That well needs a pump with less GPM, like a Grundfos, with low water cutoff to save keep the pump from burning up. Also needs more (or less) bladder tank capacity. They installed a pump based on what they wanted and not what the well could produce. Another good video-Thank You.
@@howardtravels The water will also quite green, if they're bringing city water, and needs lots of shock and filtering before it gets nice and clear. You can add lots of potassium permanganate and backflush the sand filter often to help clear things up.
A fire truck might have 1500 gallons, a tanker truck can bring more depending on how many axles etc, but an average 20x40' pool with one deep end holds 20,000 gallons. That's a lot of trips with water. Even a 5 axle semi truck with a day cab could maybe bring 8000 per load, without going over 80,000 gross weight limit. The tankers can deliver 9000 gallons of gasoline, but water is heavier.
We used to do the filling in my fire dept maybe 30 years ago, usually 1000 or 2000 gal only to let the pool compant set the liner. Pumpers ran steel tanks and often the water was rusty, esp in a quiet dept. Owners were not happy.
Hey, another great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your work. I know that orange you guys must attend State auctions that's the same color. Our equipment is for our State equipment that we can buy at auction day. Thank you for sharing.
I love your videos there was a little bit of an issue with the video and voice not being synched after the fracking but I love your videos I don’t work in your industry I do stuff in an industry even more niche but we use relatively the same equipment Awesome job and I always love your explanations I use them to help some of my guys to mainly understand flow and pressure
Glad I happened across your channel. I live out in the country in central Ohio (Granville Ohio). Hilly terrain. 60 acre ranch. Due to winter, and the age of this setup (around 1969 I think), there is a 7' x 10' concrete pit 10' deep, with the well head and three large expansion tanks down there. pipes run from there to the house, pool, up the hill to stables (1500', 80' lift). We have a 125' 6" well with a 2HP pump. I run the switch at 70/90 due to the need for the lift to the stables. The only reason our well is that deep is the upper aquifer has a lot of iron and the deeper one is cleaner. When we have a dry spring and might be running sprinklers, or filling a pool we run 30 GPM without over drawing the well. The static water level ranges from 10' to running artesian, overflowing up to 30 GPM or more. So there is a large drain down there, running further down the hill. So, during serious drought I know the well can produce 20 to 30 GPM, and in a wet spring more like 40 - 50 (we can have multiple hoses wide open, drawing say 20 GPM and well still overflowing 20+. First few videos of yours I watched I was stunned. 400' wells? happy with 6 GPM? Damn, those must be expensive wells...
So, do I understand that your fracking method forces water from an above ground tank into the well and its feeder veins, thus opening the veins for better water flow into the well? If so, that would be similar to a medical procedure for removing plaque from arteries so a heart can work more efficiently? Great video
Where I live in Ohio, we have trucks that will haul pool water to your swimming pool. Don't know the cost of that though. Our well of 80 feet does about 8 gallons a minute, but if we draw too much, the water will turn grey. It happened a couple of times over 30 + years. You really know your business very well. No pun intended
Having a large addition put on and the well was too close to the addition for the county so they told me I had to move it. So driller comes out, drills 650', snaps 3 carbide bits (lots of granite) and only getting 5 gpm. I need more than that because I have already been through this with my other well for irrigation purposes. Need 7 gpm minimum. Driller said the best bet is to get it fracked. uggg. My old well was only 428' deep, puts out around 15gpm and its literally 20' away from the new well but the new well is also about 15' higher on the top of the hill. The driller is a customer of mine, good people and they have been in the business for a long time so I trust them. Just hope it works, this has gotten to be one expensive well! He is charging me $3500 to frack it now. Would be a whole lot more to do it later apparently.
So another thing that would make the swimming pool work is a 2000 gallon storage take to fill without pressure and pump with pressure from the tank at gravity feed and make it more efficient to produce that much usable water but it will use more electricity because of two pumps. If they need more than what you got them that is the next alternative or another well that might be even less water per minute. But good video and very informative and accurate.
Great work and excellent teaching video. As rural county water authorities have become paralyzed and unable to provide new water lines to customers (2015+), I think the skilled well technician will become more and more in demand. Many of these water "authorities" are -- no pun intended -- just treading water with the customers they had 20 years ago and highly resistant to expanding new water infrastructure.
Very informative. I'm not that much above sea level, perhaps 80' along the upper texas coast and my 180' well keeps up with a one inch line irrigating my one acre orchard. Have never checked the flow but I have an aerated system blowing water up into a 500 gallon holding tank and that two inch line looks like a firehose when pumping. Now to my point. I dug a small lake and wanted a shallow well to reduce the evaporation loss of the lake so I hand drill a thirty foot well and used a shallow well pump to pull water up to the surface. I always felt I didn't do a good job as the well only produces 4 gpm. Now I realize it's not that bad.
My daddy one time had a well that was shallow well you know it was like 150 ft I think you're 200 now they've been 200 but what he done he took his 30-06 and fired it in that well three times and it started producing more water I guess the shock of it must have cleared it out
Exciting video..., Replace that wore out "Iron Duke" with a hp Small block V8 or Big Block "Goin thru" the gears should Blow the veins clean out in a min or 2.....
v8 sounds great till you turn your packer into a 1500psi water rocket or start blowing lines. Iron duke is idiot proof and easier on equipment, more reliable too.
After filling that swimming pool, the well veins will be cleaned out even more, and have even more capacity? I believe wells increase the output the older they get? Great video!
Have y’all ever experimented with using some form of proppant like is used in oil and gas wells. Would seem that it would be effective in replacing the silty dirt with something more permeable and long lasting.
Great job, I think the filling of the swimming pool will be a great test for that well. A well is a nonlinear function. Meaning 1 inch above head there is zero water flow. And 1 inch above the bottom of the well, the flow rate could be three times the flow rate that was given. ❤ your channel. Outstanding job of explaining what you were doing.
Wow at 864 per day isn't too much for a large house. My boat has two (for redundancy for ocean crossings) 1800 gallons per day watermakers (75/hr or 1.25/min) on it with 900 gallon fresh water tank. It does draw just under 3KW when running power wise, so we do have to keep a generator running during the production. Great job on adding capacity to the well! 🤠👍
Not too much? I'm on city water at my house (even though out in the county, there's some exteneded lines). The monthly bill is usually 3000 gallons. Once a year maybe 4000 if washing a lot of stuff like bedding. That's 2 people on average 100 gallons a day. I did have one bill that was 9000 gallons a few years ago, that was from one toilet flapper valve that had a slow leak. A 'normal' house shouldn't need 30,000 gallons a month unless you're doing a lot of irrigation, or have farm animals etc. That can easily consume 10x what just the inside house stuff uses. Just one horse on a warm day can need a minimum of 40 gallons a day just for drinking water. Then you have to add in the evaporative losses from whatever water trough you use for animals to drink from, spillage etc.
@@brnmcc01 We do run about 25K-30K at the house, but are irrigating with the 110F days during the summer. However during the winter 3K or so is our normal as well. I was just mentioning that I can produce 1800 gallons per day on my boat of fresh water from seawater, and have a 900 gallon fresh water tank in the boat. As an example my pressure washer is 4GPM when running, now I don't run it for hours on end, but will go an hour or so at a time. Not sure how much reserve is in that well before it start to run dry.
@@Chris_In_Texas Yup, 10x is what I figured for a ballpark guesstimate for summer irrigation, things like that. I was pretty close for a SWAG! (scientific wild assed guess) :)
@@brnmcc01 when we were on city sewer we always used minimum water during February as that is the month they used to figure sewage price for the year. Now we have aerobic septic system now so it doesn’t matter much. 👍
@@Chris_In_Texas Here they take the average of all the winter months for the summer sewer usage. I guess that's fair but can't cheat the system a bit by using as little water as possible for 28(29 in leap year) days 👍
I love your fracking videos. I wish I could find someone around me that can frack a well. I've called numerous companies and none of them do it or know someone that does. I have 2 wells paired together, 1 produces 1/10th gallon per minute, the other is 2/10ths. Combined, my wells produce half of what that well produced before fracking...
It's a 250k setup that we use a dozen times a year. Hard to justify that cost wise. But for me, as a driller, it's a tool that necessary for 1 in 50 wells. It saves the day & cheaper than 2-3 other wells. Most commercial Fracking companies will travel 5-8 hours but charge alot more . With a 97% success rate and you having 2 wells, id research Fracking companies that offer traveling from far away. May cost you 10k, but worth it in the end.
If your well has rock crevises that tight , you could probably frack it with a pressure washer pump. Just need a way to seal the casing in an area that is securely grouted in a way you can pump through , and in a way that will contain the pressure. Im pretty sure he doesn't have a low enough gear to even begin to track your wells.
What’s the point of a frost free hydrant right next to a well elbow that exits above ground without using a pit less adapter… must not freeze in that area…?
You are lucky we are in New River Az. And our static water level has dropped 80 ft and is now at the bottom of the pump. Can't find anyone to extend the depth just want to drill a whole new well at 45.00 a ft plus pipe casing and pump. Now having to haul water
@@scottmeek920 How deep is the well? It's pretty hard to drill an existing well deeper, have to know exactly what type and size of drill bit was used, was it a used bit or a new bit. The problem with trying to drill thru an existing hole is the bit can jam and break off the drill string. Also it's difficult to get the drill precisely lined up with the existing hole. It can actually be less total work to just drill a new hole. 400' would only be roughly $27,000 that's not too bad. Figure I pay roughly $65 a month for city water at 3000 gallons per month average. Yes that 27000 would be 34 years worth of water for me, but, that's very minimal water use, since I don't need to irrigate anything living on a large lot in the midwest. In Arizona whatever you don't irrigate will be dead. And in a hot climate you'll be taking more showers and drinking more water, so 3000 gallons a month might be enough for only a single person. I can make do with 3000 gallon a month here with 2 people in the house, it's just me and the wife here. If you were at like 9000 gallons a month then the payback period would be only 11.5 years, and city water in Arizona even if you could get it I'm sure is much more than the rates here.
One problem with hydrofracking is the possibility of breaking into a natural gas pocket of an area of bad water that could cause some major problems with the well and the surrounding area. That has been shown in the past when fracking had been performed in other areas. Depending on the area and what is down there the risk can be not there or if there problems could result.
@@h2omechanic In West Virginia there's a lot of brine formations, in fact in Nitro, WV there was a lot of chemical companies that set up shop in that area and also south of Wheeling, because of the good brine wells. They used the brine to produce sodium hydroxide, which is the base chemical used for many other industrial processes. In the old days, they would actually get pissed off if they hit natural gas or oil, they would cap that well, and start another drill, because they were interested in the brine. Which leads to my question, have you ever had a well after fracking that suddenly turned salty? Or maybe your area is far enough away from the Brine formations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Well done brother well done. How can we open up some veins without using heavy machinery? And does it open up naturally if like earthquake occurs or old age of well?
Why did the bladder tank empty if no one was in the house? A check valve is between the well and house. Is the water being released coming back from the house?
omg when you seen that black widow, what you said reminded me so much of Mr. Poopybutthole from Rick and Morty. whoo whee look at that guy right there. he might cause a bad day. whoo wheeeee
Question, what happens when the home owner is not home for a long time. What happens to the well with the flow of water into the well. Does the PSI of the water volume keep the water from filling the well to the point it will over flow out the well bore? Ore does the water volume PSI keep the vain from filling the well past a certain level? This was very informative. ✌👍
Question: Do you put a check valve on the bottom end of your casing? Is the screen that's on the end of the casing set in a Rock or Sand Formation? When you Frack (pressurizing below your Packer), are you fracking the screen area or the check valve end area?
Fracking will only work on a creviced rock formation. Wells with casing big enough for submersible pumps do not have check valves on the casing, Only perferations or screen in the casing.
You're doing well fracking. It's very interesting work. You do a great job explaining what's going on in the process. * Are you actually fracturing rock to allow for better water flow? * Or are you basically back-flushing (at high pressure), the seams and cracks that already exist?
@@h2omechanic For oil well, yes you can they set special high explosive charges at the exact depths and the supersonic shock waves fracture the rock. Works best in soft brittle rock like shale formations. What the oil companies refer to as "tight formations". The Marcellus shale formation is great for fracking, and produces lots of natural gas as well as oil.
Love your content. Currently live in house with municipal water. Building a second home in Vermont which will need a well. Learning a lot about wells through your channel. 2 questions how long usually does a successful franking last before gpm might drop. Does the weight of the water keep the well from just over filling and pour out of the well head ? I didn't have a clue about wells before I found your channel. Thanks
Your videos makes you money because we THINK as well owners we can do what U do,,,,,,,,, nope we can't and make our problems worse. But we love to learn.
Crazy how people have hardly any water. Apparently I’m lucky where I live. 11 feet down is water table with course gravel and another 30 feet to bedrock. Put in a 2 inch sandpoint 25 feet down and a 1 horse sprinkler pump. 60 gallons a minute. It ran for 5 days straight because I forgot I turned it off once. Still was at 60 gpm. And yea I had a mud hole!
Is it safe to say a well will produce X amount of water over a 24 hour time period when performing the testing method you used which only accounts for the amount that well produced in a 1/2 hour time period? My guess is you know this due to past experiences. Please elaborate when time allows. Thanks
Really interesting. For comparison, my mains water supply in England does about 50 litres/min which is about 11.1 Imperial gal/min which is about 13.9 US gal/min. And my supply is exceptionally high pressure at 7 bar (sorry, can't do a psi in my head on that). Seems like, in comparison, getting 2.7 gal/min out of a personal well seems pretty good. But I assume people on wells have storage tanks in the house to even out flow for baths and stuff? Or does the well have enough buffer to carry short periods of very high demand?
We all have tanks (compressing air to store energy for pressure), but it's about duty cycle on the well. A very large tank might only move 40 gallons or so. The commercial equivalent is a water tower. Without the pressure tank, a typical well (runs at only one speed) would constantly click on and off and quickly burn up. If we run a bunch of hoses full tilt or something, the well is going to spend about half the time running. It's not a large buffer like a rainwater capture system.
7 bar is 102 psi. That's too high for residential use, unless you have a pressure regulator. Standard here is roughly 75 psi for fire sprinkler systems, or 50 psi for bath and sink fixtures. That works out to a little over 5 bar pressure which is more reasonable.
@@houseman2414 Yup, water towers around where I live (not very high density) typically have about 3 pumps. One 5 gallon per minute pump which is built for very long duty cycles. A 10-15 gpm medium duty pump. And an 'emergency' 50 gallon per minute pump. During the day if needed only the small 5 gpm pump runs almost continously. At night, depending on the days water usage, the larger pump will kick on when the electricity rates are lower. During emergencies like if there was a water main break or a large fire somewhere, the 50 gpm pump will be started remotely. Yes that 50 gpm pump will run the well dry eventually, but it's turned off as soon as possible, then the later at night when the wells have recovered and the off peak electricity rates, they will refill the water tower back to full at that time slowly overnight. The key is matching the demand to the right size of pump, and only running the larger pumps at night when electricity is the cheapest.
I moved into a house by myself and the well was 227 feet and produced 1 gallon of water an HOUR. 24 gallons a day. They built the house over the well. I lived like this for about 15 years before I drilled and fracked another well. I live in an area that has problems with water.
Ouch! 24 gallons a day, thats not enough for even a single person. I use 20 gallons a day just myself to take one shower a day, and flush a toilet a couple times. One load of laundry is over 20 gallons easy. That well was only enough for cooking, washing dishes, and drinking water. Forget washing your car with a 24 gallon a day well, that's not happening.
Have you considered just wearing a cam or putting the cam on the equipment and just post life of well drilling and well fracking or pump installing videos?
Excellent videos and content, kudos for your work ethic and attention to detail. Very informative! Question: when hydro fracing, how do you determine the depth to set your packer? What influences the depth determination? Thanks & keep up the good work. 😊
We use a camera to inspect the bore hole. Need to find a smooth area. Also we look for possible veins to frack (above & below) the more we know about the wells construction, the safer we can be while Fracking
He's not applying enough pressure to create new fractures by actually compressing the rock. He's just widening crevises near the well to increase short term flow.
Interesting. I'm thinking that if one set the packer at 90ft down like you did and did what you did and then moved the packer down some amount and repeated this 2, 3, or so times you may have been able to open it up more at other depths. It would be informative to know the success rate and how often it is not successful.
Nice work, sir! I'm just wondering if they'd be better off by putting in another well anyway since they seem to have a large consumption of water in that household with a swimming pool and all?
That's the next step if this well can't keep up. But we had to frack this first, before introducing another hole. 2 wells & youll risk fracking 1 into the other. I think they be fine for now.
I had a 1/2 gallon per minute well before I had mine fracked. We had to schedule showers (boat showers, no standing their enjoying the water running over you), laundry, even doing the dishes. Yes, you can live with it, but it really sucks.
@@clintoncrawford6231 8 GPM. Like in the video, it sounded like a waterfall pouring into the well. All the cracking was above 100 feet in a 300 foot well.
Had our well hydrofracked. After the well yield test our water from the tap is cloudy with tiny air bubbles. It clears up right away. This didn’t happen right after the fracking. What could have caused this?It’s been three days now since the test and water still has them. The fracking was successful. Went from 1.5 gpm to 4.
Sediment plugs up the veins & fracking blows out all that Sediment. Give it a few weeks of normal use and the water will become clear eventually. You may want to look into a bigger Sediment filter. Google Big Blue Inline water filter,20"x4" & you can buy 1micron or 5 micron string woven elements to help control your Sediment issues The bigger filter will allow more water flow/Pressure than a small residential filter. Just don't use a carbon element. But it'll clear up in time.
Thanks! The cloudiness starts at bottom of glass floats to top and is gone in about 10 sec then the H20 is crystal clear with no sediment settled at bottom. Will wait awhile and see.
It has its time and place, generally not for groups of wells. I wonder what would happen if you fracked all 3 wells, but I think it would be hard to keep all 3 full and pressurized
We estimate 3rd gear can flow 30-35 gpm by how fast it can draw down the 550gal tank. But that's relitive to the pressure we see during the process & how open the veins become
Curious as to who built the packer you are using. I ram down hole tools for Baker Hughes for 10 years and it looks very similar to ones that I ran while we were fracking deep wells. Also curious as to how you are inflating it as we used to just drop a ball down the tubing and pressure up the packer to inflate it. Well designed frac truck I must say. The design is essentially what most major stimulation companies have been using since the end of WW2. My dad stated in the patch with BJ Services, which later became Eskimo and then Dresser Titan. He was a frac crew supervisor for years back then. They used to use Merlin engines on frac trucks when they first built them as they has thousands of them left as surplus after the war. Great video.
That well needs a pump with less GPM, like a Grundfos, with low water cutoff to save keep the pump from burning up.
Also needs more (or less) bladder tank capacity.
They installed a pump based on what they wanted and not what the well could produce.
Another good video-Thank You.
I would still have the fire company come and fill the swimming pool to get them started. Great job Phillip.
Most Fire Departments will not do that anymore. The equipment cost, wear tear and puts firefighters and equipment out of service also..
@@howardtravels The water will also quite green, if they're bringing city water, and needs lots of shock and filtering before it gets nice and clear. You can add lots of potassium permanganate and backflush the sand filter often to help clear things up.
A fire truck might have 1500 gallons, a tanker truck can bring more depending on how many axles etc, but an average 20x40' pool with one deep end holds 20,000 gallons. That's a lot of trips with water. Even a 5 axle semi truck with a day cab could maybe bring 8000 per load, without going over 80,000 gross weight limit. The tankers can deliver 9000 gallons of gasoline, but water is heavier.
We used to do the filling in my fire dept maybe 30 years ago, usually 1000 or 2000 gal only to let the pool compant set the liner. Pumpers ran steel tanks and often the water was rusty, esp in a quiet dept. Owners were not happy.
Hey, another great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your work. I know that orange you guys must attend State auctions that's the same color. Our equipment is for our State equipment that we can buy at auction day. Thank you for sharing.
New subscriber I've been in construction my whole life and this is absolutely the new best content creator
I love your videos there was a little bit of an issue with the video and voice not being synched after the fracking but I love your videos
I don’t work in your industry I do stuff in an industry even more niche but we use relatively the same equipment
Awesome job and I always love your explanations I use them to help some of my guys to mainly understand flow and pressure
This was supper cool to see!
Love the details in the numbers. Thanks for showing the process!
Glad I happened across your channel. I live out in the country in central Ohio (Granville Ohio). Hilly terrain. 60 acre ranch. Due to winter, and the age of this setup (around 1969 I think), there is a 7' x 10' concrete pit 10' deep, with the well head and three large expansion tanks down there. pipes run from there to the house, pool, up the hill to stables (1500', 80' lift). We have a 125' 6" well with a 2HP pump. I run the switch at 70/90 due to the need for the lift to the stables.
The only reason our well is that deep is the upper aquifer has a lot of iron and the deeper one is cleaner. When we have a dry spring and might be running sprinklers, or filling a pool we run 30 GPM without over drawing the well. The static water level ranges from 10' to running artesian, overflowing up to 30 GPM or more. So there is a large drain down there, running further down the hill.
So, during serious drought I know the well can produce 20 to 30 GPM, and in a wet spring more like 40 - 50 (we can have multiple hoses wide open, drawing say 20 GPM and well still overflowing 20+.
First few videos of yours I watched I was stunned. 400' wells? happy with 6 GPM? Damn, those must be expensive wells...
Out west 700 to 1500 feet sometimed
So, do I understand that your fracking method forces water from an above ground tank into the well and its feeder veins, thus opening the veins for better water flow into the well? If so, that would be similar to a medical procedure for removing plaque from arteries so a heart can work more efficiently? Great video
I guess that's the same thing on a different scale.
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Where I live in Ohio, we have trucks that will haul pool water to your swimming pool. Don't know the cost of that though. Our well of 80 feet does about 8 gallons a minute, but if we draw too much, the water will turn grey. It happened a couple of times over 30 + years. You really know your business very well. No pun intended
I always like your informative videos and your presentation and wish you were closer to this area Thanks
I wish you could help me with mine. After watching you I would sure trust you fix my well. Not sure where yall are at.
Thank you for the before/after. Every time I watch you frac a well, I wonder if it worked. Now I know. Thx. Your vids are addictive.
People don't really realize what we do to fix the problems. You are the exception.
Having a large addition put on and the well was too close to the addition for the county so they told me I had to move it. So driller comes out, drills 650', snaps 3 carbide bits (lots of granite) and only getting 5 gpm. I need more than that because I have already been through this with my other well for irrigation purposes. Need 7 gpm minimum. Driller said the best bet is to get it fracked. uggg. My old well was only 428' deep, puts out around 15gpm and its literally 20' away from the new well but the new well is also about 15' higher on the top of the hill. The driller is a customer of mine, good people and they have been in the business for a long time so I trust them. Just hope it works, this has gotten to be one expensive well! He is charging me $3500 to frack it now. Would be a whole lot more to do it later apparently.
So another thing that would make the swimming pool work is a 2000 gallon storage take to fill without pressure and pump with pressure from the tank at gravity feed and make it more efficient to produce that much usable water but it will use more electricity because of two pumps. If they need more than what you got them that is the next alternative or another well that might be even less water per minute. But good video and very informative and accurate.
Great work and excellent teaching video. As rural county water authorities have become paralyzed and unable to provide new water lines to customers (2015+), I think the skilled well technician will become more and more in demand. Many of these water "authorities" are -- no pun intended -- just treading water with the customers they had 20 years ago and highly resistant to expanding new water infrastructure.
Very informative. I'm not that much above sea level, perhaps 80' along the upper texas coast and my 180' well keeps up with a one inch line irrigating my one acre orchard. Have never checked the flow but I have an aerated system blowing water up into a 500 gallon holding tank and that two inch line looks like a firehose when pumping. Now to my point. I dug a small lake and wanted a shallow well to reduce the evaporation loss of the lake so I hand drill a thirty foot well and used a shallow well pump to pull water up to the surface. I always felt I didn't do a good job as the well only produces 4 gpm. Now I realize it's not that bad.
My daddy one time had a well that was shallow well you know it was like 150 ft I think you're 200 now they've been 200 but what he done he took his 30-06 and fired it in that well three times and it started producing more water I guess the shock of it must have cleared it out
Thank you for showing the results . Knew it was tight but it opened up nicely !
You fellas Rock = SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Very interesting! And good job with the narration and camera work and editing the result. Glad I found this channel!
Exciting video..., Replace that wore out "Iron Duke" with a hp Small block V8 or Big Block "Goin thru" the gears should Blow the veins clean out in a min or 2.....
v8 sounds great till you turn your packer into a 1500psi water rocket or start blowing lines. Iron duke is idiot proof and easier on equipment, more reliable too.
Would you name the equipments you are suing please
i would be in the $1800 range up to the excavator. Crane would take it up to $2500. nice work man!
So much Smart & efficient technology & Experienced execution here !! ....Pressure Hydro-Frac gets Results to make everyone Happy....
After filling that swimming pool, the well veins will be cleaned out even more, and have even more capacity? I believe wells increase the output the older they get?
Great video!
Does the company make a new tag to acknowledge the fracking and change in gallon?
Have y’all ever experimented with using some form of proppant like is used in oil and gas wells. Would seem that it would be effective in replacing the silty dirt with something more permeable and long lasting.
Great job, I think the filling of the swimming pool will be a great test for that well. A well is a nonlinear function. Meaning 1 inch above head there is zero water flow. And 1 inch above the bottom of the well, the flow rate could be three times the flow rate that was given. ❤ your channel. Outstanding job of explaining what you were doing.
I actually cited some of your videos on a college paper on well water systems. You are such a wealth information! TYSM!!
That's Awesome!
Wow at 864 per day isn't too much for a large house. My boat has two (for redundancy for ocean crossings) 1800 gallons per day watermakers (75/hr or 1.25/min) on it with 900 gallon fresh water tank. It does draw just under 3KW when running power wise, so we do have to keep a generator running during the production. Great job on adding capacity to the well! 🤠👍
Not too much? I'm on city water at my house (even though out in the county, there's some exteneded lines). The monthly bill is usually 3000 gallons. Once a year maybe 4000 if washing a lot of stuff like bedding. That's 2 people on average 100 gallons a day. I did have one bill that was 9000 gallons a few years ago, that was from one toilet flapper valve that had a slow leak. A 'normal' house shouldn't need 30,000 gallons a month unless you're doing a lot of irrigation, or have farm animals etc. That can easily consume 10x what just the inside house stuff uses. Just one horse on a warm day can need a minimum of 40 gallons a day just for drinking water. Then you have to add in the evaporative losses from whatever water trough you use for animals to drink from, spillage etc.
@@brnmcc01 We do run about 25K-30K at the house, but are irrigating with the 110F days during the summer. However during the winter 3K or so is our normal as well. I was just mentioning that I can produce 1800 gallons per day on my boat of fresh water from seawater, and have a 900 gallon fresh water tank in the boat. As an example my pressure washer is 4GPM when running, now I don't run it for hours on end, but will go an hour or so at a time. Not sure how much reserve is in that well before it start to run dry.
@@Chris_In_Texas Yup, 10x is what I figured for a ballpark guesstimate for summer irrigation, things like that. I was pretty close for a SWAG! (scientific wild assed guess) :)
@@brnmcc01 when we were on city sewer we always used minimum water during February as that is the month they used to figure sewage price for the year. Now we have aerobic septic system now so it doesn’t matter much. 👍
@@Chris_In_Texas Here they take the average of all the winter months for the summer sewer usage. I guess that's fair but can't cheat the system a bit by using as little water as possible for 28(29 in leap year) days 👍
I love your fracking videos. I wish I could find someone around me that can frack a well. I've called numerous companies and none of them do it or know someone that does. I have 2 wells paired together, 1 produces 1/10th gallon per minute, the other is 2/10ths. Combined, my wells produce half of what that well produced before fracking...
It's a 250k setup that we use a dozen times a year. Hard to justify that cost wise. But for me, as a driller, it's a tool that necessary for 1 in 50 wells. It saves the day & cheaper than 2-3 other wells.
Most commercial Fracking companies will travel 5-8 hours but charge alot more . With a 97% success rate and you having 2 wells, id research Fracking companies that offer traveling from far away. May cost you 10k, but worth it in the end.
If your well has rock crevises that tight , you could probably frack it with a pressure washer pump. Just need a way to seal the casing in an area that is securely grouted in a way you can pump through , and in a way that will contain the pressure. Im pretty sure he doesn't have a low enough gear to even begin to track your wells.
What type of pump are you running? that's amazing
Are all your vehicles right hand drive ? Of is it your camera that inverts the picture ????
Thank you for posting your video and testing! I will be doing this for seeing if we can recover a high mountain deep well (220' deep).
What’s the point of a frost free hydrant right next to a well elbow that exits above ground without using a pit less adapter… must not freeze in that area…?
How long does that service last?
What’s that device you use to check the water level? And do you have a link to buy one or a similar one? Thanks
I had this done to my well, and i am happy that i did.
Thank God you are persistant.
I’d like to see the bottom of a well with your camera please!
Im currently getting 40gpm on my well and the static level hasn't dropped since 1960 when it was drilled, this is in Arizona!
You are lucky we are in New River Az. And our static water level has dropped 80 ft and is now at the bottom of the pump. Can't find anyone to extend the depth just want to drill a whole new well at 45.00 a ft plus pipe casing and pump. Now having to haul water
@@scottmeek920 crazy but I own land just north of you off Table Mesa Road, my well that I was referring to is in Young AZ
@@scottmeek920 How deep is the well? It's pretty hard to drill an existing well deeper, have to know exactly what type and size of drill bit was used, was it a used bit or a new bit. The problem with trying to drill thru an existing hole is the bit can jam and break off the drill string. Also it's difficult to get the drill precisely lined up with the existing hole. It can actually be less total work to just drill a new hole. 400' would only be roughly $27,000 that's not too bad. Figure I pay roughly $65 a month for city water at 3000 gallons per month average. Yes that 27000 would be 34 years worth of water for me, but, that's very minimal water use, since I don't need to irrigate anything living on a large lot in the midwest. In Arizona whatever you don't irrigate will be dead. And in a hot climate you'll be taking more showers and drinking more water, so 3000 gallons a month might be enough for only a single person. I can make do with 3000 gallon a month here with 2 people in the house, it's just me and the wife here. If you were at like 9000 gallons a month then the payback period would be only 11.5 years, and city water in Arizona even if you could get it I'm sure is much more than the rates here.
After watching some 10 videos. Do you ever suggest a water storage, 500 gal. Storage.
One problem with hydrofracking is the possibility of breaking into a natural gas pocket of an area of bad water that could cause some major problems with the well and the surrounding area. That has been shown in the past when fracking had been performed in other areas. Depending on the area and what is down there the risk can be not there or if there problems could result.
Your 100% correct. Just not in my area.
@@h2omechanic In West Virginia there's a lot of brine formations, in fact in Nitro, WV there was a lot of chemical companies that set up shop in that area and also south of Wheeling, because of the good brine wells. They used the brine to produce sodium hydroxide, which is the base chemical used for many other industrial processes. In the old days, they would actually get pissed off if they hit natural gas or oil, they would cap that well, and start another drill, because they were interested in the brine.
Which leads to my question, have you ever had a well after fracking that suddenly turned salty? Or maybe your area is far enough away from the Brine formations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Great Video, Looking for a company in Oklahoma that can do the same thing.
Well done brother well done.
How can we open up some veins without using heavy machinery? And does it open up naturally if like earthquake occurs or old age of well?
You put a cover on the pto! Don’t want you to get hurt, so you can keep making these videos!
Why did the bladder tank empty if no one was in the house? A check valve is between the well and house. Is the water being released coming back from the house?
i can hear it!
That sounds like a spring?
13:21 are you talking in the third person?
omg when you seen that black widow, what you said reminded me so much of Mr. Poopybutthole from Rick and Morty. whoo whee look at that guy right there. he might cause a bad day. whoo wheeeee
is this a single packer or a double pack frack
have you ever had a packer blow out of a well?
Question, what happens when the home owner is not home for a long time. What happens to the well with the flow of water into the well. Does the PSI of the water volume keep the water from filling the well to the point it will over flow out the well bore? Ore does the water volume PSI keep the vain from filling the well past a certain level? This was very informative. ✌👍
It reaches equilibrium static pressure and stops rising.
If it's a full artisian we'll it will flow out. Pretty rare
How long does fracking usually last before it needs to be done again,, estimated?
Question: Do you put a check valve on the bottom end of your casing? Is the screen that's on the end of the casing set in a Rock or Sand Formation? When you Frack (pressurizing below your Packer), are you fracking the screen area or the check valve end area?
Fracking will only work on a creviced rock formation. Wells with casing big enough for submersible pumps do not have check valves on the casing, Only perferations or screen in the casing.
What kind of equipment using for pump test
Love y’all got the preferred pump hats on!!!
You're doing well fracking. It's very interesting work. You do a great job explaining what's going on in the process.
* Are you actually fracturing rock to allow for better water flow?
* Or are you basically back-flushing (at high pressure), the seams and cracks that already exist?
Flushing out the Water seams that already exist.
You can't truly fracture rock.
Not with 1000psi lol we frac at over 10000psi up to 14000 to break formation when fracking oil and gas
@@h2omechanic For oil well, yes you can they set special high explosive charges at the exact depths and the supersonic shock waves fracture the rock. Works best in soft brittle rock like shale formations. What the oil companies refer to as "tight formations". The Marcellus shale formation is great for fracking, and produces lots of natural gas as well as oil.
17:45 that is not just a trickle sir😂😂
Love your content. Currently live in house with municipal water. Building a second home in Vermont which will need a well. Learning a lot about wells through your channel. 2 questions how long usually does a successful franking last before gpm might drop. Does the weight of the water keep the well from just over filling and pour out of the well head ?
I didn't have a clue about wells before I found your channel.
Thanks
We have some wells in our county that runs out the top of the casing, called artesian wells. It’s a problem when that happens
He is at a water table in a vein with natural level not pressure
Are you driving a right hand drive vehicle?
Nice job buddy
Your videos makes you money because we THINK as well owners we can do what U do,,,,,,,,, nope we can't and make our problems worse. But we love to learn.
Awesome job !
Crazy how people have hardly any water. Apparently I’m lucky where I live. 11 feet down is water table with course gravel and another 30 feet to bedrock. Put in a 2 inch sandpoint 25 feet down and a 1 horse sprinkler pump. 60 gallons a minute. It ran for 5 days straight because I forgot I turned it off once. Still was at 60 gpm. And yea I had a mud hole!
Is it safe to say a well will produce X amount of water over a 24 hour time period when performing the testing method you used which only accounts for the amount that well produced in a 1/2 hour time period? My guess is you know this due to past experiences. Please elaborate when time allows. Thanks
Really interesting.
For comparison, my mains water supply in England does about 50 litres/min which is about 11.1 Imperial gal/min which is about 13.9 US gal/min.
And my supply is exceptionally high pressure at 7 bar (sorry, can't do a psi in my head on that).
Seems like, in comparison, getting 2.7 gal/min out of a personal well seems pretty good.
But I assume people on wells have storage tanks in the house to even out flow for baths and stuff? Or does the well have enough buffer to carry short periods of very high demand?
No tanks. The well itself will hold enough for high demand times.
@@kevinroberts781 Thank you 👍
We all have tanks (compressing air to store energy for pressure), but it's about duty cycle on the well. A very large tank might only move 40 gallons or so. The commercial equivalent is a water tower. Without the pressure tank, a typical well (runs at only one speed) would constantly click on and off and quickly burn up. If we run a bunch of hoses full tilt or something, the well is going to spend about half the time running.
It's not a large buffer like a rainwater capture system.
7 bar is 102 psi. That's too high for residential use, unless you have a pressure regulator. Standard here is roughly 75 psi for fire sprinkler systems, or 50 psi for bath and sink fixtures. That works out to a little over 5 bar pressure which is more reasonable.
@@houseman2414 Yup, water towers around where I live (not very high density) typically have about 3 pumps. One 5 gallon per minute pump which is built for very long duty cycles. A 10-15 gpm medium duty pump. And an 'emergency' 50 gallon per minute pump. During the day if needed only the small 5 gpm pump runs almost continously. At night, depending on the days water usage, the larger pump will kick on when the electricity rates are lower. During emergencies like if there was a water main break or a large fire somewhere, the 50 gpm pump will be started remotely. Yes that 50 gpm pump will run the well dry eventually, but it's turned off as soon as possible, then the later at night when the wells have recovered and the off peak electricity rates, they will refill the water tower back to full at that time slowly overnight. The key is matching the demand to the right size of pump, and only running the larger pumps at night when electricity is the cheapest.
A couple fraggle Rock Muppets on the fracking truck logo ...
is your steering wheel on the right side?
Mirror image from phone front camera.
Where are you located ild like to have this done to mine. Or get a referral if you are not local if you have one
I moved into a house by myself and the well was 227 feet and produced 1 gallon of water an HOUR. 24 gallons a day. They built the house over the well. I lived like this for about 15 years before I drilled and fracked another well. I live in an area that has problems with water.
I live rural myself, but luckily in Central Georgia, US, we can drill 45-60ft and have bountiful clear water here almost anywhere.
Ouch! 24 gallons a day, thats not enough for even a single person. I use 20 gallons a day just myself to take one shower a day, and flush a toilet a couple times. One load of laundry is over 20 gallons easy. That well was only enough for cooking, washing dishes, and drinking water. Forget washing your car with a 24 gallon a day well, that's not happening.
Have you considered just wearing a cam or putting the cam on the equipment and just post life of well drilling and well fracking or pump installing videos?
Why does my will have to lines going down
What are of the country do you work.
Good information man thanks
Where did you purchase your well camera/ cable reel system from??
Excellent videos and content, kudos for your work ethic and attention to detail. Very informative! Question: when hydro fracing, how do you determine the depth to set your packer? What influences the depth determination? Thanks & keep up the good work. 😊
We use a camera to inspect the bore hole. Need to find a smooth area. Also we look for possible veins to frack (above & below) the more we know about the wells construction, the safer we can be while Fracking
Do you add franking sand to keep the formation open??
He's not applying enough pressure to create new fractures by actually compressing the rock. He's just widening crevises near the well to increase short term flow.
Is this an open hole completion in a limestone formation? Do you ever use any propent? Have you every used an acid frack on limestone?
My region is all granite.
Interesting. I'm thinking that if one set the packer at 90ft down like you did and did what you did and then moved the packer down some amount and repeated this 2, 3, or so times you may have been able to open it up more at other depths. It would be informative to know the success rate and how often it is not successful.
I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.
Thats a Win Win!
Wow! how cool!
Wonder if a well 75 ft deep is worth fracking?
No. I only frack wells over 250ft
Good job!
Have you guys hired Eric from the Matts offroad recovery crew? 😅😂
Fraggle Rock... Is the story of Lost treasure, a broken rock with a song ...
Nice work, sir! I'm just wondering if they'd be better off by putting in another well anyway since they seem to have a large consumption of water in that household with a swimming pool and all?
That's the next step if this well can't keep up. But we had to frack this first, before introducing another hole. 2 wells & youll risk fracking 1 into the other. I think they be fine for now.
@@h2omechanic How far apart would they have to be to prevent fracking 1 into the other?
I had a 1/2 gallon per minute well before I had mine fracked. We had to schedule showers (boat showers, no standing their enjoying the water running over you), laundry, even doing the dishes. Yes, you can live with it, but it really sucks.
How much did it produce after fracking?
@@clintoncrawford6231 8 GPM. Like in the video, it sounded like a waterfall pouring into the well. All the cracking was above 100 feet in a 300 foot well.
How do you rectify this?
What would the cost difference be between a new well and fracking it
A new well is 4 to 5 times more
Had our well hydrofracked. After the well yield test our water from the tap is cloudy with tiny air bubbles. It clears up right away. This didn’t happen right after the fracking. What could have caused this?It’s been three days now since the test and water still has them. The fracking was successful. Went from 1.5 gpm to 4.
Sediment plugs up the veins & fracking blows out all that Sediment. Give it a few weeks of normal use and the water will become clear eventually.
You may want to look into a bigger Sediment filter. Google Big Blue Inline water filter,20"x4" & you can buy 1micron or 5 micron string woven elements to help control your Sediment issues
The bigger filter will allow more water flow/Pressure than a small residential filter. Just don't use a carbon element.
But it'll clear up in time.
Thanks! The cloudiness starts at bottom of glass floats to top and is gone in about 10 sec then the H20 is crystal clear with no sediment settled at bottom. Will wait awhile and see.
@Kathleen-wf1jr they might have had air in the lines when they fracked it, it'll return to normal in time.
My neighbor fracked his 160’ well that blew the bottom out of the other neighbors well and dirtied and dried up my well in six months.
It has its time and place, generally not for groups of wells. I wonder what would happen if you fracked all 3 wells, but I think it would be hard to keep all 3 full and pressurized
is that pvc pipe? how many gpm do you get in 3rd gear???? i'm used to 26 bpm at 4500 psi lol
We estimate 3rd gear can flow 30-35 gpm by how fast it can draw down the 550gal tank. But that's relitive to the pressure we see during the process & how open the veins become
Brilliant
Awesome
Drop your packer below 137’ and really open that puppy up
I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.
Curious as to who built the packer you are using. I ram down hole tools for Baker Hughes for 10 years and it looks very similar to ones that I ran while we were fracking deep wells. Also curious as to how you are inflating it as we used to just drop a ball down the tubing and pressure up the packer to inflate it.
Well designed frac truck I must say. The design is essentially what most major stimulation companies have been using since the end of WW2. My dad stated in the patch with BJ Services, which later became Eskimo and then Dresser Titan. He was a frac crew supervisor for years back then. They used to use Merlin engines on frac trucks when they first built them as they has thousands of them left as surplus after the war.
Great video.
From what I've seen in his videos they use hydraulic oil to inflate it.