How to INSTALL YOUR OWN WELL with a Sledge Hammer for FREE OFF GRID WATER
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- Drill a WELL in YOUR BACKYARD YOURSELF in a day with basic tools. Step by step of how I did it & you can too . FREE water for lawns, gardening, household use & more. You will not believe how easily this can be done & low cost.
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Yes for electric pump.
if you can locate your septic tank, you won't have to run so much pipe to hit water... maybe a foot or two at the most --
Did you just copy Bushradical's video?
Would love to see the electric pump install.
I personally think this a bad idea, water quality varies greatly and just be tested.
MOST IMPORTANT TIP call in to your local underground utility locator. You don't want to go and tap a well through your sewer, septic or power.
You don't want to hit gas lines either. Maybe more so than power or poo.
That's my point, I want poo water.
Oh thank you for this tip
I mean you don’t really need to call. Just use common sense and educate yourself on the building codes, then you will know where everything is for the most part and can also slow dig until you get passed the building code specified depths where the lines should be. Even if you do call, you never know if the previous homeowners did a little “DIY” installment without city’s permission, so you’d be screwed either way.
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so what your sayin is don’t call 811?
This might work at 1:100 ratios. In my extensive drilling experience, sometimes we need to chase that water 100 feet down or more. Not often can you find it so shallow, and if it is that shallow the next concern might be ground contamination. This video makes it seem very simple but please, don't underestimate the power of performing proper due diligence and researching these things, folks.
Yep, if I tried this I'd be hitting rocks every time. No way in hell I could do this without heavy machinery.
My well is 315ft deep. I am really glad that my well is deep like that as most out here are 60-100ft deep. A lot have a "surface well" (dont know the exact term). Im glad my well is 300ft+ deep because that water has to go through a lot of soil and rocks before getting into the "well reserve". My water is of great quality, only too much calcium so I have a water softener. I love my water. Water is life.
on our property we have water basically 1 meter down.
@@joakimcarlsen71 wow, that is very shallow.
@@TheCharacter97 Yeah. Don't know if this is true all year around. But last spring when we dug drainage the hole got standing water at the bottom.
It's absolutely crucial that you research water tables before you drive one of these, and find info for as close to your property as you can. Used to drill wells, my house has water at about 18' through mostly sandy ground. But only a dozen or so miles away you wouldn't hit water until you're 250' through bedrock.
We have a shallow well, about 60 ft that was dowsed. It was my great grandmothers house, but when my grandparents built their house next door they didn't hire a guy to come out use a dowsing rod. They plopped it down right next to their house. They had to have it drilled deeper twice and dynamited from what I heard. These Wells are maybe 200ft apart. Crazy the difference though.
When my grandpa wanted to dig his well back in the days, he had to drill down in the limestone for 150 meters (almost 500 feets) before founding Waters. It was a necessity back then, now the pump Is broken and Is summerger down there, rusting in that good water
@@littlegenius13 You realize dowsing rods are a load of crap, right?
Equally, you're not adding casing so there could be some adverse effects. Worth getting a geologist in.
@@KingAdrock420 kinda are, but it's a way for someone to use clues and their subconscious to "find" water or other disireable.
You know, if you're pumping into a bucket, you can hang the bucket right on the pump. That's specifically what those indents in the front of the pitcher pump are for.
He will drink it? Or is it a shower
Never would've guessed 🙄
@R S Not true? Ok... then pray tell what ARE those indents for, if NOT to hold a bucket? It sure isn't for looks.
It's amazing people that make these videos don't really know shit about what they are talking about most of the time.
@@KingAdrock420 it's been a month. Give em a chance he'll tell ya what they're for soon as he comes up with it. Til then it's for a bucket.
Most of our wells in Colorado are 300 to 600 ft deep, I guess I'm going to need a bigger sledgehammer
Careful, you might be charged for killing kangaroo in Australia.
Same here…
@@swaldron5558 bruh lmao
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Helped my Dad dig out and drive down one of these sand points. We used both a fence post driver and sludge hammer. It was most rewarding to see the water finally come out of it.
Did you guys do it because of this video here?
I request you kindly once time you study whole quran and aware yourself from the aim of life
@@sanjayw9878 no this was a year or so ago before I saw this video
@@hogybun Your dad sounds pretty cool, and you for helping, good job boys
Pretty cool. It’s interesting to hear that people are actually still using this in 2022. Being self reliant is a great mindset/option, like having backups for utilities, like water or electricity.
This is the kind of stuff they should be teaching us in school.
This is the stuff you learn from your parents, grandparents, or become self-taught!
Schools will NOT teach survival!
Why. The likely hood of striking water this way is zero
@@Brookssteff that's not really the point. We're taught how to do paper work, and show up to 8-9 hour shift while being supervised. We should be taught how to utilize natural resources around us to improve our self sufficiency, and ability to survive.
@EatPsychedelics ok panda craft, teaching people how to do thing's wrong is definitely a good idea. 💡
@@Brookssteff wwwhhoooaaaaa relax there MR.EXPERT let the people be, most people did this and succeded
Your sledgehammer accuracy is impressive. I'm sure I would have had a broken shin by the third section of pipe!
You'd be surprised how accurate you can get when your shin is at risk lol
I wouldn't even make through the first section without hurting myself.
Be careful driving metal with a sledgehammer. We were driving steel fenceposts with one, and it threw off red hot slivers of metal. Always wear proper eye protection, heavy clothing, and gloves!
Put a ball valve just below the pump and you will only have to prime it once a season. Remove before frost. Open the valve before pumping and shut it right after stopping and it will hold the water in the column.
Don't you mean check Valve?
@@jimskenadore1791 That will work too.
@@jimskenadore1791if you use a check valve then you need a way to bypass it before frost, unless you sacrifice pipe capacity to put something in to absorb freezing expansion.
Where I live, in an arid desert in eastern WA, you have to get a permit from the county and the state department of ecology, which could cost you upwards of $2000 for the permit application, and then $180 per year if you're approved. No guarantee you'll get approved, because they are over allocated for senior water rights as it is already. As it is, you have to not already have access to irrigation water (I live in an irrigation district). You'd be limited to a maximum of 400 gallons per day for irrigating a maximum of 3000 square feet. Also, for domestic you, you'd have to get the well certified potable, and there are annual testing requirements for that. The reason I mention all of this is because a homeowner can get into a lot of trouble and fines for a non-permitted well. Water rights are a huge deal around here.
Colorado too, they're pretty picky about their water most of our wells are 300 to 600 ft deep I don't have a big enough sledgehammer
I’m sure California is the same if not worse
@@Here-2-Learn in Los Angeles it is. Underground water rights are already claimed. Not that you'd want to pump that untreated water anyway.
On Mexico it's the same deal, you'll need city and state permit to drill a well, i believe there's no restriction about the amount of water you can get out also no annual fee
Makes sense, government owns the water, the sky, the land, the birds, the…..
One would honestly be surprised at how much water there really is under ground. This video reminds me of Water Wells for Africa which in my personal opinion is the best and most thorough organization for providing those most in need of water with clean and free sources. I know the head of the charity personally. He's a really nice and humble man living here in California, and a pastor also. They've already dug 57 wells this year alone and each one is already creating unimaginable impact. I mean, disease outbreaks just stop completely in these villages that receive clean sources of water. It's beautiful.
Tip: put one pipe wrench on the lower pipe and one on the upper pipe, the coupling will tighten up in between trust me. Saves a second tighten process for each coupling.
Boy oh boy, does this take me back to my childhood. My grandparent's cottage in central Wisconsin used sand point wells. Where he lived the screens on the points would get coated with a lime deposit that would harden like cement. Every second year we had to use a hydrologic jack to pull the well up. Then we took a wire brush to remove this cement like buildup. Unfortunately, the next year, the 3rd year, we would have to replace the point because the buildup could no longer be cleaned off the outside. My cousins, brothers and I would see who could knock the well down the farthest in 10-minute intervals. Many years later my grandfather learned if he used a point with a larger screen, he did not get this water blocking lime build up. We too used a short length of pipe with the drive cap on it to protect each section of pipe. My grandfather also made his own well driver that slid over the top of the pipe that we would lift then drop. This made the wells go down quickly and saved many sledgehammer handles!
Yes I'd like to see Electric Pump added to well...This was a great video, exactly what I needed to see ,I need to install one,but I want the electric pump on it..Thanks,love your videos.
Couldn’t said it any better!!!
I would love to see an electric pump, too, but I'm trying to get rid of as many electrical devices as possible. This will make the transition to full off grid living a whole lot easier.
Me 3 electric please
@@kristinradams7109 I guess staying away from electrical will eliminate any dependence on manufacturers but you could always install a solar panel with a battery to remain off grid
@@petersimplife That's a great point. Cheers :)
By far the best video thank you for making life so much easier
Glad it helped
The way we drove then when I was a kid was with a piece of pipe about 6 inches in diameter and about 3 foot long. It has a cap on the end and two handles welded on it below the cap, making it look like the letter t. The cap was filled with lead and the whole thing weighed about 20 -30 lbs. you could either lift it up yourself or 2 people stood on either side and did it. The 6" pipe fit over the pipe you were driving and the long "skirt" kept the whole thing from glancing off like a hammer does. I can still remember the sound it made.
Manual post drivers / post rammers. The ones you can buy now have the handles running down parallel with the length of the tube, which is probably a better design for your hands and wrists and lets you choose where you want to hold it.
This is awesome!
I live in FL so I probably don’t even need to go that deep.
As a kid I dug a big ass hole with a friend for fun and we hit water.. probably only about 10-12ft down. (Yes. A couple of 12yos got bored and dug a giant hole. I loved the book Holes and was curious how hard it actually was to dig a hole a shovel length deep and wide. Once it got big we just kept digging! Lmao ) We planned to make a fort, but almost died instead. We were in the hole and it started raining, and the way we would get out was usually running up the wall and grabbing a steel bar at the top (we ran a steel bar across the middle of the top as a pulley and to rest cardboard for shade.) or boosting and then lifting. We had no ladder. So it started to rain, we couldn’t run up the wall, we were too slippery to grab and lift each other and the hole was rapidly caving in and filling with heavy mud.
We did the most risky thing in my entire life and agreed to not leave each other behind and if one of us died, not to blame ourselves or each other. We knew it was a very bad idea. We had no choice.
We started pulling the walls down, and jumping on top of the dirt, pull and crawl… pull and crawl… We had to time it properly or one of us would get knocked down and stuck. We essentially just caused it to cave in much faster so we could climb our way out. But it was essentially quicksand and we would use each other as a raft. I’d grab a portion of wall, pull it down and cause a cave in, mush it into a pile and lay on it, my friend would put his knee on my back, reach up behind us and pull it down, help me up, I’d be behind him now, he would pull the wall, lay on it, I’d step on him… etc. all while trying to “jump” to not sink. If you stopped hopping or “walking” for even a second, you’d start sinking. It basically looked like two drowning boys humping in a mud hole but we didn’t care. We knew it was life or death.
My friend started to have an asthma attack and his inhaler was long gone.. by this point our shoes got sucked off and buried, his shorts were gone… it was a mess. We got the pole down, but we couldn’t make it span the gap again, so we leaned it diagonally… messing with the pole was making us sink.. I jammed it diagonally and he couldn’t breathe so he pushed me up the pole and I literally had to step on his face to push myself up. I got up top, grabbed the short shovel with the handle and pulled him out.
I was naked except for a single sock, he had underwear and a tank top on and was barely breathing through his bloody nose (from my foot. My bad.) and it literally stopped raining almost immediately.
We lay there on the ground for probably 20+ minutes while he caught his breath. I held his hand and and told him one of his favorite stories from my childhood in Jamaica and he finally calmed down. (Yeah.. a naked boy and a boy in his underwear laying in mud holding hands in the woods seems weird, but I’d do anything for my best friend. He was severely traumatized and turning blue. I had lung cancer and couldn’t run, and hurt my leg getting out. It was together or nothing for us.)
We sat up, he gave me his shirt as a makeshift loin cloth, and we walked the 15mins or so back to civilization and to his house for a backup inhaler and showers.
Damn I wish we had cellphones back then… sheesh.
Not sure how a simple comment turned into a weird story of childhood trauma and bonding, but there.
That’s my story. He’s still my best friend 15 years later. Even if we don’t talk for long periods we both know we would do anything for each other. Going through trauma, my cancer and a bunch of other stuff made us close. Sam is a good dude.
Wow. I’m glad you guys made it! That was a super intense story and makes total sense to me. You did what you could and made it out!
Man, tks for sharing. Great history for a movie. Reminds me ‘Stand by me’.
I love your little story. Glad both of you made it out !
Write a book. Turn it into kid stories. Great story thanks!!
Me and my cousin dug a GIANT 6 foot deep hole at a condo complex, that my grandpa owned, over one summer. We were about 12 and 9 years old respectively, so a 6 foot hole was well above our heads. We covered it with plywood and leaves/branches to make a camouflaged underground fort that had a ladder leading to the surface. We ended up severing several cable TV lines and cracked a couple irrigation lines. The entire complex lost cable until they could run a new line. It cost like $5k to get everything back up and running. It was one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life.
There's something nice about the idea of having well water in your yard any time you want.
Yeah like when SHTF!
I’d recommend cementing the top few feet and a platform on top of the ground. This will stabilize the whole pipe and keep it from bending in the lose dirt and potentially working itself free over time.
Your daughter did amazing.
Good job helping dad there kiddo.
In india we called hand pump. Since ages we are using for ground water... 🙏 Love from India 🇮🇳🙏
I admire the American people, they can do a thousand things on their own initiative. They buy their materials and tools and get to work!
I'm sorry paisas but its true
What I also like and admire about
Americans is that they actually follow instructions step by step
@@israelarellano5293 Americans ???
There is 1 billion Americans
@@z9944x USA baby
One minute in and it’s already the best video on sand point wells. Thank you so very much!!
New England might have a high water table, but they have one mother of rock table too
And I still know plenty of people with 200 foot wells in the area. I wouldn’t want to try digging that by hand in rocky New England soil!
Really interesting video. It's worth noting that fence post drivers are widely available in almost any feed store in the west, it must be because we have so much more barbed wire out here. The water table is so deep in our area that I won't ever try this method, but I loved the content.
Yeah, LOL. T post drivers are not "really difficult to find." He just doesn't know where to get them. And with the internet, nothing is "really hard to find."
Or cut three trees down for a tripod and hang a pulley, rent a well hammer use the rope n pulley to hammer it down
I use an electric jack hammer when driving hand wells.
I couldn’t agree more
They sell them at Home Depot in the garden department in my state.
Here in Florida we use these wells all the time for lawn sprinklers with what's called a "lawn pump", but not for drinking water. The 220v lawn pumps are good for about 30 feet of well. Mine is at 35 feet and has higher pressure than my city water.
Some differences... We use the same system but with SCH 40 PVC. Everyone...and I mean everyone in our area uses PVC; even the professional well installers; and I've never heard of anyone cracking their PVC well pipe. I know of no neighbor that used metal pipes. You can also buy a large enough "post driver" everywhere here in the South at all home and hardware stores in many different weights and sizes, and if you don't want to buy, every rental equipment place has one for about $10 a day. I used both a sledge and a post driver on my well. Also, generally the first table of surface water you come to is not "good" water because it is full of minerals, including, sulfers, calciums, and iron; it will smell and more importantly stain your constructed surfaces of concrete, brick, and wood; especially the iron will make everything rust colored; but the grass will love the extra iron. So, to get out of that first layer of water, you need to look for a "hard pan" of compressed material that is almost like rock. It will slow your spike and almost stop it for about 1 to 2 feet. After you spend a very long time pounding through that hard pan, you'll hopefully hit sand again. Drive the well the length of your intake screen past the hard pan plus about 1 foot, to know you are completely through. Then you will be in clean water. I have this type of well for my 3 acres of lawn watering, and have helped 5 neighbors install their wells the same way. Only on one property did we need to move to a different location to find good water in about 30 feet.
But check with local commercial well companies for an estimate. They will know were and if it is possible to get a shallow well on your property.
That's what my dad and I did 40 years ago. He used a weight bar and some weights along with a tripod made of 2/4 boards. Took most of the day but it works to this day.
We jetted ours in with a water hose hooked to the end of the pipe we were sinking. It works the best in the sandy soil that Florida has cuz it flushes out all the sand
Without a submersible pump, 35 ft is impossible. 33.9 feet of suction will pull a vacuum strong enough to start the water boiling in the pipe.
@@insertphrasehere15 there's a foot valve at the bottom. So the pipe is always full of water. You don't need a submersible pump
My fam installed one 20 Years ago in our garden and it still works pretty fine.... We use it every summer
In my grandfather's village, they have this huge "room" with no roof and it's beside the well pipe and I think what it does is when it's monsoon season, it fills up the ground of the pipe with water.
The "room" is probably dug as deep as the ground water level where the pipe is so that the water reaches the pipe more efficiently and the room can also be seen above ground so it stores more water and I feel as if the entire village can help themselves from it.
Actually when monsoon season hits the entire village road looks like a big stream and everyone uses boats.
Kids swim there and parents beat up their kids for doing that but it's fun.
Good tips! Our ground was hard - each sledge hit got us maybe 1/8" down and the pounding caps destroyed the threads and the caps would break despite tightening them repeatedly. We found that using the heavy duty couplers AND renting a small, hand held gas engine pipe pounder used by fencing contractors did the trick. Yes, you will go thru a sacrificial coupler every 8-10 feet and the rental adds about $3 per foot to the total cost, but boy is it easier!
Or you could just use a drill
@@curtis12999 how do you use a drill?
@@michaelnoble2432 idk about the drills but there is something manual that u can use to dig this sort of wells, you just insert it twist it and pull it, do it over and over again and it has extensions so u can get really deep
That thing went trough rock? I live on top of an ancient coral reef.
@@shadygaming6523 Ive used such a tool. Never went deeper than 1M tho. Doubt you'll get far once the dirt gets dencer or you hit a big rock or something else solid.
Yes I would love to see a pump installed.
I request you kindly once time you study whole quran and aware yourself from the aim of life
Here in Michigan if you do any kind of building even putting trees into your yard if you have internet that is in the ground but no gas lines like we do out in the country you still have to reach out for a building permit in some cases because one you can only build so far from the street as the county owns so much of your yard even when you own it yourself LOL. But like trees in my situation they're pine trees and they grow six feet on each side so not only do they have to be 6 ft from the road but an additional six feet so when the tree grows outwards it doesn't interfere with network upgrades later down the road
Good tip about soaking the pitcher pump first. Thanks!
I tried this. I hit black gold, Texas Tea and now I'm moving to Beverly...........I hear the weather is nice there this time of year.
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I love watching these videos , not that I’ll ever even attempt doing that , where am living I would probably hit oil before water , I just really enjoy watching it
Thank you Bro! I really needed this knoledge!!❤
I remember when I was young in the Philippines. Grandpa's home had this outside. And whenever I was being washed after I pooped in the morning, my grandpa would let water buffalo drink fresh water before a long day of farm work. That was in the late 80s.
This is unbelievable. I was looking at land last year and they were charging anywhere up to £10,000 for doing this with a machine. Thanks for the info!
This only works if your water table is high. Like above 25' high. The pumps used for this type of well will not pick higher than that.
I request you kindly once time you study whole quran and aware yourself from the aim of life
This is a very common sight in rural and semi urban areas of India. I will suggest that you a circle of one meter radius with a depth of one meter which should be filled with gravel of various sizes from large at the bottom to smaller on top. This will help in recharging the ground water from rain. My parents installed one 41 years back which went dry a decade ago till my brother made the water recharging trap. It's working still.
It's technically illegal in the west, although it really should be done more.
I have used this method but with a one kW electrical pump. In the beginning I got about 800 liters per hour but now it's probably more. The quality has also improved drastically. First it was saturated with either iron oxides and/or humus but now it's clear. The amount of sand used to be considerable but has finally started to decrease to a level that makes it possible to used a good quality filter to get water for my house.
I have the very best circumstances for a sand well of this type. My land plot is situated on about 160 feet of fine sand and the ground water surface is only 4 meters below the ground. I live in northern Sweden, actually futher north than Fairbanks, Alaska which means that the climate is cool and ground water quality tends to be very good. I live on a hillside and above my plot it's only forest.
My closest neighbour has put 6000 dollars in his well that was drilled into the very rock. He has good quality of water, but probably not better than I have. He neither has the same capacity as I do. And it has costed him several times as much money.
This is not for the faint hearted, pounding away in the Florida sun is no joke. Try a gas powered post pounder, I am sure it would be worth every penny, unfortunately they were not available to rent at my location. After about 23 feet and much toiling, i struck sand bearing water. Let me tell you, that when you connect the hand pump and the water begins to clear, it is a very special feeling. Many thanks SC, also connected electric pump to well.
Very glad to hear it worked out so well. The day I installed this one it was over 90 degrees, I should have waited for things to cool down but I just took breaks and kept at it. It really is amazing to see that first water come out!
We always used regular couplings, we just used one for driving and then take it off to add a good one for connecting.
We also used a “pump baby”.
A steel rod that goes in the pipe with a big weight on top and a long handle on each side.
We would slide it in the pipe with the “beater” coupling on top and you and a partner pick it up and then let it drop.
It drives it.
All you have to do is keep picking it up.
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Thank you so much, this has helped me save a lot of money. I drilled several holes before reaching the kitchen sink tap underneath us. I can just about see the cooker. Next, I'm hoping for free gas.
I request you kindly once time you study whole quran and aware yourself from the aim of life
@@RussianFans-vn6cj why do you have to be so difficult? Can't you just point me to the drilling section? I have ADHD, not sure I can read the whole thing.
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We have these kind of pumps from so long and up in the mountains they can get deeper than 100 meters. But also takes a bit more muscle to wind them. They are really big. At least double is size. But they work. Love them.
Fun fact. Those couplers make great ball joint removal cups for jeep TJ front ends. Saved me a giant hassle when I had to do it myself and the borrowed AutoZone tool didn't have the right sized cups.
My neighbor installed one of these in his basement with an electric pump to irrigate his lawn. He also runs it during heavy rains to help keep his basement dry.
Yeah, it's called a sump pump. 😆
@@Pro1er A sump pump is only a few feet in the ground below the basement floor. The shallow well is 15-20 feet deeper.
@@n9wox You must have missed my emoji.
Great video. I have access to one of those high end gas powered fence post pounders and while it’s a bit heavy to deal with it pounds fence posts like nothing. It puts a 6 foot post half way down in about 20 seconds. I bet that thing would work great for something like this. Anyhow keep up the good work!
Thanks for your great job of showing the simple method of getting water. 😊❤
Aloha 🌺 from Germany. Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙏🥰
4:34 I got a pretty good chuckle out of this ladder technique. Sometimes, we just don't feel like going to get yet another tool let alone step ladder! I think I've done this using a rocking chair at some point!
This seems best for coastal plains. Not uncommon for wells around me to need 800 feet of pipe and multiple attempts to find water. Living on the Blue Ridge
This is a great thing to do... if you're in California. At over 8,000ft elevation my well was tapped 600 feet before they found water
It's amazing how we take things like these for granted back in my village.
Tried this years ago. Cut a hole in the basement floor so I would be closer to the water table and wanted it indoors for easier access in winter. Pounded down only 7 feet and hit bedrock. Tried on and off for days to pound deeper, even pulled back up a foot and pounded Down again. Definitely bedrock, only limestone, but you still can’t drive a sand point through solid rock. Found a solution that works, a lift pump installed on an offset in the same hole with my electric well pump. I can hand pump the same water I normally drink when the power is out. Lift pumps can also pump deep water, my water table is 50 feet down. Which is why I tried the lift pump in the basement and as far from the cone of depression that a working well can create as it draws down the surface of the water table. Deeper water is also safer since it is more filtered by the greater depth. But deeper water is also harder with more minerals. Shallow water is softer and sweeter, but has a greater risk on surface contamination.
Gave my lift pump to on of my brothers, has a garden and his water table is only 7 feet down. Off course he has to have two sump pumps for backup to keep his basement dry.
Wow. Good to know about depth/filtering
Another caveat: Call Before You Dig (dial 811) to verify where utilities have put pipes or cables. If you break a cable or pierce a pipe, the cost is on you.
I work with water wells proffesionally in switzerland. We Drill up to 150m in here an sometimes find no water at all. I guess researching what kind of ground you have would be a good deal. Love to see that working at your place so well. Very nice.
Watch water dousing. You can get a well angel to help just by asking. It is usually a 5 min wait. Women are 20 times better at dousing than men. Better at accepting the help?
@@charlanpennington3989 I'm sure the well driller has never heard of such charlatans. LOL.
Where i live (south Italy) there are rocks everywhere, the soil Is not more then 2 meters Deep and After It you Will only find limestone. But back in the days, my grandpa, Digged his own well through the Stone and everything and did actually found water... 150 meters down in the earth...
Now if I can just figure out how to dig farther than 18" in Texas clay, even with a gas powered auger.
Try going through limestone in central tx
18 inches doesn't sound like much. You sure you don't mean 18 feet?
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I've had a few pump wells growing up but never knew how to build one.
Thanks!
I have dug several wells with a garden hose and PVC pipe, works great.
My water is at 400’… do you think it’s possible?
How do you go about using pvc .. thanks for instructions
This was very helpful, I hammered a well right into my septic tank now I have all the poopoo water I can drink
Water table depth in my area is around 100-150 feet... so, that's a bit deep... even hammer into the ground 12 feet would be too hard/tiring for me... But great concept and idea!
That's pretty sweet. We have a well and a cistern I've been told. We'd just need to make it functional again. It's boarded up. With all the things that can happen having access to water like this in an emergency, and a water filtration like I use camping, could be huge.
Now if he has a video on making a small septic tank, it could be used to install a flushable outhouse. Enjoy cleanlier camping life.
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Thank you, I loved every part of that video ❤it is much appreciated. This is something I am confident I can do myself.🙏
I had 2 driven wells in my life. One in Florida, the other near the Chenango river in NY state. Both came with the property when I purchased them. The one in NY surprised me because NY soil is rocky.
I was a kid when my dad installed one at my grandparents, I believe it was 40 feet deep. Then he built a small well house around it with cinder blocks, insulated it and installed a well pump and bladder tank. Great to see your teaching your kid as well ( no pun intended)
This kind of pump only allows about 20 feet deep, as it uses "suction" (actually atmospheric air pressure) to drive the water up the pipe. Technically, 30 feet would be the absolute maximum, but the pumps can't draw an actual vacuum.
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Just as the well builders of old, all throughout the beginning of the Bible recorded, they had to build multiple sometimes to discover water. Being able to pump a well even with a hand pump, sounds vastly more useful than any bucket could ever be. This is a cool idea and something I just may look into for my own future home!
If you consider buying land, its a good to check with local drillers and closest neighbors. Certain areas can have serious problems drilling water wells.
I am VERY glad he recommended getting the water tested.
Not all ground water is drinkable, and some can be toxic.
It's ALSO important to know your area well, for example, in one neighbourhood where I lived, there was originally an old electrical sub-station. The sub-station has been gone for almost 70 years, but the land currently cannot be built on as it is thick with PCBs. the land across the street, and down slope from the land cannot be built on either because the PCBs have leeched through the water table down slope.
There are any number of commercial, and light industrial concerns both past and present that can have a very detrimental effect upon local ground water.
Know the area, Know the history.
This is ideal for those who already have a well...stick it down in the well is something I hope to do one day...I got two wells.
Of course we want to see a video on am electric pump....
I mean, that shouldn't even be a question. I'll probably never install a well, but your videos are to the point and entertaining!
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I will never do this project, but still I always learn so much from SC's videos - thanks for sharing! 👍
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Great video for the guy who somewhat handy but needs step by step directions. Thank you!
You're welcome!
I like using this pump. I grew up with it. Thanks for sharing i enjoyed watching.
Great video. About 30 years ago I installed a sand point well without any pounding by washing pipe into the ground with a garden hose connected to the irrigation pipe. Got the info from an instructional pamphlet at Home Depot.
Oh yeah that’ll work for sure. I would use the water hose method to run irrigation pipe under sidewalks. Works great!
Didn't know I wanted one of these until now
If you decide to put one in, you feel like you struck oil when you see the water. Being able to use some resources at home like this is really cool and can save you money too.
You may need it soon.
Thank you so much good tip, I always wanted an outside hand pump and definitely would try this method.
This is the clearest video on this topic. Thank you!
Been thinking of doing this in my backyard lately. Will check this approach out. Thanks!
City prepper is in the house.
location matters. you cant do this in areas that have clay in the soil.
I found out the hard way.
Yeah and its a fucking nightmare to drive the pipe thru and it clogs the intake holes.
What im doing is using half inch galvanized pipe with a T handle made out of pipe, a water spigot, washing machine hose to a water hose to dig and my 1x1/4 pvc pipe with second water hose thru it to keep the ground saturated so i can recover my drill pipe.
I have a 4 inch whole saw sandwich between 2 half inch base plates. The holes line up for bolts and nuts.
Currently im stuck at 24 feet spinning my wheels on my second shallow well.
I hit some gunky shit down there and im trying to figure out wtf to do now.
My 3 inch pvc casing pipe has a cap glued on with a hole in it.
I fixed a threades coupling thru it with a rubber gasket so i can slam all 30 feet of pipe down once im done digging but i have no idea if it will work.
Initial test with 10 feet was promising.
If i cant solve the issue at 24 feet, ill get a pressure washer and hook it up to my drill pipe and see if i just need more water power to blow that gunk apart.
I highly recommend the method of using air and water for areas of clay and rock.
This is a Sandpoint well and need to be close to the coast. I also recommend not asking permission from any local government. Just keep it concealed best you can
@@Barabbas7798 or swamp areas. in my opinion sand point wells are for locations really close to a body of water less than 15 feet in depth.
I have an old well on my property. The old home owner had city water put in. It's about 90 feet deep. I've been wondering about dropping a pump down in it and using it. You can drop rocks down it and hear it hit water.
I bought a house in 2014 with a very old non working well. I dropped a small rock down and heard no water. After 3 yrs, I finally tried again and I heard water, so I hired a guy to help me pull up the old pipes. We installed a new submersible pump and new piping. I have been using it to water plants for a few years. The water table is only 18 ft deep. I m still amazed that the house doesn’t collapse into the ground. Lol
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It's important to know that this type of well and pump will only work to a depth of about 34 feet. Deeper than that and there is not enough atmospheric pressure to push the water up the pipe. You are essentially sucking the water up a big, long straw with this type of pump. Deeper wells require a submersible pump at the bottom of the well to push the water up the well pipe.
Another thing, especially important in the western US where water rights can be a MAJOR issue, is the permitting and maximum amount of water that you are legally allowed to use. If authorities discover this on your property without the proper permits, you could be looking at some major fines.
My Granpa took a heavy 4" pipe, capped it, welded handles on to the sides and dropped it on to the pipe. Old man knew what he was doing.
Such informative and interesting videos!! Keep them coming!! Thank you
I really appreciate I always wanted to do this one, seeing the water come out at the end is amazing.
Thank you for sharing this excellent project. You’ve inspired me to do this here in the UK. But I won’t be asking permission from anyone. The solar electric pump is a great idea.
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Did you manage to do it...?
@@alex-E7WHU Not yet. How about you?
@@G58 I just saw it last night.. we are looking to go off grid at some point hopefully and this would be a great thing for us to do.
@@alex-E7WHU Indeed. You and many others who are looking for a better life. I wish you luck, health and safety.
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I really really want to do this. Thank you for all of this information. 🙏
Wow, I had no idea you could drill (hammer) your own well!! This might be something we’ll have to try. You can never have too much water with a giant lawn and several different garden areas! Thanks for the hard work to show this to us!
You'll need to ask your local agency fpr water, as the water table might be too far down to get to, and might already be over utilised as it is,
Where I'm at, it says right on the paperwork when you sign for the house, you don't have mineral or water rights.
Absolutely would love to see an electric pump video. Can an expansion tank be used in conjunction with the electric pump to give some pressure for drip irrigation or sprinkler for a garden?
Electric pump for sure but wonder if any (easy) way to evaluate amount of water available (flow/recharge rate). I’m contemplating tapping my high water table for full grey-water application… lawn & flushing toilets.
Where I live we mostly get the water from wells, and we basically aim to store it on tanks as high as possible in order to get enough pressure. It's a really cheap and simple solution
Agreed. In my case I moved into a place that had a small (?) well, with electric pump and small tank. Works great for the yard, but I don't know how it works (other than the basic concepts). The pump looks old and junky so I want to replace it but I cannot find much online about this sort of small scale well. It's either "Here's a manual well" or "Here's how you hire someone to dig you a well"
Of course a pressure tank can be used. The important this is that your water table is high enough to be able to pump. These type of wells require an above ground jet pump. This type of pump can only lift about 25' so the water table has to be higher than that.
I love how the pump turned from red in the thumbnail to green in the video.
Great video as always 👍
I didn't even notice! He might have altered the thumbnail so it stands out against the green background.
This is awesome.
I want to install one for my house. Thank you sir!
Wow! Thanks, I hope I can have my own well too!
Wow! Great video!!! I would love to see a follow up video for the water pump.
Along with so many other folks on here, I’d love to see a video of adding an electric pump. I’ve got well water at our house and even replaced the well pump a couple years ago myself, but that is totally different to this idea. I’d love to add water to my garage and a shed that are on the other side of the property.
You use a jet pump. Easy to hook up. Your water table needs to be above about 25' though.
All you need to do is dig a pit about 4' deep & drive the well from there. Add a 90° fitting & run plastic water pipe in a trench to ur garage & up through a hole in the floor or foundation then bury it all & hook up a pump like the first guy said.
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Thank you for sharing. Great idea!! No fluoride or other stuff add in water.
TIP : If you want to make it easier on yourself to drive the pipe into the ground pour water into the hole as you are pushing pipe in as it softens the ground.
This is a great way to introduce surface contamination into the water table.
only if you use contaminated water, use a garden hose, not water from a lake. it wont contaminate it at all. especially with such a tiny well. there are wells hundreds of feet covered in coolent and cutting oil that are installed into the water table with mud and contaminants from the higher parts of the well, it only contaminates for up to a week with thoes. unless you are pumping potasium cyinide down the well, this wont contaminate it at all.@@GarrettJobgen
You still want the water tested as you may have contaminants that can transfer to what you are watering with it. High arsenic in the water can build up in plants grown with it so using to water a garden can still poison you over time without drinking it.
Just let people be dumb. I see it all the time when homeowners decide to be plumbers.
Must be well diggers😅🤦🏼♂️
Always nice to start with good easy green ,topsoil , low points of property will help never feel its easy close trust me lowest point will allow for moisture and ease of install stay away from natural sewerage offrun they run down too . Be confident and keep going bedoink
I liked and subscribed. This kind of knowledge is so important and im thankful for people like you that prevent it from being lost forever. We've grown to be so dependent in this day and age.
Good video on the basics, but may want to consider a check valve to prevent loss of prime in the pump.
That will make for a lot less pumping every time you use it.
A check valve holding the water all the way up to the pump will freeze if you're in a cold climate
Usually the nastiest parts of the new pipe is the threads, so scrubbing the cutting oil off of the threads is the most important IMO.
Great ideas, great implementation, and above all riveting presentation. Keep on trucking!