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Dude hats off to you for doing this task alone + recording video + sharing knowledge.
I have no desire to drill a well, but this video seemed so preposterous I had to click. And I was pleasantly surprised at how well it all came together.
As a 6th generation water well driller, i commend you brother, great job. Id like to add that this application can be done in sand, for a regular well here in florida you would want to seat the casing into the limerock, but a cheaper and easy way to just get water you did an absolute great job for a sand point well. Cheers
In Kenya bore hole drilling costs over 3million shillings 😇 34 years pension money 🫵this can cost me 10k,you are God sent man 🇰🇪
We can do it here with that little.
So many negative, "problem for every solution" comments. My God. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with us all! Enriching other's brains for free and they're still mad about it. 🤣
sometime you can add an improvement without knocking a mans method. I've put in several of this kind of well and this is similar to my style but...way better. but in my experience, I do see a small problem. Yet he overcomes it probably not even thinking about it. Still looks like he went 40 feet down and yeah he got water!
Chuck always loved your videos. I had a bad problem with yard flooding. Natural way was south for a drain across street. Fought small town village and would not let me go south. Hired an engineer and 1 acre of rainwater would go to corner of lot and with approx. 29,000 gallons per inch of rain per hour on an acre it flood yard. Ended up have to pay for a block and half of 6” pipe and city paid to install to the first drain that had been cleaned and replaced out of town to a creek. Was a win for people south as there was an old drain box that was buried in dirt and water was slowing making it way south.
Had major excavation done to yard and two 6” pipe under house on ground level inlet was a rock v drain and went underground to the street drain and had a yard drain hooked up in case. Took 3 years of fighting city, but all ended well and my spare lot is the highest elevation in town and drain along street is low so could have a basement if I wanted to build a home. So many people down stream told me they notice sump pumps had stopped running year round.
I was watching all your videos and problem was no matter how I install drains was no place to go. Seems like a distant memory worrying about a down pour and hoping I not have to get out pumps to send it down the street. I was wishing you were here. But all worked out 20k later .
kudos to you from a 35yr environmental driller in texas!
we can only pull that off
east of houston, here west of san antonio you’re not getting 2” w/out air or mud with a tci
or diamond bit.
if you’re doing any more there’s a few tools you can make cheap out of scrap that’ll make that one man stuff soooo much easier.
SLIPS ! mine’s just 3/8”diamond plate.
i put handles on each end & cut slots for
1-1/4, 2” & 4”
pvc. life savor when your arms can’t hold 100’ of pvc any more.
Do you have a picture of your “anti-slip” jig?
At the very last connection between the 1” suction pipe and the pump, you ought to introduce a Union coupling instead of using glue to join the PVC coupling. This way, should you need to replace the pump in the future, you could just easily unscrew the Union coupling without the need to cut the 1” suction pipe. Get what I mean?
My thoughts exactly
True. Or cut it if and when you need to. Lol. (He's that kinda guy).
Good job 👍
No worry there. Unlikely be able to pull it back out after wall caves in and settles. Should have cased the entire damned length
@@pauld5641❤❤❤❤😊😊😊 15:19 ❤❤ 15:21 ❤❤ 17:46 17:47 17:48 17:49 ❤❤❤❤ 17:56 ❤
I got two friends of mine that are brothers Pete and Clay Moss. When we were little, they would always fight, and I must say that’s the only time I ever saw clay on top of peat moss.
WOW, I cannot believe it, i paid $1,500 to drill a well about 5 years ago ... i should i have watched your videos... meeeennnn thanks a billion ... great guy!!!
That's cheap
that's cheap
That's cheap, if that's all it cost me I would hire the professionals to do it!
@@bmorg7244 right, we paid $8500 for ours about 10 years ago
Depending on your elevation a pump can only suck water from the 16 to 22 foot range. Deeper water requires a pump to push the water up and that requires a larger diameter well to accommodate the pump and casing. Hitting a rock would take all the fun out of drilling this way. Also, not sealing the hole around the outside of the well properly is a great way for surface water to contaminate your aquifer.
Neighbors aren't going to be very happy with you if you contaminate their well by not sealing it properly.
at the top of the hole you are supposed to dig a trench a few (3+) metres long to take away the silt that is pumping up to the surface. Dig a small catchment area at the end of the trench to allow the solids to be scooped out. This stops is going back down the shaft and contaminating the aquifer.
Thx very Helpful info.
What do you mean about properly? I saw in another video where they made up concrete and put around the well pipe. Is that what you mean by “properly?”
The other question is you saying 16-22’ can suck the water up, but if deeper can’t?
I want a shallow well for lawn only. My 2 neighbors did it themselves. I wanted to see if I could attempt myself why asking questions.
@@greenspiraldragon
How do you seal properly?
I’m from Jamaica and plan to do some Farming with a difference ,
I will definitely use this,
Thanks for the information,
Very informative.
So i used the trash pump method and 30 ft of 1" hose to jet. I couldn't believe how fast it goes. After 4 attempted and only hitting rock the 5th try we made it to 30 ft. Thank you for your videos i have been watching them for over a yeat now. An i just really like the dedication you give by doing these videos. Thank you tons
Wish I had known about that before I paid top dollar to have a shallow well installed on my property. Hello from Melbourne FL!
Hello from Sallisaw, OK formerly Melbourne FL!
You wouldn't be able to do this in Melbourne Florida, 6th generation water well driller in Ocala Florida here
@@352ish Why not? They even sell the equipment to do this at the local Home Depot.
@@MasterKenfucius limerock in Florida
@@352ish The guy who did my shallow well went to 65 feet and never hit any lime rock.
I did this when I lived in FL to cut down on my water bill. I jet-drilled a 30 ft well as a means to ensure there was water for my lawn even in the worst drought. Most neighbors wells were at 19 ft and one year they struggled to keep their wells going. You have to have sandy soil for this process to work.
That's not very deep
We lived in Tulsa, OK when I was a kid, circa 1952. I can remember my dad putting in a shallow well next to our house so he would have unrestricted water for his lawn in the new subdivision. If I recall correctly, he just used a manual auger type drill.
I "hydrodrill" grounds for Amateur Radio and some station grounds for AM radio stations that exact same way. I seldom go past 20' for those grounds, but I have had problems with water flowing out of the hole after drilling. I used mortar mix to seal the grounding hole after drilling. However, I never knew this could be used for water well drilling - excellent idea!
I dig post holes and trenches with hydro power. Been doing it for many years. Never could figure out why nobody else was doing it.
Because they have hydraulic post hole diggers that don't make small lakes
I dig my post holes with c4 now you can chuckle 😂
What about rocks
Yeah I have a 110’ well and I have to drop my pump down to near the bottom. My problem is that I run out of water in 20-30 minutes and it takes about 3 hours to recover the approximate 150 gallons. I think it needs to be deeper so that the casing holds more water and of course I would have to extend the pipe and wiring to the pump. I’m on a fixed income so I have never talked to anyone about it and just try to make due. But it makes it tough to have a garden or anything that uses a lot of water. I need to upgrade my power panel and replace my hvac so it is not at the top of my list. It seems like every time I save money towards the things that I need something comes along and I have to start over again. But I’m blessed with the things I have and I can’t complain. I found the video very interesting and I am sure it will help some people! Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge!
That’s my issue also. I’ve had 3 professional bore holes pretty much run dry & now I am confident enough to educate myself more than the professionals & dig / drill my own.
Get a large holding tank maybe. Fill all day and night then it's ready to use.
Awesome craftsmanship !!!
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge !!!
😂🤣😂 had a good chuckle when you shot the water over the fence. 🤣😄🤣
Chuck, I thought you were nuts crazy when I started watching this video, but I watched it end to end and got a huge kick out of your ingenuity. I have a geothermal system installed in my house that uses 5 250 foot deep “wells”. Actually just 4 inch bores that are super deep. They installed PB pipe loops and circulate water down through them to essentially draw heat away from the a/c system. I remember they hit a little water but nothing significant even at 250 feet. I’m in central Texas and we rely on aquifers and surface water for supply at the municipal level. Not sure how deep a well needs to be to provide reliable clean water.
All to say I don’t think at reasonable depths I could try your trick here, but I wanted to shout out your ingenuity and positive attitude.
Keep those videos rolling! Love them!
Excellent... Excellent.. Excellent. The only word I can say.
U do it by yourself, alone.
Legend mate, That's a great video and the fact that you did all this by yourself is crazy good. I'm gonna try this. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks
It’s a great DIY
Chuck, you're an inspiration. Always cheerful and you accept unplanned "problems" without a hitch. I have a thought that might alleviate the problem of the ground closing back in before you can insert the 1" suction pipe (after the mud pump shaft is removed). How about using a 4" pipe vs. a 3" for the initial 10" to give more space within that pipe? Then, feed BOTH the mud pump pipe/shaft AND the 1" well point suction pipe down together. The mud pump drilling shaft should clear enough space for both pipes at the same time and then we you hit your desired depth you can just remove the mud pump pipe. The 1" well point shaft would already be in place and you wouldn't run into the problem of the cavity closing in too quickly. It might take another person to help manage both pipes but could be worth the effort.
Yes! Great ideas
Water
But the direction values one way
Couldn't one just hook the mud pump to the pipe that has the well point on it? 🤔
Yup when building my dad's island cabin in the Gulf we not only used it for a well but also for digging holes for the cabin post and the boat/ fishing dock and before anyone asks yes you can have a fresh water well on an island surround with saltwater just in case if some of y'all didn't know that. Thank you for a great video
Hi we have an island on the Florida gulf coast as well. How deep did you have to go with your well? Did you use saltwater through your mud pump?
@@enjoinick yes we ran our intake with saltwater and how deep that just depends on fresh water table and I would suggest sending water samples to someone who can test it we sent ours to Texas a&m so I'm guessing you know how that works fresh water is lighter than salt so when it rains it will go down until hits the saltwater and it floats on top we don't just rely on that alone we also have rain catchment system
@@enjoinick oh sorry we made a few different holes and took several samples and the holes ranged from 10 to 20 feet and there should be info out there for your area I would check agriculture development and with local colleges they have a ton of information hope this helps and we installed 2 pre filters then reverse osmosis
@@YeshuaT-bm6ss ok thank you 😊 we have rain collection as well but winter months with little rain it can get low so a well would be nice supplement. We mainly just use that water for dishes and showers.
@@enjoinick we use ours for the same and a big ice maker but the main reason why we need more is because our cabin is used by 3 families and it sucks to get there and no water. So another project we are working on is being able to turn on the electricity and AC by remote so it's nice and cold and the ice machine starts making ice. Good luck hope it works out
Excellent job step by step walk through 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for this - you have the very best channel for all things concerning drainage/well driling, etc. Once again, thanks for your knowledge as it is so very valuable at this time.
Thank you so much
I hope it helped 👍
Great demonstration and explanation of the process 👍
I learnt as a child the power of water to "dig" sand/soil when I used our garden hose to bore holes in a pile of brickies sand on the construction site next door. It went in so easy. I copped heaps from the builder AND my parents but it is a lesson I have never forgotten.
What's your job now? Demolition?
0:30 hell
This is the best video on bore water pumping.
Its amazing that there is water down there, and amazing that you can access it so easily.
Where I live in south East Louisiana anywhere you dig 50 feet down is good water
This is really 👍👍👍👍
Whatever you have showed is giving the great idea to open viewer mind. Even something could be improve, that’s was just a matter of whoever can do whatever they think better or sustain longer. But the main point, you are among hundreds of peoples that have applied various methods. Congrats 🤲🤲🤲👍👍👍
This was a great and very helpful information, my wife and I are going to do this for water for our pond which always run dry but this will be the key to solve the problem. I'll keep you updated!! Thanks Patrick
This just remined me about what you are doing when I was 18 and now I am 66, we used this method, it was a scaffold pole with a nylon head with slots in it this was attach to a hose and a high pressure pump these poles where sent into the ground and around the site to be excavated, then the pump was put in reverse to suck the water around the site to dry the ground so we could continue excavating down.
always glue the pipe and the fitting, wait 15 minutes before driving the next pipe
Thank you
I do it very similar. I use a self jetting point and add to it on the way down. Thing is, those points are expensive. They are made for dewatering construction sites and the sieve size is a bit bigger than I would like if I was to drink the water. Filtered before the pump is how to get around that. Should use a filter anyways. Depending on your ground it is possible to overdrive your well and miss the water. Sometimes the clay is the end of drilling. Great video.
Did that here in Florida for a yard well. Works good.
Great video! Thank you for that and hats off for doing by yourself.
Thank you Sir for great demonstration, advice on easy well method.
Great video, really good job finding help is almost impossible in today's world.
Nice video Chuck. Wow, this would save alot of money for irrigation here in Florida.
I don't know where you live in Florida but where I used to live you could just poke a stick in the ground and get water for irrigation lol
@@1100wing 😂😂🤣🤣 You're joking right?? I live within 5 miles of the beach, yet I need to drill 30 feet for a well.
@@VioletUpton Well, 30' IS relatively shallow for a well.
30' CAN be dug without a water jet or special equipment. Infact, in a lot of FL you can "drive" a well
Excellent job sir, you are a great teacher.
Thank you. I need a well drilled and I was told between 10 and 13k. I guess we all know what im doing
What are you doing ?
Thank you so much for that great ideas of yours..,we will try it…
Parabéns pelo trabalho ideia muito boa
I have absolutely no need to dig a well, but I just loved going along with you on that journey.
genius - thanks much for sharing the knowledge
Thank you so much. I. am encouraged
WOW CHUCK you made it look so easy! I wish it was in my back yard! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
AWESOME WORK IM GOING TO DO THIS! 💯
Good job mate👍! Obviously the sandier the soil the easier. In Australia’s outback could be like going thru concrete! But beats paying someone 5000 bucks! Or more..
This is my favorite water well drilling video. Thank You.
This is a great video. I wish I had seen it two years ago when I drove my well down by hand. Took me a good two days and my arms were so sore I could hardly move them after that.
Hey Steve,
How deep did you have to go ?
@@rickconnock7578 I went 20' plus the 5' point. I wanted to go 25' but I was all used up. Sometimes around here you can hit water with post hole diggers.
@@oldmgbs2 Q
@@oldmgbs2 what size pipe were you driving?
@@patrickday4206 1 1/4"
Anyway you could post a material list? Including fittings? Be very helpful and thank you for your video
Thank you very much. I have watched the video many times and I am excited to apply it. I hope it will be successful😍
I think you will have a great success! Good luck
Fastest and the easiest way i know is? To have a water well drilled for you! We went down to 800' to hit into a Aqua Duck. It soft, Excellent, well water, and its very very cold. The best water i have ever drank, around the world. YUM so refreshing
Yeah but 40 bucks per feet
@@luisarashirovideo It took a few years to fine some one who would do it, at the price we could afford. 💲💲It was very expensive back when we had it done, Years back. at 10k! but I'll tell yea. 👉👉 its been, well worth every cent of it 💦💦
Thanks for the idea!! Awesome
Wait one minute! The day light dosnt change thru this whole demo. This happened in on e aftenoon? I've been spending months learning and prepping for a huge project. One Day?! I appreciate all your practicalities, less your dirty prime/gluing lol. The ending is especially rewarding, thanks you.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your skillful demo.It is very very impressed and useful.
nice proyect thanks for sharing Muchas gracias por compartir!🙏🟡
Love Chuck he's awesome!
Loved it. Great skills to acquire. Thanks for sharing.
Great job solo. Nice work
Excellent! Looking into possible installing an emergency/irrigation supply at my house and this looks to fit the bill perfectly.
I love it when you say would be nice an extra hand
Has anyone tried this to drill a groundsource heatpump well? BTW Cheers to all you who put out these awesome DIY videos and CZcams as well!! A great service to humanity!
You need about 200' deep to do that. It's easier to use the proper tools, cause you are going to hit rock, unless you are talking about and open loop system, then it might work, but the debris will be rough on geo pumps. All though you could dig horizontal loops.
@@jcarney1987 thanks !
I watched a utube video on diging down 6 or 7 feet and laying in non perforated weeping tile pipe running air through it to get 50 degree air for heating a greenhouse and it reminded me of years ago my father had installed a tank at a service station and restaurant the area between the tank and the building was 250 feet paved parking area and they didn't want it dug up with a trench so dad popped a hole in the basement wall and using a 5 inch pole hole augur drilled a hole through to run the pipe through since then I've used a vacuum cleaner to do drill post holes I'm thinking of trying a combination of the these 3 methods and another idea I used years ago for cleaning water tanks with a lot of settlement in them I put a sump pump in the vacuum cleaner bucket so I could vacuum up the water and sentiment the sentiment sank to the bottom of the vacuum canister and water was pumped out
The history of moving water is still interesting to me up until modern times. If only the ancients had the ability to do this so esay.
Great video chuck !! Thanks for sharing! Stay rad 🤙🏽
Very nice video. Now build a solar pump house.
That's the plan!
Hey great video my brother! Absolutely amazing actually, that was fast as hell!!!!!
That is great never saw that before.
Brilliant video....learned a lot. Thank you :)
Excellent job and idea Thanks for sharing your experience 👍
I've watched a lot of shallow well vids and I think I can do that . I'd just put a hand pump on it for off grid water. Could filter and drink in a pinch.
Great job, I would have added a connection where the pump innects to the one in the ground and also rant a plumb drop on a string to check the depth of water. A great job
Totally awesome.
The only improvement I would add is to put a tube of screen mash over the well head length over them cutout slots just for extra filtering of the water and possibly clogging them.
I am not sure if most above ground pumps can pump the water beyond 20 feet or so. I am not sure.
I suppose for drinking water one should really seal the outside area of the well to keep contaminated water from draining down below. For irrigation all is good.
Great video 👍
Thanks for this great video. 5⭐
Wow, thank you very much
Well done..
Excellent work...
Great job on this video!
Fine job my man!
I just drove my own shallow well, with a steel sand drive point, but if I ever want to make a deeper well, I would definitely use your method.
Thanks men!! Salutari din Romania Europe this is exact what I need for springtime to bore a well!!
Awsome, thanks for the video. ❤
Love the video. This works great in non rocky soil. I can't help but laugh at the fact that you moved the tools from an "In case it over flows" zone directly into an oops I sprung a leak zone.
Murphy strikes again.
Well...done!
If I only I wasn't in Maine where you need a million permits and a licensed well driller.
It so amazing idea, I like and try this at home.
Thank. You. Good job
I remember the big trucks using a connector bits to drill. Guess the new ( different) way you demonstrated put them out of business. We always had a rust color in our water, Guess they didn't go deep enough. We lived on a high point compared to the neighbors
Great video. The issue we have in northern Florida is that shallow wells are very high in iron. Unless the irrigation is away from houses or driveways, expect rust staining on everything. Unfortunately, you need to drill at least 80-100 feet to avoid this.
I know what you mean. I live in Panama City, we call it hard water. I’ve also smelled sulfur in it also. Would rain collection be a better idea?
@@73gmiller rain water is ok however it has its own issues. Good filtration for shallow wells is a good option however its more maintenance. Under NO circumstances should you EVER drink from shallow water wells without proper treatment. This is still a good option for gardens and general water uses. And with proper filtration just fine for washing clothes and flushing toilets. If I had it tested for E.coli and had some good filtration I may shower and wash dishes but still never drink unless treated and filtered.
@@73gmiller Depends on pollution in the air, catchment and storage capacity.
Rust is iron oxide or rust bacteria. You need to oxidize it. Exposure to oxygen is one way. What you can do is build an air driven air lift pump. Air lifts the water up to a vented storage tank which vents off the sulfur smell out of the water. Then you can pump it through a filter and treat with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) which when it oxidizes it turns to H2O (water). Then filter some more and its good to drink.
@sgtbrown4273 newsflash: as a child ,we drank from a shallow well hand crank cistern,most Def a shallow well,about 25 ft or less.
No problems. Was very refreshing to get a cool drink from.
You know,wells have been dug by settlers for hundreds of years, it won't kill you.
Now,if you live in New Jersey or Detroit,land of toxic waste pollution,OBVIOUSLY you won't drink that.
I'm in a lake region of Florida,its truly a gift from God,the water under the land here.
Chuck, that's so cool.
Awesome video just put my shallow well in thanks to your video. Used 40ft of 3/4 instead of 1in mainly because i had it and my casing is 24ft of 2in instead of 3. But man that mud pump cuts like butter have all the water we need 5ft point 25ft 1 1/4 pvc. Thanks for the awesome tutorial!!!
You're a true inspiration!!!
Great job
Impressive!!!
Hello from Northern British Columbia Canada!. We recently moved off-grid and plan to try this out this summer to get ourselves water on the homestead. We have very clay rich soil here, maybe 6 inches of topsoil then hard packed clay. Hopefully this works for us. We have a few IBC totes and a trash pump already which we have been using to get water from the lake during the summer, but having water from our land itself will be such a massive improvement!. Hopefully the clay doesn't stop us in our tracks!. We plan to film the whole process and I'll come back here and give an update as to how well it went etc. Wish us luck!. Also any advice is much appreciated!. - Adam
Great video.