My dad and I did that on the farm in east Texas but he had to unscrew the sections as it got longer to empty it so I welded up a 20' tripod from some 2 3/8 tubing and welded rail road spikes on the bottom and 1/4" flat plates on top , added a 3/4" bolt and pulley then was able to tie the rope around the first section of pipe then the digging went fast .
Kudos, Martin. That is some effort for sure. Glad to see you guys have a high percentage of water on the other side of your property. Thanks for sharing. I will have to pick up an auger as "well". ;-)
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving I think based on location it would make an excellent well and the soil I seen. I bet no more than a 100 feet by a drill rig. Go to the county planning department. There water section can give you a estimate drill deep for your area and water other water quality tests reports. My Dad and I witch wells for years in northern Idaho.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving, how do they know how deep you were digging? What could be charging if they caught you? Mostly water wells diggers can reach water on 25 feet.
Wow, such a big difference between rules, in Denmark you have to have 1000f between a well and a septic field, it can be reduced to 250f, IF the conditions allow for it (well on top of steep hill, and septic at the bottom) AND a geologist signs off on it
Nice digging Martin, looks like you hit a gallon of sweat... I remember you showing us that water hole, I'm with you. You'll get water...happy digging!!!
I'm trying to make me an off-grid RV and I got several solar panels and I do got me a generator and I want to learn how to make water out of the air that the military has been doing for years there's a book on it for $39 and I'm going to try to do that without having to I have water on my property I'm going to go up into the mountains in New York and hopefully live off grid I might not be able to make that work completely though and I might have to get some electricity in there and some water in there depends on how my other projects go but I'm enjoying all y'all's little movies that y'all make I learned a lot from y'all and I'm all by myself so I don't have no children my children are grown and they live in Oklahoma but I appreciate
I dug about 7ft using some post hole diggers today and this is what I need now. I'm trying to see if I have clay before I rent a dozer to build a pond.
There is a difference in pulling water out of a hole and pushing water. There are 2 guys, cousins, that each bought 40 acres in Idaho. Yes your neighbor. They each had to dig a well where a spring was. I know Heath is pushing water over 1000' up the mt to a tank app 100' above his house to create pressure at the spigot. You may need a submersible pump to get the water the 1000' to a big tank and then another pump to service the house. If you find good water at the other location I know you can make it work, but you will need more than that auger. It's a lot cheaper than drilling.
Hello, my well is about 40 feet and the water is a little murky, is therea way to fix that? It appears the water to be clear but I have to change the filter like every month. Is there a way to fix that so I could get clear water all the time? Thanks.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving "suction" or jet pumping water from 18' into a storage tank doesn't take much energy. Before digging 1000' of trench consider using 3/4" polypipe on the surface. I ran 700' of polypipe an entire winter on the surface down to -10F. It sounds crazy but as long as you keep water circulating, even slowly, it's pretty hard to freeze. 1000' of polypipe is only $150....
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving is that what it's called? Well witching?! I didn't know that. I could have sworn they took old wire hangers and did it on our property for our well.
Does anyone have any recommendations on winterizing the pitcher pump? Can it be used all winter? I installed a shut off valve just below it the pump, so I can keep it primed during the summer and I figured in the winter open it and let the water drop down. My water table is 22 feet so it’s better to keep it primed as much as possible. Any help with winter prep is much appreciated.
Will this go through clay and chalk. This could be perfect because I need a boar hole done going down 10 or 15 metres Iv been quoted £15000 this price is crazy but to other companies have quoted around the same price. But because your ground is sand I’m wondering if this will do what I need !!!!
Legend has it the amazon workers, are over worked and underpaid so much they hate their job so they pack tiny package inside massively large ones to waste the companys money on unessary shipping cost
This looks like a model sold by Lowe's Hardware stores. A similar model is called Seymour that is available on Amazon. The extension pipes ans connectors are are usually readily available locally.
So my dogs name is tux as well Tuxedo Evans!!! Every time you call you dog, my dog looks up!! I’m a new subscriber, I love watching your episodes! I’m playing caught up right now!
@@juliejohnson9531 the well my parents drilled on top of big flat mountain, 2050 ft elevation in South central PA Appalachians is 525 feet. It was a $10,000 dollar well back in 1994. They hit water at 325 feet but decided to go another 200 ft just in case the water table dropped over the years. We almost lost a well pump down there when replacing it, it took 3 grown men to wrestle it for almost 15 minutes.
Heath with TH-cam channel Red Poppy Ranch in Southeastern Idaho would take walks on his property. He kept noticing that one particular spot was damp all the time, even during summer. He took a chance to dig a shallow well there, and hit the jackpot.
Sorry for the annoying comment.... If you are digging straight down you're not going to come out in China, you'll come out in the southern hemisphere. Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, so you'll get water! Off by a degree or two you'll hit the French and Antarctic lands. So Bonjour!
A new listener here, I love your interaction and comeradary as a family 😊
You should try using divining rods to find where to dig a well.
I really appreciate you guys putting this video together! Very helpful and informative.
My dad and I did that on the farm in east Texas but he had to unscrew the sections as it got longer to empty it so I welded up a 20' tripod from some 2 3/8 tubing and welded rail road spikes on the bottom and 1/4" flat plates on top , added a 3/4" bolt and pulley then was able to tie the rope around the first section of pipe then the digging went fast .
Pak martin working hard good job. Bless u all.
Favorite video so far. Excited to see your rain water catchment.
Kudos, Martin. That is some effort for sure. Glad to see you guys have a high percentage of water on the other side of your property. Thanks for sharing. I will have to pick up an auger as "well". ;-)
It might work for you. There’s a lot of videos on TH-cam where people use it and it works.
Sukses terus pak martin
Man this is a good exercise for me. I will start mine. Thanks for the video.
I sure appreciate watching your digging. I’m glad it’s you than me. That’s a long way down and not finding no water. I’m sorry for that.
LOL "Ni hao" 🤣😂
Good dirt and sand for a Earth rammed project with the use of that digging tool
Keep digging Pak Martin!
Martin you are in a very good spot. Once you get by that sand, you should get to a gravel base. Your very close.
Unfortunately we hit the legal limit for drilling yourself.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving I think based on location it would make an excellent well and the soil I seen. I bet no more than a 100 feet by a drill rig. Go to the county planning department. There water section can give you a estimate drill deep for your area and water other water quality tests reports. My Dad and I witch wells for years in northern Idaho.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving, how do they know how deep you were digging? What could be charging if they caught you? Mostly water wells diggers can reach water on 25 feet.
you should have called your puppy gremlin. he looks just like in the movie. beautiful dog
What a work Mr.johnson
Jangan menyerah pak Martin, gali terus .. 🙂🙂🙂
Wow, such a big difference between rules, in Denmark you have to have 1000f between a well and a septic field, it can be reduced to 250f, IF the conditions allow for it (well on top of steep hill, and septic at the bottom) AND a geologist signs off on it
Never seen a Manuel auger before looks like it's gonna be some work!
It is a good work out for sure!
Have you looked into cooling your house with earth tube?
Well. It doesn’t get that hot here. I think most people don’t have AC.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving not really ac just a fan with pipes underground
You are so correct digging a shadow well it's not easy
Nice digging Martin, looks like you hit a gallon of sweat... I remember you showing us that water hole, I'm with you. You'll get water...happy digging!!!
Thanks I hope we do.
NI HAO! 😂 good one
Good luck with the well hope the well works
I'm trying to make me an off-grid RV and I got several solar panels and I do got me a generator and I want to learn how to make water out of the air that the military has been doing for years there's a book on it for $39 and I'm going to try to do that without having to I have water on my property I'm going to go up into the mountains in New York and hopefully live off grid I might not be able to make that work completely though and I might have to get some electricity in there and some water in there depends on how my other projects go but I'm enjoying all y'all's little movies that y'all make I learned a lot from y'all and I'm all by myself so I don't have no children my children are grown and they live in Oklahoma but I appreciate
a longer wood dowel handle and one person on each end would make that drilling a lot easier. pretend your on a merry go round lol
Turning it wasn’t really the hard part it was pulling it back out once you were down over 10 feet that was hard.
Smart man
i used one of those many times, as a lineman's grunt, digging anchor holes for 8" bust anchors. it will make a man of you, quickly.
That ground is perfect for your leach field....
It seems pretty nice for that.
Oh my! It's really hard works........
Hi ... Martin you missed China ....
I can hear you in Pakistan
Hahahaha
Keep Smiling
Great video!
Did you check the hole the following day to see if water accumulated in the hole?
Good old AmeriCAN people 👍🤠👍
Love it!
I dug about 7ft using some post hole diggers today and this is what I need now. I'm trying to see if I have clay before I rent a dozer to build a pond.
There is a difference in pulling water out of a hole and pushing water. There are 2 guys, cousins, that each bought 40 acres in Idaho. Yes your neighbor. They each had to dig a well where a spring was. I know Heath is pushing water over 1000' up the mt to a tank app 100' above his house
to create pressure at the spigot. You may need a submersible pump to get the water the 1000' to a big tank and then another pump to service the house. If you find good water at the other location I know you can make it work, but you will need more than that auger. It's a lot cheaper than drilling.
I watch them both. They are about 10 hours away from us.
You could have your own private beach down there with all that sand. haha :)
For sure!
Hello, my well is about 40 feet and the water is a little murky, is therea way to fix that? It appears the water to be clear but I have to change the filter like every month. Is there a way to fix that so I could get clear water all the time? Thanks.
cool stuff ! What is the elevation didference between the house and the spring area that is 1000' away?
Maybe 100’. I haven’t checked.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving "suction" or jet pumping water from 18' into a storage tank doesn't take much energy. Before digging 1000' of trench consider using 3/4" polypipe on the surface. I ran 700' of polypipe an entire winter on the surface down to -10F. It sounds crazy but as long as you keep water circulating, even slowly, it's pretty hard to freeze. 1000' of polypipe is only $150....
ALWAYS AND I MEAN ALWAYS PUT YOUR WELL UPSTREAM FROM YOUR SEPTIC YOU CAN FIND THE FLOW OF YOUR AQUAFUR FROM YOUR COUNTY OR ONLINE
Did you need a permit dig a well I am in az and just bought some off grid property
Good luck om
What is the name of that thing you used for digging
My family and all my friends use two wires and hold them in our hands and when they cross it's where water is. It's never been wrong.
yes its proven, better use 2 copper wire with L shape and bare foot when execution
That is very interesting. Did you see how well it worked for red poppy ranch?
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving is that what it's called? Well witching?! I didn't know that. I could have sworn they took old wire hangers and did it on our property for our well.
So.. what about the well? Is it done pak martin?
sounds like a name change is coming: from martin to huff and puff!
Semangat Pak semangat ✊
Where can I buy those extensions?
walaupun gk terlalu ngerti bhs inggris tp ttp nonton,,please dong kasih sub indo
maybe this is a dumb question but : How come you didn't use dowsing rods to find water before digging?
🧙♀️ hahaha we used other methods.
Niihau for Chinese and Konnichiwa for Japanese
Hey, that’s my parking spot!
What city/state is this video recorded in? Anyone know? 🤔
Sandpoint ID.
Does anyone have any recommendations on winterizing the pitcher pump? Can it be used all winter? I installed a shut off valve just below it the pump, so I can keep it primed during the summer and I figured in the winter open it and let the water drop down. My water table is 22 feet so it’s better to keep it primed as much as possible. Any help with winter prep is much appreciated.
Will this go through clay and chalk. This could be perfect because I need a boar hole done going down 10 or 15 metres Iv been quoted £15000 this price is crazy but to other companies have quoted around the same price. But because your ground is sand I’m wondering if this will do what I need !!!!
Legend has it the amazon workers, are over worked and underpaid so much they hate their job so they pack tiny package inside massively large ones to waste the companys money on unessary shipping cost
try to find clay layer in the ground. that would be the best option to gain water because that layer filtering the water. wont be sediment in
We will see what we can find.
Hi Sir, where can i order an auger like that?
This looks like a model sold by Lowe's Hardware stores. A similar model is called Seymour that is available on Amazon. The extension pipes ans connectors are are usually readily available locally.
So my dogs name is tux as well Tuxedo Evans!!! Every time you call you dog, my dog looks up!! I’m a new subscriber, I love watching your episodes! I’m playing caught up right now!
Marty, try a BUCK 347 at the Buck factory in Post Falls but wait for the sale that happens in June or the week following Thanksgiving! Great job guys!
I wish I could have drilled my own well, don't think I could have made it down 450 feet by hand though. lol :)
Wow! That's deep!
@@juliejohnson9531 I hope you guys find water without having to call a well driller. You will save a ton of money. :)
@@juliejohnson9531 the well my parents drilled on top of big flat mountain, 2050 ft elevation in South central PA Appalachians is 525 feet. It was a $10,000 dollar well back in 1994. They hit water at 325 feet but decided to go another 200 ft just in case the water table dropped over the years. We almost lost a well pump down there when replacing it, it took 3 grown men to wrestle it for almost 15 minutes.
Respectfully Jules resembles Scarlet Johanson
Great vlog !! what was the final calorie burn count ? ha ha !!
I should have checked.
who and how are they gonna inspect it is less than 18 foot ?
I know and God knows.
cool i like it and I can My find your church
We worship with the Sandpoint church of Christ on Cedar St.
Wow
Use a divining rod
Ni hao pak martin🤭
Heath with TH-cam channel Red Poppy Ranch in Southeastern Idaho would take walks on his property. He kept noticing that one particular spot was damp all the time, even during summer. He took a chance to dig a shallow well there, and hit the jackpot.
Yeah, I watch his channel as well...
I’ve watched him from the beginning.
Wouldn't it much easier if you put some water?
It was pretty easy. Water would make it heavier i think.
No one is replying from the well, flat earth confirmed 😆
Save that rock.
Muito bem👍👍👏👏
Did it says Made in Indonesia on the pipe Martin? LOL
Yes it did.
You've got the perfect tool for installing geothermal for heating and air. Check it out please.
🙋🏻♀️🗣️🕳️😶🌫️
Tay omu tee ta
Hayo pak semangat dengan seizin Tuhan anda pasti menemukan air.
you should use water
How should I use it?
OUCH - That was painful to watch. Just in a random spot and come up dry. Not surprised, but good luck on future gopher holes you're digging.
It was fun to try. Maybe we’ll have better luck next time.
You should learn how to find underground water source with a stick
How do you do it?
someone from the other side of the hole yelled out "NI HAO PAK MARTIN SENPAI!"
Did you ever hand dig and find water???
I guess you didn't wish the well ,it works.
Kneehow, where's the water Sir, howknee, says ned water, now?
You hit a Sandpoint....
Terus pak sampe dalem sapa tau nemu emas harta karun
😯👏👏👏👍👍👍👌😊
Second
wind will destroy the roof. sorry
I see majority of ur viewers are indonesian, included me😂
I think you'd find India on the opposite end of America on the globe, anyway nihao back :)
if you living off grid, how can you acsess the internet martin..?
Wirelessly. Off grid means not physically tied to the grid.
work hard to get water
Yes but it was fun.
I hope you get the water soon Sir Martin
indonesia subtitle bosku
Going to China !!! haha
你好，你好？
South Korea
silt, try another place
Sorry for the annoying comment.... If you are digging straight down you're not going to come out in China, you'll come out in the southern hemisphere. Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, so you'll get water! Off by a degree or two you'll hit the French and Antarctic lands. So Bonjour!
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lol ni how