GoPro Dropped In Stone Lined Water Well : Poor Hideous Creatures Appear
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2022
- This is a super old stone-lined well that is cut out of the solid rock toward the bottom. Just when the camera goes beneath the water, two hideous creatures come into view. Poor little critters, what do you think they were? EDIT: Watch the vid at 1/2 speed when underwater to see more.
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The skill it took to build that well is mind blowing.
It's called "the need for water "
@@markvining5018 So you think that needing something magically imparts you with unlearned skills. Good story.
@@crookedtool HELL YEAH...150 YEARS AGO THEY WERE NOT THE PUSSIES OF TODAY...MAKE DO...LEARN AS YOU GO...ETC
AND BESIDES THAT WHAT ARE THESE "UNLEARNED SKILLS" YOU MENTION
1) DIG A HOLE,
2)DEPTH...UNTIL YOU HIT GROUND WATER SEEPAGE
3) "SEW" THE HOLE BACK WITH A DOUBLE STONE LINING....OBVIOUSLY DIG YOUR HOLE OF A LARGER DIAMETER THAN THE WELL ITSELF
NOTHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT CONSTRUCTING A WELL, DO YOU SUFFLE PAPERWORK AT YOUR JOB....I DON'T MEAN THAT CONDISENDING
@@crookedtool It's dry stone walling. Every culture on earth mastered this from the stone age.
You'd be surprised how little skill it actually takes. The amount of _effort_ it took to make is what you should be remarking at.
There’s something otherworldly about seeing down there knowing the person who dug the well was the last down there many many years ago.
We hope he was the last one down there ;)
Hopefully anyway.....
Except for Timmy. At least that's what Lassie told me.
We do hope so.
@@bdwilcox hilarious!🤣😂👍
Coming from a person that does water wells for a living (drilling, pump service, treatments and inspection) that's pretty impressive. I do big commercial stuff and seen many rock holes through a inspection camera. But all those are machine drilled. It amazes me every time I see old stuff like this.
@Bay Area Chicano It's pretty much a guessing game lol. Back in the old days people used dowsing rods to find water. But we have engineers that use geographic maps and whatever else they use to have the best estimate of where the water will be. Then we go in and drill a small test hole to see if there is water down there. If there is water then we will drill a bigger hole for production. Sometimes we hit water and sometimes we don't. We have drilled 800 feet and no water then moved about 100 yards away and drilled 150 feet and have water. Usually water will be in the lowest part of the surrounding terrain or close to rivers and lakes. Because rain water and water from rivers and lakes will eventually trickle all the way down to what is called an underground aquifer
@@my2cents187 My father was a water well driller. I went to work with him a few times when I was a kid. (In the early 50's) I remember him using a dowsing rod.
@Joseph Gibson what in the world are you talking about?
@@merrywidow9868 does the dowsing rod thing actually work? Looks kinda hocus-pocus to me. Then again, folk didn't have computers back then so they used what tools they had I guess. 🤔
@@e.m.5499 It must have worked; he was in business for years. I remember him using a surveying instrument too. I can't remember the name of it though. It sat on a tripod.
I had a stone lined well in my home I owned that was built in 1919. The original plow came with the house. The original owners were buried in the cemetery behind the house. The bricks and stones inside that well looked BRAND NEW and absolutely Stunning!
I'm sure you are one of very few people who have purchased a house and its owners. Very interesting, indeed.
@@bricaaron3978 damn. Interesting perspective, time takes us all. Or does it? :) Good day Bric!
Extraordinary craftsmanship when you truly think that each and every single rock was hand placed and built. Thank you for letting us view and explore with you. Certainly will hold the test of time.
666=9
@@daveznothereman7064 I'm pretty sure it equals 18
@@weld_dat_fakah740 and 1+8=9 numerology.
And I didn't see mortar.
Never ever thought of it until this video but lining a well with rocks is probably quite the undertaking. Kind of impressive actually.
Pretty dangerous work, too. First of all, your down in a hole that isn't fully stabilized. Second, they had to lower large rocks down and there was the risk of one falling on you. I know one case where the man in the well died from his injuries when a rock fell on him in that manner.
looked like a pair of groundhogs 😢 what a horrible way to die. Thank you for caring and covering these death traps to help save future lives ❤
For the animals sake, I hope the fall killed them rather then being trapped in the well.
I’ve just looked back at this cracking video.. I could only see one Groundhog…
Fantastic exploring with you..
Many thanks/ uk
I think it was an otter, poor little fellow,
Oh well.........water ya gonna do?
There's not too much ya can.
I was so busy looking at the striating in the rock walls I didn’t see any critters, even when I looked a 2nd time. What minute marker was that at, please?
As a rockhound and ameteur geologist, this is my take on this well. Almost all the rocks you see are for the most part high quality agate!! The stacked pieces are what they chipped off the walls to build this well. The presence of large quartz veins suggest the possibility of gold. And this well was incredibly difficult to excavate, as agate has a hardness of 9 to 11.5 on the MOH hardness scale, diamond is 10 . I also believe the water is present because of this huge deposit, or vein of agate. . Thanks for sharing this!
We call him Hound because, well, he's horny.
Geologist (but a humble hydrogeologist) however i'm not sure why you'd say these are agates? These rocks look like some kind of metamorphosed siliciclastic rocks. Shales, or possibly schists. The veins could be quartz or calcite but not something i can tell just from the video. Also agate most definitely does not have a hardness of 9-11.5. It's 7 or below, as with quartz, because that's basically what it is. Just regular old SiO2. There's no naturally occuring minerals harder than diamond. And the water is present simply because this is a well and it dips below the water table, the point at which this permeable bedrock is saturated with groundwater.
@@lokischeissmessiah5749 It's definitely not agates, it looks like shale.
Lol, just as soon as the camera hit the water, a commercial popped up. I about jumped out of my skin!
I didn't see a rock out of place. True testament to the builder/s. Especially if buckets may have been used up and down. Chigg, you wouldn't get me down there for quids!
So cool it's amazing how stacked rock done properly can last centuries an it was crazy to see it all held up by some parts that looked like they came off an old wagon. With the original wood still mostly intact!
You should contact the underwater drone guy and see if he can explore it better. He says it will work. I'm happy to hear you will cover it so no more poor creatures fall down the well. Amazing how they built this well and the rocks lining it were just so interesting and some were huge. Thanks for sharing Chigg.
Fascinating to see how the walls were constructed. A 360 deg camera would be AWESOME, we could look around and check for cool stuff on the way down.
The only cool stuff you’re gonna find is rocks!
Lol like what more rocks?
Fun fact: If you look up out the opening of a tall smokestack or a deep well in the daytime you see - not blue sky - but the night-time sky with stars !
@T roll Said the guy who has never looked up from the bottom of a 200 foot deep well or from the ground up a 200 foot tall smokestack.
I had to Google this. Urban Legend is the consensus.
@@renees1021 Typical female thought process = appeal to authority. Doesn't work with bedrock physical reality, though. Figure out how to look up a well or smokestack of that depth, take your binoculars and see for yourself.
I work in a power plant with multiple stacks. Two are 600 ft tall and you still see the sky
@@themuckler8176 How big in diameter are they? The sky is blue because of "Rayleigh Scattering". The brighter white of he sky near the sun is due to "Mies Scattering".
I will look to see if there is anything written about the height vs diameter of the viewing tube that reduces Rayleigh scattering enough to see stars.
Also related is that the water in the bottom of a deep well will often ice-over even in summer because of the same effect. The water radiates heat like all normal-temperature things - but it is only getting back radiation from outer space ("seeing" outer space) so it freezes.
So much work going into digging/building these wells back in the day. Just imagine the nightmare it was digging the Woodingdean well in the UK. 390 metres (1285 feet) deep. All by hand, in a very narrow shaft.
Woodingdean is 3 miles from me right now!
Water was a vital necessity.
Wow! The amount of effort it must have taken to have accomplished finishing this well is mind boggling! The rock formations at the bottom are also very interesting!
I love things like this, very interesting! Such a shame the poor creatures drowned though. Back in the 80's we lived in a Victorian house and when my Dad was digging in the garden he found a huge stone slab. After many hours of trying to lever it up and hurting his back in the process, we found a well similar to that one under it. We didn't have any cameras or gear to go down and explore it, so dad built up a stone feature on top and put a cover over it. How i wish we could have gone down to see what was there!
It was an old outhouse
Have you ever seen The Ring?
@@avoidthis2052 hahaha
@@avoidthis2052 Yes lol
@@funonvancouverisland The water in it was deep, wish we could have put a camera in it and hopefully not seen turds floating around :D
Digging a well is similar to digging a mine. Make a hole and shore it up with wood when needed. When you hit water you install a pump then keep digging. When you can't keep up with water ingress you start building your rock lining and work your way up to the top. Gonna guess most wells started with a very wide hole so you have room to work and less dirt falling back in. As you go deeper you get narrower. As you line with rock you have a place to backfill with dirt, which becomes your water filter.
That makes sense.. the bigger hole then back filling. But why go to the trouble to build it back up and fill it in? Why not just make stairs to the water? Seems like once you got to the water, you wouldn't want another big task of filling it back in.
@@chrisdernovich7044 .... I don't remember the exact numbers, but if the sides of the hole are more upright than say 45 degrees it will slowly collapse, and the dirt will slide back down anyway. The next part is the wider the hole the more surface water (and other junk) gets in and that's not as clean as water going through the earth filter. Lastly, the lose fill goes back in fairly easy and you need to get rid of it anyway. Lining the well with rocks keeps the shape and helps with filtering. Bottom line is less junk around the outside when you are done.... and a smaller hole that you can cover to keep your water cleaner.
@@rupe53 makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation 👍
Starting at around 10 years old, I was drafted for the job of periodically cleaning out my Grandfather's 30 foot well. First we had to dip out all the water with 5 gallon buckets lowered down with ropes, then I had to climb down the well using the rock lined wall as steps with one foot on each side of the well and a rope tied around my waist. Then I had to stand knee deep in freezing cold muck at the bottom and dip it out one bucket at a time, two at a time if my Dad was around to help Pap with pulling the buckets up. . Once through the 2 feet of muck, I had to dig out another several feet of sand that had washed in. The worst thing about it was going from freezing cold to 85 degrees when I came out of the well hours later, and then use a scythe to cut the grass in the field. Good times. Kids today don't know how easy they have it.
Hey chig if you see this message then ive got to thank you for inspiring me to go out and detect.
It was VE Day yesterday (may 8th)here in the UK and it paid off i found a spent 20mm cannon shell dated 1942 fired in anger over western-super-mare beach during one of the battle on the severn estuary near Bristol.
So thanks once again, i finally have a top pocket find in my books
WWII relic woop woop.
Nice one, I'm dying to get out there and try it. Very fitting what you found considering the day, really nice finds
Very well made well. The lining wall is well clad and smartly put together. Neat fact, if you look at the volcanic bedrock, you can actually see where they used the rods to "drill" into it to make the hole. There's several marks as the camera rotates around the 5 minute mark. Neat, neat, neat.
Edit, especially visible at 5:48 two of them going oblique left to right.
Great timestamp
What blows my mind is they keep digging even after hitting bedrock… they had no idea how far they had to go to get water.
@@saxet9049 Hard for me to believe that it didn't start as a natural hole that they just improved.
What makes you think that's volcanic in origin? Looked like sedimentary, or my guess metamorphic, as folded as it was.
Doing that in europe would be awesome. I know where there is the underground part of a castle in a forest here in Austria.The father of my ex showed me before he passed away. He found it while working for the Earl as a forester when he was young. So like, 70 years ago. It is on private property, so it has not been explored yet. The castle was built around the 1300's. Was destroyed in the 30 year war, and a forest grew over it. The village it was named after, most likely used the stone of the castle to build houses, then it was forgotten. It is a secret I do not want to take to my grave.
See if you have a local caving group, or perhaps university archeologist. They may help to get some access.
May I ask how old you are then? If you do not want to take it to the grave, why not get a few folks to go see if you can have access to go on the land and explore it? Or maybe let others know so they can? I mean, Urban Explorers would be the right type of people to record footage and not touch anything just to get video. There are some pretty respected urban explorer channels on CZcams that respect their surroundings and just document and get out without taking or damaging anything further. I saw a video a month or so back with some German speakers visiting places in Italy. I know not which German speaking country they come from, but maybe you could get in touch with them since they are much closer to you geographically speaking? Broken Window Theory was the channel name, and the video was called "Exploring the Capital of all Ghost Towns: Craco, Italy". These guys have over 360k subscribers and that video already had over 600k views since it was posted a month ago. So they honestly seem pretty trustworthy to me and might be interested in checking out that site you speak of there in Austria?
@@BFKAnthony817 "Urban explorers" doesn't seem right though in this case, that tend to mean a bit newer ruins then 700 years and usually not in the far wilderness.
There are however more then a few CZcamsrs that visit or search for ancient ruins, graves and monument. Pete Kelley comes to mind ( czcams.com/users/PeteKellyHistory ). I remember seeing a vid from him when he searches for a lost Hillfort in England and finding some parts of it, his channel is pretty good.
And yeah, just leave the place in the shape it was before you visited and bring at least an extra person if something happens, old ruins no one visited in 70 years can be dangerous so going alone without telling anyone where you are going is not a great move.
Well go for it dude
Get a camera n go. I'd be in it like a rat lol. Post the vid too!!
When I was a kid we had a well like that...one day we discovered dirt in our water and had to give a look,this was before go-pro's so physical inspection required!It was discovered that rats had burrowed close to the edge and were knocking rocks in!This meant all out war on the vermin it took a hose from the van to the floor of an old shed we had.All other holes were blocked ,once the exhaust fumes worked my dad plugged them with a 222 rifle.There were many met their end that day,and we had clean water after that!Enjoy your videos they remind me of the good ole days.Thanks
That was a first for me. The work that went into digging that well. WOW!!!
Oh boy, I just came in from metal detecting and sat down and now a Chigg video to watch🤠
Lucky you, I hope you find lots of treasure !
This was a cool well drop. What do you think the poor little creatures are down there? EDIT: Watch the vid at 1/2 speed when underwater to see more.
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Did you ever happen to go back and find out what that strange face shaped rock was on the wall in that one cave video?
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@@r8kff853 I saw it. wish you well
Woodchuck graveyard
Interesting to see how the compressed sedimentary rock has been folded, over the many years.
Hi nacho I just dropped a tiny little stink nuggets was hoping for a massive loaf but can only push out little pellets right now still giving me good stink stinking well for me 2 sniff up u know
Wow. That was an awesome video Chigg. The craftsmanship, the time, the courage it required to dig the well!
Been down a few like that. Here in southern Ontario, I always hated when the gardener snakes would ball up in the rock crevices. The owner really needs to abandon it, which would be a shame and very costly, or maintain it, which would be costly. If a child falls in....those costs pale in comparison.
Garter snakes. They ain't slithering around with little shovels and wheelbarrows.
There not bad snakes.
@@dustinnukem5458 until one slithers down somebody's collar.
*"If a child falls in....those costs pale in comparison."*
Those costs are the result of a tort system that is out of control.
I have an underwater drone with a robotic claw. I would love to have an opportunity to drop it into a well like this. You're videos are awesome but they always make me jealous because you get all the best spots. Keep up the good work, best of luck doing what you do.
Someone needs to get Beau a setup where he can drop a camera into wells with a little more control.
@@westenicho my drone would work!
@@westenicho I just dropped a tiny little stink nuggets was hoping for a massive loaf but can only push out little pellets right now still giving me good stink stinking well for me 2 sniff up u know
@@thekrod8469 hi nacho I just got a bigger loaf out feels great stinks great 2
How deep can your drone go?
The skill and time and effort to build that well originally is mind blowing and probably the most fascinating part about this video. Yet these wells are everywhere and ninety percent of the time nobody has any idea who originally built it. Just so weird how many places and things there are like that everywhere.
Kind of makes you appreciate your tap water.
Amazing video. The super dangerous work is beyond belief. Can't imagine the labor needed. That bedrock formation is incredible
How did they accomplish that without it caving in on them? The rock lining looks like it was done yesterday not pre civil war. I’m impressed.
The same way they mine in other places. Wooden beams.
Much respect for the hard work & skill of the builders.
@William Pulsfus I would guess the soil had a high clay content this type of soil is like concrete it won't fall in unless you dig at the sides on purpose.
At the base the stone looked like it was supported by some rusted iron bars.
Pretty cool. I always wondered, who was 'chosen' to line these walls with bricks. Musta had alot of courage and faith in whoever was holding the rope.
There is a good possibility that it was built by slaves if it was built before the civil war. If it was built after the war war, it could have been built by former slaves. Some of them were very knowledgeable about house building and well building.
@@genespell4340 Guess people in the North, Europe and rest of the world all used slaves too, huh?
That is really amazing to see those rocks lining the wall. Someone actually went down there and built that well. Incredible!
the texturing of the solid rock is amazing...millions of years old
Nice. That well went way beyond the bedding plane and into the solid rock itself. When the well hit solid rock, you could see the geological bending of the natural rock.
What you couldnt see was blasting or chisel marks makes you wonder how they cut that
@@papaguche OK I got it. Thanks.
Extreme Caution! Those tons of stones look stacked and not very mortared together. You need the best head protection and a rescue team on hand if you decide on rappelling that.
Thanks dad
I would say a spontaneous wall collapse is VERY possible...
@@MrPatrickrawls I'm guessing he wasn't the smartest son? 🤣
The hand dug well on my farm was done a long time before I was born. I'm retired now. The well is lined with a concrete pipe about 3 or 4 foot wide. It has wood with steel roofing material over the well but mice can easily get into it and contaminate the water. It will need cleaned up before using it for drinking water.
Who today would even think about digging a well like that? How did they even know they would hit water? My hats off to the person who dug that!!👍
Yeah you definitely wouldn’t want to drink that water, saw a couple dead coons floating in there. Very interesting, thanks for posting Chigg 👍🏼😎🇺🇸
I saw a pretty fresh looking Gopher or some related rodent. You can clearly see the face.
I think it was a bear cub
dead animals in the water was (is?) a common issue on a shallow well. You fish them out with a bucket or hook then pump like crazy till the stink goes away. (old school) These days you'd add bleach, maybe two days in a row, then flush the water till the bleach smell goes away.
@@rupe53 I still wouldn't drink or use that water. I prefer modern treated water that kills all microbes and bacteria and filters out excessive minerals. I just can't live like that in the 21st century. I lived in Weatherford, Texas about 45 miles west of Fort Worth as a teen with my father and stepmother from about 97-2000. She had a well that literally had calcium buildup so bad it turned the toilet orange and reddish brown. She refused to use that water even for cooking, so we would drive into town with multiple 5 gallon Ozarka jugs and fill those up.
@@BFKAnthony817 ... granted, some well water is terrible, but 100+ years ago you didn't have too many choices. BTW, bad well water is probably why certain areas were slow to develop. As a side note: People spend WAY too much money on bottled water, which is basically city water that's been filtered to remove the chlorine smell. In my neck of the woods (the northeast) most wells are decent without further treatment. A little bit of naturally occurring mineral is probably better for you than the chlorine or Floride found in municipal water.
That's a deep well. Great video Chigg, thank you.
AMAZING workmanship, most especially in light of the fact that it appears that no mortar/cement was used in it's construction!
The quartz veins are really interesting....that was super cool! Thanks chig another awesome adventure!!!
How in the hell did they know if they dug that deep , that there would be water ?
Sure looked like a good amount of hard work to get that far down
you dig deep enough just about anywhere on the planet and you'll hit water eventually and even if you don't hit an aquifer you'll have groundwater start to collect
Good question. I have one at my house. 2 more out back also. I've never been down them. I did check the depth to the water on the one at my house. 25 foot to the water. 39 foot to the bottom. The creek out back is 60 foot below my house. Think on that.
They generally found springs and started digging.
Besides the incredible craftsmanship of the well, at 2:56 some webbing but they are everywhere though out
I see a green thing, plant or bug at 3:54 who knows,
At 3:16 theirs what looks like roots or a snake sticking out of the stone rocks
4:22 looks like wooden beams down there if that’s what they are then they survived 200 years in a well.
5:16 you can see a hole between but at 5:46 you can see it’s blocked or we are looking at a different angle but as we go in to the water here it’s hard to tell if there’s a passage way from that curved hole possibly there is a vertical tunnel in the water that’s been covered up over by dirt trees and such and water ,
6:00 obviously a dead creature possibly a rat or a groundhog but turns out its not alone
there’s another dead something at the top far left at 6:12
At 5:00 and 7:36
there’s some visible scratches in the rocks maybe, that the creatures tragically fell and the creatures tried to get out as the well filled up , died from drowning or starving, either fell or they came from the bottom who knows, as they looks like 2 two of them in there, hopefully not a family died down there
Anyway very cool little area and bit of year history in the well thanks for sharing Chigg
I love old wells. Actually well water is the only water we have. I'm 40 and we have always used well water instead of that nasty city water. This was pretty cool to see down in one
That pump jack is aprox late teens early 20s retro fitted with a flat belted electric motor later at some point. Most likely the windmill portion was pre-pumpjack era and then the jack was installed with a large flat belt pulley to some sort of engine, and then later equipped as you see it, then shortly abandoned after that. The well for sure being the earliest part of the design, again with most likely a rope n' bucket arrangement.
This is soooo great! I would LOVE to go out doing something like this. It is such a treasure just waiting to be explored❤️. You guys did an amazing job with the steadiness of the camera.
Can't imagine anyone in the future looking back at our concrete structures are going to stand back and say "Wow, isn't that incredible workmanship!". I'm always amazed at the ingenuity and good old fashioned hard work of our ancestors.
What a righteous well! Thanks so much for this treasure! ❤️
A good place to drop a magnet first. Back about 1959, Dad, Grandpa and I dug a well on the old ranch. It was 40' deep when the walls got damp. We dug another 8 or 10 feet and then began the rock ,lining. The next morning it was 6' deep in water. It took almost a week to line and cap it. We dumped chlorine bleach in it and used the ground level cam pump to pull water until it was clean. Nothing I wanted to do again. Ever!
What did you do to ensure the walls didn't cave in on you before you started the stone lining? That's what's always intrigued me.
@@dougdobbs You dig fast and the walls are drying out. After the digging is done, stulls are placed and removed as it is bricked up. After 20 feet, they made me stay up top to operate the winch as I was a kid. Most home dug wells are dug fast, then widened at the top ten feet and short walled with a dome. Them do cave in and widen with age. Do them right and they last a hundred years or more.
@@myfavoritemartian1 looks like this one was done right
That was one of your more interesting well drops! In to solid rock and all the dry stone work! There was some talent and old world know how went into digging that one! Totally fascinating!
Im always reminded of that little Jessica girl from like 30yrs ago whenever I see a well
Having watched WAY to many horror movies and having read EVERYTHING Stephen King has written, I still get the heebie-jeebies when I watch one of these explorations of old wells. Even more frightening are these kids that explore old caves and mines that go on for ever and they squeeze into some tight places, I keep waiting for Pennywise to pop up with a handful of balloons clutched in one claw.
Keep up the great videos. I can't imagine the manpower and time it took to construct these wells.
Back in PA where I grew up, there were some old houses across the street from our house that were on property that the Philadelphia Suburban Water Company bought up (plus a lot more) that were torn down in the mid to late 50's after they finished installing the dam which was actually quite large. Directly across the road from us I stumbled upon an old well that was filled in, but sinking in a field we played in and another kid narced us out and the water company dumped 2 loads of fill on top of it and that was that. It gave me bad dreams for a couple of weeks (as I said I watched all sorts of bad "B" movies back then) and it scared the crap out of me. It's a shame that as a kid you don't think to mark out locations of old wells and houses that were razed to make way for a reservoir. There were a lot of older houses around. Lot of history lost and there is no information in the archives from the water company and our local rag never bothered to microfiche the old papers and all of the old times who WERE alive back then are all long gone.
When the creature appears
Cool!
At 3:16 it could have looked like an ivory colored ring might have been lodged in the rocks, or it's just an illusion.
I saw that too.....Can't figure out what it was....
It could be something precioussssss
It's a root, you can see some other ones higher in the well.
Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Brother can you imagine how hard it was to dig through the solid rock. The wavy lines showed how it formed. That was cool as
That was beautiful! The stacked stones and then the striations on the rocks...wow! How did they build this stuff?!
Looked kind of like a groundhog to me, but I only saw the one.
Looked like two, one close to the camera and one further away to the left
Three woodchucks
@@reelingminnesota2855 WellChucks
Обалдеть, как много труда было затрачено, чтобы построить такой колодец. Спасибо за интересное видео.
I never realized or even thought about people actually going down and building these wells many years ago! Blows my mind! This was very interesting to watch and see what is down there...i just so happened to come across this video by accident and must say I was not disappointed!
they still build wells today in many parts of the world , very dangerous work
People did the things they did out of necessity. They knew what was required, rolled up their sleeves, and did the work. The work was usually masterful. Very different from the people of today.
Big difference was, back then, the goal was a GOOD job, now, it is a FAST job... you know, "Git 'er done!" : )
I would love to know how you setup the camera and light. Apparently you were able to pan in all directions and the light was really bright. Great video!
The amount of labor that that it took to dig and line the well with rock is mind boggling. Respect for the men that did it.
Well now that is deep! It never ceases to amaze me of the skills of our forebears, well, well, well, three holes in the ground. 😁😉👍👍👍👊✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧.
Amazing how dry the walls are. I always think of wells as being damp and slimy. How deep was it?
Going by the pipe sections (couplings) at 10 ft each, seems to be under 30 ft total, which is common. Remember, the space within the well provides for a fair amount of storage. I did the calculations on my hand dug well and it holds something around 600 gallons. OTOH, in dry season the recovery rate is rather slow so that might have to last you a week or more.
@@rupe53 thanks for the reply
Do not disturb the water. You never know what's living beneath the surface.
These are common in Pennsylvania. My Dad our friend George still use this type of well. There's one by my house too. I don't use it but it still has water in it. My cistern is made of stone and holds 3000 gallons of water. I still use it. I've been in them to clean them out. It's a strange feeling looking up from the bottom seeing the sunlight and cloud's going over.
Thanks so much, your video tells it all about what it looks like inside a hand-dug well.
I always hope to see a box hidden in the side going down .
I always wonder how they built a well. Very interesting.
Pretty obvious it's a tapped ancient tree. Once ya get under the stacked rock, it's easy to see the tree structure. Great video
You find the most unique things to show us! The well is beautifully made by a true craftsman back in his day! And, right you were, real rock towards the bottom. Wish I could have seen the bottom of my 120 y/o ggms and ggas homes. Loved it!👏👏👍👍🥰🥰
You know you're getting old when you refer to something from the 1920's as a "newer addition". lol I wonder what that little loop-like metal thing is at 3:16 around the bottom right center.
A new addition when referring to the estimated wells construction some time before the civil war.
This is really cool!
Anyone have a link to a vid that shows how these were made?
Seems like scary work.
I've lived in rural New Hampshire all my life, & I've spent much of my time roaming the woods. I've come across more old dug wells like this than i could count, but 2 really stand out: 1 i found as a kid that was covered with an old car door, & another massive 1 with a roof built over it. It was about 10 feet across, & it looked sketchy as hell. Thanks for the video, it brought back some memories i haven't thought of in a very long time. 🙂
Southern NH??? This stuff is fascinating!
What beautiful clear water! And you can only imagine the magnitude of the earthquakes it took to bend those bedding planes at such torturous angles !
That's amazing, how in the world did they dig this?
Diamond pickaxe
@@Roger__Wilco and some TNT 🧨
Tons of elbow grease and someone who is not claustrophobic that's for sure...Could you imagine the person who built this well playing a game of Tetris.
@@xippzap could you imagine him playing Donkey Kong 😳 down there Naked while using a pickaxe and gettin dem gold nuggets? 😮
Probably had 3 to 4 guys down there at a time digging. Two guys dug. One scooped into bucket.
I wasn't sure wells like this actually existed. Holy crap, amazing!
This actually made me sad, we had ancestors who built a awesome well with stone they had to move from somewhere else and the line the well after digging it out. Look at our country now, people now would never survive having to do anywhere near that !! 😣😣
Such a shame. That pump tells you that was a very prosperous and successful farm a century ago, and like was 40 years ago. What a shame to see it abandoned and grown up in trees. Glad to see you are lowering cameras these days, instead of lowering yourself like you used to.
Did you ever happen to go back and find out what that strange face shaped rock was on the wall in that one cave video?
What minute mark?
Good on you for always trying to cover up holes to keep forest buddies from falling in Chig. You couldn't save the fellows down there but your actions will make sure more don't fall in.
Thanx chigg. love all the new videos
The little kitty cuddle up with the dog was cute!
Just found your channel, love your content and energy! Going to binge watch your years of amazing content now.
Awesome! Thank you!
There was dead ground hog & something else floating in the water
At 3 minutes it looks like some wooden structure is opening on the well wall it looks like there's a tunnel going in that area. It's Bears further investigation. Would I go down in that well? You don't have enough money to ever get me down that well no matter how interesting it is! Thanks Bob from Virginia USA
The rock structure is fascinating, much different than you'd fine in a well in Northern Michigan, for example.
Still in great shape. Hats off to the people that built it. RIP critter.
Chigg do not go into the hole! You make me cringe with the thought!
What creatures?
there’s a dead something floating in there, some kinda medium sized mammal at 6minutes in. I don’t know American wildlife too well so can’t say exactly what
Looks like a groundhog to me@@bytesabre
Outstanding brother!!! Cant imagine blasting that deep....light fuse and get pulled up quickly!!!! Just beautiful, Thank you so much!!
Gotta say Chigg, this was a fantastic video. Really good steady work with the camera. I felt like I was on the rope. Great job
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❤❤ love the song at the end. so true
OMG Reminded me of … "It rubs the lotion on its skin
Or else it gets the hose again" Silence Of The Lamb's" 😳
It rubs the lotion on its skin
Or else it gets the hose again …
Australia here, Watching this video made me think, There are Hundreds if not thousands of Deep Deep Mining holes used for Opals, Gold e.t.c In Coober Pedy in the State of South Australia. These Holes are not Covered. Would Really be Interesting to put this Thing Down these Old Mining Holes to see what's Down there. Like you said at the start. May be a Serial killer's Dumping ground of Hooman's or Innocent Animal's.. Scary 😥😲 Thank You for this Wonderful video.. Amazing How This Well Was Built so Precisely back then. Kindest Thoughts To You and your family from The State of Victoria in Australia. 🦘🇭🇲🌏
A very good Monday morning to you all in the USA from Wellington Somerset in the UK