Watch a Water Well Being Drilled
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2015
- Watch and see how a deep water well is bored in a limestone landscape. See the rig in action, learn how bentonite clay is used to prevent surface water from seeping in around the casing, and see what it's like when a good supply of ground water is finally hit.
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Very informative video. We just had to drill a new well and even though they were trying to explain what they were doing - your video filled in the missing pieces. Thanks for putting this together.
Excellent commentary and explanation. Thank you for taking the time.
That is a nice commentary on borehole drilling! Thank you !😊
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I was dumb lost my login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me!
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Interesting and a good job explaining. Best part for me will seem strange as I was focused on the add on drill rod holders on each side of mast and how they were fabricated and how they would be used. Rig appears to be a 1970's Schramm T64 with an updated air package. Original were piston compressors. Original held only 210 ft of drill pipe but on this one has been expanded to upright storage on both sides. Very clever setup and the extra weight did not seem to be an issue with mast raising. Would love to inspect the rig in person but your video will have to do. Thanks for posting.
Really interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Very informative. Thank you for sharing!
Well done thank you!. Now I understand the primary specifics.
Thanks for the knowledge guys, now I know. Cheers
This video was linked to me and the rest of my well drilling unit by our platoon sergeant. I'm part of the 269th Well Drilling Detachment in the 868th Engineering Company in the Florida Army National Guard and have never seen this operation before. Thanks for the video. Very enlightening.
My friend, you have good integrity to be in the field of drilling yet admit you hadn't seen this previously. One day, you will be a competent sarge also.
We been in business with my grandpa started in 1915 and are still going and to this day I been doing it for 25 years and still going
I'm a welder looking for a career change, I live in East TN I'm 23, I seen a few companies near me that are about a 40 minute commute hiring rig hands, is this a good career to get into? I'm looking for something to hopefully do til I retire and make a good living, welding is already taking a toll on my eyes so im done with it as far as I'm concerned. Any info you can give me will be very helpful.
Thanks for sharing that. Fascinating to see the process.
Hi Michael!
I'm glad you like the video. That's good news to me.
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Where abouts do you live, Michael?
Bye for now and thanks for watching.
Steve
Cool! Will do. I'm in the Puyallup Washington area.
Love your vid!!!
Had a friend who spent $800 bucks to have a well witcher tell him where to drill. He has 5 gpm at 345 feet. The contractor who drilled our off grid well told us that nobody knows where the water is and recommended a convenient spot. Our driller hit water at 140' with 30 gpm. Some people believe in witching but I'm guessing most drillers (including our contractor) think this is nonsense.
Easiest way to find out is witching is real is to google "how does witching work" and you'll instantly see how dumb it is.
@@cybertrk a a water well Diller here in Canterbury New Zealand I AGREE with you.
Cheers.
@@cybertrk in NC most of the drillers believe in it. Know a old guy that paid $250 last year to a Witcher that didn't drill wells and the well went 600' with no water before the guy decided to give up on the hole. It was the second six hundred foot dry hole in his yard.
He should of went deeper with the first hole
As an old Australian Driller with 40 odd years of experience, my feelings on witchers is,they used to burn witches,and they should start again.
Interesting. I had a well drilled for my geothermal system last winter. They drilled down almost 400 ft and didn't find sufficient water for an open loop like we planned. But no worries, a 2nd well about 250 ft and we had plenty for a closed loop and I'm more than satisfied with how it turned out. I was not at the house most of the time they were doing their work, so nice to see it actually in progress in this video.
Idk how drilling for water and installing geothermal go hand in hand. Geothermal uses ground temperature to heat the water in the tube to a constant starting temperature for easier heating and cooling. Constant ground water supply is not necessary for that.
@@miguellavoie4373 poor quality water will cause issues in the pump and other internals. While not a large quantity of water is needed, I think we needed at least 4.5 gpm reliable. In my case, it was mostly the water quality issue.
Used br 700 pro for searge water is the best in iraq
How much does something like this cost to have some?
That first joint of pipe that you see them lowering with the lifting ring in the beginning is called your drill collar, it is a heavy wall pipe which is used for adding weight to the bit. You can see the bit is attached to it. He will add an additional drill collar to it as he gets deeper. The entire assembly is called your BHA or bottom hole assembly. The blocks is what lifts the BHA up and down only which why you need the heavy weight drill collars. What turns the drill string assembly is called a rotary or Kelly, in this case it’s a hammer rotary, where on an oil field rig we have top drives. Imagine this entire operation except 500 x larger and you have something similar to an oil field drilling rig. Minus mud pumps, mud tanks, gas busters, choke manifolds and flare system.
What a terrific and informative video. Thanks, boo.
Excellent vid, thank you👍👍
One time in the hills of the Willamette valley we drilled to 760ish feet. It was like 90° that day. That water was so cold and good. This video brought back a lot of memories. I was 18 years old and the valley was a beautiful place to work
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Bye for now and thanks for watching!
Steve
Thank you so much. This was very informative.
This was a very informative video. Thanks for sharing.
Im a well driller and i like your video. Not many out there like this.
Where do you work US or Canada?
How do you become a well driller? Is there a trade school for that?
@@protonsorted7925 just apply to a company that offers the service. the prefer people with truck driving license but might hire you on as a laborer.
That’s a nice drill makes some good footage not sure how you guys gauge your water flow but when they said 50 I’m not so sure that’s what it was. Our style we are able to concentrate the flow into one area and we will time it into 5gallon bucket give almost exact as possible without a pump
Excellent teaching!
Super amizing good job because of your vlog tutorial I got some knowledge from you about that your vlog
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Canada is so great! You guys do fun things!
I’m about to become a helper but I’m getting my cdl so I could be a driver then take a test and become a driller
How’d it go?
@@UrbanOdyssey yeah
Same
Me to I start this Friday
Do you guys have certificates for such a job, I'm from Algeria and I have been drilling for 3 years and I Driller very interesting depths, wonder if I can find a job there, without any papers on me
Thanks, well done ‘documentary’ on the water drilling process
looks like a fun job!
Our well is 1100 feet deep. It cost a small fortune to get put in. When it was getting drilled their best offer was to keep going deeper and hope to hit water. Thankfully we did hit water before the rig maxed out. Oddly enough our old well is only 600 feet deep and it's about 200 feet away from the new one at the surface. Each well has a different pH too so I think they are different aquifers. The new well water is delicious.
That's a deep well!
😍😍😍😍 dang I wanna try it
My parents and several of their neighbors are all about 1000 feet deep. The town less than a mile away was looking for a new water source and when they went 1200 feet down they said the water came out black and wasn’t usable.
Why did they need a new well?
@@specialestness oil?
I can't wait for mine
cool video..... very interesting ....thanks
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Great info .
Thanks for this video! Love the clear and comprehensive description!
Well done!👍☘️
Oh wow!
Very good information wow
Great well drilling info.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a heck of a machine I worked on a spudder
Awesome!
Awesome video!
interesting, we see them drilling here quite a bit but didn't know the intricacies
perfect drilling
We are portable air comppressor factory , wish have chance to cooperate, thanks
To seal the casing we use cement (not Bentonite). The Bentonite with variable density is used to fluch the drilling cuttings out of the well, lubricate the drilling bit and keep the bore hole safe from collapse during the job.
Same
Thats right . Iam driller in iraq..
It's air drilling,with on board air compressor driving a down the hole hammer. Totally different to rotary mud drilling as is used in the oil patch.
Very well presented.
I'm going to be working on a water rig soon Nothing but the utmost L&R
Thanks. No chance of getting such a machine in Kenya is there ?
I live in Norway, here we drill energy Wells up to 1000ft. Most of the times 800ft per day per well. Solid rock, only a few metal pipes. We use 35 bars compressors to blow it out
Thanks for the insight!
Good!!!!
I also am a well driller and loved your narrative.
What does something like this cost?
@@AlexRodriguez-jt6ho im guessing starting @$50per ft
we used to charge $25 back in the 90’s
Depends on your location. Where I am, it's around 12 a foot for drilling and 7 or so per foot for pipe.
Helper here too!
Hi, I gave you a thumbs up and really appreciate your video, but I am still in the dark. I see that they installed a casing in the beginning, but after that they decrease the drill bit to go through it. Then, what is the well casing vs the drill? Do they install another casing all the way down as they drill or is there just a blank hole in the ground that the pump is fed into? There is nothing mentioned here about that and how it works. Thank you though.
We use drilling mud and a tricone bit ...but I've noticed that the air hammer is way faster
Very informative. Thanks. Do you recall how deep the casing went?
He mentioned the well being 146 feet deep at 7:28. I don't know if that's what you were looking for :)
HI Vincent!
Thanks for writing. The well casing was about 20 feet long.
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Thanks for watching, Vincent!
Bye,
Steve
Thanks, Steve.
Well casing goes the entire depth of the hole. Steel casing is set till you get through rock to avoid cave ins and then you install pvc casing the rest of the way. Perforated casing goes at the bottom to still allow water into the well for the pump
Michael Akins, no it doesn't.
This is a pneumatic rig. Works in some areas of the world. The most common type of rig is a mud rotary
Lucky you. In our area we have to drill 375 feet minimum. Glennallen Alaska has amazing water, but we have to drill real far for it.
Great narration. Does the liner go all the way to the bottom of the well? If so, how do you connect each section of liner?
Hi. Well driller here. No drillers know when we’ve gone threw dirt/gravel. And you put the casing in solid rock. And the metal casing is welded together.
I’m looking at some property. Amd wanna know if it has water . What does it cost to have something like that done or a test some to know if you have water?
What is a typical work day for a drilling crew? In terms of work hours that is.
The well on my farm is 816 ft. deep. The pump used to sit at 550 ft. The pump went bad a year ago last June while we were on vacation. When the pump guys went to put the new pump back down, they hit something at 434 ft and couldn't get the pump any lower. Not wanting to damage the new pump or get it stuck where it couldn't be retrieved, they quit at that point. We had water but were more than 100 ft shallower than the previous depth. We starting running out of water this year and were afraid that we may have to drill a new well. We had 4 estimates from 4 different well drilling companies ranging in price from $40,000 to $50,000. about 438 per ft. just for the drilling. One of the companies had a camera and suggested that we may want to pull the pump and send a camera down to see what may be the problem. We did that. I recently did a short video of that experience on my you tube channel.
I would guess that depending on the average water table depth in your area - maybe your farm is an outlier - most drilling contractors don't even have that much drill pipe and casing on hand. The high prices probably are being inflated by the fact that they need to rent more drill pipe third party and source double the casing they normally have on hand. 439' static water level is extremely uncommon for a lot of north America from what I've read .... very very deep.
@@safety_sid , Hi Sid, we have 3 other wells within 5 miles of me that also have deep wells. The deepest one is just over 1000 feet. The others are in the upper 800’s. Around 60 ft deeper than mine. There are no records of my well from when it was drilled. It used to be pumped by a windmill which puts it somewhere in the 100 year old range.
There is a video on my channel of the well company sending the camera down the well. Feel free to watch that one.
That is a misprint. It is supposed to read $38 / ft
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Thanks Gary! That's incredible! I'm not a water well driller or anything ... I know just enough about them to confidently sound like an idiot haha. I had no clue there were still water wells around that are that old.
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How much casing was put in
What do you call that kind of truck with the rig in the back?
Steve that looks like a good well, in my area we need at least 10gpm
To be able to build a home take care, by the way the septic tank
Was concrete.
I'm looking at this because we have to drill one and it's scaring me to death.
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How deep did u find that water?
Interesting rig, not seen one setup like that, what brand/make is it?
Looks like a late model Schramm 660 only rig I have I know of having racks on tower and a rod carousal
Dan Man I'm curious too..
I was just quoted $27,000 for a 500’ well on a hill top. And you mentioned, drilling and not hitting water, that is scary in my situation😳
Same here 🥵
Actually there is one thing more horrifying and that's if they drop the pump and cant retrieve it. You cant decide if you should continue trying to get it out or drilling again .Either way you'll pick the wrong choice .
How did it turn out?
27k for 500 feet lmao. Where are y from?
@@pineapplepissant this was on a property in souther indiana that was on a limestone hill.
"I am the way. I am the life and the truth. The only way to the Father is through me" (John 14:6).
"Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so." Genesis Chapter 1 verse 7
Steve, how did you end up at that particular point to drill the hole? was there a scientific technique involved to chose the point of drilling?
Not really. Just point at a spot and hope for the best. Dry wells happen sometimes.
he’s probably guessing that answer also. I can almost Guarantee the drillers had a water “Witcher” come out Are they know the area well and did it themselvesand designate the Exact spot to drill.we used to have an ol’ timer about 80 yrs old walk around the property for hours with two 1/8” brass rods bent at perfect 90 degrees About 8 inches sticking down on one end at about 16-18 inches pointing out. he would hold his arm perfectly 90’ from his body only bend his elbows and have the brass in each hand and just ever so lightly letting them rest in his hand.. as he walk around rods will swing together and touch whenever he was over ground water.the more ground water the stronger the pull. don’t ask me how but them old timers been doing it long enough he could guess dang on the spot the exact GPM with a 99%success of at least finding water. you were at 40 gpm at 100’.not ideally @ “clean-depth”but still good volume. that’s more than my garden hose on full blast.shoot we’d drill over 1000’ for measly 5gpm(our minimum).Man I can go on and on and brings back a lot of good memories but I’ll quit rambling now.Take care
Really interesting to see the process! Do you have any hints on how to find a GOOD drilling contractor?
Hi Donna!
Thanks for commenting. Well drillers usually have areas where they work, so there aren't a lot to choose from in any given place. I'd ask around and see what people's experiences have been. Also, you'll want a driller who will confirm a per-foot price, as well as the extras. Metal casing and cap costs extra, and the driller may be require to do some flow testing, which will cost more, too. You'll want to know these numbers ahead of time.
Where do you live? The driller who did our well has been doing the work for about 40 years and is well respected. He does travel over a pretty wide area of northern Ontario, too.
Bye for now and thanks for watching!
Steve
Currently I'm in New Jersey, but eventually, I plan to retire in New Mexico (which is where I might need to drill a well!) Thanks for the info, though!
Some of us travel very far for drilling I’ve went 1000km to put in surface casing depends on the company’s and reputations ask around is best advice and they should have no issues explaining what’s going to happen to the yard
146 feet! Wow! Our well is over 900 feet here in Colorado. Many new wells in our area are having to go 1,100 or 1,200 feet due to dropping aquifer levels.
Wow, that's quite deep! Thanks for sharing!
What brand or type of pump can pump from 900 feet? Wow. I’m looking for a pump, I’ve got 500 ft deep new well to pump from. Thanks for responding if you read this.
What part of Colorado is that?
How much did that cost?
@@rabidrooster6525 usually 900 feet of depth is going to cost you about $15, 000-$20,000. 2 cents a gallon if you filling up a tote/cistern that would take a long time to rack up$15,000
How deep can u guys go..?
Ty
Mantappp👍👍
How much did the well cost?
Which country can someone practice this because i realized not all countries does borehole drilling?thanks
That's a lot different than what we used to do they put PVC casing all the way down and the bottom pipe got slits cut into it and then a sock over it for a filter this is quite a bit different with not putting a casing all the way down
Nice hard hats
Considering buying a mountainous property, and wanted to make sure I could have a well drilled at the top of the hill even through what I presume is rock underneath. What are the limits and I assume drilling through rock isn't a problem right?
Drilling through rock wouldn't be a problem sir.
Please tell me where can I get one to buy if possible the address
What kind of price am I looking at to dig my average well
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What was the cost?
How much did it cost
What is this Machine called plz? And the price?
how do you know that the place you drilling is have water did you already speaking with some geologist or what method do you use ?
i'm sorry for the bad english
Nice video, where in Canada is this?
Manitoulin Island, Ontario!
How much did this cost?
Everything
How much are they charging for drilling?
Hey there. Do you happen to know what type of rig that was?
Its a stratton 650, one of the best out there
So like you mentioned it's always a guess but are there any pointers/indicators you use to determine whether a spot is even worth trying?
Some people use dowsing rods. If done properly you can find things underground. The thing is you have no idea what exactly it is down there. There are USGS test wells and information online that give you some information about the aquifer in your area
Is there a guaranteed formula to find water
I live in an area that I don't think would require a very deep well. I have a couple folks in my area that has added an outside well. I would like an outside well just for my outside water usage since water and sewer are expensive here. Would you have any rough idea on the total cost? Thanks
A water well can cost anywhere between 5 and $50k depending on location, depth, ground material, water table depth etc etc. I would guess a well such as the one in this video would cost ~$20k.
@@saneconsulting so much for that idea then, thanks
I love it lol... no hardhats or safety glasses. Old world typa shit
Thanks 😂
Oh if only Abraham had this to dig all his wells.
Hello Steve good morning exelent video, i like it. How can i get in contac with you.
I want to drill in two parcels here in Southern california los angeles county.
You can email me at steve@stevemaxwell.ca
I want mine at home
Hey how many gallons of water total did you need for this whole drilling process? Im learning and need to know please
Good Morning! I can't say how many gallons were used during the drilling process, but the tanker truck that held the water had a tank that was more than 1000 gallons. So the process took less than that.My guess is that it probably took less than 750 gallons. I hope this helps.
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Hi, Steve!
Was this a one day project? I'm curious as to how long it takes to drill 140ft in limestone
...art
Hi Art! Good to hear from you. I hope you're doing well. The whole process took about 5 hours of actual drilling. The rig is pretty fast.
Bye for now and thanks for watching!
Steve
In Oman 🇴🇲 we drill to 700ft below the surface to pump out the water.
but 10 ft for oil 😂
bro, iff you hire me, youll find water anytime, i can find the right places to drill
Impressive
Am a well driller from west Africa and just moved to the states
Is your company hiring now cos I could really do with a job right now in my field
Our Well Drilling Crew was at about 120ft when they say that they either hit sand and it collapsed and filled the hole or that something called "Cup caking" occurred. Anyway they were at it for hours trying to get the pipe to circulate(turn). They still have an estimated 380ft to go. They finally left for the day. Today is May 10th, 2021. HELP
Hello Thomas!
That sounds like a distressing situation. Your situation is different than mine since all our wells are mostly drilled through rock. Perhaps I can help, though. Feel free to email me at steve@stevemaxwell.ca.
Bye for now,
Steve
if they lost circulation then that means they stopped clearing cuttings out the top and their air was dispersing into the formation. losing rotation would imply losing the ability to turn