Digging a water well, as deep as manageable
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- Digging a water well as deep as i can with the excavator i have.
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00:00 Unloading excavator
01:07 Removing of the tiltrotator
01:51 Explaining the job
02:17 Starting to dig
06:21 Picking up concrete rings for the well
08:55 Unloading concrete rings from fh12
09:37 The excavating continues
11:34 Down to 4,5 meter (14,8 feet)
11:51 Making a plateau to get deeper
12:30 Digging deeper
13:06 Bird view of the work
14:40 Making a deeper plateau
14:57 Depth update, down to 6 meter (19,7feet)
15:43 High speed digging
16:58 Driving up from plateau
17:35 quick chat
17:50 2 days later, filled with water
18:41 Driving down the pit and starting to scoop up water
21:23 Fueling the excavator
21:50 Speed up digging
22:19 Tractor arrives to lift down concrete rings
23:19 Lifting down the concrete rings and refilling
39:12 Lifting last ring in place
39:34 Talking about what to do next
40:12 Drilling hole for water hose
40:38 Pushing last ring in place
40:42 Drilling hole for electric
41:02 Digging for water hose
41:27 Talking about old well and hose
42:03 Installing water hose
42:29 Refilling pit with tractor
44:24 Talking about the well
45:10 Back after a few days
45:27 Putting down fabric in the well
47:45 Filling gravel in well
49:01 Slight change of plans
49:29 Digging in water hose
52:34 Refilling material
53:04 Digging last bit to the drilled well
53:45 Connecting new water hose from the not working well's connection
56:42 Refilling material in ditch
57:31 Digging in the electric
58:05 Refilling the last
58:17 Greasing the excavator
58:29 Loading excavator onto hock lift truck
59:54 A few weeks later, summarize of project
This video should be titled "OSHA Inspector's Wet Dream" for the U.S. audience :)
Damn, the excavator hanging on the edge of this crumbling sandy hole looks pretty intense. As does people working in that narrow trench.
How does one say "sketchy" in Swedish?
Sketchy can mean many different things and has no direct translation. You have to use a synonym with less meanings for the current situation, like risky, and translate that: "riskabelt". Or maybe "prekärt" (precarious), or "våghalsigt" (daring).
@@glennmuir5617
Modigt = Brave
Riskabelt = Sketchy
Viking = Calculated risk 😂
how about "all of the above"? It will be interesting to see if the weight of the stacked concrete caissons will slowly sink into the sand causing the well to get deeper over time. The density of the concrete versus that of the saturated sand is a calculated variable. The number of concrete sections above the surrounding water table height times the weight per section will approximate the amount of force. Without a "floor" in the first concrete tube to prevent sand from extruding into the caisson internal volume there is a possibility you might have to add one or some additional pilings later on should the lower sections "drift" out of place due to uneven settling. The weight of the cement castings seemed to be preferentially heavier towards the flattened side? @@madmodders
Die Jungs hatten Glück, sowohl beim Graben des Lochs für die Schachtringe als auch beim verlegen der Leitung im Graben dass sie nicht verschüttet worden sind.
Bei dem Sandboden, pures Glück gewesen.
I love that the dishwashing liquid at the sink says "YES" after a job well done to Matthias. Yes!
Wow, that was scary, seeing the walls sliding down and the mud building up...
Great job, great video!
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Sweden is fascinating. I spent a lot of time in our High Sierra mountains, skiing, and love mountains.
Wow, it's dangerous to be down in an unreinforced 2 meter ditch in such unstable sandy soil. Made my skin crawl.
They don't have trench collapses in Sweden.
I was more worried that no one was wearing a hard hat.
@@paulf2529 Hard hat won't make that much difference when you're under 5 feet of dirt and rocks.
@mikekemsley1531 it would help if small stones or rocks came loose though, in the uk, we normally use trench shoreing on any excavations more than 5' deep.
@@paulf2529 We us them here in the States too. trench collapse is no laughing matter.
Excavator operators are a special kind of mad. I like my working surfaces to be within about 10 degrees of level and pretty incredibly stable.
same here
I'd never be able to get into a hole like that
Osha would be all over this project lol
First, your videos are always interesting and informative. Your content is unique. The scenery where you live is beautiful. And of course, I thought you were going to slide down into that hole a few times. Keep it up. Hello from Ohio, USA.
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
Absolutely love how you put these videos together, the choice of music is fantastic and your timelapse segments are trimmed short enough that it's not boring, but long enough to get a good look at what's going on. The more videos I watch the more I want to visit Sweden, it looks like such a beautiful part of the world. Hope you gave your machine a good wash when you got home!
What a wonderful project, that you took us on!
A time or two, I really thought you were going to be swallowed up by that sand!
The explanation at the end was a nice touch as well as the demonstration of the water!
Another excellent video….. sure wish you made more of them!
❤
low producing drilled well are often saved in my parts because they often cost $15-25k to drill. A small pump is placed in the well with special limit switches and timers so the pump does run dry and doesn't start and stop too often. then this water is pumped into storage tanks to have a buffer.
I've never seen a trailer like this before that delivered the shovel. I've used and hauled a lot of heavy equipment in my life ,but that's the slickest trailer I've ever seen. Just goes to show you that you can learn something every day.
Extremely common in Sweden with this hook load management system.
It can manage flat beds, tanks, containers, etc.
Very quick to load/unload stuff 👍🏻
That shot at the end was terrific, btw. 🤩
I would never post this video where potential or prospective clients could evaluate the lack of planning or quality in my work and my failure to meet even basic OHS regulations and safe work practices.
It would be one thing if it was simply a pet project, but even that, having workers in a 2m. deep trench in Type C(3) soil without sloping or shoring is immensely dangerous.
You speak the truth.
Great video! Had me on the edge of my seat a few times wondering if you and the excavator were going to be eaten by the hole. Thanks for the explainer at the end, I think most folks here in the states would have just redrilled the existing drill hole deeper.
Or dropped an explosive charge down it to free up the flow.
In North America when we dig a well we always backfill the the well crocks with clear stone to assist the seams of water to be able to get to the crocks…if you backfill with the same material you dug out then you clog off the seams…plus the clear stone expands the capacity of the well so that you aren’t just drawing from what ever the crocks can hold…those 8-10 ton machines can do a lot of work but it was definitely a bit small for this job…in any case you got through it and the clients now have water!!
IN Canada - we had a concrete casing well installed , we have only about 15 feet of sandy soil , than you hit about 75 feet of clay ( in our area is perched water table ) the top half of the concrete ring were sealed with bentonite clay , and the a well tag was placed and the well was registered . it was done all done by a boring drilling rig
Last well that I had anything to do with, was hand dug down to about 30 ft, had a shallow well pump on it and pumping as fast as it would go, that's as deep as we could get keeping up with the water! The top about 8 ft was encased with concrete and a concrete top put on it.
he could have used the same stones(culverts) by laying it horizontally. That would have helped increased his well capacity. Or just fill that massive hole with the same material with one vertical culverts. All these would have increased the well capacity.
This is common practice in these ground conditions. Textile filter and gravel on top.
If you put gravel first, water flow and mud underneath will make it shift and collapse over time.
This is a very stable construction in soft ground.
You my friend are living VERY dangerously.
You took a very big chance of being buried alive in that narrow unsupported deep sandy trench, it could easily have collapsed on top of you. I drove a jcb 3 for several years and would have sloped the top half of both sides to reduce the chances of a collapse. I wouldn’t dig a trench like that if someone had to get into it!😮😢
Well said sir 👍👍
Hi Matthias....not long till you blast through the 50 k subscribers....always great videos....Keep up the great work...🏴
Such an underrated channel, great content.
During Covid our well collapsed and I could not get anyone to come and dig or drill me a new one so I rented an excavator and dug my own. I was able to dig down to approximately 9 meters but really wanted to go down to 10. The incoming water would not allow me to go any deeper. Once I placed in the 1m diameter well casing the water came up to about 3m from the top of the well. I have not had any water issues since and have not been able to pump it dry.
I like your style Mattias, getting the job done with the equipment you have and not giving up when things get difficult. You are right about people commenting on the risks sounding like all the safety warnings at the front of a manual! Keep up the great work.
A friend answering a call to the rescue squad. Man passed out in well. They didn't know there was no oxygen in the well, unfortunately 2 casualties. That was in the 70's. Lessons learned in the school of hard knocks. I held my breadth while he was at the bottom of the well.
That's sad to hear ppl losing their life over the really unexpected
Fantastic video,,from Florida thank you 😊😊
I love that trailering! Wish I still had the health to do stuff like that! I think I would offer it for people in need! I don't need the money really. Seems a shame that people like me have the time but not the strength , and the people with the strength don't have the time!
I ❤ that VOLVO FH truck! Good, old memory’s for me.
Looks pretty fun the only thing that appeared not good to me is I didn't see the guy going into the well carrying a gas monitor, it's a quick way to die without knowing why.
You are living the life i dreamed of, my friend. I would like to be your apprentice.
@@iridium8341did you just tell this man that he doesn’t know what life he would like to live and that he wouldn’t want to be this man’s apprentice….
If you get a chance to do an operator apprenticeship absolutely jump at the chance . I did it at 19 and have been at it 15 years now I love my job and running machines
Yes all those lovely logs available to put on the fire in winter.
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Nice one, thanks again 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Had my bottom clenching hard when escavator on verge slipping to bottom of hole the soil there so soft
those two little machines were total badass, great project.
My favourite channel
"Imagine putting your fingers here when it shuts" I'm sure we all had that thought :D
Lots of water, the sidewalls did not give you a break with calving off either. Nicely done!
If you want to go even deeper with it you can rent a trash pump and start storing some water. Once you have a good amount of water stored up you stack a couple more concrete casings on top of what’s already there and maybe even some weights. Then you start stirring up the mud slurry and you then pump it out. Do this a few times and the casing will slowly start to drop into the ground. It doesn’t work on a older established well. But one you have just loosely dug like this and hasn’t had the chance to really set up like concrete around the casings. It will work. There are companies that sink pilings the same way. Unfortunately I’m seeing now that you didn’t stack them all in line. So there’s no way it would work. Oh well. Lol.
A fireplace shop that needed water.
Oh how life can be balanced!!
Talk about holding your breath - I almost had to skip to the end to see how many subscribers turned up to your funeral. 😅
Love your modded container truck setup for the mini excavator. Genious
It's not actually modded it's called lastväxlare and are very common in Sweden
It’s wonderful to watch such a brilliant young man do his work in such a efficient manner and good cheer. Thank you for your content. God bless you.
Another Andrew Camarata -ish channel, I am here for it :-) Kult å se noen scandinaver også, blir litt mye amerikanere.. edit; this is dangerous for the man in that hole.
Andrew Camarata 🙌🏻😎
That was a bit like watching a suspense movie. I kept thinking you were going to slide in and the walls cave down on top!
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!....
Nicely done. I enjoy watching videos that show the whole project start to finish, with a summary at the end
You copy and paste a comment for likes...?
Man, really enjoying the job, video editing in parallel with the soundtrack. Pleasure to watch
I would have put down and compressed some gravel below the first ring to give it a bit stability and as a filter for the water
Stunning video, BZ Buddy ('Bootneck' jargon for Bloody Good Effort). The drone shot looking down through light cloud was magnificent. Plus some real edge of the seat action. Keep 'em coming!!
Holy shit, I thought this would end up being a digger recovery video, you must have big balls man, that’s all I can say because if you weren’t shitting yourself installing those drain pipes I certainly was and I’m in Australia on my lounge chair. I guess you have to make the most of a bad situation when you live in a remote place. Well done to all involved in getting the bore in.
Fairly certain that working like that would be illegal in the U.K. due to site health & safety regulations!
For example, a worker would not be permitted to enter the excavation at all due to its depth and the water,
larger machines would be needed to work from the top with a greater reach than those being used,
a crane would position the concrete rings.
It would be a more expensive job, and that is why so many U.K. projects either stop before they are finished or never get funding to start. HS2 railway is an example, the longer it takes to build the shorter it gets at each end!
Awesome.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
Man oh man you are turning out some top grade videos. Better and better , thank you.
Thank you for the video, it's always nice to see how our western neighbours get things done. I'm not overly enthusiastic about formal safety regulations, I trust more in using common sense. This time I must say that the collapsing pit with the liquified sand got a bit scary. I guess you know how your ground behaves though.
Overall I'm just mightily jealous of your sandy soil. The sticky clay here in south of Finland really sucks. Unless it's bone-dry in the middle of summer it sticks everywhere (including buckets) and makes a horrible mess. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
Fantastic video. Very interesting and really well done. The amount of work you and your team did to provide reliable source of water is commendable. At one point it looked like the excavator was going to be swallowed up as the side of the hole was caving in. Always interesting to watch true professionals at work.
Well well, have to say i enjoyed watching you digging down a well, well done!
well thanks!
Nicely done. I enjoy watching videos that show the whole project start to finish, with a summary at the end. Like an andrew camarata video 👍
Another amazing video, your are one of the few that I watch from start to finish, keep up the great work from Scotland
Congrats Guy's on getting the water wall done and finished. great job..
Awesome vid! I never seen anyone digging a well that way and it's wesome ;) Thanks for taking us with you - me and my 3y old son were watching you and enjoying the full vid! I am glad you make it 1h long and not like 15mins or something like that.
The sign that I've reached old age: "Man, those kids look like they're having fun!"
This drone footage is incredible
👍 😊
Great watching you plan and get projects done. The scenery is amazing.
looks like an excellent well. If you have several thousand litres of water then you do not have a problem. THe other aspect of this is that likely you will not have frost stop water. Excellent work.
My Grandfather was a farmer and like all farmers they know were the water is best. So when the government wantedf to mine gravel for roads he let them do so in the location of the freshwater spring on his farm. This ended up being huge and when it exceeded the capacity of the pumps it made the farm drought proof. The dam is still their and is visible on google earth easily. lol. people have water skied in it.
Scamming the government for free labor, your grandpa sounds like an absolute genius.
@@EthanPDobbins Very typical of Farmers. Especially old farmers who never wanted the government having anything to do with their farm in the first place. I am fairly sure it was 3 million cubic metres of gravel removed. Dam is 80 ft deep in places when at full after cyclones come through etc. Has Barramundi over 80cm long in it as well.
This is why we respect the wise old man.
Could you have used a slurry pump to clean out the bottom couple of concrete forms? Seems to have lost quite a bit from soupy slop flowing back under your bucket. That bank under you was giving way so much you had me worried you were going to sink your excavator when it caved in.
I was working on a well with my brother the same way like you. But we had a big advantage of having very stable soil and dig into the hill and then down. I regret , that we did not made an video about it . Last 1,5 meters digged it out manually with jackhammer and shovel. We put a concrete rings down with bobcat and chain hoist.
Different types of soil makes a heck of a difference
Pretty high pucker factor on this one.
You should do an Equipment, Truck type Video as I’m not familiar with that Rotator attachment and the Trucks are Unique as well. So many variables from Country to Country just as it does State by State, here in the United States of America.
Thanks so much as usual for the amazing drone shots. Great job with that well! 2 questions: What about your well from last winter you had problem and were going to fix it before snow again, and do those H&H pants with the bags in the front pockets get in the way? It looks like that might take a bit getting used to. Thanks Again!
The JCB is such a beautiful machine inside and out. I also like how you keep your machines so clean. Lastly a great video but scary LOL
It's amazing to think, years ago, all wells where dug by hand.
that truck that hauls the mini excavator is neat I've never seen one that the whole bed drops
That load management system is very common in Sweden, very quick and easy 👍🏻
@@petter5721 yeah me and my son are starting to ride motorcycles together that would make transporting them so much easier
You definitely need to make more content , your living in a wonderful place and with enough video’s combing out your channel will pay for itself eventually, it’s great content, keep it up, regards Andy Perth Australia.
i found your content a week ago and since then i have been binge watching
Can’t wait to see what you have planned next! Your videos are so much fun to watch
The beauty of where you live is staggering. I love seeing your videos and all of the beauty of your country. Your a great heavy equipment operator.
Wow, that was out of my comfort zone. I was thinking you were close to ending up in the excavation.
That's such amazing soil you have over there! Very good video, keep it going!:D
Greetings from Ireland! That was a great video, well presented and brilliantly edited. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Pozdrowienia z Polski. Oglądam na bieżąco i ciągle mi mało. Myślę że wszyscy chcemy więcej filmów. Dobra robota
Tak, masz rację. Powinni podkopywać kręgi, aby siadały coraz niżej. ranty uszczelnić glinką itd itd. Ale mimo wszystko fajnie się ogląda. Daj im Boże zdrowie. I taka malutka prośba. Bez wulgaryzmów. Język powinniśmy czynić szlachetnym a te wulgaryzmy sprowadzają go do rynsztoka. Dziękuję. @@micharoman9188
Awesome, what a crazy and wonderful work! Thanks for sharing
I sure enjoy your videos! Excellent quality and content! 💯💯👌
This is the first video of yours that I've watched and I found it very informative and entertaining.
Wouldn't it be more effective work, cost and result wise to drill the water well?
They did have a drilled well though, but it didn't produce or store enough water.
@@JH-lo9ut How can this excavation help what drilling can't?
You need some very large Swedish meatballs to put such an expensive excavator into a collapsing hole.
Nice work, only thing i would worry is at 54:40 when you are in the trench without proper formwork...
You may want to double your life/equipment insurance policy.
YES! 😂😂 and maybe liability too.
Good video thanks but very scary work - pity you couldn't just put down a bore pipe ?
How is the new flatbed for transporting the excavator holding up? Still looks pretty straight. Thanks for the videos. Cheers,
What is this beautiful clear diesel
I loved this video. The shot at the end was great, the only way to improve it is to have someone else fly it and have you waving instead. Could you have gone any deeper? I can't help but think if you extended the runway further you might have been able to dig it deeper and thus the hole deeper but it looked like it was getting pretty soupy.
Very nearly a FUBAR moment, thought for a moment there that you're digger was going the same way as that sunken piece of concrete pipe. 🤣😂
Excellent project and video, but curious to know what filtration is used before being used.
Regards Mark in the UK
Good stuff. I wish there were more of these to watch. Well done Mattias. God bless.
Good stuff? Idiocy personified more like.
Greetings from Estonia! Yeah, it's scary to watch that excavator hanging on the edge. The landslide is easy to come there and there is no turn back. Big risk, but seems that you have your balls.😀 Cheers!
This looked like an awful lot of trouble to go to for something that could have been done much more easily and cleanly by a small drilled well with pumped surface storage...
I think surface storage works better down in the south.
This is in the subarctic. Soil freezes down to 2 meters below the surface. Surface storage is not an option.
Makes the guys that hand dig 7 rings a day on the other side of Finlands boarder look like pros.
Haha, både fantastiska och hemska markförhållanden där!! Älskar hur ni gav upp på den där ringen och bara grävde ner den som att inget hänt! 😅❤
Den fick bli fyllning, vi hade några i reserv
The last guy I saw use these as well casings pumped the water away while he was digging and leveled the bottom well. In that case you could have layed the fabric and set the casing on top, hindsight 20/20
I was a bit surprised when you just just started digging again in the open hole after it filled with water for two days. I would have thought that you might have pumped most of the water out with a sump pump before digging more. But it seems you were racing against time with the equipment to move the rings on it's way.
Well hell if you were super rich you could have bought the biggest excavator and dug the well in 2 scoops. Lol. Thank you for your videos. I do enjoy watching them.
literally digging up Viking ground damn good work