down in hole
I had a new 5" well drilled last year and we found water at 46', I live in Michigan on a lake, the ground in mainly sandy and our water table is high here. Good luck with your new well.
Good morning Lumnah family ☕️ day 2 my back and shoulders were hurting watching them load and wrench that pipe… tough guys are awesome… I was guessing 380’… have a blessed day
Good Morning! Al, remember OGP is your forever home. You’ll only cry once. People say to us “oh nice, no water bill!” I reply “No, it was just all pre-paid.”
We don’t pay the local government for well water, but it requires energy to bring the water up out of the ground. So there are ongoing costs to it. Plus we distill ours. That is more time, work and energy cost. Being in an agricultural area with a high water table that is necessary to filter out as many pesticides, herbicides and animal waste run off as possible.. Our home came with a 25’ hand dug well and we took it to 60’. The operation was very much like what I see in the video, but not as deep. In the end I prefer my own water source to the chemical laden city and town stuff. Fluoride is very hard to remove.
Al, it is always so nice to see you and Gina have such a positive outlook on things that would make most of us, myself included, pull our hair out. You and your family are such a great example of how we all should look at challenges! Blessings to you! ♥️
Good morning Lumnah's and friends. Solar power is going to be awesome when it is all done. I just hope Al, that you get lots of sunshine and not rain, so that you get the full potential out of the solar panels. Have a great and blessed day everyone!
Glad you finally got water Al and Gina! You are well on your way to accomplish your goals. You are both super hard workers. It's been a joy to watch your progress. My great-grandfather was a well driller. My grandfather worked for him some during the great depression. Great Grandpa drilled my parents well 61 years ago. When we built our house in 88',we went 70 ft., getting 25 gallons a minute. Looking forward to each new video!! God Bless!
As someone who logs a lot of wells, I can say it is a relatively new (but ordinary) metal sieve. I go through a few a year - especially when air-rotary drilling.
Dang 300feet. I live in west virginia my well is 32 feet deep and has been in use since 1950. Never had a problem. Except during droughts and it get sulfery orange looking but we run it thur a section of filters before it enters the house
When I was a college kid (more decades ago than I'd like to remember) I delivered tons of steel well casing to drillers in my area but had never watched the process before, thanks for the view of the use for all that heavy to transport stuff.
I remember when my parents had their well drilled, but the majority of the work was done while I was in school. This is so awesome to be able to see it all happen!!! THANKS for sharing this milestone!!!
Only had one well drilled here in New Hampshire. 620 feet, 20gpm, beautiful water, no fracking. The water level came up to about 20 feet from the surface. Granite bedrock gives good water, gotta watch out for arsenic and radium though. Fortunately our well was good.
I live in a condo at the end of a subdivision and I get 4 deer in my yard at times! I have woods right behind my condo! It is so awesome!! So I know why u get excited about seeing deer!!!
God Bless You, Folks!!! Some others have gone much deeper. I'm happy for you! Gosh, it truly is a hit & miss isn't it? Wishing you the best of Luck!!!!
they didn't violate anything much...drilling this deep distubes all....look at California and New Mexico, and a lot of other places. The water needs to come from somwhere...if it's not surface water (RAIN) , it's not enough underground. Or where do you think that EXTRA water comes from? Artic? Pacific?
I'm about do do one by hand , I have one on our farm on other side of country 20 foot. 4 foot Dia. I've never pumped it dry but I pump it slow using sump pump n pvc. Not my pressure tank n foot valve pump, I pump it into a tank.just below the well house and from there water our yard and flower beds high acid, high iron. Great for azelieas,, all our ornamental garden plants, our springs at both places artisan, sand so fine yiu cant filter it have to dame it and draw from there so hand dug cement 4 foot Dia casing
G'day from Australia, my father was a well borer most of his life, drilling over most of our continent. He used a vertical, reciprocating plant with casing. Slow going however much less expensive than the modern rotary plants. Some places he got 30000gallons/hour pumped , others a dry well. Some artesian bores where the water would gush up out of the ground, like some of your oil well gushers.
I think the drilling rig that your dad was on is called a cable-tool rig over here. A chisel is pounded to open the bore-hole and then the drill cuttings are cleared out by use of a bailer. There are still a few around but you don’t see them used very often.
@@noyopacific yes exactly, I used to “help” him during my school holidays if convenient. Loved aiming the bailer onto the Steel spike to open the “clacker valve” to empty it.
I supervised a quite large water utility maintenance department for part of my career. I took work tags and radio calls daily for fixing mainline breaks and other leaks and nearly every leak was described by the callers as “gushing water.” I got so sick of hearing that stupid word for every size leak imaginable. I would say in over 15 years in that job I saw maybe 10 that I would consider gushers. The rest were just routine leaks. The most memorable was a 36” transmission main down a busy expressway that took a strong water hammer from nearby activity ripped open the pipe and blew massive amounts of water a few hundred feet into a large parking lot damaging a few hundred cars and trucks. Sadly, one guy’s restored classic car he’d always park far from the office building and other cars at the edge of the parking lot took the most direct hit. All that to just say I hate that word and it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. That’s all.
Yeah as a aussies I’d guess it was a precaution rig they where popular in the old days I work in the artisan bore testing a lot of them flow at over 60ls with 70m of head pressure at over 100c the town of Thargomindah was the first place in aus to have street lights over night due to the thermal electric plant that runs off the bore
@@tim.sorensen5862 I recollect that some towns in Qld Artesian Basin have/had hot running water reticulated to the houses from underground water bores.
I was a mud man / pipe assistant on a rock well rig in central Michigan one summer. Looked like a well experienced crew did you right. You must get that drop & well pump in & flowing soon or you will regret the delay. Clear the throat & discover the nature of the aquafer they hit. Iron / calcium content, etc. The clay you went through is why you must get that pumping asap~
Great attitude getting of the grid with installing a well for water. I pray and hope this man finds water to enjoy more freedom being free and independent Individual
In 1978 I was lucky as heck, for my forever home they drilled 156', our gallonage per minute is eleven and a half. We had to open the well up once a year later because they placed the pump too close to the bottom and we got sand in the water. It is very good water with no odd tastes. We don't have to use any softener or anything unnatural. Our development is made up of 1-acre plots, I have the best well, with other families having to go 400' and one having to go that far and drilling 3 wells and then connecting them to get a legal 1 1/2 gal per min. Damn right, I was lucky and I know it and am thankful to God that I was.
That Water Well Drill I actually built the main frame! I use to be Main Frame Crew Leader at Reich Drill Phillipsburg PA. What is neat is watching something you built awhile ago then it shows up on your video!!! BTW great camera work on the Drill operations! Brings back many good memories! Also those drills are built 1 at a time! No mass production. We would only build about 30 a year.
@@myothernewname Well you could look at it that way but in well drilling it does several things. It also flushes the cuttings from the well, it holds the borehole together by expanding in the well hole thus holding the well sides together. In addition it cools the drill head and of last acts like a lubricant . So yes you are correct. This clay comes form volcanic ash. When dry bentonite make contact with water it expands something like 17 times it volume. It is also used to plug leaking dams and waterproofing basements walls. I’ve seen it used in mining and as a coating. But most of all modern well drill could not happen without it.
Oh, I am so happy to see you again. I've missed you so much. Just getting internet back after Hurricane Ida made the power lines, in rural St. Tammany Parish, look like silly string.
We have a 300' well with our pump sitting around 160' deep. I've been on well water most of my life, deep wells are just the way to go. Least with your solar/backup system you will be able to keep your pumps going and not rely on the power company. I have a backup generator to run mine when the power goes off.
Love watching the well being drilled - be interesting to see what water quality you get and how long it takes for the water to clear up - thanks for sharing
Always a good idea to check to see where the aquifers are before buying a piece a land to live on. Also every well that drilled in the us is registered and all data available so you can check to see what the average depth that you can reasonably expect to hit water would be and roughly calculate how much it'll cost before hand. Even private wells that are placed by individuals are supposed to register that well with their county or parish or they can actually fine you and force you to cap that well.
@@StevenCrothers While the majority of states allow for private well-digging with the approval of a permit, a handful of states restrict digging ONLY to licensed professional contractors. In these cases, the permit is usually filled and managed by the contractor using the information provided by the property owner. There are a handful of states that don't require a permit or license, but it is still best practice to check for guidelines that must be adhered to. A full list of groundwater laws for each state including permit and license requirements, lists of licensed well contractors, and official well water guides published by various water resources departments. Do you want the full list of every state or can you handle that part for yourself princess.
@@dimetrekorsikov5643 Hey sweetheart, I'm glad you were able to admit you were wrong. Every state has different requirements, so when you said "all US states" I'm glad you were able to later admit you were wrong. Further, yes, most states have permit requirements, some of those states have municipal exceptions, most of those states have other agricultural rules. However, you know what most of these states that require permits don't have? Depth, flow, and status information! You need a permit to dig a hole, in "most" places. That permit simply states you're allowed to dig the hole. Some states with that permit even require grouting inspections. Key word, some. Most of those states with those permits dont require specs. So when you said "All US states have this information" you were wrong, and I'm glad you could admit that. Snowflake.
@@StevenCrothers all states do have records of wells that have been dug and all states do have laws regarding the safe capping of wells to prevent water contamination of any aquifer or public water source. Those are facts. There are wells that are in violation of these laws that every state has along with federal laws, but that doesn't change the fact of the original statement. Tax assessors record a plethora of information about private property and any residence that isn't supplied by outside water utilities are assumed to have an independent source of water. All public aquifers and water sheds are measured and monitored by every state and every effort is made to identify the users of those aquifers. Whether or not the user is aware of this fact, it doesn't change the fact. Certainly, there are natural springs and top water resources that people use, but we're talking about wells that rely on underground water stored in the earth, and those records are kept. All state-level policies in the United States that directly reference private wells. The search, updated in April 2018, confirmed the existing water policy list and identified 23 additional policies. Policies were then coded according to nine not-mutually-exclusive classifications. The results indicate that all states had at least one policy addressing private well drilling or construction. ALL STATES.... get your mommy to read the comment for you and if you rub her corns she might just explain it to you.
to put it simply, hydro-fracking (short for hydraulic fracturing) is where they pump liquid back down the shaft under pressure, fracturing the rock, so water (or oil & natural gas) can escape thru the cracks from deeper down, into the well shaft to be pumped out.
Hydrofracturing (water wells) is a little different than hydraulic fracturing (O&G). In the water industry, hard rock formations like the one in this video involve pumping high pressure water into the well, which cleans up existing fractures, but does not typically create new fractures. In the oilfield, the frac solution (mostly water, but with some minor additions) is pumped into the well, wherein new fractures are created in formations like shale, proppant (essentially sand) is pumped into the new fractures in order to hold them open when the pressure drops. This allows the oil and gas to flow more freely towards the borehole. The key difference is that hydrofracturing water wells is done strictly with clean water, and no proppant. (I am the engineer at a company who makes tools for groundwater wells).
@@Husqvarna85 Thanks for the additional info... I knew that with water wells they ONLY use water, for the hydraulic pressure, but I was always under the impression that the goal was still to Increase the fracturing in the rock...just as in oil and gas wells.
We are so happy 🥳 for you guys got water 💦 abundantly flowi so much needed in the homestead we enjoy your videos taking us on your journey experience 🥰 Thank you ❤ 🙏
We have well water here on New England, well water is usually very hard water. I would suggest looking into a reverse osmosis filtration system for your water. It will not only soften the water but will also prolong the life of your pipes. I wish I had.
@@brenda324 It makes all the shut off valves get stuck on open too. I hope they treat their water somehow. Everything gets clogged and we have a water softener. Clothes won't wash very well either. They live in New England and I hope they know about hard water.
Never use reverse osmosis on a well out west. RO wastes 2 gallons of water for every one it produces. We can’t afford to waste ground water here in Colorado.
Implement an above ground storage tank and you'll be fine. We had to go 800' and have about the same yield. The only time the well is challenged is when we have tons of people over for the holidays. But even then we've never been left high n' dry. Rock wells are often stingy with water but the quality at that depth can be quite excellent.
I grew up on well water iron water on the top of that, we had orange laundry for a while until we put in a filtration system it cleared up the water but it still had that iron water taste and it wasn’t bad after 15 years of drinking it.
We built our homestead two years ago. We are in northern Wisconsin. Our well was 200 ft through red and black granite and I thought that was deep! I can’t imagine having the well depths in your area! I am loving seeing all the progress and can’t wait to see more!
When these kind of well driller drill they use a clay mix that coats the walls to help keep from caving in. This clay mix can block small streams of water from coming into the well hole. They may open up in the future and increase well water flow into the well.
Given the amount of rocks and higher ground where they are digging they naturally have to dig deeper for borewell and with no seepage , they only access underground water, if they reach it . A small well about 40 - 60 ft deep, 5 ft wide with rock/cement brick wall that allows water to seep in and also they have a stream , that water can be directed to the well . And then there is ice melt . all that water is enough to fill a small well for water round the year.
@@davelawson2564 I've seen wells that were 3 feet wide lined with pipes made of concrete that was installed in sections. The well was drilled with an auger.
Actually what is used when drilling the wells is a material that serves to increase the viscosity (bentonite or others products), which creates a very thick mud that prevents the well from collapsing, this is when drilling it. That is precisely why I said above that the well must be developed using pressurized air and water. There is a way to eliminate all that mud and clean the subterranean veins through which the water enters the well.
@@rudiboaretto True they use clean water from a tanker truck using air pressure to clean out the well till it run clean. I'm not sure if that method cleans out the small veins of water that had been plugged up. I've had better luck with the old antique pounding rig in those areas were water is hard to find in limestone.
Good morning Lumnah family and everyone else. Loved watching this video and learned a lot. See well trucks down here regularly, but have never been this close to them doing the work. Thank you for bringing us along. Take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀
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I'm 54 I drilled water wells for 24 years of my life pump installer ,water filtration , or suberrainial water extraction specialist. It is hard work and your body takes a toll.
I used to work in commercial geothermal drilling on the military bases main rig was a track drilling rig that out performed the two rigs like they are using. I used to labor behind 2-3 rigs at once by myself. It was fun but hot in summer and freezing in winter(-30 degrees) we were short handed alot and adventually learned how to run drill rig. I was a busy guy that's for sure
I worked in the Oil and Gas drilling tool industry for 13 years in my early life. The well is like an old telescoping antenna with the largest portion at the top. I used to thread the connections at each end of the drilling pipes and other "tools" they use for drilling. Heck I think I recognized the connections size and nomenclature.
Never seen anything like this before, not only was it fascinating to watch, it is also a real honour to be part of your families new adventure. BIG hello from East Yorkshire UK.
This advice may be too late, but from my experience. 1. Do a purity test on the water. Even though it comes from far down, there’s always a possibility that you have to treat it. Not likely but just a suggestion. 2. Put the best pump that you can afford in your well. You don’t want them to come back out and work on the pump. That means you will have 500’ of pipe to pull out to get to the pump. 3. Make sure that you put a torque arrestor on the pump to keep it from twisting or moving when it kicks in. Otherwise it will eventually snap the wires.
@m9 ovich Oh, no, the wire *can* go first. Not from torque, but from being slapped/abraded against the well casing/bore in bedrock. You don't want that wire flapping around. A friend of mine found out the hard way within 2 weeks of DIY installing the pump (I had to drill the pitless adapter hole in the casing).
@m9 ovich An aside: Have you ever seen tape that's been underwater for years? Even if the wire and safety line are connected together every few feet, without an arrestor, 400' of tube/wire/line are going to flap against the bore, and all of it is going to wear. Um, this video doesn't show the pump install does it?
We drilled an Agricultural well in 2021; 360ft. 1.5 gpm recovery rate. We watered 1.5 acres of market garden directly from the well's water column all through the growing season DAILY for 8-10 hrs.(moderate drought) and never went dry. My wager is you'll be fine.
My Dad had to get a new well drilled at his house and hit water at 50 feet... the old one, which dried up for a couple of weeks but then started working again after the new one was drilled was only ten feet deep... We were moaning about 50 feet but to hear 500 700 800 feet , we're pretty lucky to be on a huge unconfined aquifer
@@robnorth8514 ours provided beautiful clear clean sweet fresh water for the 60 years it was in use... but perhaps your thought would sensibly apply to the environment where you live.
@@toamaori did you/they ever have it tested, or did they just go by taste? Just because it looks clean and doesn't taste bad didn't mean it was good to drink.
At 10 ft I wouldnt use that water for anything not even a shower. If you have to drill for wells you probably have to be on a septic system also which operates at that level.
@@bryanlas like I said 60 years of beautiful clear sweet water until the local vineyards lowered the water table through their water use.... maybe in your environment that rings true but not where I live.
EXCELLENT footage of the process. Great narration Al. Never saw this done before. My well in the mountains (I've since moved) was 1,000 ft. Pricey to replace well pump. Currently my depth is 70ft. When you have to replace well pump the cost depends on the depth of well.
As a Geologist...Depth depends on many factors. Depth of casing to keep out surface water, rock types, topographic location, and any subsurface geological features such as faults etc. If your primary porosity (porosity of rock) is low you will be looking for secondary porosity (fractures and faults).
Well, that was a fascinating video, had everything, information and suspense lol. Thanks for Sharing it, and thank the guys for allowing us to watch over their shoulders will you. I've never seen that done in such detail before. Well worth watching! 🤣💗
Hydrofracking is the same process as used in oil where you inject high pressure water and sand to make cracks that fill with sand to increase the collection area of the well it is just in this case that the water is only in contact with water and sand so no/low contamination risk
@@stevehancock1698 yes. its not worth it. A well that allows water surface and ground water to seep in would have been more appropriate for the high rock area instead of borewell that only can access ground water if they hit it.
@@davelawson2564 ok all im saying is too frac you have to perf i used to test gas wells p tanks heated high stages cold units etc n bin to enough frac parties to know this now what your talking about is a shallow big bore water well the thing is if you punch into a aquafer that water is filtered almost pure by the ground shallow big bore come with problems all of their own besides this well is far too shallow to perf anyhow
Hi from Oklahoma! Land of the fracking! This is fascinating to watch. Great to have a close up view. Haven’t watched entire video, and am waiting for a surprise. Your thumbnail caught my curiosity!! Take good care. Hi to all the critters
@@anj3595 Theirs earthquakes everywhere in the last 48 hrs. Japan had over 6.0 today. Italy, Pakistan, China, Russia. And Al is drilling with all this unrest. Eeeekkkkk. Back to vedio.
Had a well drilled in ‘96 in Sonoma Co CA. They went 680 ft plus an additional 50ft for a total of 730ft, the well produce 10 gal per min at the surface so we added 2500 gal water storage. Increased the value of that property by plenty, the total cost with pump, pipe, wire and solenoid boxes was $24k, probably would.be $100k today.
I'm in Sonoma County too! The family ranch had been spring dependent but what was once 1200 gallons a day had dropped to less than 300. Neighbors over the decades had attempted wells but there is a solid rock cap and technology then wouldn't drill through that. My parents wouldn't consider a well. After they passed I brought in a carbide percussion drilling rig. It cut through the rock like butter. It broke through that at about 120 feet into heavily fractured greenstone. At 380 feet we had over 45 gpm. And I cut them off there. My geologist claims carbon testing of rocks has identified my strata as Lake Tahoe percolation. As the serpentine matched the south shore. He assures me Lake water percolation is the source. Thus drought proof. It just seems to me to be too far away. But the lake is 7000 ft elevation. And probably 400 miles east. Even before this they had identified a localized area as uplift from Sierras. I guess they know their business.
I built my off-grid forever home 35 years ago. I hired a water Witcher with tons of good references (that I checked) to find the best location for the well. He found a convergence of 3 underground streams. That 350 ft 8 in. diameter hole puts out 55 gallons a minute. best money I ever spent.
What a deal at least he got the well done and you had to go a little bit further but it's better to be further than short ! Yep it's always good to know they have some idea about well drilling and what you got to go through to get it done and how it's actually done.... Very interesting hopefully everything is going smoothly now that the well is done hopefully the rest of it will fall into place !
Hydraulic fracking is what we do in the oil and gas industry. It is pumping water into the formation to crack it open forcing propping agents such as sand into the fissures to keep the fractures open that allows fluids in your case water to migrate through tight formations such as sandstones and conglomerate layers more easily.
I think you DO have another option because you have year-round flow on your property. You could have storage tanks fed by a ram pump or similar system that is powered by gravity.
In NC and we were blessed on our 18 acre farm! Bedrock at 18 ' 20 gpm @ 225' 40 + gpm @325' Drilled to 425' to increase storage capacity. It only took 5 minutes to locate a site after cutting a new branch ... drilled in the middle of 8 hard positive twist of the branch. Tested twice to insure the water was of choice! True it's an intense situation of the unknown! Video tape the complete drill. Neighborhood drills, 550' away got 5 gpm 800' away got 11.5 gpm 1400' away got 2.5 @ 800' 1100' away got 5 gpm and 40+ gpm on second well. A farmer 1/4 mile down the road went to 1000' and fracture for 10.5 gpm. You never know what you can't see! It's a fun day but, gut wrenching every minute! You bet that night I had a great sleeping experience.
Thought one and all might find interesting that the "OIL Well Drilling Bit" "DESIGN" seen @ 35:38 is from the original (circa 1933, tricone bit, patent on it ran-1934 through 1951.) Howard Robard Hughes, Sr., father of Howard Hughes Jr., builder of the Spruce Goose, {a.k.a. Hughes H-4 Hercules} among other things. That design, was what produced so much money for Howard Hughes Jr., he couldn't spend it fast enough.
280 feet here and we live in the MS Delta. Pure water from what they call sand water. No filters needed. Sand is an excellent aquifer because it has the porosity and permeability to produce huge quantities of water. It also has great filtration properties.
We are so very lucky. We bought our property in 1981 here in south central IL and have virtually no rock (compared to you guys) to contend with. Our well was a dug well (by hand and lined with brick by the first owner back in the mid 1800's) It's a fantastic well, about 6 ft. in diameter and only 28 ft. until he hit a spring. We have a spring fed well and it has never gone dry. Water is amazing. We love it. We have our water tested every 4 years and it has been excellent. We bought a Berkey Water filter for our kitchen a few years ago simply because we wanted to be sure of no contaminates. I can't imagine having to dig that deep for a well. You all live on top of granite so that well digging has got to be a lucrative business out there. So great to see your progress. Put in a good pump Al. You don't want problems down the road w/a well that deep. We have learned over the years that money spent on the front end is money in your pocket in the long run.
We live in the country on a ridge and build about 7 years ago. The well..... took 4 dry holes before getting to the 40 gal a minute. And 10K. The closet community water comes from a 2 inch main 3/4 mile up and down hills to the house. Virtually no water pressure. And we have lot of deer too!
I never seen this done before - I was glued to the screen from start to finish. What a great video! Thanks guys.
Me too! Loved it!!
Keeping It Dutch also dug a well, that was wicked to watch also, go check it out.
What a ride!
Me too!!
Years ago when I lived on a farm, we had a spring well. Awesome drinking water.
That's one of my bucket list. Best of luck!
Beautiful property.nice view.
Our New Hampshire well was "pounded" in 2016. 1952 rig! We could not get a drill rig that size up our logging road and into the woods. 200 feet deep. You were fortunate to be out in the open. Congrats on having water! Drilled wells average deeper, however, it gives you a larger water resevoir. We appreciate the security of our own water source. Our neighbor's drilled well was 600'.
Hydro Fracking is pumping water back into the well under tremendous pressure to fracture (crack) the rock layer to allow water to migrate to your well.
Now that the grass is growing, that clearing is beginning to look very pretty. Especially with the leaves changing colour. Its going to be a beautiful spot to live.
i realy learnd a lot about water wells i loved watcing this i now know howl much work go,s into it wow its a lot to me but please show me more of your videos i learn alot from them thank you robert lay
Hydro fracing is when they use a special bit that's got diggers plus nozzles that pressurize water to bust thru tough rock and clay. And they hook water up to rig that shoots water down in hole
These are hard-working MEN! There is much to be admired about them!
Yeah takes a real man to spit everywhere, real manly thing to do !!!!!!!!
I had a new 5" well drilled last year and we found water at 46', I live in Michigan on a lake, the ground in mainly sandy and our water table is high here. Good luck with your new well.
Good morning Lumnah family ☕️ day 2 my back and shoulders were hurting watching them load and wrench that pipe… tough guys are awesome… I was guessing 380’… have a blessed day
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I live in Thailand. Our old well collapsed. We came across a guy at the hardware store in his well truck. A couple of days later we had a new well.
Even water is the greatest blessing, we all need water just to live.
Good Morning! Al, remember OGP is your forever home. You’ll only cry once. People say to us “oh nice, no water bill!” I reply “No, it was just all pre-paid.”
So true.
we're on a well and connected to the grid, so our bill comes every month.
@@allanulen3809 Shoot them in the face for that. That is against our bill of rights. We have a right to defend.
We don’t pay the local government for well water, but it requires energy to bring the water up out of the ground. So there are ongoing costs to it. Plus we distill ours. That is more time, work and energy cost. Being in an agricultural area with a high water table that is necessary to filter out as many pesticides, herbicides and animal waste run off as possible.. Our home came with a 25’ hand dug well and we took it to 60’. The operation was very much like what I see in the video, but not as deep. In the end I prefer my own water source to the chemical laden city and town stuff. Fluoride is very hard to remove.
For ever house till the divorce
Al, it is always so nice to see you and Gina have such a positive outlook on things that would make most of us, myself included, pull our hair out. You and your family are such a great example of how we all should look at challenges! Blessings to you! ♥️
They are definatley NOT negatively mided people. The kind of people everyone wants to call friend.
Good morning Lumnah's and friends. Solar power is going to be awesome when it is all done. I just hope Al, that you get lots of sunshine and not rain, so that you get the full potential out of the solar panels. Have a great and blessed day everyone!
Gooooood Morning
27:28 if I only has some sieves, a pug mill, a throwing wheel and a kiln. Le sigh...
@@LumnahAcres will you share the total cost of drilling the well? I know prices are different in each state.
Good morning from s.e. MICHIGAN.,. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS'S NAME. I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
Good morning David! Hope you have a wonderful day!
What an incredible machine.I could watch this All day,
Good morning to you guys !!! Did anyone witch for water before the drilling started ? That's something that really pays off a lot !!!
Glad you finally got water Al and Gina! You are well on your way to accomplish your goals. You are both super hard workers. It's been a joy to watch your progress. My great-grandfather was a well driller. My grandfather worked for him some during the great depression. Great Grandpa drilled my parents well 61 years ago. When we built our house in 88',we went 70 ft., getting 25 gallons a minute. Looking forward to each new video!! God Bless!
With all the technology I love the old metal sieve that they used to check the rock - amazing
As someone who logs a lot of wells, I can say it is a relatively new (but ordinary) metal sieve. I go through a few a year - especially when air-rotary drilling.
Gina looking good for the well drillers looks like she put on makeup and did her hair pretty.
Do you have cold winters where you are? If so, make sure you bury your water pipes deep otherwise they will freeze
Dang 300feet. I live in west virginia my well is 32 feet deep and has been in use since 1950. Never had a problem. Except during droughts and it get sulfery orange looking but we run it thur a section of filters before it enters the house
When I was a college kid (more decades ago than I'd like to remember) I delivered tons of steel well casing to drillers in my area but had never watched the process before, thanks for the view of the use for all that heavy to transport stuff.
I remember when my parents had their well drilled, but the majority of the work was done while I was in school. This is so awesome to be able to see it all happen!!! THANKS for sharing this milestone!!!
Only had one well drilled here in New Hampshire. 620 feet, 20gpm, beautiful water, no fracking. The water level came up to about 20 feet from the surface. Granite bedrock gives good water, gotta watch out for arsenic and radium though. Fortunately our well was good.
I live in a condo at the end of a subdivision and I get 4 deer in my yard at times! I have woods right behind my condo! It is so awesome!! So I know why u get excited about seeing deer!!!
God Bless You, Folks!!! Some others have gone much deeper. I'm happy for you! Gosh, it truly is a hit & miss isn't it? Wishing you the best of Luck!!!!
Very special “BIG UPS” to ancestors who had to did a well by hand. Cannot imagine. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
they didn't violate anything much...drilling this deep distubes all....look at California and New Mexico, and a lot of other places. The water needs to come from somwhere...if it's not surface water (RAIN) , it's not enough underground. Or where do you think that EXTRA water comes from? Artic? Pacific?
I'm about do do one by hand , I have one on our farm on other side of country 20 foot. 4 foot Dia. I've never pumped it dry but I pump it slow using sump pump n pvc. Not my pressure tank n foot valve pump, I pump it into a tank.just below the well house and from there water our yard and flower beds high acid, high iron. Great for azelieas,, all our ornamental garden plants, our springs at both places artisan, sand so fine yiu cant filter it have to dame it and draw from there so hand dug cement 4 foot Dia casing
Good morning...Happy Thursday to you...Hi Al and Gina ,🌟🌟🌟
Gooooood Morning
Good morning and happy Thursday to you too! ☕️🌅
@@LumnahAcres ..Good morning Al And Gina...
@@Heisstrong ..Good morning how are you this Thursday morning..
@@cocoadivamgold1371 I doing very good this morning…I hope you are doing well too! 👍🏻
G'day from Australia, my father was a well borer most of his life, drilling over most of our continent. He used a vertical, reciprocating plant with casing. Slow going however much less expensive than the modern rotary plants. Some places he got 30000gallons/hour pumped , others a dry well. Some artesian bores where the water would gush up out of the ground, like some of your oil well gushers.
I think the drilling rig that your dad was on is called a cable-tool rig over here. A chisel is pounded to open the bore-hole and then the drill cuttings are cleared out by use of a bailer. There are still a few around but you don’t see them used very often.
@@noyopacific yes exactly, I used to “help” him during my school holidays if convenient. Loved aiming the bailer onto the Steel spike to open the “clacker valve” to empty it.
I supervised a quite large water utility maintenance department for part of my career. I took work tags and radio calls daily for fixing mainline breaks and other leaks and nearly every leak was described by the callers as “gushing water.” I got so sick of hearing that stupid word for every size leak imaginable. I would say in over 15 years in that job I saw maybe 10 that I would consider gushers. The rest were just routine leaks.
The most memorable was a 36” transmission main down a busy expressway that took a strong water hammer from nearby activity ripped open the pipe and blew massive amounts of water a few hundred feet into a large parking lot damaging a few hundred cars and trucks. Sadly, one guy’s restored classic car he’d always park far from the office building and other cars at the edge of the parking lot took the most direct hit.
All that to just say I hate that word and it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. That’s all.
Yeah as a aussies I’d guess it was a precaution rig they where popular in the old days I work in the artisan bore testing a lot of them flow at over 60ls with 70m of head pressure at over 100c the town of Thargomindah was the first place in aus to have street lights over night due to the thermal electric plant that runs off the bore
@@tim.sorensen5862 I recollect that some towns in Qld Artesian Basin have/had hot running water reticulated to the houses from underground water bores.
I was a mud man / pipe assistant on a rock well rig in central Michigan one summer. Looked like a well experienced crew did you right. You must get that drop & well pump in & flowing soon or you will regret the delay. Clear the throat & discover the nature of the aquafer they hit. Iron / calcium content, etc. The clay you went through is why you must get that pumping asap~
That's why we grout well casings in MI
Great attitude getting of the grid with installing a well for water.
I pray and hope this man finds water to enjoy more freedom being free and independent Individual
In 1978 I was lucky as heck, for my forever home they drilled 156', our gallonage per minute is eleven and a half. We had to open the well up once a year later because they placed the pump too close to the bottom and we got sand in the water. It is very good water with no odd tastes. We don't have to use any softener or anything unnatural. Our development is made up of 1-acre plots, I have the best well, with other families having to go 400' and one having to go that far and drilling 3 wells and then connecting them to get a legal 1 1/2 gal per min. Damn right, I was lucky and I know it and am thankful to God that I was.
We drilled a 140' well @12 g/m, in 1988 cost was $10/ft with casing total =$1600. Ahhh, the good old days.
Man I like that pricing.
That would be $3700 at current value.
That Water Well Drill I actually built the main frame! I use to be Main Frame Crew Leader at Reich Drill Phillipsburg PA. What is neat is watching something you built awhile ago then it shows up on your video!!! BTW great camera work on the Drill operations! Brings back many good memories! Also those drills are built 1 at a time! No mass production. We would only build about 30 a year.
That is awesome!!👍
You guys did a good job on the build 👍
wow Love this thanks for Sharing I never knew how a Well Drillers work Now I learned something New awesome Video
I always heard the deeper the well the cleaner the water.
Gooood morning Al, Gina, Olivia and the whole gang..
Gooooood Morning Max
Good morning Mr G☕️🌅
@@Heisstrong Good morning David, have a blessed day my friend!
@@Maxd58655 thanks, my friend! I pray that all is well with you and your family and Jamaica 🇯🇲
Good morning Mr. G! Have a great day!
They are using bentonite clay to pump into the well as they drill. The clay stabilizes the walls of the well and carries the cuttings away.
This is fascinating to watch!!! I live by a place that has bentonite clay so I see what it can be used for!!!
The bentonite is a lubricant.
@@myothernewname Well you could look at it that way but in well drilling it does several things. It also flushes the cuttings from the well, it holds the borehole together by expanding in the well hole thus holding the well sides together. In addition it cools the drill head and of last acts like a lubricant . So yes you are correct.
This clay comes form volcanic ash. When dry bentonite make contact with water it expands something like 17 times it volume.
It is also used to plug leaking dams and waterproofing basements walls. I’ve seen it used in mining and as a coating. But most of all modern well drill could not happen without it.
It also prevents accidental artesian conditions from occurring, although that is probably unlikely in this area.
Love all of these OGP videos, thanks so much for sharing the adventure!
Very interesting. How do you know where to drill? Thank You for sharing this video.
Wonderful video on the entire process!!
Oh, I am so happy to see you again. I've missed you so much. Just getting internet back after Hurricane Ida made the power lines, in rural St. Tammany Parish, look like silly string.
So happy for you. I watch a beekeeper in SE Louisiana, Mike Barry. I hope he gets hooked up soon.
Good morning 😊 man I can’t get over the cool machinery you guys have in the States! Serious machinery but fun to watch 😆👍
Gooooood Morning yes it is a crazy machine.
Howdy Agnes!
@@samvalentine3206 Hi Sam 😊
Crazy expensive!!
I can tell that no one here in the comments has ever watched Deepwater Horizon or ever been anywhere near an actual drilling rig
We have a 300' well with our pump sitting around 160' deep. I've been on well water most of my life, deep wells are just the way to go. Least with your solar/backup system you will be able to keep your pumps going and not rely on the power company. I have a backup generator to run mine when the power goes off.
A relative of mine had to dig three wells before they hit enough water. Life has no guarantees.
That was exciting! Full of suspense and had a happy ending. Good luck ! God bless!
Love watching the well being drilled - be interesting to see what water quality you get and how long it takes for the water to clear up - thanks for sharing
Always a good idea to check to see where the aquifers are before buying a piece a land to live on. Also every well that drilled in the us is registered and all data available so you can check to see what the average depth that you can reasonably expect to hit water would be and roughly calculate how much it'll cost before hand. Even private wells that are placed by individuals are supposed to register that well with their county or parish or they can actually fine you and force you to cap that well.
Good advice
There is no such requirement.
@@StevenCrothers While the majority of states allow for private well-digging with the approval of a permit, a handful of states restrict digging ONLY to licensed professional contractors. In these cases, the permit is usually filled and managed by the contractor using the information provided by the property owner.
There are a handful of states that don't require a permit or license, but it is still best practice to check for guidelines that must be adhered to.
A full list of groundwater laws for each state including permit and license requirements, lists of licensed well contractors, and official well water guides published by various water resources departments.
Do you want the full list of every state or can you handle that part for yourself princess.
@@dimetrekorsikov5643 Hey sweetheart, I'm glad you were able to admit you were wrong.
Every state has different requirements, so when you said "all US states" I'm glad you were able to later admit you were wrong.
Further, yes, most states have permit requirements, some of those states have municipal exceptions, most of those states have other agricultural rules. However, you know what most of these states that require permits don't have? Depth, flow, and status information!
You need a permit to dig a hole, in "most" places. That permit simply states you're allowed to dig the hole. Some states with that permit even require grouting inspections. Key word, some.
Most of those states with those permits dont require specs.
So when you said "All US states have this information" you were wrong, and I'm glad you could admit that.
Snowflake.
@@StevenCrothers all states do have records of wells that have been dug and all states do have laws regarding the safe capping of wells to prevent water contamination of any aquifer or public water source. Those are facts. There are wells that are in violation of these laws that every state has along with federal laws, but that doesn't change the fact of the original statement. Tax assessors record a plethora of information about private property and any residence that isn't supplied by outside water utilities are assumed to have an independent source of water. All public aquifers and water sheds are measured and monitored by every state and every effort is made to identify the users of those aquifers. Whether or not the user is aware of this fact, it doesn't change the fact. Certainly, there are natural springs and top water resources that people use, but we're talking about wells that rely on underground water stored in the earth, and those records are kept.
All state-level policies in the United States that directly reference private wells. The search, updated in April 2018, confirmed the existing water policy list and identified 23 additional policies. Policies were then coded according to nine not-mutually-exclusive classifications. The results indicate that all states had at least one policy addressing private well drilling or construction. ALL STATES.... get your mommy to read the comment for you and if you rub her corns she might just explain it to you.
to put it simply, hydro-fracking (short for hydraulic fracturing) is where they pump liquid back down the shaft under pressure, fracturing the rock, so water (or oil & natural gas) can escape thru the cracks from deeper down, into the well shaft to be pumped out.
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Hydrofracturing (water wells) is a little different than hydraulic fracturing (O&G). In the water industry, hard rock formations like the one in this video involve pumping high pressure water into the well, which cleans up existing fractures, but does not typically create new fractures. In the oilfield, the frac solution (mostly water, but with some minor additions) is pumped into the well, wherein new fractures are created in formations like shale, proppant (essentially sand) is pumped into the new fractures in order to hold them open when the pressure drops. This allows the oil and gas to flow more freely towards the borehole. The key difference is that hydrofracturing water wells is done strictly with clean water, and no proppant. (I am the engineer at a company who makes tools for groundwater wells).
@@Husqvarna85 Thanks for the additional info... I knew that with water wells they ONLY use water, for the hydraulic pressure, but I was always under the impression that the goal was still to Increase the fracturing in the rock...just as in oil and gas wells.
Yes we know. You’re the 10th person to say it
@@Husqvarna85water, sand and brine
You’re right about it looking like a carnival ride. Drilling for anything IS a carnival ride!
We are so happy 🥳 for you guys got water 💦 abundantly flowi so much needed in the homestead we enjoy your videos taking us on your journey experience 🥰
Thank you ❤ 🙏
We have well water here on New England, well water is usually very hard water. I would suggest looking into a reverse osmosis filtration system for your water. It will not only soften the water but will also prolong the life of your pipes. I wish I had.
You are righty to warn them it'll eat up your appliances too.
@@brenda324 It makes all the shut off valves get stuck on open too. I hope they treat their water somehow. Everything gets clogged and we have a water softener. Clothes won't wash very well either. They live in New England and I hope they know about hard water.
Never use reverse osmosis on a well out west. RO wastes 2 gallons of water for every one it produces. We can’t afford to waste ground water here in Colorado.
@@tommysanfilippo3165 I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me! That is such a waste.
The reason I love watching your videos, Al, is that you explain everything so well.
Implement an above ground storage tank and you'll be fine. We had to go 800' and have about the same yield. The only time the well is challenged is when we have tons of people over for the holidays. But even then we've never been left high n' dry. Rock wells are often stingy with water but the quality at that depth can be quite excellent.
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I grew up on well water iron water on the top of that, we had orange laundry for a while until we put in a filtration system it cleared up the water but it still had that iron water taste and it wasn’t bad after 15 years of drinking it.
We built our homestead two years ago. We are in northern Wisconsin. Our well was 200 ft through red and black granite and I thought that was deep! I can’t imagine having the well depths in your area! I am loving seeing all the progress and can’t wait to see more!
My well in northern Wisconsin is 22 feet deep and the water is 10 feet down. Good water too.
My well in NM is 800ft. But I'm pumping out 80gpm.
When these kind of well driller drill they use a clay mix that coats the walls to help keep from caving in. This clay mix can block small streams of water from coming into the well hole. They may open up in the future and increase well water flow into the well.
Given the amount of rocks and higher ground where they are digging they naturally have to dig deeper
for borewell and with no seepage , they only access underground water, if they reach it .
A small well about 40 - 60 ft deep, 5 ft wide with rock/cement brick wall that allows water to seep in and also they have a stream , that water can be directed to the well . And then there is ice melt .
all that water is enough to fill a small well for water round the year.
@@davelawson2564 I've seen wells that were 3 feet wide lined with pipes made of concrete that was installed in sections. The well was drilled with an auger.
Actually what is used when drilling the wells is a material that serves to increase the viscosity (bentonite or others products), which creates a very thick mud that prevents the well from collapsing, this is when drilling it.
That is precisely why I said above that the well must be developed using pressurized air and water.
There is a way to eliminate all that mud and clean the subterranean veins through which the water enters the well.
@@rudiboaretto True they use clean water from a tanker truck using air pressure to clean out the well till it run clean. I'm not sure if that method cleans out the small veins of water that had been plugged up. I've had better luck with the old antique pounding rig in those areas were water is hard to find in limestone.
@@SawmillerSmith We did it for 45 years, my father then I many man times
Great taping and editing, Al! This was very easy to follow and we all learned a lot from your efforts! Thanks for taking us along.
I have had no idea how they do this, so thanks for showing us.
Very well, it is well done, and you got a new well. You should be well now and no worries. Congrats!
Good morning Lumnah family and everyone else. Loved watching this video and learned a lot. See well trucks down here regularly, but have never been this close to them doing the work. Thank you for bringing us along. Take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀
This is a huge step! Digging a well is close to one of the most expensive things to have done on our homesteads for sure! Congratulations!
I'm gonna have to have a new drill dug out of pur curiosity how much per foot and about how much did it cost please so I could have an idea to save up
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THEY ARE DOING A WELL- A -VA - JOB!👍
Those men work lide a well oiled machine. Each does what is necessary with little wasted energy. Nice video, and educational. Thanks.
Trivia - The drilling head was invented by Howard Hughes father and hasn't changed much since.
I just love the internet experts
Hughes did invent the Tri-Cone Rock Bit but the bit used for Hammer Drilling is plenty different.
An Irishman to be proud of.
Your right the Hughes tool company.......making Howard Hughes one of the richest men on the planet in his day.....
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I'm 54 I drilled water wells for 24 years of my life pump installer ,water filtration , or
suberrainial water extraction specialist.
It is hard work and your body takes a toll.
Where I live in TX it cost around$ $39.00 per ft. to just drill the well.
I used to work in commercial geothermal drilling on the military bases main rig was a track drilling rig that out performed the two rigs like they are using. I used to labor behind 2-3 rigs at once by myself. It was fun but hot in summer and freezing in winter(-30 degrees) we were short handed alot and adventually learned how to run drill rig. I was a busy guy that's for sure
I worked in the Oil and Gas drilling tool industry for 13 years in my early life. The well is like an old telescoping antenna with the largest portion at the top. I used to thread the connections at each end of the drilling pipes and other "tools" they use for drilling. Heck I think I recognized the connections size and nomenclature.
Never seen anything like this before, not only was it fascinating to watch, it is also a real honour to be part of your families new adventure. BIG hello from East Yorkshire UK.
This advice may be too late, but from my experience. 1. Do a purity test on the water. Even though it comes from far down, there’s always a possibility that you have to treat it. Not likely but just a suggestion. 2. Put the best pump that you can afford in your well. You don’t want them to come back out and work on the pump. That means you will have 500’ of pipe to pull out to get to the pump. 3. Make sure that you put a torque arrestor on the pump to keep it from twisting or moving when it kicks in. Otherwise it will eventually snap the wires.
...and don't forget to install a "pump saver". It will keep you from burning out the pump should the well begin to run dry/over pump.
@m9 ovich Oh, no, the wire *can* go first. Not from torque, but from being slapped/abraded against the well casing/bore in bedrock. You don't want that wire flapping around. A friend of mine found out the hard way within 2 weeks of DIY installing the pump (I had to drill the pitless adapter hole in the casing).
@m9 ovich An aside: Have you ever seen tape that's been underwater for years?
Even if the wire and safety line are connected together every few feet, without an arrestor, 400' of tube/wire/line are going to flap against the bore, and all of it is going to wear.
Um, this video doesn't show the pump install does it?
@@fromagefrizzbizz9377 buy scotch 3 m 88+ tape not just Horendous Freight
@@markkiser5120 Tee hee, got no horrendous freight here.
The mesh strapping tape (fibreglass) would work.
We drilled an Agricultural well in 2021; 360ft. 1.5 gpm recovery rate. We watered 1.5 acres of market garden directly from the well's water column all through the growing season DAILY for 8-10 hrs.(moderate drought) and never went dry. My wager is you'll be fine.
Props to the men that do this type of work, dirty hard work but beats being on an oil rig
My Dad had to get a new well drilled at his house and hit water at 50 feet... the old one, which dried up for a couple of weeks but then started working again after the new one was drilled was only ten feet deep... We were moaning about 50 feet but to hear 500 700 800 feet , we're pretty lucky to be on a huge unconfined aquifer
There is no way I'd trust a well at 10' or even 50'. To much contamination, even from natural sources.
@@robnorth8514 ours provided beautiful clear clean sweet fresh water for the 60 years it was in use... but perhaps your thought would sensibly apply to the environment where you live.
@@toamaori did you/they ever have it tested, or did they just go by taste? Just because it looks clean and doesn't taste bad didn't mean it was good to drink.
At 10 ft I wouldnt use that water for anything not even a shower. If you have to drill for wells you probably have to be on a septic system also which operates at that level.
@@bryanlas like I said 60 years of beautiful clear sweet water until the local vineyards lowered the water table through their water use.... maybe in your environment that rings true but not where I live.
Hitting bedrock early on is a good thing. Saves on casing cost and sometimes you hit a water vein within 100' of solid ledge.
EXCELLENT footage of the process. Great narration Al. Never saw this done before. My well in the mountains (I've since moved) was 1,000 ft. Pricey to replace well pump. Currently my depth is 70ft. When you have to replace well pump the cost depends on the depth of well.
Very interesting. Yes, that well digging equipment (heavy duty) did seem like carnival ride type. Thanks for sharing.
How much did they charge per foot? The last well I had dug was $100 per foot. Luckily it was only 110 feet.
As a Geologist...Depth depends on many factors. Depth of casing to keep out surface water, rock types, topographic location, and any subsurface geological features such as faults etc. If your primary porosity (porosity of rock) is low you will be looking for secondary porosity (fractures and faults).
Well, that was a fascinating video, had everything, information and suspense lol. Thanks for Sharing it, and thank the guys for allowing us to watch over their shoulders will you. I've never seen that done in such detail before. Well worth watching! 🤣💗
Hydrofracking is the same process as used in oil where you inject high pressure water and sand to make cracks that fill with sand to increase the collection area of the well it is just in this case that the water is only in contact with water and sand so no/low contamination risk
you forgot about perfing where you go down hole n bang off perf guns too fracture said rock then you you start the hydrofracking
@@stevehancock1698 yes. its not worth it. A well that allows water surface and ground water to seep in would have been more appropriate for the high rock area instead of borewell that only
can access ground water if they hit it.
@@davelawson2564 ok all im saying is too frac you have to perf i used to test gas wells p tanks heated high stages cold units etc n bin to enough frac parties to know this now what your talking about is a shallow big bore water well the thing is if you punch into a aquafer that water is filtered almost pure by the ground shallow big bore come with problems all of their own besides this well is far too shallow to perf anyhow
@@davelawson2564 besides twin sticks just rocked out a new video check him out well worth a watch pun intended lol
@@stevehancock1698 not bore well
We our selfs are planning to have this done this spring or summer thanks for sharing your video it helps to know what to expect.
Very interesting video thank you for sharing
Hi from Oklahoma! Land of the fracking!
This is fascinating to watch. Great to have a close up view. Haven’t watched entire video, and am waiting for a surprise. Your thumbnail caught my curiosity!!
Take good care. Hi to all the critters
Land of earthquakes & drinking water poisoned by fracking
Hi from Kansas. Earthquakes shaking Kansas. Born and raised here and never had earthquakes we could feel.
@@anj3595 Theirs earthquakes everywhere in the last 48 hrs. Japan had over 6.0 today. Italy, Pakistan, China, Russia. And Al is drilling with all this unrest. Eeeekkkkk. Back to vedio.
Had a well drilled in ‘96 in Sonoma Co CA. They went 680 ft plus an additional 50ft for a total of 730ft, the well produce 10 gal per min at the surface so we added 2500 gal water storage. Increased the value of that property by plenty, the total cost with pump, pipe, wire and solenoid boxes was $24k, probably would.be $100k today.
I'm in Sonoma County too! The family ranch had been spring dependent but what was once 1200 gallons a day had dropped to less than 300. Neighbors over the decades had attempted wells but there is a solid rock cap and technology then wouldn't drill through that. My parents wouldn't consider a well. After they passed I brought in a carbide percussion drilling rig. It cut through the rock like butter. It broke through that at about 120 feet into heavily fractured greenstone. At 380 feet we had over 45 gpm. And I cut them off there. My geologist claims carbon testing of rocks has identified my strata as Lake Tahoe percolation. As the serpentine matched the south shore. He assures me Lake water percolation is the source. Thus drought proof. It just seems to me to be too far away. But the lake is 7000 ft elevation. And probably 400 miles east. Even before this they had identified a localized area as uplift from Sierras. I guess they know their business.
I have drilled quite a few 50 foot wells with 10 gpm in Md.
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I built my off-grid forever home 35 years ago. I hired a water Witcher with tons of good references (that I checked) to find the best location for the well. He found a convergence of 3 underground streams. That 350 ft 8 in. diameter hole puts out 55 gallons a minute. best money I ever spent.
Water diviners in Oz are demi gods, some with willow forks, saw it on the telly.
What a deal at least he got the well done and you had to go a little bit further but it's better to be further than short ! Yep it's always good to know they have some idea about well drilling and what you got to go through to get it done and how it's actually done.... Very interesting hopefully everything is going smoothly now that the well is done hopefully the rest of it will fall into place !
Hydraulic fracking is what we do in the oil and gas industry.
It is pumping water into the formation to crack it open forcing propping agents such as sand into the fissures to keep the fractures open that allows fluids in your case water to migrate through tight formations such as sandstones and conglomerate layers more easily.
I think you DO have another option because you have year-round flow on your property. You could have storage tanks fed by a ram pump or similar system that is powered by gravity.
The only thing I don’t like about that is we have beavers and I don’t want to get beaver fever.
@@LumnahAcres I had it when I was in Alaska even after boiling the water. You definitely don't want it.
In NC and we were blessed on our 18 acre farm!
Bedrock at 18 '
20 gpm @ 225'
40 + gpm @325'
Drilled to 425' to increase storage capacity.
It only took 5 minutes to locate a site after cutting a new branch ... drilled in the middle of 8 hard positive twist of the branch.
Tested twice to insure the water was of choice!
True it's an intense situation of the unknown! Video tape the complete drill.
Neighborhood drills,
550' away got 5 gpm
800' away got 11.5 gpm
1400' away got 2.5 @ 800'
1100' away got 5 gpm and 40+ gpm on second well.
A farmer 1/4 mile down the road went to 1000' and fracture for 10.5 gpm.
You never know what you can't see!
It's a fun day but, gut wrenching every minute!
You bet that night I had a great sleeping experience.
Thought one and all might find interesting that the "OIL Well Drilling Bit" "DESIGN" seen @ 35:38 is from the original (circa 1933, tricone bit, patent on it ran-1934 through 1951.) Howard Robard Hughes, Sr., father of Howard Hughes Jr., builder of the Spruce Goose, {a.k.a. Hughes H-4 Hercules} among other things. That design, was what produced so much money for Howard Hughes Jr., he couldn't spend it fast enough.
280 feet here and we live in the MS Delta. Pure water from what they call sand water. No filters needed. Sand is an excellent aquifer because it has the porosity and permeability to produce huge quantities of water. It also has great filtration properties.
Well Well two holes in the ground what else can I say can’t believe Iam watching this good luck and good buy