All about wells: How a water well is drilled
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Had a well drilled on the farm. The well is 300 ft deep, has a static water level of 25 feet ( yeehaw) and produces 16.5 gpms. The well cost ~ 3k
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My Dad was a driller for 25 odd years. Had his own rig and water truck at one point. In the 60's, my mother followed him around the country in an FX Holden, towing an 18 foot Franklin caravan. We often spent months living in the desert in a base camp consisting of the van and the car.
That's my Dream and goal .....one day Im gonna Have my Own Drilling Rig and water truck ...And not have to Drill for Other Company's Anymore and use my Own Drilling Rigs.. strictly off what guys like your pops have taught me through the years of Drilling 🙏💪 .
thank you for putting this on youtube! It's straight forward and makes more sense than an engineer talking. Merry Xmas!
Been a well driller for a couple years here and i work with my boss who has been literally doing it since a teenager. Hes in his 50s now. If its one thing to take away from what ive learned and what hes told me...the flashier and nicer looking the rig, the more junk it is. Down here in fl there are about 3 premium well drilling companies, in my area. Each one is WELL CAPABLE of purchasing a multi million dollar rig. Do they? No..cause the new ones(where everything is hydraulic) are junk. Each of those companies has an old rig from the 70--80s, where everuthing is run off its own individual transfer case and driveshaft. These things are a work of art.
Its a true masterpiece to see a contraption of about 6 transfer cases, 10 driveshafts and 2 massive transmissions running all at once and in sync with each other.
But! Because everthing is running str8 off gears and drive shafts u dont have to worry about hydraulics breaking or blowing which i heard is extremely common on those new rigs.
So if u ever buy a well and they pull up in an old clunker...thank the lord. Cuz you probobably have a crew of guys who have been around and know exactly what there're doing. Also if uve never seen one operate(overall its looks very similar to this rig with hiw tall the derrick stands and where the drill rods are sitting but behind the cab there is a massive flat bed where this contraption in built on) it is truly a work of art to watch it all come together.
I still remeber we were drilling a well for a farmer. He has had many wells drilled in the past. He walked up to my boss and said " how come everytime these drilling rigs show up they look like a pile of junk?" My boss says "have you ever seen a company pull up with a new modern rig?" The farmer says "no." My boss says, "yea, cause they know what works and what dont!" Lol
I agree with you. We've got an international built in 86 and a peterbilt from 91, despite being old and clunky, they're my babies. We recently got done drilling a 770' well and did a gravel pack with the 86 international, its my favorite rig on our lot. Theres a couple more that we have but they dont get a lot of use. Were south east texas
@@rustynichols22 Yep. Same with our Bucyrus cable tool rig. Its such a rare unique skill to be able to operate one of those. We only used to the cable tool rig for shallow wells on small residential homes. My boss could tell you EXACTLY what was happening at the bottom of the well just by holding the steel cable while jt dropped the weight up and down. Wether the hole was muddy, whether or not it needed the water bailed out or whether we needed to add some...crazy lol i was starting to pick up on it but it takes a long time to master. Not alot of people out there that can operate a cable tool rig. Rotary, ya just gotta know the process...cable tool, takes practice to control it and make it do what u want it to do.
How can you not love watching drilling ? This is a great video for showing it in "real time".
No complaints here. Thanks for taking the time to film and edit this procedure. Now I have an idea what I might expect when I have a well drilled on my place.
Thanks for taking the time to video this. Couldn't stop watching. Nice job editing too. Thanks again
Yrs ago, 1981 bought a piece of property in central oregon...lots of lava rock. Price of the land included free use of 1947 Federal Truck/cable and Tool driller. Had wooden oak bearings on the spudder. Owner told me to listen to him only and do exactly as he instructed during the drilling process. Took me a year in after hrs and spare time to drill through 400 ft lava. I worked full time, kid on the way, hauling water etc....boy it was rewarding afterwards. The hole was straight enough...w/ a mirror you could see 1/2 hole at bottem. Drilled 8'' all the way down, cased w/ 6'' PVC (risky). The most scariest thing I did. Most of my peers were skeptics including some local well drillers. One well driller though did admire my ambitions and would come out to check on my from time to time. I was about 25 yrs old.
How did you secure the PVC when it got past the 300' mark while adding new pieces without losing it?
dieselphiend : I listened to the man who owned the machine...I built a "bull nose shoe" that the PVC slid into. I had 450 ft 3/8" air craft cable hooked to it. The cable was spun onto the "Bailer Bucket" spool. The first 20ft PVC was fitted into the show about 6inches. I used several machine screws to secure it. The bottem of the shoe had 2 inch wide straps shaped like a half circle so I could lower PVC down and the shoe would "glance" off any ledges ect. We used the Bailer Bucket spool to lower the PVC after we glued each piece on. It was risky but worked first time. We lowered 480 ft untill it came to rest on bottem of hole. Its a one time use because after a year or so Im sure the cable rusted. Once at 250 ft the PVC hung up...I got scared...raised the PVC casing a couple of times and lowered it again...it went on down...I was worried.
Shane vanWinkle Wow.
Amazing how when you're young nothing seems impossible.
yes, quite the adventure.
Very interesting - the process had more steps than I expected. Thanks for taking the video and posting.
And btw, all the people complaining about the camera should really count their blessings. Not many people take the time to video this process in a down to earth manner, so we can just watch it. Thanks again for this.
Thank you! I owe you for that!
I got motion sick and quit at 3 min. I guess you never heard of a tripod !!!!!!!!!!
E775 3k to dig a well? In California it cost way more, multiply that times 6 and sometimes higher.
Before the honest and good well drillers in this area retired and died, I luckily drilled several wells at $12 a foot. Now the newbies need to pay off their cowboy cadillacs and drill 3x deeper and 3x more per foot. Makes me puke.
devarasan ra
Thank you for uploading an interesting video. I had 20 years of experience as a driller in Japan. Air hammering was not my speciality but it was really interesting for me. The first bit they say very expensive seems worn to me and I can fix it by gas welding. I think that the most expensive bit is the last one for drilling rock and it can’t be fixed when it get worn.
Interesting
Good job. When I was a young Hydrogeologist the crew drilled a 12 inch artesian well 1.2m deep with water temp 104F reaching 10 ft in the air. Now that was a happy farmer
That's was great. When I was a young boy in 1959 I watched our well being drilled at 110 feet. The way it was done was they pounded the drill for a long time. The pounded sound traveled to be heard 1/2 mile away. Thanks for your video
I never knew how they installed a well. This video was really educational. Thank you OP for the video, and good luck with your new well. Hopefully it brings you clean water for many many years to come!!
Same, all the best with your new home, and thanks for the education!
I'm in eastern SC. The static water level at my house was around 15 feet. Water here is plentiful. My 4" well gives me almost 40 gallons a minutes with a total well depth of about 75 feet.
A likeminded brother for sure! I have met too many people who do not have their water squared away but have a lot of fancy prepping toys and gizmos. I try to encourage them get their sustainable water supply going ASAP.
That's one of the coolest pieces of heavy equipment I have ever seen. Thanks a ton for sharing. This is very interesting.
We are getting a well put in on our property as soon as they lift the road restrictions. This is one of the last steps before we move into our new house. Thanks for posting the video it's great info.
Darren Charron
have your well checked for arsenic! too much here in Arizona
I love it when I stumble on an old one I missed.
Excellent. I drilled with my dad when I was a kid. Did it with a Bucyrus-Erie 22W. Man, does a nice rotary rig blow the old 22W out of the water!! This looks so easy and quick. Makes me wanna get back into drilling. Thanks for the video.
Wow, that was the most interesting thing I’ve seen in a long time - that truck is like a mini oil rig! I’ve always wondered what the heck a well is and how it is dug.
Great Well!! Man, I'd love to have a well with those stats! Thanks for sharing this. It was very informative! God Bless!
I drilled mine with a sledge hammer and two inch drive point. Hit water a 32 feet after four days of pounding in the hottest summer on record. Lived there twenty five years and never ran that well dry once.
Different everywhere you go I'm a driller helper and you could go 5 miles in any direction and the water would be at a different depth it also depend on how many gallons per minute you want. if you're a farmer you're gonna want 100+ GPM. If not up here in Idaho the least you can get is 40 GPM.
@Mr Sunshines Why the dipshit comment?
@Mr Sunshines lol why the cussing man take the stick out your butt
@Mr Sunshines That was uncalled for.
Mr sunshines your a dumb ass pos you dont know sheot;() hahah dumbass
Our drillers drill until they get at least 20-30gpms. The pumps only pull 10 but through the years as the water is depleted, you're covered for much longer. Our Ozark Mo wells run an average of 300-350ft. deep now days with an occasional 600ft. in our area. Depending on depth, you can look at 5000-10,000. for completed (w/pump). Depending on the type of rock, our casing can run 200' easily which adds to the cost. Nice video.
Congrats on your new well engineer775, I do enjoy your videos. Thanks!!
Never seen this process before. Thanks for the interesting video, thumbs up!
6:06 I approve of any task where periodically whacking the equipment with a large hammer is a requirement.
Haha! Go work in the oil field! Hammer unions every where! Hammer wrenches too! You will be sick of hammering all day! =]
I've seen this done from afar, but real interesting to see it up close and personal. Thanks.
I gerw up in Michigan and my father cleaned, pumped, dug septic tanks. We even did Wells. I loved every minute of it I was only a kid having with my dad after work
Sounds like fun
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
I will be soon. I have 4 solar powered pumps to do a video on. 2 I have been running for about a year , 1 new Sunrotor pump and a prototype 24v gearmotor for a Simple Pump. I can't wait to do these vids.
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Thanks for filming! Never seen this before, it was very interesting.
Great video! I was an assistant driller on a 1988 IR T3 for five years. Great pay, hard work.
Awesome! Thanks for posting the video.
18 minutes is long, but you're forgiven.
You're among the very few among the amateurs on YT to acknowledge that editing is essential to the dynamic of a video !
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Thaïs for posting.
Thanks for watching!
vincent752
That was a fantastic video! I never knew how a water well was done. Thanks for posting.
Great educational video~!! I was amazed at how easy that driller made it look. Seems like you'll have all the water you can use for many years. Thanks for the step by step narration.
really interesting to see that happening.
3K for 100m well is a lot cheaper than it costs in Australia.
280' this spring, pvc collapsed on them got to pull it out and install iron, sweet water, 12 gpm, cost 8 grand. North Central Idaho elevation 900'.
Need one in eastern WA...any suggestions?
Very interesting video and I"ve always wanted to see that done. Great job in condensing the all day event to 17 minutes. Thanks for taking your time to film that and I hope it works out really well for you for a long time.
Getting ready to drill ours in Missouri. Thanks for the detailed video of what we're going to see happen.
Where in Missouri?
I live in central Texas and had a 250' well drilled and completed (casing, concrete pad, submersible pump, controller and hook up) for $11,000. Costs vary by location. Permitting costs very low here. God bless America and the freedoms we have. Well makes +300 gal/hr in the Trinity aquifer.
How much did the water rise after reaching the aquifer? That aquifer has been known to fluctuate quite a bit in some locations. Does the water come out hot?
@@Accumulator1 We are not in a "geothermal" area so the water is at about 65-68oF. It is not artesian well and will not flow above the ground level. The water has to be be pumped out.
San Solomon Springs in far west Texas is a good example of an artesian spring that flows at 10,0000 gallons per minute!!!
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Greetings from Europe, Portugal. Thanks for taking the time to share this brings back some memories. I had a borehole sunk 14 yrs ago similar stats the 20cm liner is down 30 meters with an eventual depth of 112 meters to the 3 phase German made pump which is still going strong. When it goes wrong sometime in the future plan is to get a low voltage solar pump that will do the job via the sun which we get plenty of here.
Thanks for the video, sir. Learned a lot.
About the time it started to drill my washing machine started spin cycle off balance and the house started shaking. It was like a fancy theater with live effects.
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Drilling in rock is a lot simpler than unconsolidated material like we have in the NW Corner of Ohio. We have to drill with a water/mud slurry from start to finish to hold our hole open ,it takes water to make water here. I can do & have done both everywhere you go people do things that work for them. I have a 6" well 98' in depth total with 10' of screen made in sand & gravel that produces over 300 GPM. Average depth here is like 100' deepest I have ever drilled is 290' a low producing well is probably 40 GPM average 50 GPM+. We have artesian & flowing artesian wells in my area ,I have a 5'' well with 5' of .020 slot screen 100' deep that will free flow 30GPM 3' above ground. Come drill in flowing well country like that you'll lose more than your mind.. Our well's here in Ohio have to be 5'' or bigger now we hold licenses in OH & IN. I enjoyed this video ,thanks..
Steve La Londe Jr hi I am a water well driller in Australia The Last Boy I put down was in Victoria about 300 Ks from home it was down 400 feet with 40 ft of a t slot casing at the bottom and we pumped 60000 gallons an hour out of it with six foot drawer down it's a fantastic Basin lovely alluvial drilling about 200 feet of sand altogether quick money
aka mud-rotary drilling on an elevator system, raising and lowering viscosity to float gravel or heavier - more viscosity= more lift but longer washout for slower velocity.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a beautiful building spot ya got there!
Fascinating! What satisfying feeling to see the water come out!
Probably addicting.
Nice work, fellas💚
This is a *great* video...thanks.
Great video, here in north fla my 4" artesian well is 700' deep ,and it free flows about 45 gallon a minute, it cost $5000 about 10 years ago, today its $6500
Today 30000
Yeah idk where you live but that's gonna run you more than that lol
Backup to my backups. I also have turned my place into a water lab of sorts and needed the well to test a variety of pumps and the ability to put multiple pumps in the same well.
great result guys. will be doing same at home soon.
last year (2018)we had ours drilled for a new house.225ft i believe for the cost of $6500 ish..this is in central wisconsin.
rooster I live in S. AZ. Had a new 400’ well estimated complete was $32,000.00. Didn’t go for it. Stayed with the current multi-family well.
@m9 ovich im just south of fond du lac,wi.
normal depth in our area is about 300ft i believe.i think that was what they quoted us and ended up being less.the more north you go,you can drill your own well in the sand,lol.like 25-50ft is not uncommon about 2 hrs north of me.
That was a great price for 300 feet, 10 dollars a foot is about half the cost in Canada
$10 per foot is unheard of in Alberta
For a hammer rig here in Perth Western Australia we charge anywhere from $110-$140/M
My well took about six hours. Went nearly 300 ft. Very successful. Cost about 20$. / ft. Laurentians, Quebec. The 10$ /ft quoted here might be 10US , but still inexpensive. My drilling was 2011, for sure right now could be much more $$$. It was a geo thermal rig that came here. Didnt have to have a big truck back up , necessitating a couple of trees cut and a pad for the truck. Much better. The geo thermal unit was the size of a large car and was directed with a remote control keyboard type apparatus
Utterly fascinating stuff, thanks for the video.
Enjoyed this video very much and learned a lot . thanks for taking the time to film , enjoyed very much''
The bedrock works like casing or no need to case the bedrock only the lose dirt.
I had a new well drilled about three years ago. It costs me more than $5000 for a 140ft deep well with static level about 5 feet from the surface. My soil is mostly sand, then clay, then sand. I found a small dinosaur footprint in one of the larger rocks brought up from the well borer.
All's well, ends well!!! Good stuff!
Nice well!...hope it serves you well for many years to come.
might be Shakey but I don't care IV never seen one drilled before very interesting. idk much about PVC but IV alwes been told you print and then glue?
You still haven't seen how a well is drilled All you saw was pipe turning
Sometimes its really difficult to get through the Van Allen belt because of the radiation. I'm glad they could get through it okay though. Great video.
Van Allen belt? They're not going into outer space. They're drilling a water well.
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richard wysham ooooh I see sorry I think it was the Ron Wilson layer
American ingenuity gets it done!
Back in my younger days, i dug a well by hand down to 95ft. Encapsulated the hole in rock and dropped a bucket line for water. Wife loved it and all my friends were very impressed.
I know I know- to shakey! I miss too many things when I use the tripod. I need to buy a better camera as well but all my money goes to PVC and pumps. : )
I got seasick and barfed at 6:23 but otherwise a great video.
Will drillers do it deeper in Michigan (Hart well drilling) mason michigan gone but not forgotten.
Felipe Garcia Jr how much do they cost? I’m here in Michigan as well
I work as a plumber and seen alot of water systems , testing water from wells and installing several types of unit's like water softeners etc.etc. and I've only witnessed drilling 3 times in my 22 years of plumbing. The last time was a 60 gallon a minute artisian well and that was at 80ft.which was strange because it was near the summit of a mountain range with an elevation of 3,000 ft.. It was pushing iron magnesium rich water out the well top about 6 inches..lol.. Was crazy..
Thanks! more to come on the well !
How am I the only upvote after 7 years?
Is the camera attached to a paint shaker?
TH-cam can remove that shake.
wow that is a nice mechine. please note one man wore gloves the other did not. never let your hands come close to a rotating shaft with gloves on. the shaft can snag your gloves and pull your hands off your forearms. the man with the gloves did not come in contact with the shaft until it came to a completr stop.
#1 drill pipe is not a shaft #2 any fool who would put his hand on a rotating shaft gloves or no gloves is asking to get hurt AND if want to get picky neither one of those fools was wearing a hard hat And if you have ever drilled around a coal seam you would never smoke next to the hole.
E775, thanks for recording that video. I have never seen one drilled before.
one of the best videos you have done.... thank you
Many thank for all the good info
Please with all the technology you show us. Can you work on your camera shot and your sound.
Arcouette jp
Nope, this guy is too consumed with how much he didn’t pay.
In Australia it cost us around 30-40K to drill 50+ metres to expensive
Google DeepRock well drilling equipment in Opelika Alabama USA.
They will ship you an awesome machine for only a few thousand dollars. Then you can drill it yourself, it’s easy.
Victorius please shop around, that's way over our quotes in NE Vic, cheers.
These new rigs are nice, i'm working with equipment made in the 70's and 80's that just cover you in mud and grease, steel case, with 1/2hp pumps with pvc 1" piped inside
Last rig I worked on we started out at 24" down to 4000 ft but we weren't drilling for water and sent drill motors out 5 different directions. Water wells sound like a fun retirement job for me. It's all hard Bubba.
Ahhh, an auger truck. My husband ran one for many years. Even slept in it for a while lol. He'd refer to it as the "Auger Suite".
Zig says he's in so az, pd 28. ft went 925' uses grundfos sq pump w solar 1200 w array 15 gpm tasty ancient artesian water ☺☺
Yeah, Good price. Here it’s $1500 to show up and $75 per foot plus the cost of the casing with no guarantee they will hit water.
Great video. I am learning a lot from all of your vids. We purchased our current house in 2006. It was built in 2002. It has both well and septic. First house for us to have a well and septic. We are also in an area that looses power quite often. I am interested in adding both solar and hand backups to our current system. Need less to say I am going over each of your vids in great detail. Please keep them coming!!
This is a fun video to watch. I couldn't count how many thousand times I've unlatched a hook like the one shown here.
a lot different from here in Florida we concrete our casing and damn sure don't push it in if it doesn't go to the bottom of our hole we pull it and recirculate it till it goes to the bottom and then we concrete it in pushing it through the casing till we get return on the outside and the flush with water so we are left with around 20' in the inside of the casing and drill that out when we are Drilling the actual well and usually go around 180-500' deep so that we are in the Floridian stream which is the nice water around here but I know nothing about up there it is a whole different bag of worms evidently either way it is weird seeing things done this way when you are used to things one way. I want a job there it seems a lot easier over there lol
John Anderson, yes, strange to see different methods in different areas. Up here in Illinois we would never risk drilling overburden down 80' with air. If there was a cave in while making a connection, you're screwed. Anything more than 20' we would definitely circulate fluid. But everyone does what works best for them.
@ Everett Lee - If you think FL has crappy water, you are drinking from the wrong vessel. Try the taps/faucets.
Wow $3K to get a 300 foot well drilled with a million dollar rig? Around here our well drilling crooks wouldn't drill past the roots on the grass for that price.
right...thats what i was thinkin
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dan paul About $10,000 to get a well drilled around here and another $7500 up for septic
crooks ? you just said the rig costs 1 million dollars
By the time you get a drill rig, water truck, and tooling. Yes a million can be spent quick.
But less than $10.00 a foot..cheap.
One fine drilling rig right there!
Here in Minnesota got 10 gmp 60 ft. great water!
300ft only 3k..man thats cheap
Really cheap! How the hell did he get that deal?
Keep in mind they used plastic pipe for a casing. Steel would quadruple the cost.
In northern Ca, a 200ft well is $8600 without any pump supplies, just well drilled out and cased with pvc, this includes their “fees” etc. Then after 200ft it’s $35/ft.
I work for a well driller in NE Pennsylvania. $10 per ft for drilling. Steel casing, $16 per ft, no less than 40ft of casing reguargless of depth to bedrock
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This is so wonderful. I have never seen anything like it. Thank you! It is such a miracle. Alice
The old farm house I bought had a hand dug well 30 feet deep. It went dry and I had to have a proper well dug. So they came out and began drilling and they got to solid limestone at 30 feet, which is why the original well stopped there. I told them I wanted 10 GPM @ 70 psi and not to stop drilling till that was accomplished. The price per foot doubles when you are going through limestone. But limestone wells are the best in my opinion. They went 168 feet through solid limestone. It was the best water, easy to filter and soften, but I paid for it dearly. $6000 is what the bill was.
call me very lucky, our well is only 22FT. Good clean water.
Need to move to Florida. Walk out back dig own 6ft with a shovel and done lol..
john smith lol
You're right. I'm hand digging my well with water for another well. So easy down here, we hit 3ft get water :)
Sadly it used to be this easy our aquifer is getting way over taxed. Some areas this still works most of the year. Others people are now having to drill down to 8-900ft in some places. The Florida aquifer is a complex system that has seems to live and breath changing yearly. Look at some areas around melrose.. used to be lakes now fields of Grass. Other areas used to be fields of grass and now are lakes. Good thing is we do get tons of rainfall even during drought season compared to most places so it's easy enough to modify the topography and have it drain your land to your well location.
John, You won't dig it with a shovel down here. But the water is down only 6' in the winter and during the summer, if we get a wet storm, it can be a foot above ground level. And we are on high ground. :-) Those 6' are 5.75' feet of porous rock and about 3" of dirt from the rock plowing. Current water level is 4.01' ASL and ground level here is 10' ASL.
I read somewhere that the highest point in Florida is 6 feet above sea level? Wonder how good that water could be, not to mention sinkholes everywhere, glad I live on a mountain! Hawaii is getting burned by volcano, damm!
Thanks a million! That was a great video. Super cool and educational.
Building my first house and need a well so thank you for this video, I was clueless.
All I asked for was a drilled , cased well , no pumps, no pipe, now wire , no tanks. The companies make their money off of the pkg deals they sell. my well was $9 /ft, $320 casing and $70 permit. ~ $3070
Engineer, what RAILROAD do you work for?
Engineer775
WOW.! I HAD MINE DRILLED OVER 20 YEARS AND - EVERYTHING WAS $1200: DUG, CASED, PUMP, BLADDER TANK, WIRED. BUT MY HUSBAND HAD A FRIEND WHO DID ALL THE DRILLING FOR FREE. WE GAVE HIM BEER AND FOOD. I HAD THE SAME RED DIRT COME OUT BUT IT'S NOR ANYWHERE ELSE BUT ABOUT 100' DOWN.
IT COSTS $1,200 NOW TO HAVE IT SERVICED AND MORE IF YOU NEED A PUMP. DAMN
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In the 70's we could drill a cased "Deep" well , for Galvanized , at 3 Dollars a foot and that included the submerable 2-3 horse pump with Tank and all of the fittings and under ground water proof wire to a out side braker Box . That was the going price. Drilled Coquina rock and averaged 2-4 Thousand Dollars. not including the drilling per foot, that was separate. Through out central Fla. From Ocala, all the way down to Kississime Fla. lolNow , you can't touch it , for under 14- 18 Thousand. I wouldn't have the plastic crap for a casing. It's used up in 5-10 years depending on how much sand and gravel comes out of the well each time the pump turns on. lol Good Luck.:)
No sand and gravel comes out when the pump is turned on. PVC casing lasts longer than galvanized. There would be little need for a 2-3 hp pump on residential. Most are 1/2 hp.
I would have panned that stuff for gold :)
That's what I was thinking, if I did that for a living in a gold bearing area I'd collect all the dirt. To "Tidy up for the customer".
I've never seen a water well drilled before but I've seen hundreds of those cone bits working around the oil patch here in Kansas. Both on a rotary drilling rig and a well service rig.
Thank you. This is a one of the kind Video. I am 62 years old and this is the first time that I see how a modern well is done. It is sure different from the well I saw done y hand in old days which one bucket of dirt at a time was pulled out with a rope. It's amazing!. Thanks
Thank you for watching!
Interesting. Thanks. One observation... Hold the camera still please.
Hold the camera steady dude!
Congrats on a great well. 3k is a great price. My American made well pump is 1/2hp, 10gpm and 42 years old! Still going strong. Average lifespan for a quality well pump is 50 years.
We had a well that they drilled down to about 110 feet, hit bed rock. When the drill broke through it was in a 70' cavern full of water. The driller lowered the pump to the bottom and brought it up from the bottom 8' and locked it down.
We had some of the best tasting cold water I have ever tasted.