Hydro-Fracking a 400ft Dry Well vs. Drilling a Deeper 600ft Well. Pump Testing to confirm Results.
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In this video I take you along with us as we Hydro-Frack a well for another Well Driller and perform a pump test afterwards to measure the GPM (production) of the well. Along with that we were hired to drill another Well roughly 1000ft away on the next lot. This Video is a comparison between a 400ft Well that was dry & Hydro Fracked & a 600ft well that made water naturally. If you ever hire a Well Driller, don't search for the cheapest price!
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As a tradesman myself, it's always awesome to see knowledgeable professionals killing it!
Clear water is always a good sight to see....
I like the longer videos, great you tube channel.
Best learning channel on utube , keep up the good work ....Ben Alberta,Canada
Thanks for the quick explanation of what fracking is. Interesting video! Love your home made $250k frack truck.
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One of your best video's. thanks
Your comments about college education's was right and learning a trade is great. But I've realized that it I had a college degree with my trade I could have done better in my life. Great channel I've learned a lot from you. God bless you all.
We gotch you dude.
So glad to see you put a shield over that U-joint. I had a friend that nearly lost his foot when a double u-joint disintegrated on our race car and threw pieces of metal everywhere. You should definitely feel more safe now sitting on top of the drivetrain.
I listened to my viewers! I read 90% of the comments. Saftey is important to me in this business
I have worked as a driller. I have worked in seismic and water wells. I have never seen fracking a water well. I worked in the high north Arctic ocean, with seismic. You know what you are doing, a real pleasure to watch.
i agree with other comments i like the Longer videos as i listen and watch while im working a lot of times .
I really like how you explain everything. ty
Excellent video! Thank you!!
That machine is like a huge version of what I use with a water hose to unclog sewer lines. (edit...it's called a drain king)
I’m in southwest Oklahoma and my well is 100’ deep and makes 30gallon a minute. And y’all are happy with 3-5 per gallon is unreal.
Keep up the great content.
58k and growing. Been here the whole damn time. Love to see it man. Keep doing your thing. No well seal, not cut to height, no bueno for you.
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thats fracking cool !
Great job! I have never had to frack a well, but that was interesting.
In Colorado they tried to make a big deal about fracking for oil. All not understanding at all.
I had to go to Messa county to calm things.
Good explanation of the fracker. I know a lot about wells and pumps, but I always enjoy your videos.
Man am I happy to see a shroud around the drive shaft at the U-joint. I’ve only watched a few of your vids, and the first time I saw your leg close to the running shaft It bothered me.
Great to see you taking things serious, and professional!
Very good video,we drilling well from Quebec,Canada, Keep it up!
I had my well fracked several years ago but I didn’t see how it was done thanks for showing me what I missed, good video 👍
Great video on well drilling and fracking. I really enjoy your xontent on well drilling and the time really passes by quick,because you keep my interest the whole way through. Keep up the great work!!!
Im sure they will have you drill the other well deeper.
Great video! Keep it up!
Nobody hydrofracks here in Erie county ,Pa it sure would be nice if there was
Great video. I’ve wondered how you guys figure out how many gallons per minute. Thanks for the knowledge
I was on a well crew decades ago and worked through Michigan winters, -10 f was the coldest day we drilled. 260ft.
I never thought of asking a driller how deep he could drill. Seems like those people kind of got screwed by that first driller.
That was interesting. I remember My dad and grandfather using dynamite but that was back in the 30s 40s 50s and 60s. I remember my dad telling a story that the main boss showed up on the site and took over. Back then we we had to pull the pipe back up to well so not to be destroyed, you left the drive clamps leave them on the drill stem and raise them a few feet above the top of the casing. Harlan lift the drive clamps right on the top of the casing. Dad said when he put the wire to the battery the drill stem, came, right out a the casing to the end of the cable and right across the roof at the new house dad said Harlan never said a word. Just got in his truck and left.
A friend sent me this video on drilling down. Thought I would share my knowledge as a master of divining. Certain areas, if you drill down deeper you will hit salt water as in the state of CA. Each area has a limit for drilling before you hit an area which can contaminate your water source.
This apparently is working for the areas which they are drilling. Wishing you best of luck on your endeavors.
If the original well water is NOT on a live stream. There is a possibility that amount of water will not increase. Reason I became a dowser, our well was one not drilled on a live stream.
I find it interesting about the numbers of water per day.
I live on a spring, and my holding tank is 500g.
Depending on the time of year, I can fill that tank in an hour, or it can go dry. I only use the water for household things, and when it gets dry outside, we watch our usage.
After being dry and then getting a good rain, it takes about 10 days to fill the tank on our usage. I did find a low-pressure gas gauge, 0-50 PSI, that I use to monitor my tank. 22 psi is full, and 20 is almost empty.
Love the channel. Very informative and just subbed. Keep up the great work!
Awesome video, thank you
thank you for explaining the process of fracking, I thought it fractured the rock.
It does in an oil/gas field.
How come fracking was done prior to a redrill attempt? I ask, because of a prior redrilling video you did. Thanks. Excellent video!
At that stage Fracking is cheaper. The redrill was a 230ft well (not enough for a frack)
@@h2omechanic oh ok, cool. Thanks
was that 10 gpm artesian? i've left comments before how badly our well driller did us maybe 45 years ago, and we were 463 feet deep. Sure wish we'd have had you or your dad come drill for us. But then, coming to South Texas would probably have been too far! great vid. love watching 'em.
Thanks for yet Another Great vidclip .... I am on the other side of the World here in New Zealand . I Always look forward to your Very Informative vidclips ..... You have a Very 'Nice' calm way of presenting the information THANKS .... A Question ..... Would it maybe have been better to drill the NEW 600' hole first, get the result then just going to the 1st OLD Hole and drilling That to a similar depth and save the money of the Hyro-Fracking and get an even better result ..... ????? ..... :-) :-) :-) From the Vidclip it looks like the NEW 600' well was a given irrespective .... Best to ALL from ChCh, NZ
If the customer has the money to spend, yes that would be the best solution. But without drilling the other Well, we didn't know what to expect. We could have drilled to 600ft & had a similar well as the one we Fracked, then the customer spent another 4k vs the other 400ft well. It's all hindsight, the video ls show what we know (after the fact) and I provide context to it all. But at the beginning, we don't know what we'll find under the ground
Sounds to me that it would have been best to schedule the new hole first and give the owner of the existing hole options to frack or re-drill knowing what the new hole gave.
@@PlanetaryDefense Maybe not. It's also possible the customer was hoping to have two wells, so they have the option of selling one house without the other at a later date. (And without a shared water source that might complicate selling.)
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Could your last packer have failed because it was supported on the inflatable portion due to shifting during transport? That would be a good question for the manufacure.
Would it be worthwhile to re-drill the slow well deeper?
I was about to ask the same thing
I was wondering whether that was possible, only reason I thought it may not be was different size drill rods or maybe not possible to line up correctly following the existing hole.
Would be interesting to know.
Good job 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺. Question: What is green water rock ?? Pardon my ignorance 😂
wish you were in Oklahoma hard to find a driller go to 400
How do you read the inch readout on your well camera? It said 6,233 inches but you said it was only 62 feet. Sorry if it's obvious and this is a stupid question haha.
I came across your videos about a year ago, searching tracking, not exactly how I thought it was done.i sure would love to have you frank one of my wells in South Carolina. I own a community water system currently serving 38 homes here on Lake Murray. I recently drilled 2 new wells, 700' & 450', just about to get them online hopefully. My original 2 wells pumping around 25gpm ea had system approved for 70 taps, 1996, since then we'll 1(1982) began pumping less and less in 2012-13 or so to the point in 2015 it was sucking air after about 5min. There weren't but about 26 homes then running on one well for 8 years now. New construction new homes have taken their toll on this well. Of the 2 new, 700', test pump set at 300' 24hrs pumped 20,000 gal recovery after 3hrs was 50gal, 12hrs 700gaj 1gpm. I know I was there at 400 when drilling and dit quit hammering and pushed/fell about 15'-20' and blew a bunch of black water out. Maybe there is another 20k gal down there, I believe it will be worth dropping pump that far to see. Well 4 he left rig over weekend , said rock caved in so he put a 4" sleeve in that well I started 24hr test a little less aggressively than the othe and ended up at 16gpm. Sorry for tge sorry. Appreciate what you do, if in SC with your rig, I'll take to catch some striped bass. On another note if you've got a link to purchase a wireless pressure switch controller. I've found radio relievers that work with remote but I need automatic transmitter side. 500' through the woods. Thanks Wright
I'm proud of you you're not a POS.
Cardox tubes are used also.
8:50 actually, liquid definitely does compress... it just doesn't compress enough to make any difference in most (but not all) applications. Once you get into a few thousand PSI, compressed water starts storing a tremendous amount of energy. Needs to be a relatively large volume of water to pose a significant safety risk, because the ratio of the compression is relatively small. For example, in the case of the Titan submarine that imploded, the 'spring back' of the compressed water at that depth caused the water to rush into the sub at a speed faster than the speed of sound, much faster than it would have if water did not compress.
The air in the sub is what was under that load & popped the end caps off due to the CF deforming & the Titanum ends didn't flex. But I agree, water under pressure does Store energy, but you can't fit 101gal in a 100gal barrel without the barrel expanding. You may be right, im no hydroligist, but that would mean hydrolic systems would act spongy. Hell idk. It's just what I've always be told
@@h2omechanic It's difficult to visualize because we never work with such high pressures in our daily life, and even when we do work with high pressures, we can't really 'see' what's going on inside the system. However if your 100 gallon barrel is strong enough to hold 6000 PSI, then you can actually stuff almost 102 gallons into it, without any expansion of the barrel... As you can imagine, if you open a large port hole on a 100 gallon barrel that is holding in 102 gallons... the sudden expansion of the water out of the port hole is gonna be very violent!
From the Wikipedia article titled "Properties of water" it says: "The bulk modulus of water is about 2.2 GPa. The low compressibility of non-gasses, and of water in particular, leads to their often being assumed as incompressible. The low compressibility of water means that even in the deep oceans at 4 km depth, where pressures are 40 MPa (5800 PSI) there is only a 1.8% decrease in volume."
Water does compress. At about 100000psi, it will compression down 15% from its original volume.
The world is weird. I didn't realize it held in bulk volumes. I knew that different phases of ice compressed differently at cryogenic temperatures.@@BramBiesiekierski
Fascinating. In retrospect, knowing that big water was at 600', would it have been better to drill the first well deeper instead of fracking it? [edit: never mind, I read earlier responses to same question]
i commented on another video abour moving the sight glass away from yhe supply line. it just hit me you could just put a valve on the bottom of the line and if it starts pulling air just close the valve
Do you run the risk of twisting drill rods the deeper you go?
pontiac 2.5 "iron duke" about 90 hp. 1977-1993 the last pontiac engine
Yup! Out of a 1980 sunbird, still running! If I could find another I'd do a fresh rebuild and swap it out. Most fracks run a Kubota 3cyl diesel, so similar hp & tq & rpm.
Totally off subject but how big is your compressor on your drilling rig?
Just wondering….. would you have chosen to drill deeper through the shallow well if you’d known that better water production was 200 feet below?
Please tell me you all have custom molded ear plugs. The birds are nice to hear in retirement. Call your local ENT and get some please.
i always wonder if you tell a contractor "build me the well you would be happy to have at your house" what would you get?
You would either get one expensive well or the cheapest. May or may not follow local code.
Figured I would ask again since this was the last video you posted. How come you all use such a pump hookup where you have to protect the water line from freezing even if the tank is in the building? Here in MI we use pitless adapters so no insulation, etc is necessary. If I do not hear from you on this I will just have to actually give you a call. Keep up the good work. Steve
Well is ok🏆😀
How do you like them apples?
Literally the comment I expected while editing the clip in the Video 😆
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What do you call the one with the spinning head part at the end
Thanks. How deep did you go?
Hi, my well pump is 230ft, 1 1/2 pipe, 2hp and electrical is good but no water is coming out? Help needed!
while i am learning from you and your channel i would like to know your first name so i dont have to refer to you as drill dude . thanks for the knowledge
How often do you install reservoir tanks on your jobs? I have always been under the impression that a submersible pump lasts longer when pumping into a holding tank than into a pressurized booster tank with the constant on/off. Up front it costs more but in the long term with less well pump issues/replacement, it's cheaper. Your opinion? Thanks for posting these videos!
I think our well pump for our home is 20 years old now and pumps to a pressure tank it’s about 160’ deep
Have u ever filled a well for a windmill?
Would it make sense to drill the 1st well down another 200 feet to hit big water or just leave it be?
Have you ever found interesting minerals or metals when drilling ? It would be awesome to get a handful of 20oz nuggets. 25-150 oz of gold, that word got, everyone would be drilling and digging.. I think I'd try getting 96" hole to the bottom, and start dredging! then follow the gravel to the sides, while keeping the water pumped down to about 24" off the bottom. Another money put! 😆
How deep will you need to set the pump for the second well?
Although I don't know the circumstances here, why would a customer not clear the area themselves before "fracking day". One guy with a shovel or weed whacker or hoe could clear that area out in an hour and not have an expensive machine and personnel underutilized for even a short time?
So going a lot deeper for sediment sump, how much usually leave ?
My well goes dry every year at fall. I believe it is cased all the way down and has a well screen installed. Unknown GPM as the driller left the tag blank. 9 months out of the year we have all the water we need. Can my well be fracked? I’m located in NC.
hello. would you install a copper check valve at 250ft deep? will it burst due to high pressure?
Brass or Stainless Steel is industry standard
@H2o Mechanic You want to come to Arizona to drill a well for me? :D
I worked for a well driller. he said if you put 30 or 40 feet of casing in its going to be deep. also said if you put in a lot of casing. it is not going to be deep. Have you found this to be true?
I don't think you ever said, which is more expensive, the fracking you did, or set up and drill another 2-300 feet in the original well?
Could you potentially get water from a well that never produced by fracking it? Have you ever heard of that or done that? I have 1300' and 1000' well that never hit water in WNC.
It's definitely possible, but it depends on what geological formation your in.
@@h2omechanic SOgg "Granite Gneiss - Poorly foliated; interlayered with biotite augen gneiss" Some lots in the community hit water some don't. Seems maybe like dumb luck that some hit a fracture and some don't?, but wonder if hydrofracking can create or extend a fracture or if it only manages to blow out sediment in an existing flow path.
How far down do u put your pressure nozzle to start fracking?
Hello I need advice. I replaced the pressure pump. Now the Well pump is cycling on and off about every minute or so. I fixed the leaks. The pressure pump has no pressure.And the well pump is still cycling on/off.
Plot Twist, the well at YOUR shop runs dry. haha
I am trying to find his recommendation for the poly pipe that he suggests to get from the home depot, anyone remember and care to share?
I reached out to your office via email and sent pictures to get your opinion. Dont know if you got it. Spoke with Penny.
Penny isn't our secretary... what number did u call?
Please provide your email address
SOOOOO why couldnt you redrill 200 ft more in the first well?
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Is that a 350 Chey engine
Set up another channel with the full length videos if u can.
Old saying do it once properly ya dont need second go
Have you ever hit cave systems?
Hey, where are you located? Thank you
Could this damage other wells in the area?
Can the pvc takes 1500 psi pressure..
I believe the PVC casing only goes down 25 feet or so; the pressurized sleeve was at 50 feet. The pressure is high from the sleeve down. So the PVC casing was not under pressure. Cheers.
Where is this at?
LoL if I were the land owner seeing that at 600 that 400 would get punched on down the other 200
I know absolutely nothing about wells and fracking, but my monkey brain tells me that the sediment you forced out of the cracks is still there and there's a chance it'll just clog up again over time. Wouldn't it be beneficial to not just force water down, but then reverse and force it up to actually remove the loosened stuff?
I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud, but if you had a really strong pump at the bottom while fracking, and run it with the packer still inflated (after the fracking), it would create a negative pressure, increase the natural flow rate of the water and actually flush out any loose stuff?
your talking about pulling a vacuum, and a perfect vacuum would only be a 14.7 psi effort AT BEST. Plus real vacuum pumps dont like dirty well water, and an over sized shop vac type system would only get you something like a 5psi differential at best.
@@nicholastrawinski Not at all. I said put a pump down the well, as you normally would, while the packer still in place inflated.
The point is not to pull a vacuum, I never said that. What I'm saying is literally the same thing as fracking, but in reverse. You create a plug (with the packer), and force the water out of the well. This creates a suction in the veins, and the water wouldn't just trickle into the well as it normally would, but it would rush in and carry the sediments with it and removed from the well.
@@janosszabo98 if you put a pump in the well, plug the well shaft above so air cant get in, and then start pumping the water out, that's a vacuum.
Question-
Is your frac packer a commercially made product, or did you make it yourself? Details on its operation would be interesting.
10 Gallons a minute!!! Niceee
The goonzquad guys on CZcams have a well they say is 2000ft that doesn't make any water
Its 75°, it is a bit nippy.