I’ve watched a bunch of your frac videos and I’m learning the similarities and differences between the shallow water well fracturing that y’all do and the ultra deep fracturing we do in the oilfield. The concept is very similar. Y’all don’t require proppant because the acquifers you’re dealing with are generally weathered granite with gravel or sand size grains, probably loosely consolidated, so when you create a crack and extend it, when you flow the well back amd the crack begins to heal, it doesn’t heal perfectly. That leaves a nice high-permeability pathway for the ground water to get to the well. Pretty badass! In the oilfield, our reservoirs are usually very highly consolidated and very low permeability sandstones and, these days, shales. Shale is ultra low perm! Our breakdown pressures are thousands of psi, but once we initiate a fracture, the pressure drops just as it does for you. We use salt water (so it doesn’t swell in-situ clays as badly) with a friction reducer and anywhere from zero to 6 or so lbs per gallon of well-sorted and rounded 20/40 mesh sand. Oilfield fracs (OGs in the oilfield don’t put a k on the end of ‘frac’ traditionally) will use 1 million lbs of sand and up commonly. The pumps used are insanely big but we’re breaking rock miles deep in the ground. When we shut down at the end of pumping, often we do so gradually so that we can let the reservoir heal onto the sand (without bringing too much back into the well), which props it open. we refer to the sand or sometimes ceramic or bauxite as ‘proppant’. If you plot the flowback pressure vs time on a graph you can actually see a change in slope once the majority of the fracture has closed. The fractures we are propagating are no more than 0.1 to 0.5” wide and we try for maximum complexity - multiple cracks being extended simultaneously in many directions. This can be accomplished by pumping at insanely high rates of many barrels per minute. Some people imagine oilfield fracturing affects ground water but they have been misled. Ground water is always protected behind several concentric ‘rings’ of steel and cement. Usually from the fresh water formation to the wellbore you have cement, steel, cement, steel again then steel production tubing hanging inside that. Every state mandates how groundwater is to be protected. And our fracs take place many thousands of feet - 1 to 2 miles in most cases - below the lowest fresh water. Usually ground water becomes salty below about 1000 ft and usually shallower than that where I live out west. But every operator knows where “base of fresh water” is in their fields. Our fracs are designed to stay within the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. Unlike y’all, we are trying to avoid water as much as possible.
Actually, your method for calculating the well production rate is spot on. In normal operation it is the amount of replacement rate that determines the outcome for the home owner. Home owners do not have the time or ability to balance usage to determine what rate their well has. It has, as you measured it, the rate that it will replenish the water removed. 4.25 gpm is correct. They fill at full speed all the water troughs for the animals and then shut it off. The well refills to static at the rate, just as you measured it, while no pump is running and no major flow going into the house. 👍
I know it's a real dumb and mechanically geeky thing for a viewer to keep saying over and over, but your little fracking unit is still impressively functional to me, the damn thing just works!
Having worked with a well company several times, I love seeing how they make their own one off custom equipment. I think different areas need different types of custom or modified rigging.
@johndias6614 the ones who know how to build it best, are almost always the ones using it. I'm with you, it's always cool to see differences between equipment.
and YES .... So enjoyed seeing a 'Complete Job' .... From Drilling, Bad Yield, then Fracking AND TESTING ... !!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) Thanks so much for taking the time to show us just what you see and experience .... BRILLIANT .... Best to ALL from ChCh, NZ
That little 4 banger GM is a champ, cranking mad pressure in 3rd gear like it's havin breakfast. Love to see it. Also love to see y'all go a little deeper into the equipment like this, might as well be alien technology to us common folks, fun to get the inside line.
find it amazing how the water comes back, thats literally it compressing the rock and area around then slowly being fed back as the compression releases
Interesting how different parts of the country lays out their wells. I'm in central valley California and most of the older wells like mine use the tall 100-150 gallon tanks. Rarely do we see tanks under crawl spaces. Some wells and tanks are in a well house, others like mine are out in the open. We insulate exposed pipes but rarely get freezing below 10°F. No problems in 25 years with freezing. I feel so fortunate to have a 40+ yesr old well that produces plenty of clear water.
I love the pump setup.. can't beat a Bean Triplex pump. Bigger version of what we use for diamond drilling, my grandpas old pumps were similar with engine and transmission set up similarly. I've built a few single speed versions for what we do, max 500 PSI but rarely do they ever need to put out more than 125. Little Bean E04 quads with small single cylinder motors. Nice for bush work, weighs less than 150 pounds and itll pump water a mile up a hill. Or if the pump on the rig fails, its a good backup.
Spent 40 years in the oil patch, mostly drilling, work overs when drilling was slow. never worked on a water well rig, thoroughly enjoy watching your video's.
Hey bud, just wanted to say thanks for this great content. I also want to ask/tell that there is a channel called ghost town living. The person who runs it is brent underwood. He owns the cerro gordo silver mining town. He has a problem of getting water from 700ft down from the mine up to the surface. Now i ain't a professional but i just wanted to notify you that if you might help him in his problem as you know about this stuff much much better. Keep up the effort!❤
All great work you do! I bought a Water Well Drilling Co when I was 16 years old! Old rotary dangerous rig! I learned how to work Hard! Now at 65 I own two great companies! I so appreciate your knowledge! ❤️🙏🏼
I was doing this work with my father here in South Africa when I was a kid. We got fantastic results in many many parts of the country. Some results of over 1000%. And pump testing is vital before and after any treatment on a well.
Thank you for all your great content and advice. I hope you all are safe with this storm tearing up the south right now. I have a thought for some content. Would you consider a video or two for new home buyers? If I were to buy a house with a well I wouldn’t have a clue what to look out for, what to ask about or how to maintain it if I bought it. I think something like that would be great 👍 Stay safe
Question from Oklahoma about water well development- in my area there’s lots of old 40-50ft wells that make 10-20GPM. But in past few years I’ve installed lots of pumps behind drillers who drill with mud rotary bc of the sand and river rock formation at that depth, but almost all of them barely make 1 GPM. I’ve noticed the drillers only blow out the hole a little bit before leaving- they do not jet, surge, or swab these wells- read online these methods should be done with mud rotary for removing bore hole wall cake. Wondering if this could be the issue on these newer wells bc all of the old wells drilled with cable tools back in the day make great water. Haven’t seen videos where you talk much about the development process and just curious to hear your thoughts! Thank you for all your content I watch every video.
Another great video. Curious how you know if well water is safe to drink? Also... hope you can find time to fire up the little 4 cylinder motor you assembled recently!
Just about everywhere has government labs available for testing. Call your county and they'll get you pointed in the right direction. Also important to test what comes out of your tap and what comes right out of the well to make sure whatever treatment you're using is working properly. Lots of options there.
What about the test kits I see on Amazon? Reliable? I bought a house in Texas with 3 non-working wells. After watching all of H20 Mechanics videos I have 2 working nicely, just afaid to drink the water. Hoping someday he does a video about installing a Hand pump
When you consider the well head static pressure of say 500 feet which works against the inflow rate, you could have twice that flow if the static level were pulled down to near the depth of the stream inflow.
nice job, Thanks for doing the gpm test, fascinating to see the difference....have you ever camered the bore hole after fracking?, I am wondering if fracking makes a visible difference to the water bearing layers?
That is just amazing!!!! But question 🙋♂️ you think it is Iron an calcium deposits that had the vanes sealed?🤔 edit(( an yes THANK YOU ❤ for video the test !! It honestly puts it in prospective just how much better the well is after fracking the well !))
Hey Philip I have a question: When drilling and you have spoils coming back up, have you ever encountered any unique rocks/minerals that were worth keeping? Just curious. I was thinking about that in the past video where you hit a big void.
This is really interesting stuff. I'd think the flow would actually be more because the deeper the well is, the lower it is in the water table thus higher pressure down at the pump and quicker water replacement to the well. Am I thinking wrong? Thanks for the video.
@billsmith5166 yes, in theory the deeper you draw it down the faster it'll refill only because there's less water in the well bore to push against the Aquifer/veins. But the pump & depth of it is normally the limiting factor (if you size a system correctly). At 180 if made 5gpm, at 140 it made 4.25 gpm, so it might make 6gpm at 270ft, but the pump would be struggling to lift from 270ft so it would only give around 3-4 gpm at that point. It's all a balancing act.
@@h2omechanic Makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining. I'd never have believed I'd have been so entertained by water wells. It's really interesting stuff. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos.
Does a well really need a drain back system in SE Texas? My drain back valve has failed and is dumping a lot of pressure/water while the pump is running. Should I replace it with a new drain back valve or just cap the tee?
@gradyrm237 oh I feel stupid for not having noticed that but I didn't watch all of it, mostly listened while I made dinner yesterday. In some places an inspector may let that fly, but I think we both know the correct answer is no. I find it interesting that's what they went with.
Do you guys come to Charlotte? I'd love to have this done to our well. It's 500 ft deep and only puts out 1.5 gallons a min and I want to install irrigation. If not anybody you recommend down here?
Hello Phillip, Please clear something up for me - no pun intended. Where does all the stuff you flush out go? If it just gets pushed back into the water bearing strata, won't it just work its way back and clog up again?
@DavidSellars-b8l it's flush it out & yes it can settle back in over a decade or 2. But alot of times it can settle at the bottom of the well. It's like any pipe clogged, you break up the material and spread it out & then it is allowed to flow. Fine silt is packed it tight, we are busting it free .
@@h2omechanic The stuff pushed into the cracks(caused by fracturing the rock, aka fracking., it gets into them and gets stuck holding the cracks open, letting more water flow back. In gas/oil well, sands of various types are pushed into the rock formations during fracking to after fracturing the rock hold the fractures open.
For a 80 foot well, yeah, the amount in the well might be low. But this well is over 200 feet deep and 100+ feet of water filled well that is water storage. So unlikely to run out of water and run the pump dry.
@raymondless1036 we do our own well logs, but I wish there was an app for us to log in details and eventually with enough data we could kind of map what's below the ground in certain areas
I've never understood why a bore pump is used as a pressure pump in the states, because they aren't designed for that. Here in Aus we have a bore pump varying anywhere from 5lpm right upto 12lpm that pumps into a 20,000ltr tank and then a pressure pump is used to supply the house/buildings. I guess freezing temps is the only thing that comes to mind.
@@adamcoffee738 I’m not sure why you say that a submersible well pump is ‘not designed’ to pressurize a pressure tank. The manual and specs for my well pump suggest otherwise. And I have no need for any kind of storage tank; my 100 ft (33 m) deep well produces water faster than I will ever use it. You’re suggesting I should install an expensive storage tank and a jet pump I don’t need for what purpose exactly? To save wear on my well pump? I just replaced my well pump; it had been in service for 38 years.
Fellow Aussie here. I believe a lot of the states in the USA view water as a natural resource and as such, the storage of it requires a license. At least it seem to be the case for storing more than 110Gal of rain water, not sure about well water (or as we call it, bore water).
@@askmyteapot Why would you want to store thousands of gallons of water for a home, anyway, unless your well is unreliable? All that water’s being stored cool and clean in the aquifer and will be there when you need it.
You were a little low energy at the start of the video, like you weren't feeling well, but turned back into your normal cheerful self on day two. Hope you are just exhausted from tons of work and not getting sick. Do you ever take any time off...lol
@CraigSnead we had 2 bad wells over 3 days & it wore me slap out. I try to always be upbeat & positive for the videos, but sometimes the mind & body are in need of rest & as you noticed, i was kinda tired . I wish we had less work so I could take time off, but we're 6 months back logged so we gotta grind while we can.
@h2omechanic Well, I always appreciate your content and all the hard work we see and that we don't. It's a lot less common to see a good work ethic like yours these days. Keep up the great job, but don't forget to take care of yourself too. Ms. Mandy probably would love some dady time, and it's such a great way to relax.
For a single dwelling I would’ve thought 1 gallon per minute would be satisfactory? Equates to 1440 gallons per day or 5760 litres! That’s a lot of showers! Even for horses showers!!
Gotta take storage capacity into account as well. If it only stores 40-60 gallons, you'd be limited on shower time, and then have to wait an hour to finish.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 With the pump at 300’ and a static level of 45’ before the fracking they would have almost 400 gallons of storage just in the well.
@the_latinist which should have been plenty I agree, for most situations. But my numbers were mere back of the envelope random numbers to demonstrate. I could see how folks would be worried given the inflow rate, given dry times happen.
Nice to see the end results. Thanks for taking the time to show it
I’ve watched a bunch of your frac videos and I’m learning the similarities and differences between the shallow water well fracturing that y’all do and the ultra deep fracturing we do in the oilfield. The concept is very similar. Y’all don’t require proppant because the acquifers you’re dealing with are generally weathered granite with gravel or sand size grains, probably loosely consolidated, so when you create a crack and extend it, when you flow the well back amd the crack begins to heal, it doesn’t heal perfectly. That leaves a nice high-permeability pathway for the ground water to get to the well. Pretty badass!
In the oilfield, our reservoirs are usually very highly consolidated and very low permeability sandstones and, these days, shales. Shale is ultra low perm! Our breakdown pressures are thousands of psi, but once we initiate a fracture, the pressure drops just as it does for you. We use salt water (so it doesn’t swell in-situ clays as badly) with a friction reducer and anywhere from zero to 6 or so lbs per gallon of well-sorted and rounded 20/40 mesh sand. Oilfield fracs (OGs in the oilfield don’t put a k on the end of ‘frac’ traditionally) will use 1 million lbs of sand and up commonly. The pumps used are insanely big but we’re breaking rock miles deep in the ground. When we shut down at the end of pumping, often we do so gradually so that we can let the reservoir heal onto the sand (without bringing too much back into the well), which props it open. we refer to the sand or sometimes ceramic or bauxite as ‘proppant’. If you plot the flowback pressure vs time on a graph you can actually see a change in slope once the majority of the fracture has closed. The fractures we are propagating are no more than 0.1 to 0.5” wide and we try for maximum complexity - multiple cracks being extended simultaneously in many directions. This can be accomplished by pumping at insanely high rates of many barrels per minute. Some people imagine oilfield fracturing affects ground water but they have been misled. Ground water is always protected behind several concentric ‘rings’ of steel and cement. Usually from the fresh water formation to the wellbore you have cement, steel, cement, steel again then steel production tubing hanging inside that. Every state mandates how groundwater is to be protected. And our fracs take place many thousands of feet - 1 to 2 miles in most cases - below the lowest fresh water. Usually ground water becomes salty below about 1000 ft and usually shallower than that where I live out west. But every operator knows where “base of fresh water” is in their fields. Our fracs are designed to stay within the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. Unlike y’all, we are trying to avoid water as much as possible.
Actually, your method for calculating the well production rate is spot on. In normal operation it is the amount of replacement rate that determines the outcome for the home owner. Home owners do not have the time or ability to balance usage to determine what rate their well has. It has, as you measured it, the rate that it will replenish the water removed. 4.25 gpm is correct. They fill at full speed all the water troughs for the animals and then shut it off. The well refills to static at the rate, just as you measured it, while no pump is running and no major flow going into the house. 👍
I know it's a real dumb and mechanically geeky thing for a viewer to keep saying over and over, but your little fracking unit is still impressively functional to me, the damn thing just works!
I nerd out over it every time. You're not alone. 😂
Having worked with a well company several times, I love seeing how they make their own one off custom equipment. I think different areas need different types of custom or modified rigging.
@johndias6614 the ones who know how to build it best, are almost always the ones using it. I'm with you, it's always cool to see differences between equipment.
and YES .... So enjoyed seeing a 'Complete Job' .... From Drilling, Bad Yield, then Fracking AND TESTING ... !!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) Thanks so much for taking the time to show us just what you see and experience .... BRILLIANT .... Best to ALL from ChCh, NZ
That little 4 banger GM is a champ, cranking mad pressure in 3rd gear like it's havin breakfast.
Love to see it. Also love to see y'all go a little deeper into the equipment like this, might as well be alien technology to us common folks, fun to get the inside line.
find it amazing how the water comes back, thats literally it compressing the rock and area around then slowly being fed back as the compression releases
Interesting how different parts of the country lays out their wells. I'm in central valley California and most of the older wells like mine use the tall 100-150 gallon tanks. Rarely do we see tanks under crawl spaces. Some wells and tanks are in a well house, others like mine are out in the open. We insulate exposed pipes but rarely get freezing below 10°F. No problems in 25 years with freezing. I feel so fortunate to have a 40+ yesr old well that produces plenty of clear water.
1" PEX - Someone wants a strong shower. 😎
Nice frac Philip!
Horses are thirsty beasts.
Sometimes you just need to get the stank off in a hurry
Thumbs up snd comment for the bump. Thanks for making the time and effort to follow up with a flow test after frac!
Thanks for showing us everything! This is very educational and informative.
I love the pump setup.. can't beat a Bean Triplex pump. Bigger version of what we use for diamond drilling, my grandpas old pumps were similar with engine and transmission set up similarly. I've built a few single speed versions for what we do, max 500 PSI but rarely do they ever need to put out more than 125. Little Bean E04 quads with small single cylinder motors. Nice for bush work, weighs less than 150 pounds and itll pump water a mile up a hill. Or if the pump on the rig fails, its a good backup.
everytime see your dad in a vid, he always got the same shirt on!
I bet she was happy that H2o was doing the job.....
Great video
Spent 40 years in the oil patch, mostly drilling, work overs when drilling was slow. never worked on a water well rig, thoroughly enjoy watching your video's.
good job
Hey bud, just wanted to say thanks for this great content. I also want to ask/tell that there is a channel called ghost town living. The person who runs it is brent underwood. He owns the cerro gordo silver mining town. He has a problem of getting water from 700ft down from the mine up to the surface. Now i ain't a professional but i just wanted to notify you that if you might help him in his problem as you know about this stuff much much better.
Keep up the effort!❤
All great work you do!
I bought a Water Well Drilling Co when I was 16 years old! Old rotary dangerous rig! I learned how to work Hard! Now at 65 I own two great companies! I so appreciate your knowledge! ❤️🙏🏼
Nice work. You do good work so the word gets around. Hopefully your next wells are not so challenging.
I enjoy watching you. Not matter what you seem to enjoy your work and life.
I was doing this work with my father here in South Africa when I was a kid. We got fantastic results in many many parts of the country. Some results of over 1000%.
And pump testing is vital before and after any treatment on a well.
Great result - thanks for sharing your data, fascinating insight to what can be done and what can be achieved when it all goes to plan.
I hope you guys did well (no pun intended) in the storm. I am up the road in Lynchburg.
Awesome job ‼️👏
Till the next one... 🤔🙏👍👊🤙
Thank you for all your great content and advice. I hope you all are safe with this storm tearing up the south right now. I have a thought for some content. Would you consider a video or two for new home buyers? If I were to buy a house with a well I wouldn’t have a clue what to look out for, what to ask about or how to maintain it if I bought it. I think something like that would be great 👍 Stay safe
Been in a you tube rabbit hole all day and your video here was the first one the skip ahead wasn’t used. Well done! What’s your second channel
@rodgersrcaviation2785 H2oMechanic2RC. Just search RC boats and you'll find me.
I love to see the results.This was a great Video
Frack yeah!
Question from Oklahoma about water well development- in my area there’s lots of old 40-50ft wells that make 10-20GPM. But in past few years I’ve installed lots of pumps behind drillers who drill with mud rotary bc of the sand and river rock formation at that depth, but almost all of them barely make 1 GPM. I’ve noticed the drillers only blow out the hole a little bit before leaving- they do not jet, surge, or swab these wells- read online these methods should be done with mud rotary for removing bore hole wall cake. Wondering if this could be the issue on these newer wells bc all of the old wells drilled with cable tools back in the day make great water. Haven’t seen videos where you talk much about the development process and just curious to hear your thoughts! Thank you for all your content I watch every video.
Another great video. Curious how you know if well water is safe to drink? Also... hope you can find time to fire up the little 4 cylinder motor you assembled recently!
You get the water tested at a lab.
@phil6465 all wells get tested at a lab inorder to get the house CO to be completed.
Just about everywhere has government labs available for testing. Call your county and they'll get you pointed in the right direction.
Also important to test what comes out of your tap and what comes right out of the well to make sure whatever treatment you're using is working properly. Lots of options there.
What about the test kits I see on Amazon? Reliable? I bought a house in Texas with 3 non-working wells. After watching all of H20 Mechanics videos I have 2 working nicely, just afaid to drink the water. Hoping someday he does a video about installing a Hand pump
@@johncarter5576 Those kits are just a yes/no, pass/fail, won't really tell you what's going on. Get them properly tested, it's worth knowing.
Excellent 😅
You need a little horse power behind that pump. Looks like a p323 great little pumps.
When you consider the well head static pressure of say 500 feet which works against the inflow rate, you could have twice that flow if the static level were pulled down to near the depth of the stream inflow.
nice job,
Thanks for doing the gpm test, fascinating to see the difference....have you ever camered the bore hole after fracking?, I am wondering if fracking makes a visible difference to the water bearing layers?
We are blessed at 40 gal per minute at 160 feet 😊
That is just amazing!!!! But question 🙋♂️ you think it is Iron an calcium deposits that had the vanes sealed?🤔 edit(( an yes THANK YOU ❤ for video the test !! It honestly puts it in prospective just how much better the well is after fracking the well !))
Hey Philip I have a question: When drilling and you have spoils coming back up, have you ever encountered any unique rocks/minerals that were worth keeping? Just curious. I was thinking about that in the past video where you hit a big void.
Does the “Veins” stay open? Do you inject pebbles or something to hold them open?
@duanepierson4375 they stay open for 15-20 years & eventually it'll be done again if need be.
You reached 100,000 :)
If you get a chance in a future video can you show more details of the casing seat?
How are you doing after the hurricane.
This is really interesting stuff. I'd think the flow would actually be more because the deeper the well is, the lower it is in the water table thus higher pressure down at the pump and quicker water replacement to the well. Am I thinking wrong? Thanks for the video.
I mean, that sounds logical to me. Leaving a comment to see if he replies to affirm or correct this.
@billsmith5166 yes, in theory the deeper you draw it down the faster it'll refill only because there's less water in the well bore to push against the Aquifer/veins. But the pump & depth of it is normally the limiting factor (if you size a system correctly).
At 180 if made 5gpm, at 140 it made 4.25 gpm, so it might make 6gpm at 270ft, but the pump would be struggling to lift from 270ft so it would only give around 3-4 gpm at that point. It's all a balancing act.
@@h2omechanic Makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining. I'd never have believed I'd have been so entertained by water wells. It's really interesting stuff. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos.
Fraggle Rock the story of a broken rock with a treasure song...
Does a well really need a drain back system in SE Texas? My drain back valve has failed and is dumping a lot of pressure/water while the pump is running. Should I replace it with a new drain back valve or just cap the tee?
The completed well head has an indoor metal box for the electrical connections? That passes code?
@gradyrm237 oh I feel stupid for not having noticed that but I didn't watch all of it, mostly listened while I made dinner yesterday.
In some places an inspector may let that fly, but I think we both know the correct answer is no.
I find it interesting that's what they went with.
pablo paco and pedro rollin plastic
What's the story behind your franking pump? Is this something you built? Is it possible to make a video on the tools you use to get the jobs done?
Hay, no water is for horses. cool!
Ours is 575 feet. 10 gal per min
Tell them to get a 300 gal tank....like us. Slow fill it. Draw it down when needed.
Nice work guys. Does anyone know the device name he measured the water level by.
Do you guys come to Charlotte? I'd love to have this done to our well. It's 500 ft deep and only puts out 1.5 gallons a min and I want to install irrigation. If not anybody you recommend down here?
Hello Phillip, Please clear something up for me - no pun intended. Where does all the stuff you flush out go? If it just gets pushed back into the water bearing strata, won't it just work its way back and clog up again?
@DavidSellars-b8l it's flush it out & yes it can settle back in over a decade or 2. But alot of times it can settle at the bottom of the well. It's like any pipe clogged, you break up the material and spread it out & then it is allowed to flow. Fine silt is packed it tight, we are busting it free .
@@h2omechanic The stuff pushed into the cracks(caused by fracturing the rock, aka fracking., it gets into them and gets stuck holding the cracks open, letting more water flow back. In gas/oil well, sands of various types are pushed into the rock formations during fracking to after fracturing the rock hold the fractures open.
Is 4.5 gallons per minute good? I’ve always heard you need at least 5gpm or higher for a house hold.
For a 80 foot well, yeah, the amount in the well might be low. But this well is over 200 feet deep and 100+ feet of water filled well that is water storage. So unlikely to run out of water and run the pump dry.
Did you folks get hit by the hurricane? Hope you are all ok and safe!
@richwielechowski5191 not like TN. Just got the outter edge of the storm
Have you geophysically logged the well?
@raymondless1036 we do our own well logs, but I wish there was an app for us to log in details and eventually with enough data we could kind of map what's below the ground in certain areas
Yeah most definitely and logged with the county@@h2omechanic
I've never understood why a bore pump is used as a pressure pump in the states, because they aren't designed for that. Here in Aus we have a bore pump varying anywhere from 5lpm right upto 12lpm that pumps into a 20,000ltr tank and then a pressure pump is used to supply the house/buildings. I guess freezing temps is the only thing that comes to mind.
@@adamcoffee738 I’m not sure why you say that a submersible well pump is ‘not designed’ to pressurize a pressure tank. The manual and specs for my well pump suggest otherwise. And I have no need for any kind of storage tank; my 100 ft (33 m) deep well produces water faster than I will ever use it. You’re suggesting I should install an expensive storage tank and a jet pump I don’t need for what purpose exactly? To save wear on my well pump? I just replaced my well pump; it had been in service for 38 years.
Fellow Aussie here. I believe a lot of the states in the USA view water as a natural resource and as such, the storage of it requires a license. At least it seem to be the case for storing more than 110Gal of rain water, not sure about well water (or as we call it, bore water).
@@askmyteapot Why would you want to store thousands of gallons of water for a home, anyway, unless your well is unreliable? All that water’s being stored cool and clean in the aquifer and will be there when you need it.
You were a little low energy at the start of the video, like you weren't feeling well, but turned back into your normal cheerful self on day two. Hope you are just exhausted from tons of work and not getting sick. Do you ever take any time off...lol
@CraigSnead we had 2 bad wells over 3 days & it wore me slap out. I try to always be upbeat & positive for the videos, but sometimes the mind & body are in need of rest & as you noticed, i was kinda tired . I wish we had less work so I could take time off, but we're 6 months back logged so we gotta grind while we can.
@h2omechanic Well, I always appreciate your content and all the hard work we see and that we don't. It's a lot less common to see a good work ethic like yours these days. Keep up the great job, but don't forget to take care of yourself too. Ms. Mandy probably would love some dady time, and it's such a great way to relax.
For a single dwelling I would’ve thought 1 gallon per minute would be satisfactory? Equates to 1440 gallons per day or 5760 litres! That’s a lot of showers! Even for horses showers!!
Gotta take storage capacity into account as well. If it only stores 40-60 gallons, you'd be limited on shower time, and then have to wait an hour to finish.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 With the pump at 300’ and a static level of 45’ before the fracking they would have almost 400 gallons of storage just in the well.
@the_latinist which should have been plenty I agree, for most situations. But my numbers were mere back of the envelope random numbers to demonstrate.
I could see how folks would be worried given the inflow rate, given dry times happen.
Yet this will not work for people using water from say thirty to sixty feet will it??? Its surface water
Is Kamala going to prevent you from “Fracking” once she get into office!!😂😂😂
the steel cable end close to the 220 volt plugin looks dangerous
Except the breaker wasn't on when he plugged it in, so no issue.
@@Dfk429S9fo3 being in a rush or emergency i am
saying its too close for comfort if it hits the plug legs
@novanut1964 that's just to lift it up with the tractor onto the trailer. I've got common sense so
worst case scenario, in a hurrry, or an emergency, maybe a new helper goes to unplug it, not realizing the danger, not that you are incompetent
@@h2omechaniccome on now, I think you have a little more than common!
Was by don’t you clean up all the cuttings off of the grass area? Stones rocks. Sloppy mud.