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- How to Drill a Well the LEGAL WAY! Come along today as we work with a well drilling contractor to find water and drill our first agricultural well on the farm! We'll teach you about the process from start to finish! STONEY RIDGE MERCH STORE: www.stoneyridg...
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I once watched an old dude. Use his witching sticks to try to find an existing well where the well casing had been buried about 36 in underground. The well had been dug probably 60 years before and he couldn't locate it for new wells, whichching sticks are never wrong because if you take deep enough anywhere in North America, you'll find water
In 1971 in Western Kentucky my dad had a friend come and cut a forked limb from our peach tree. He walked the property and located a drill spot. He walked away from the spot until his witching rod went back down. We measured it and it was 37 feet. He said that was where we would hit water. The drillers hit water at 35 feet and produces about 15 gallons per minute still today.
Local ppls in Africa also using a branch from a' tree n telling us where to start hand dug wells.
Hahaha that gentleman said "Legally" with a smile.
This is so awesome!!! SOLAR, PASSIVE love it!!!
Wow Josh, that'll be the best water👍 I'm so glad you dug that well for your cattle and all your water needs. So good ❣
I learned this over 20yrs ago while working for an old timer! We had to trench across his backyard and no one knew where the water lines were! Since we were adding an electrical line the old timer asked if we had solid copper wire (which we did #6 solid copper) and he found all of the pipes that had water in them across the backyard! Even the old cast iron sewer lines! I still use this method to this day! Whenever I tell people about it they don't believe it! I pull the sticks out and tell them to walk over to the toilet and like clock work the wires cross over the toilet! Jaws Drop!
The water company in my area replaced the water main pipes and the service pipes for the homes in may area.The old pipes were breaking adn leaking-clay-asbestors pipes.New pipes PVC.The water folks used the devining rods to locate the present pipes adn the servicelines-trace them to the mains.I didn't beleive the sticks would work.They let me try-Did work but I was off-but still found the pipe.Figure the rods must be matched to their user.Only drilling and pulling done was with horizontal drills-no vertical drills as you used.The drills also pulled the pipes.The old pipes left in place-cutover was kinda neat!And when they made whole large peices of pipe from several sections.A pipe welding machine welded them together-the horizontal drill pulled the pipes underground.Was fascinating to watch.I have also watched a well get drilled-Many years ago-my fathers neighbows in Rapid city,South Dakota.Was cool when the driller hit water!!!They had to drill about 600Ft through rock-diamond bit was used.Thecleint had to purchase the diamond bit.
I have worked in the oil fields since I was 8 years old .
I have pushed tools for many many water wells being drilled.
Your description of what was going on during drilling.. well it made my head hurt. ..
sorry bout the headache
What makes ur head hurt.? May be we shared something together..
Bad ass job I’m proud of hard working people like you guys
which country is this???
In 1961 my dad located the underground septic line using whitching sticks. When he dug into the ground, he was right on the spot. He replaced a broken section the same day.
Glad to see that your thinking about solar, starlink and the future off your farm. 👍
It won't be long and he will add a solar powered hydrogen production and storage system for the home. There available now but the technology needs improvements. Give it a few years and it may be a great tool.
Thanks Josh. That was very educational. I especially liked your narration style with muting all of the noise from the machine and having the soothing background music.
I had a well drilled in 1997 Josh. I'm a probably 4 - 6 hours north of you in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. He struck water at about 30 feet down. The fellar said by law he had to go to atleast 75 feet. He stopped drilling at 92'. You just can't beat a good water well. I've seen the witching method used. You can also use a peach tree limb and get good results.
This isn’t a slight in anyway of your other videos but this was the most entertained I’ve been on one of your videos. I love seeing processes that I’ve never seen before. Very interesting video. Keep it up!
Oh yes this is very informative. Professional too. Appreciate what you do for the proper care of your livestock as well. Makes the cost worth the effort. Good video.
Awesome video ! Very informative 👏 We are restoring our 1850's farm currently as well and are in need of an AG well. Glad you did this video. Can't wait for your solar pump video.
I watched an old guy witch and drill a well just like this fellow. It worked.
Watching from Ndola Zambia 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
Greetings from Essex, UK. Thanks for a fascinating, educational video. I've often wondered how these well are created. Looking forward to the next stage.
I put a solar bore pump in almost 3 years ago now. Bought a cheap one from China, panels, pump and controller, pipes etc AU$2000. Its moved about 1,500,000L to my tanks that gravity feed to 14 troughs. you dont need to spend a fortune on the gear and you can always upgrade it later.
Do you have a picture of what you bought?
Enjoyed the video Josh. They were two older men in our area who witched water they are gone now. We use a geologist now and he is spot on.
I have used these sticks to locate lines buried under the ground and they are extremely accurate.
Great job Thanks for the close up video and your passion to show what you do on your farm.
Man, your water is deep. Years ago we carried some divining rods in our surveying truck. I wasn’t very good with them, but our city inspector (old guy) found water, sewer, and gas lines every time. We always finished up with the locator service to cover ourselves legally. That was quite fascinating.
I did the very same thing working with Toronto water Canada
I've seen this too. Individuals would walk around with bent wires and swear of the location of underground utilities or trenches. Around 20% sucsess rate. Pretty sure I could guess n get that good of a rate.
@@kentlange5338 I have done it not you
@@georgedavidson7986 and that would prove conclusively what again?
I've "done it" as well. And sometimes, although seemingly rare in my experience, I have seen it work. But, I'm here to tell you, I've soundly disproved dousers, water witches, whatever, when they've said "Oh yes, water, right here, a strong vein, about xyz deep, such and such gallons per minute, traveling north by northwest". Bullshit. I've disproven this too many times to put my faith, let alone my hard earned cash in some charlatan's pocket.
If you have good "luck" with it, you do you. But don't try n baffle people with the bullshit that it's a hard and fast rule/fact of science.
@@kentlange5338 I do not do water. Too deep
Here in sw MN our well for the farm is only 40' most in the area are around 90'. its the same well when my grandpa had a dairy and made it through the drought in the late 70's, thought it was going to dry up for how shallow it was. we have a rural water main line pipe that goes around our farm but its $18,000 to hook up to plus so much per gallon. and have heard of some bad things about the rural water here, low pressure and to many pig barns hooked up to it.
I Live on Long Island working as a WELL DRILLER now FOR OVER 10 YEARS THE PROCESS is the same NO matter where
We are. Theses days there’s a lot of demand for environmental ground cleanup installing monetary wells
great video Josh thanks for explaining the steps glad you got water take care and have a good weekend thanks
The vibrating bit, as you call it, is a down-hole-hammer. It has a piston that beats up and down and you rotate the hammer to grind. The air, water, and foam exhaust the cuttings to the surface. I do rock well drilling up in Nor-Cal. We also do undereaming with max bit system on 6” steel.
I have a set that the same guy made for me. Set them in the ground in same spot. 100% best way to find water. Seen it work first hand.
I've done this in my yard looking for water pipes and sewer pipes so I can plant trees or bushes! When the gas co. marked their lines it was right where I had water witched!
Don't know why but I've done this many times and it works, and can do for many people.
When I was Scout Troop Leader in the UK we took simple wire coat hangers, cut them into "L" shapes and held them using the outer cases of Ball Point pens.
We had about 25 kids in the Troop and at least 20 used this way and found water.
Good Luck with your search!
Incidentally on the Farm where I grew up they had a Ram Pump system that supplied the whole farm back in the day - It was first installed over 150 years ago - there's not much that's really new!
That’s what my husband and I do for a living. We call them drill bits and the boom as you call it is a mast. Lots of stuff to it. In Montana you have to use steel casing and costs a lot more.
The terminology did leave a bit to be desired.
Is it stainless steel? I’d think stainless steel would be better, since it doesn’t rust, but I don’t know how important that is in this application.
As a drilling rig operator love to see your content
Need to take you boys snipe hunting.
I did that on my off grid property and hit water myself. Great job
My grandfather showed me how to use a Willow tree branch, that was a Y shape, to find water. You held onto the two branches and the stem would dip down when it found water. It would agree with the dowsing rods, that you call witching sticks. Great video as always!
@Keyzer Soze That's your opinion. Try it yourself before condemning it.
Good stuff Josh! Thanks for explaining the entire process and looking forward to the solar part coming up next .
I watched my neighbor drill a 16 inch gravel pack irrigation well. The rig they used makes these guys look small. It was almost like drilling for oil. Well drilling has always been a mystery to me. There is a science to everything...
Lol oil rigs are much bigger
Yeah and if the rigs were bigger, they go THOUSANDS of feet not hundreds so that’s an expensive well
It's really cool watching first hand how it's done.
Good morning Josh and the well crew. Let's get him some water.
My dad worked for a sewer cleaning company and he was good at water witching just using #9 wire!
I can do it sometimes!
Truth brother 👍 we used the exact technique in Pennsylvania on our property to find water for our well
Learned how to witch this way when I worked on a golf course In Red Feather Lakes Colorado in the late 70s. Works great.
Just drilled a well on my property in Western Montana. 285 feet to bedrock and it cost $65 a foot. 20 GPM. Had to steel case it with 6 inch. I wish I could get a well for 15 bucks a foot. LOL
My father in law could witch for gold (on the surface). We would hide a gold ring in the garden and he would use a green willow sapling and just walk in a grid pattern until the willow dipped. He found it every time!
Yeah, it is great thing to do and watch, my 43 metre well cost about £375 to drill, the second hand pump and rest of the stuff you need cost about £250, and it all works just fine and I am really happy with it, It’s in Thailand that explains the cost.
Great price for drilling. Up here in Ontario Canada we are about $40 -$50 /ft
Yeah so I live up in northern ontario ..the little claybelt area and my well cost me $16,000..we went down through 200 ft of sand and then another 5 into the bedrock..works out $78 a ft and I get 11.5 gallons a minute..
@@Lucas-vk8fz valuable resource :)
In India there is 10 inch holl with hard steel ceasing pipe and the cost of drilling is $10 per feet and well cost is $6700 maximum with 750 feet ceasing and the technology of drilling machine is much better than wholl world
A local well-driller taught me how to witch with a fresh-cut branch from a tree. It works! I've used copper wires, too. But, I prefer a willow branch.
I love your videos. Keep them coming! If you ever come to Stokes County, give me a shout.
Awesome Josh, never seen anything like it. Thanks for sharing.
Watched two guys find the same spot for a well in North central Oregon for a dairy. It was there just 1200 ft down. 600GPM.
JEEZE
Wow! Educational! Thank you!!
I've been part of this business my hole life my grandfather started Phillips well drilling in Indiana in the 60s
I use this method. You can think about water (or copper gold silver etc). And you will find what you are looking for particularly if you are ‘tuned’ in. Secondly you can determine the depth by re working the area and thinking/concentrating on a depth Then. Refine the depth. By dividing in two. Eg. Think 0 to 100 m. If you get a signal Then 0 to 50. Then if still a signal 0 to 25. Then 0 to 12.5. If you lose the signal then think 12.5 to 25 then 12.5. To 20. Etc etc. Until you pinpoint the depth Just something that’s worked for me (although I’m not a well driller I just do it for fun
I subbed the second that guy said he was 50 - 50. Love honesty!!
I have watched it done using Willow "y" branches....several different times...being accurate each time.....also was glad they picked the right spot....because as kids we had to pound the wells by hand!!!
Love watching your videos always learn something new
I use to watch oil wells drilled on my grandparents farm they share cropped with the owner. still amazing to watch. less a lot of words not allowed on youtube lol
That was so interesting, I watched the whole post three times.👍👍👍👍
Love your videos Josh. Appreciate all the time and effort you put into all your informative videos for us 👍❣️
Thanks so much
A shout out the the crew allowing you to share the drilling process with us just a great job with their work and your editing .
An wonderful and worth full great job .
Great team work thank you for sharing
Fascinating process. I've never seen this done before. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.
Happy for you guys
The well I had drilled last year went to 640 ft and only produced 1 gallon per minute. Decided to stop at than depth and not spend any more on drilling. Planning on having it fracked soon to try and increase production. You certainly do watch the money meter run for every foot of drill pipe going in the ground while your waiting to hit water.
I found my buried electrical line with two clothes hangers bent like witching thingys. Works well.
That was a great job, well done.
I use metal coat hanger like that you can use them to find waterlines
I am a Driller 💪 ...sometimes I wished I strictly only Drilled water wells .... One type of drilling . Same truck same tooling and The drillers take good care of there trucks and tooling . Where I work we drill all kinds of wells all over the states ...rock coring well abandonment , big mud , air rotary, augers all kinds and different types of wells, monitoring wells , pumping wells, water wells .... . It has made me very universal with lots of skills but your body takes a beating and you are never home and you are behind a different rig using different tooling every other week . 🤠🤤
We witched all of our bid irrigation wells,used willow sticks would twist down so hard it would tear the bark off.
Never would have believed it, but a local old timer showed my husband how to do this, and he spend weeks walking around and finding water sources, pipes, and a septic drain field pipe. I wish there was a scientific study to explain how it works, but it definitely gave us a 100% success rate, and saved us a lot of exploratory digging. Might be purely anecdotal, and dumb luck, but no one has yet explained why the wires are crossing.
Hope we have that things here in in the Philippines..we use only manual drilling to hard if we make in a stoney area
I've used dowsing rods myself. The material they're made of isn't important, just the intent of what you're looking for. I used to use them to find lost buried power lines, but have used them for sewer lines too. No one in my country bores a well without dowsing first.
$12-18 per foot, I'll take it. Just got quoted $55-80/ft for a well in Idaho. Was told by three different drillers they are booked until 2023.
My grandpa was the local well Witcher in our area, He was never wrong. He didn't use copper wire he used a green Y shaped sapling twig. You can't make this up!!
I've seen that before. I literally thought that man was crazy. Sure enough he was right.
I had an old timer use the same thing up to my camp. He said anyone can do it, showed me how to hold the sapling and the hair stood up on the back of my neck when it started to bend. I held it so tight the bark pealed off in my hands. 🍻
Yes. Yes, you can.
Can and do make this up. Absolutely foolishness. I've got the experience and disproven water witches to show it.
@@kentlange5338 Jesus Christ is the son of God and sadly this evil satanic lower form of magic has a slightly amount of power like a satan board game thing.
Great video. I was looking for the material to drill wells with
Interesting video. I’m I the oil biz but never seen a water well drilled before.
ALSO
Pump Saver works for low flow wells. It can be bought integrated into the pump starter or bought separate and added to an existing pump starter. It senses the drop in Amps and breaks the circuit for a programed amount of time .. 2 ~ 120 minutes to allow the well to recover so you don't burn out the pump. ..
Hi Josh !! Love your vids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am always puzzled that these fancy rods that can find gold, copper, silver, water….. Strongly recommend the Amazing Randy. He loved this too!
Thank you for the video. Very educational as well as enjoyable. Best wishes.
Cool to watch the process!
I've witched lots of wells but I knew a gal that could witch a well and tell you how much water was at what depth. She would find the water in the area where you need water. Then she would make a grid setup like an eight point compus in the area 20-25' from where water was found. She would take eight readings and then do a little calculation. She was on the mark most of the time. She told me how but it's been 100 years er so..
FYI. copper rods will find any pipe (even wood n plastic), lines (gas, water, ele. ect.) and underground water. A wood witching rod, I find, works best for underground water if fresh cut; local willow or large shrub or young sapling works best ... one that drinks lots of water.
😆legally..hmmm
Enjoyed this I find it interesting..
Have a good day 🌷🌷🌷
South Dakota its $70 a foot and wells about 3500 feet
good day from queensland australia wow very info detailed awesome coverage
Super interesting!!! Thanks Josh!!!
I’m the Water Manager for my town, this is how we locate Water mains.
I am amazed how expensive it is where I live in the Texas Hill Country. I got a quote for a well, with drilling down to 800 feet and the whole job with a pump was about $50,000! Crazy money for a well. I guess it varies a lot depending on where you live.
I've drilled water wells for decades. I can promise you from experience that those rods do nothing. You can hit a suitable bedrock/gravel layer anywhere. Only thing that changes is the depth.
Thank God someone else said it. I drilled for 20 years and regularly proved water witches to be absolutely full of shit! Witching sticks are foolishness. The all knowing witch would tell you to drill in what was usually a terrible location, and on a regular basis, less water would be realized than if you literally threw a dart at a board that had a picture of the property on it.
Do the sticks find shallower water? That would be the benefit, witching definitely indicates something, I have found water pipes several times that were off the dig alert utility marks.
@@brandonmccullough6381 I guess that's possible, but only because I can't disprove it. If it really works, it shouldn't have a 50% fail rate lol
It's kind of amazing just how many folks truly believe in this "witchcraft". I can see that Josh honestly thinks that it works, and I know people who swear by it, but I've always been extremely skeptical. I've never heard of anyone who can explain HOW these rods are supposed to work to find anything, much less a water source that is 460 feet down. Until that happens, I'm not buying it. I can't prove that it does NOT work, but I was a little disappointed to see them waste the first five minutes of the video on this.
What water well drilling type is this? Revers rotary?
Wow amazing how everything is different is different areas. Our current well is 300’ and we get 5 gallons per hour (yes per hour) just enough to eek out a living. I was quoted $33k to drill to 600 feet.
This is a thing I don't get. You drill into the ground but you never know but much water you can harvest. Where if you use a Rainwater harvest system you can store all the rain water coming down on your land which is way more than you will ever need. Filtering rain water for drinking water is also inexpensive and with 3 filters and a UV system you get even better water than what you can get from your well. You spend maybe $2000 for storage tanks which you should store 50% or 100% underground. The big benefit is you have always water. An 10.000 Gallon POLY tank cost you less than $1000 if you pic it up from the factory. Easy to transport and lightweight too.
In some areas like certain parts of Colorado it's illegal to harvest rain water! You know, the government knows what's best for you! By the way here in Florida you can get as much water from a well as you want, usually the only thing that dictates that is the size pump you can get in a well, oh and water management
So simple with the machine
GOOD SHOW, GOOD INFO
Both my grandparents wells were found using witching sticks.
he said legally lol 🤣🖤
Now you need to build an old fashioned windmill to draw the water up.
Single line can only draw27 feet
@@georgedavidson7986 Where'd you hear that? All the windmills on the family farm were over 200'. They'd be still still pumping to this day, if the 6 square miles of it wasn't levelled for crops after it was sold.
They did need some maintenance from time to time, with pipes rusting out, but always worked. It was a bugger of a job pulling them up to replace/check pipes... a lot of pipes.
They didn't pump gallons a minute, but they all had a tank, some a dam as well beside them to store the water and always plenty for the cattle/sheep/horses and house.
@@theoneandonlyowl3764 Hi. A single line well pump will only pull 27 feet. Todo what you are saying they would be jet pumps with two lines One pushing water down to push water up
@@georgedavidson7986 Nope, completely wrong, or maybe not using good aussie windmills. None of the water here is within 27'.
@@theoneandonlyowl3764 single line will only pull 27 feet. You need two line yet pump to push water down and then back up
Simple,educational ,thank you
Josh
I'm guessing ~165ft drill pipe to bottom of well wondering how far lower did you go past well's water bearing 5' or more .
It's nice to have wells drilled.
Okay I guess give or take 300 feet
Woo Very Awesome
Best David
JOSH IS THAT YOUR SECOND WELL THAT WE SAW COME IN?
SO THAT'S IT FOR WELLS TO BE DRILLED?
well certainly your time is worth money & how much more or many hours were you spending on water watering and pumping and collecting water, and it's clean no chance of a dead animal up stream turning water funky that would make those who drink from that tank not well. Good on you brother way to be.
Before covid ,i got my well punched for 2 grand. His truck was new and cost 800,000. i guessed a million. That well got 18 gallons a minute. i was happy, until i got my septic bill.
septic bill? For the install?
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I got a quote for 8 grand on the septic install for that house. i hired my buddies instead. I saved nothing. I was complaining about that price. You know how we are.