I worked at the largest ground water plant VA - Five Forks WTP, James City County. I loved watching Schultes out if MD drilling our 1200' wells for our big 1700 gpm well pumps. 300 hp , submerged motors and multi bowl pumps . I enjoy your channel and your explanation s of your work. We drew water from the Lower and Middle Potomac aquifers.
Hello my friend my name is Leigh and live in England. I would like thank you for providing such an interesting RUclips site. I watch with great interest and I applaud your professionalism and skill in the manner you conduct your business. Your enthusiasm and dedication in providing such excellent customer service is a rare attribute indeed. Please continue to delight your follower’s. Regards Leigh Paxton 🙏
As someone who has a flowing artisan well I’d love to see a video of you guys encountering one and your methods of control. One of my favourite RUclipsrs
@@h2omechanic thanks. To be honest I’ve watched this over a dozen times. I mostly want to see what happens during drilling, the actual follow up of how you controlled it, grouted it ect. Still a great video, just saying.
My grandpa worked for one of the original drilling contractors that was at Oak Island. The company was Sprague & Henwood. They didn't do anything with wells usually. Mostly did diamond drilling and foundation testing. I still drill with one of their rigs today.
Have you done a show on water well filtering systems? If you have could you tell me how to set one up. For s very shallow water well? Thank you J.B.Glasscock.
It looks like Mike is losing some weight. I think he is working a bit faster than when he started working for you. I guess well drilling agrees with him. LOL I am always happy to see a new video from you guys.
Nice to see you also a fan of Oak Island. Even if the ‘treasure’ has already been taken, the real value is in the massive evidence they have uncovered of foreign peoples coming and going, completely unknown before.
Oak Island is very interesting. It's clear that some weird things have been going on there. I do think they are milking the material for more than it's worth though, every find is blown up to be a great mystery linked to whatever group of people they find most interesting at the time (templars/masons/portugese/vikings/etc). I think they are trying to add more mystery than is needed, the history of the place would stand on it's own.
Question: We live in south central Michigan and any well drilled over 350 feet here always brings up salt water. This is because all of southern Michigan sits on the worlds largest salt mine, Morton Salt has been mining it for over 150 years. Do you or have you experienced that in the Virginia / N. Carolina area?
I live in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 about 90 minutes from Oak Island. I can remember when I was young we took a tour of the island. Old equipment that was left from digging years gone by. And some holes. There is lots and lots of islands out on the south shore of Nova Scotia. I always wonder if there is any other island that might have stuff buried.
looks like a good one to me. That spongy ground was weird, Ive never seen that before. If you were to hydrofrack that well is it likely to come up the neighbours well? and what would you have to do to stop that if fracking was necessesary. Thanks for sharing
Pretty cool operation...quick couple of questions. When connecting new rods, what keeps it from cross threading? Is it the count of the threads? And do you ever have to clean the threads from the grease you put on every end? Does it build up too thick? Thank for sharing this cool content with us.
@kevincameron8437 we blow off the threads w the air nozzle before adding grease each time. It's copper anti-cease. As for cross threading, it's nearly impossible for that to happen because of the design of the threads. I had the same question early on, & was told that. But I do know older rods with worn threads can cross thread. But if you grease it every time, & keep them clean, they last forever (or until the body of the rod is too thin) typically rods last us 5-7 years.
So, what happens if the rig starts losing hydraulic pressure? Like, is that an emergency situation, you gotta get away from it or is there a process to set it down easy and abort?
@hedunlap i kept looking at the neighbors well to see if i was ever blowing water out of it. That never happened, so I'd say it had little to no affect on it.
Phil, when your tower gets to full upright position, is it only held up by the hydraulic cylinders, or is there a pin or some other lock device that moves in to mechanically lock it upright?
The cylinders are the only things holding it up right, but there are manual locking pins that we put in if the drilling gets rough. All rig hydrolics have check valves, so they can't retract accidentally
Do you assign a well ID number for yourselves, then save a digital log of the well for future reference? In this instance, for that well 45' away for example. You mentioned all the layers and depths on the new well. Would the other log have helped you have a better guess of what to expect? I say 'guess', because every well is different, and you can never be certain. Especially for the difficult frack jobs as well. However, you do seem to have an incredible memory of these wells, so maybe not helpful?
@@patrickb5656 we use the date as the well ID number. Our log book is dated back to 1982, so we can go to it & see everything we detailed on the well tag itself
As a well driller do you have any insight on if there are issues drilling wells near lakes or large rivers and hitting water without going deeper than expected? Im in north east GA and we all learned a lesson with my well when it had to go to 600ft then fracked to produce 4.5gpm. Everyone thought it wouldn’t be an issue because the water is only a few acres away. Afterwords the driller told them its pretty common to not find water near a large lake as the water will travel in the easiest path…. Is there any truth to that or is any well just hit or miss? Just a fyi the well was allocated for $12500 at 300ft but came to $21000 total 😢
find it crazy that you gotta drill a well in so close to another you would think they could meter the well power and split costs and do a contract......
I know it would add a bunch of work to producing these videos, but in those parts where the noise is just too great for your commentary to be heard, it might help to overlay some post-production commentary. Kind of frustrating, knowing you're saying Good To Know stuff that we can't quite make out. Great content for us vicarious drillers. Thanks for your channel.
Phil, I know that rig is noisy beyond belief. Have you ever measured the decibel levels when you're drilling? There are apps you can download to measure the Db's. I will estimate somewhere around 115 - 122 Db's.
I watched Oak Island for about 2 seasons. All they ever found were dirty lumps of wood and buttons. According to the website, they're on season 11. After 2 years of watching it, I was like - Naaahhh . .I'm done. And here is it years and years later, and they still haven't found anything. Either they've found it and are waiting for the "right moment" to let everyone see it or they're just milking views and sponsorships at this point. Me - I would have moved onto a new treasure after the first 2 years of not finding anything.
@staceycarroll7973 i think at this point it's about chasing a childhood dream 2 brothers shared. Marty is wealthy enough to fund it & we only live once. For me it's amazing to see 1500 year old items found from all over the world & new technology they use that us as viewers wouldn't know existed. Plus they drill alot, so i can relate. But I doubt there's any gold , it probably was at one time but no more
@@h2omechanic You bring up some good points. There is something to be said for having a pile of money and doing what you love or are passionate about. I wish I was in that boat. I started to look up Oak Island the other day. I was working on some stuff for a client in Nova Scotia and had to pull up the google map, and there it was - Oak Island! I tried to work it in for the sheer amount of hits the keyword Oak Island would fetch but couldn't do it..... I think one of the last episodes I watched was when they drained the lake and got those above ground sonars. That was cool, and I like the whole haunted/cursed history of it. It's October so obviously I need a haunted island.
Oak Island is a strange one indeed. The ground they're on is karst limestone, and to be honest it looks like the "money pit" is nothing but what cavers call an aven; a shaft extending upwards to the surface from a cave deep below ground. Avens like that turn into sinkholes, and sinkholes often get the reputation of being bottomless and highly, even deadly dangerous. So then they not only accumulate accidental debris and rubbish but also everything that people want rid of never to be found again. So, got a man you killed in a drunken brawl, or maybe he was screwing your wife and you found out and the beating went a bit far? Either way, down the sinkhole he goes and that's the last we see of him. Drunken fools exploring and not getting out again (alcohol lubricates the rungs of the evolutionary ladder most wonderfully) and the merely stupid falling down a hole. Trash of all sorts; you name it, it goes down the hole until finally someone puts a nice stout platform onto it to stop his livestock getting killed in the hole. Wood rots, so mayhap he does this several times over the years, until all we have is the rope over the tree he used last time and a slight depression in the ground. Then two plonkers come along and assume a hole must have something interesting in it...
Oak Island is like an 80s fishing show, someone flipping channels is going to stop on it every time. I am ready to jump a head a few session to see if they actually find anything
I worked at the largest ground water plant VA - Five Forks WTP, James City County. I loved watching Schultes out if MD drilling our 1200' wells for our big 1700 gpm well pumps. 300 hp , submerged motors and multi bowl pumps .
I enjoy your channel and your explanation s of your work.
We drew water from the Lower and Middle Potomac aquifers.
Muy bueno saludos Crespo Driller PR
Hello my friend my name is Leigh and live in England. I would like thank you for providing such an interesting RUclips site. I watch with great interest and I applaud your professionalism and skill in the manner you conduct your business. Your enthusiasm and dedication in providing such excellent customer service is a rare attribute indeed. Please continue to delight your follower’s. Regards Leigh Paxton 🙏
As someone who has a flowing artisan well I’d love to see a video of you guys encountering one and your methods of control. One of my favourite RUclipsrs
He already did
@@Rick-fx8lh dang I must have missed it. I saw a really short clip of one he did a while though. Must be another. Thanks
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Y’all boys a rocking. Good job.
@@h2omechanic thanks. To be honest I’ve watched this over a dozen times. I mostly want to see what happens during drilling, the actual follow up of how you controlled it, grouted it ect. Still a great video, just saying.
My grandpa worked for one of the original drilling contractors that was at Oak Island. The company was Sprague & Henwood. They didn't do anything with wells usually. Mostly did diamond drilling and foundation testing. I still drill with one of their rigs today.
Sorry to tell you but i always give the thumbs up before I even watch it ,and you have never disappointed me
Phillip, those Oak Island boys hit water every time they drill. Totally guaranteed.
You were quite close to our farm in Ebony. I saw you guys pulling off of that job. It is always nice to have go the way that you planned.
They point and I Go 💪🙏
i love the oak island season the best show ever , will they hit it big who knows !
I admit I am a nerd, but boy was that fun to watch... and I learned some new things!
Nice job in joy your day be safe
Great content by the way. I’m a pump technician in Alberta Canada. I was your way a couple weeks ago to buy a pumphoist from Mike Noel
Great job Phil. Sure enjoy your skill!
you know i agree with you about Oki land
It's great to see you have a great day at work.
I was at the national driller convention in Cleveland Ohio. they were interviewing the drilling company from oak island!
Have you ever been to the one in Vegas that's crazy for a Driller 😂
Hoping for a video with the new pump hoist crane soon!
Hey Matt, nice to see you.
This is the year to find something at OakIsland!
Have you done a show on water well filtering systems? If you have could you tell me how to set one up. For s very shallow water well? Thank you
J.B.Glasscock.
phillip check out the rig hal heavy duty in aus is building. its going to drill a 10ft hole over 600 ft deep!
It looks like Mike is losing some weight. I think he is working a bit faster than when he started working for you. I guess well drilling agrees with him. LOL
I am always happy to see a new video from you guys.
Nice to see you also a fan of Oak Island. Even if the ‘treasure’ has already been taken, the real value is in the massive evidence they have uncovered of foreign peoples coming and going, completely unknown before.
@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 i love the history behind it all! That's what keeps me hooked. Masonic history is awesome
@@h2omechanic Same page👌. My husband and I love the history being revealed in the show. THAT is the treasure to us.
Oak Island is very interesting. It's clear that some weird things have been going on there. I do think they are milking the material for more than it's worth though, every find is blown up to be a great mystery linked to whatever group of people they find most interesting at the time (templars/masons/portugese/vikings/etc). I think they are trying to add more mystery than is needed, the history of the place would stand on it's own.
Anyone else expect lunch to turn into a FACTOR commercial? 😂
That lunch looked good whatever it was
Would love to see the final grade.
Question: We live in south central Michigan and any well drilled over 350 feet here always brings up salt water. This is because all of southern Michigan sits on the worlds largest salt mine, Morton Salt has been mining it for over 150 years. Do you or have you experienced that in the Virginia / N. Carolina area?
I live in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 about 90 minutes from Oak Island. I can remember when I was young we took a tour of the island. Old equipment that was left from digging years gone by. And some holes. There is lots and lots of islands out on the south shore of Nova Scotia. I always wonder if there is any other island that might have stuff buried.
How far down the hole will the pump be?
I have been watching and liking your videos !
On average how many wells or feet does a drilling bit last !
Everything considered,?
@@DougBalke 600ft & can then be resharpened , x5 times.
looks like a good one to me. That spongy ground was weird, Ive never seen that before.
If you were to hydrofrack that well is it likely to come up the neighbours well? and what would you have to do to stop that if fracking was necessesary.
Thanks for sharing
What happens if you drill too deep past the aquifer layer, can that make the well not useable?
Just a suggestion, you should consider using a tie microphone. It should reduce the ambient noise of the video.
@danielfernandez6329 I've tried, 3 different brands/types. Talking into the butt of my phone is the best method by far.
Coud you make a video on VES working mechanism for me Please 🙏
@@surafelmulugeta6037 what is VES?
Pretty cool operation...quick couple of questions. When connecting new rods, what keeps it from cross threading? Is it the count of the threads? And do you ever have to clean the threads from the grease you put on every end? Does it build up too thick? Thank for sharing this cool content with us.
@kevincameron8437 we blow off the threads w the air nozzle before adding grease each time. It's copper anti-cease. As for cross threading, it's nearly impossible for that to happen because of the design of the threads. I had the same question early on, & was told that. But I do know older rods with worn threads can cross thread. But if you grease it every time, & keep them clean, they last forever (or until the body of the rod is too thin) typically rods last us 5-7 years.
@@h2omechanic Awesome and thanks
So, what happens if the rig starts losing hydraulic pressure? Like, is that an emergency situation, you gotta get away from it or is there a process to set it down easy and abort?
@@nathantron hydrolic check valves prevent release if that happened
Quick question. You said you were drilling for another company but I don't think you mentioned why.
They install the septic system and pump system in the well. But they no longer have a rig
@@h2omechanic Thanks, Good symbiotic relationship.
How does this well effect the neighbors well, being so close?
@hedunlap i kept looking at the neighbors well to see if i was ever blowing water out of it. That never happened, so I'd say it had little to no affect on it.
They found it
Phil, when your tower gets to full upright position, is it only held up by the hydraulic cylinders, or is there a pin or some other lock device that moves in to mechanically lock it upright?
The cylinders are the only things holding it up right, but there are manual locking pins that we put in if the drilling gets rough. All rig hydrolics have check valves, so they can't retract accidentally
Tanglewood you say? Watch out for ghosts. 🤣
how much you charge to look at a property to see if a well is even possible im in wv
Is Matt an "Old" employee or a "former" employee... or both?? 🙂
I love watching your channel but there is one thing I must ask you, do you have two foots or a pair of feet? Past one foot it becomes feet.
Orange County n c 60 feet of casing is the rule . Chatham County nc 40 feet of casing -
Do you assign a well ID number for yourselves, then save a digital log of the well for future reference? In this instance, for that well 45' away for example. You mentioned all the layers and depths on the new well. Would the other log have helped you have a better guess of what to expect? I say 'guess', because every well is different, and you can never be certain. Especially for the difficult frack jobs as well. However, you do seem to have an incredible memory of these wells, so maybe not helpful?
@@patrickb5656 we use the date as the well ID number. Our log book is dated back to 1982, so we can go to it & see everything we detailed on the well tag itself
As a well driller do you have any insight on if there are issues drilling wells near lakes or large rivers and hitting water without going deeper than expected? Im in north east GA and we all learned a lesson with my well when it had to go to 600ft then fracked to produce 4.5gpm. Everyone thought it wouldn’t be an issue because the water is only a few acres away. Afterwords the driller told them its pretty common to not find water near a large lake as the water will travel in the easiest path…. Is there any truth to that or is any well just hit or miss? Just a fyi the well was allocated for $12500 at 300ft but came to $21000 total 😢
Hey bro… Question I have a jetted well and my foot valve and my screen needs attention is this a real difficult job? My well is about 40’ Thanks buddy
@@TheRooster1122 it needs to be air lifted.
@@h2omechanic You mean with the Well Machine? Hey buddy thanks for responding by the way not many Tubers do👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@TheRooster1122 i read everything. Definitely Overloaded with comments & emails, so early comments tend to get a response
@@h2omechanic That’s awesome buddy thanks for your response I appreciate you…👍🏼👍🏼😎
thats high quality H2O !!!! hahahahahahaa
@@n9uib Bobby Bouche'
@@h2omechanic when you did that...... I laughed my ass off
find it crazy that you gotta drill a well in so close to another you would think they could meter the well power and split costs and do a contract......
Mike and I
I know it would add a bunch of work to producing these videos, but in those parts where the noise is just too great for your commentary to be heard, it might help to overlay some post-production commentary. Kind of frustrating, knowing you're saying Good To Know stuff that we can't quite make out.
Great content for us vicarious drillers. Thanks for your channel.
Phil, I know that rig is noisy beyond belief. Have you ever measured the decibel levels when you're drilling? There are apps you can download to measure the Db's. I will estimate somewhere around 115 - 122 Db's.
sorry cant hear you over the machine
I watched Oak Island for about 2 seasons. All they ever found were dirty lumps of wood and buttons. According to the website, they're on season 11. After 2 years of watching it, I was like - Naaahhh . .I'm done. And here is it years and years later, and they still haven't found anything. Either they've found it and are waiting for the "right moment" to let everyone see it or they're just milking views and sponsorships at this point. Me - I would have moved onto a new treasure after the first 2 years of not finding anything.
@staceycarroll7973 i think at this point it's about chasing a childhood dream 2 brothers shared. Marty is wealthy enough to fund it & we only live once. For me it's amazing to see 1500 year old items found from all over the world & new technology they use that us as viewers wouldn't know existed. Plus they drill alot, so i can relate. But I doubt there's any gold , it probably was at one time but no more
@@h2omechanic You bring up some good points. There is something to be said for having a pile of money and doing what you love or are passionate about. I wish I was in that boat. I started to look up Oak Island the other day. I was working on some stuff for a client in Nova Scotia and had to pull up the google map, and there it was - Oak Island! I tried to work it in for the sheer amount of hits the keyword Oak Island would fetch but couldn't do it..... I think one of the last episodes I watched was when they drained the lake and got those above ground sonars. That was cool, and I like the whole haunted/cursed history of it. It's October so obviously I need a haunted island.
chew chew munch munch, mom he talikng with his mouth full again, ;lol 😂 😂 lov fast forward to the facts jack lol, gret time great people
Oak Island is a strange one indeed. The ground they're on is karst limestone, and to be honest it looks like the "money pit" is nothing but what cavers call an aven; a shaft extending upwards to the surface from a cave deep below ground. Avens like that turn into sinkholes, and sinkholes often get the reputation of being bottomless and highly, even deadly dangerous. So then they not only accumulate accidental debris and rubbish but also everything that people want rid of never to be found again.
So, got a man you killed in a drunken brawl, or maybe he was screwing your wife and you found out and the beating went a bit far? Either way, down the sinkhole he goes and that's the last we see of him. Drunken fools exploring and not getting out again (alcohol lubricates the rungs of the evolutionary ladder most wonderfully) and the merely stupid falling down a hole. Trash of all sorts; you name it, it goes down the hole until finally someone puts a nice stout platform onto it to stop his livestock getting killed in the hole. Wood rots, so mayhap he does this several times over the years, until all we have is the rope over the tree he used last time and a slight depression in the ground.
Then two plonkers come along and assume a hole must have something interesting in it...
You got little balls?😳
Oak Island is like an 80s fishing show, someone flipping channels is going to stop on it every time. I am ready to jump a head a few session to see if they actually find anything
Waste of time. It’s a garbage dump.