How I Drilled a Water Well. Shallow Well 30 feet Deep
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- čas přidán 19. 10. 2013
- I used common plumbing fittings and my water hose to drill a well 30 feet deep. I thought I was in water bearing sand but after I stopped at 30 feet, the water drained out of it. I poked a small hole down and found that the water table here is at 33 feet...so I will have to go down a little farther to get to the water.
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I did a 40 foot diy well once. We used air and water to jet down. The one detail you should not skip is putting gravel pack around the screen. Another more important part it putting benonite around the well to prevent surface contaminates from going down the outside of the well to the screen. This is critical. You will get large amounts of bacteria and nitrates if you dont.
The water coming out of your casing while digging is normal. That carries your cuttings! Tells u what your digging through! I cut a notch in my casing to direct the water to my run off ditch. The material in the ditch tells me the status of the dig! Dig a ditch in the downward direction away from hole and keep from getting to muddy!
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stick a galvanized 1 1/4 pipe with drive wellpoint inside your pipe ,drive it through your homemade well head and go down another 10 feet ,
How?
@@leel6429 Use a slide hammer, like pounding in a T-post. Well points have a heavy, octagon shaped "arrow" on the end and the well screen usually comes attached, right behind the point. Use a coupler to add extra lengths of pipe, be sure to put a cap on the top of the pipe to keep the hammer from messing up the threads.
I like your determination. Good luck.
usually, you can pull up hydrological data from websites for your area. that you hit water at 30 feet is not uncommon, but sometimes the water is fowl from surface contamination. remember that you have many different types of aquifers and you need to drill deep enough to have water in drought. one last comment, you said you needed little screen (the number of cuts as you were using a hand pump. the ability of the water to enter the bore is based on the hydrostatic pressure outside the bore. if the pressure outside is almost equal to the pressure inside do to slow pumping action, a few cuts might be okay. but if the pressure inside the formation is low and the pressure inside your bore starts to drop off, the flow into your casing will also be slow... something to keep in mind
I got the 6 inch hand auger. Dug 25 feet. Dropped in a 4 inch pvc casing with some slits cut in about 5 feet of it on thr bottom witha cap at the end. Dropped in 9 foot of pea gravel thrn filmed the res of the hole worh mud . then cemented the top to cap the top. Put a 1"1/4. Pipe with a foot valve about 12 off the bottom of that. Ran that to my well pump.
Good job!
When digging with your hand auger did you have problems with hole filling in? I just did same thing yesterday with hand auger. Got to 10 feet hit water and hole started filling in? Was able to push casing into like sludge type sand??
@@joerod6106 I didn't have any sludge problem. But there was water as I dug deeper. I just dug through it.
I have clay here so I didnt have a problem
@@joerod6106 use bentonite to solidify your walls. It usually works best with pumping while drilling as it mixes in with your water and circulates through
your quite creative and i hope to see a follow up on this ,,, here is what we used to do for shallow wells , the old air jack hammers if you can find one , at farm supply out fits you can get gravel head tips and sand tips to screw on 1 1/2 inch pipe screw that onto your pipe ad get 4 foot sections of threaded 1 1/2 pipe i always used grevel tip , sand tips have problems , drive the pie down with the jack hammer , this part can be done with electric jack hammer preferably 90 pound , it takes roughly 2 weeks to go 30 feet first 5 to 10 feet go rather quickly , when you get to the desired depth shove the airhose to the bottom of the well and give quick blast of air , make sure you have rain gear on for this , by blasting air down their it creats a cavity for water to colect in , if a well has slowed in produceing water you can do the same thing to open water viegns or you can shoot a 44 mag down your well and the concusion reopens it to get water flowing again , im not a well drillir but i do have some expirience with this stuff
+grizz270 Do you use metal pipe for this?
yes galvanized steel pipe
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with the soil types the water drillers work on you can pretty easily use a well point and a post hammer, ive gone down that deep in an afternoon
So you shoot a 44 mag down your well. Nuff said you've ate alot of lead in your time.
I liked the part for the end that you fabricated, I put in a well 17 years ago and bought such a part, The part had a ball captured in the end that floated up and sealed the end once you were done. I'm curious how you sealed it so it drew water through the slits and not the end.
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Hi David, did you do anything more with your well? How is it working?
Mike Adams no, I need to get a drill point to drive it a little deeper
I actually ended up about a foot short of my water level. I have plans to drill through the end of the pipe to extend the length. I wasn't worried about the opening on the end. Do you think it would wash rocks in?
I'm told that sealing the bottom of the casing will stop Bottom silt from entering the Casing . The pebbles help add to that filtering.
I know its been a long time, but, did you ever get water?
No, I just need to get a drill point and hammer it down a few more feet but I haven't ever done It
Great way to clip your fingers with that grinder.
What were you adding to the hole while you were at the end of your drilling... taking what looked like marble chips from a bag I could only see the letters ..."old" on ?
that was gravel to try to get it the whole way down to the bottom of the pipe to let the water be able to get into the pipe.
Seems to me you hacksawed the slots in your pipe to far up, I believe 4 feet would have been plenty , your pipe may have back filled with sand
I've been watching a few of these and most say to determine the water level with a string and weight and start the cuts about a foot from the bottom.. to the Top of the Water level or four feet.. whichever comes first.
Doesn't the PVC pipe "drill bit" get worn off fast?
Seems like this can only be used in sandy or silt type soils, not any rocks, right?
right, I have clay soil here so that is good too. My pipe is down 29 feet so I didn't get a chance to see how much it wore out!
It's blue can I have it?
Don't forget a foot valve or you will be losing prime all the time and have to keep priming it every time..
how do you know where the water is before you put the pipes in - do you use a water witch or what
+getitdone1958 well, I didn't do a great job because I thought I was in the water bearing sand...but it turned out to be deeper. You can usually get geological records of your area to tell you haw deep your water level (water table) should be.
o really - i did not know that
I have watched a few of these and the DIY Drilling head is good. My questions are about the Gravel dropped along the pipe into the well. what is the purpose and what stops the gravel from washing away if your water source has any flow?
What kind of gravel is best and How much gravel should I use.. I have a very shallow 13-15 ft well for watering grass, keeping a pool level up but the original casing pipe is 3 inch encased in a concrete slab and i'm replacing it with four inch with a Cap on top to seal my 1 1/2 center pipe. Do I need to seal the bottom of the casing pipe or will the gravel do that for me?
Someone said something about 'Bentonite' .. as part of the sealing procedure.. how does that work and is there a link showing how to best use that? Thanks for any advice.. from anyone
I just put some gravel around the pipe when I was done. my idea and understanding is that it would help seal the pipe because it would stop the soil from dropping down too far. clay helps seal the sides of the hole so you can drill deeper especially in sandy soils
@@backyardmetalcasting Thanks.. My 3 inch pipe is already through a slab of concrete..gonna be a Bear to break it loose and replace but I'll reseal it with concrete. As far as the Gravel.. I found 'part of my answer.. You should put enough gravel in around the Pipe to cover the Slits you cut in the casing to further filter any trash from entering. I'll reply back or make a vid myself when I get this done.. Take care.
Looks like the angle of the cuts into the plastic should have been the other direction.
It doesn't really matter because you are moving it back and forth
@@backyardmetalcasting only reason I say that is because one way tends to tighten while the other tends to loosen when cutting.
But a reverse drill bit cuts on a counter clockwise direction...LOL
a hand driven well point seems to be a better method
Whatever works best..for you... is the best.
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You lost water because you left the drill head you made at the bottom. The water flowed into the bigger pipe and had no way to get into the smaller pipe so it could not be pumped up.
Kenn Lee I actually screwed the 3/4 inch pipe into the fitting on the drill head but I didn't glue it so I simply unscrewed the 3/4 inch pipe and pulled it out when I was done drilling.
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+Jerry Whidby haha I didn't notice that woops
I’d love to see pvc drill thru rock... how delusional can one be?
praestant8 yes, I don't think so!
Dude just use zirconium encrusted PVC damn man
Pretty sure he said the ground was Clay and he stated that a couple of times. Why the smartazz remarks? Do they make you somehow feel 'superior?