lack of water volume, not pressure makes a huge difference, got a 330 gallon tote and used that with a water pump and drove down 40 feet. (no shell rock) in about 6 hours. first well took three long days because there was not enough water volume to lift the sand and dirt out of the way, But now you independent on water and that is a great thing. bravo for keep punching intill you knocked it down.
@@terrafirma9328 I already owned a 2” mud pump and a pressure washer. I bought the pressure washer jetter attachment and extra length of hose for about 40 bucks in Amazon. (Although the jetter and pressure washer method ended up not being a great method) Plus the cost of the PVC sticks,couplers, glue, galvanized coupler, pool filter sand, bentonite clay. So all in about 350-400 bucks, not including my time.
@@paperburn Is correct! A pressure nozzle could help to loosen material at the bottom of the hole but high water flow (volume) is what it will take to flush drill cuttings up and push them out of the bore hole. We sometimes used an air compressor to blow water and muck out of a well too. It takes a big compressor (ours was 185 CFM at 125 PSI) with enough air hose to reach the bottom. This can produce a nice geyser, very dramatic ! 😲
It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤
Proud of you. saved thousands of dollars. Unprofessional video but real and original. I like it. You are a hard working man. You needed to buy a batter pump though.
I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.
Great video Steve. Working on a shallow well using the pressure washer approach. We're about 30' down and progress is now slow....Very encouraging to see others run into problems, work through the process and figure it out in the end. Appreciate you showing failures as well as successes. Keep it up man.
Interesting video, I don't think the process would be quite the same here in our rocky Pennsylvania ground, but it started the wheels turning in my mind. Pretty good story/plot delivery, thanks for taking the time to put the video together!
Great job!! I have drilled 3 wells with a Deep Rock one man drill and got plenty of water, but had a problem because I had gravel and the gravel wouldn't flow out of the hole very well, but I finally had success and got plenty of water each time!!!
Thank you for sharing. The galvanized “bit” that you made really helped your process, even if not cutting through shell rock I would think the steel vs PVC would cut so much better.
You had the right idea for the drilling bit, but you needed carbide drill points or anything that was hardened steel to drill through the shale rock easier. But at least you got it done. Now you know what to do for the next one. Good job.
Makes me even more grateful that I live in West Michigan. I got a jackhammer and beat a well point down 25 feet to good water in an hour. The water is clear and delicious. I don't know why people want to live anywhere else. If you do, try a jackhammer and 3x10-foot sections of galvanized pipe and a jackhammer.
I've been a well driller in W. Michigan for a long time and will tell you that there are plenty of places here in this part of Michigan where a 25 ft well is a pipe dream. Sure there are a lot of places where the 25ft. well is normal and there are just as many places where it isn't... Ge thankful for the ability to be able to do it. Just remember that 25ft isn't deep enough for your well to be a legal well here in MI.
@@nickadams2270 AI Overview   In Michigan, the minimum depth for a drinking water well is 25 feet, and the well casing must extend to that depth. Additionally, all wells must be at least 12 inches above grade and not in a below-grade pit.
If you are going to hand drill do it in the valley center in a slight sloping ground, take two pieces of 2"×4" join them together with two bolts bore a round hole in the joint so when it is bolted around the pipe its tight enough to turn the pipe, use a belt as a shim if needed
Been there, done that several years ago. I found it works better if you drill the coupling bit and put a bolt through it so it can't unscrew from the pvc. If you make a paddle board that you can grip on each side and then use steel hose clamps you can tighten it up on the pipe and turn the pipe in either direction and then as needed loosen the clamps and slide the paddle board up to where it works best. I drilled three wells and lost the second one and had to abandon it. I've decided if I ever want to drill another I'll dig a pit to fill with water and bentonite and use a mud pump to flush the mud out of the hole and save all that effort.
Glad you found it helpful. The best method I found was the mud pump attached to the top of the pipe. The only issue with this is adding another piece of pipe. I had to let the glue set for an hour before proceeding again
@@SteveDoesEverything well, I can understand the wait for the glue to set, it would be extremely sad to have your pipe fall off in the hole where you cannot reach it.
You got er done so good job. FYI, water volume is more important than water pressure. Two hoses sealed off so the water and sand/dirt/cuttings have to come up out of the hole not back up the pipe. And go sloowwwww. Let all that dirt/sand come out up away and you wont get stuck.
Excuse me SIR, you SHOULD be using a N⁰ 3 OR N⁰ 7 16 tap certified water pick axe combo unit with a galvanized steel plate for the first hole pipe. I'm just being a turd burglar, lol, I love how you did this and the fact that you did it YOURSELF, with YOUR OWN TOOLS AND HANDS. BRAVO, kick ass!
Yep. Only other way is to drive. We’ll point down by hand or machine. This is how I got the first water source. But it was very shallow, about 16ft. Water flow was terrible.
@@joebobjenkins7837 every situation is different, there's no way anyone could make a video to address every single potential roadblock to getting water to drill a well
You need to circulate a clay/water mix going into the inside of the pipe and returning around the outside of the pipe using a 2 inch or better trash pump in order to stop the ground from collapsing around the pipe and freezing it in place. Dig a big hole next to the well (mud pit) and fill with the slurry and circulate it while drilling.
Dude I’m not going to Monday Morning Quaterback a thing IMO this entire Process was pretty Impressive , no matter what you attacked itvAggressively and came up with a possible Solution Yet Continuecto give it the Hard Work until Success
Oddly enough water jetting without predrilling a hole works better. If you pay attention to the videos created by the guy that started all this he’ll tells you. Use the well size you want and jet it down. I had coral about 2’ thick I had to get though. I made a drill bit using conduit. I cut a large bit in half wielding a section to each end. I used an impact hammer and after a couple of hours got through. If I ever do it again I will use galvanized well pipe and special couples and a jack hammer. The pros here use a sled with a hundred pounds to slam them down. I believe a jack hammer with a home built attachment would do it. I did 27’ before jetting stopped working. I ran 2 hoses and all the water just disappeared. It was 2013 and it has never run dry even after a massive drought.
It look's like your in Fl. The "Shell Rock" is called Cashea (I probably slaughtered that lol), they have another way to do it and it's almost like an oil rig but way smaller and you drive 4" at a time. It's ssssoooooo much easier!.
various things... mount the drill on a frame, with enough height to pull each rod... or pair of rods. stops it spinning on you too... get down a few metres and its a nightmare... watch an oil rig setup... on that note, you want the clamps to hold the string when you add/remove rods. doesnt actually have to be much fancier than a decent bit of plate with a hole in it. pivot on the top edge and the hole will grab the rod... either grab some masonry drills, or stump grinder teeth, and weld them on the pilot...
Doing one now in Punta Gorda. Shell rock at 20'. Making a separate drill stem from galvanized 3/4 and fitting at the end with teeth. Connecting to post hole digger, to punch a hole through the hardpack. Should be fun.
Should be fun. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you. If I did another, I would use the mud pump from the get go and the clay to help cut and line the hole.
Yeah😂 ,it was entertaining. In my opinion, knowledge is the first step to DIY own well drilling. Learning from the best (on RUclips, even if it's in foren language) will help you to be successful, with lot less of work
Is it stuck, what a dump question. That’s basically how I did mine except I didn’t think to use a pressure washer. Mud pump would work better with the large pipe then maybe the pressure washer. I made it 27’ before all the water just disappeared. At 8’ I hit coral. I made a bit using steel electrical conduit as the shaft. I hooked it to my big electric impact. It was about 2’ thick. In the end it took me about 2 weeks also. That was 2013 and it runs perfectly. 1 hp Gould 27 gpm pump. Since you have a skid steer you could of used it to drive down s steel point.
Your daughter is enjoying her mud puddle very much. And she's a wise young lady in that she's wearing rubber boots, unlike some adults around here. But heh, with the money you save from not hiring a pro well driller, a pair of ruined leather boots is cheap.
We had a neighbor from england when i was young, he had forms to dig down 4 feet per day, mix concrete, fill forms and by the next day he could stand on the cement to dig the next 4 feet. It seemed to work pretty good. Dig as deep as you wanted in the ground in that area at least.
I make that same configuration when drilling horizontal under slabs for irrigation. Best to make the teeth 45 degree or so..like a saw blade. Much better bite into soil.
I did 45 feet with just connecting metal pipes and a large auger type end to dig down all manually but around here it's supposed to be 100 feet that was way back in 2000 I might just invest in it because they want $800 dollars to renew contract that's why I am here looking to get ideas I had more energy back then
Your video was VERY AMUSING 👍😂😁😄😆 I was laughing endlessly. Are you serious. All of the great videos made of drilling an off grid home well. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG You should have watched a few. Your poor choices and methods were endless, even to a rooky. I applaud your efforts, and willingness to share. Hitting water or not, it was A GREAT VIDEO 😂😆😄😁👍
You definitely have me thinking. We just had to have our well pump replaced $2,500 later. My current well is 220 feet deep with the well pump set at 120 feet. He said I could pump 100GPM which seems like a bunch... The well should always have plenty of water in it if it's that deep I have thought about the steel pointed drill, the one you drive into the ground. But I'm afraid the water might be too deep to reach after hearing how deep our well is. Our soil is very sandy even though we are well inland. Here SE Texas where we are there is sandy clay under the sand. I have not been down much more than a post hole digger, but the dirt all looks the same everywhere I have put a fence post. I think I have a shallow spring just outside of the back yard fence. Our pasture stays wet forever after a rain. Even though it has not rained here for two full months and we have been living with the 100 degree days my grass is still green in the low area that leads to the creek. Most of my grass in that area is still green. I'm just looking for water for my gardens (2) and fruit trees.
How are you removing the particles you loosen by drilling? Normally a drilling fluid (thickened water) is used to lift up the particles. How deep did your working well go down?
Did anyone notice that you could just keep holding the power on the auger and it would come up while you pull. Like drill , stop drilling and big gets stuck so start drilling again and pull out.
A high volume pump is what is needed to lift the soil & mud out of the well. If you hit rocks or Shale with this setup you are do e for sure. Rotary drills and carbide bits for most rocks is required at minimum.
You would go faster without the pressure washer, you need more volume of water to move the dirt faster. Pressure washers are designed to do a lot of work with little water as possible and you need all the water you can get .
I think your problem was choosing a pressure washer, instead of a large volume gasoline powered water pump. The loosened sand/dirt needs to be removed from the hole by the water coming up. A pressure washer doesn’t pump enough water to do that.
Well done, I was watching your video couple times, as well as others. we're currently driving our own well. We also use same metal bit on a 2'' pipe for drilling, but 2 water hoses from normal water supply. we met small gravels, difficult to get them out. Question - did you smash the gravels and water rushed them out by using jet water? whats your mud pump's driving power or that of power washer pump? Thanks
Hi, if you connect 2 inch pump hose to end of drill pipe instead of 2 garden hoses, you’ll get way better pressure. Also if you use bentonite clay slurry in you water pump mix it will help bring small stones etc up from the hole.
Just be happy you can do it by hand, where I'm at you don't even hit water until 230+ feet and don't have a viable well until 300 pluss feet most of it is in hard lava rock
This might work in sandy soil with no rocks but does not work for most people. So if you think it is just this easy make sure you have the right type of soil.
Let me know if this is something you’ve done and your experiences.
lack of water volume, not pressure makes a huge difference, got a 330 gallon tote and used that with a water pump and drove down 40 feet. (no shell rock) in about 6 hours. first well took three long days because there was not enough water volume to lift the sand and dirt out of the way, But now you independent on water and that is a great thing. bravo for keep punching intill you knocked it down.
What did your total cost add up too?
@@terrafirma9328 I already owned a 2” mud pump and a pressure washer. I bought the pressure washer jetter attachment and extra length of hose for about 40 bucks in Amazon. (Although the jetter and pressure washer method ended up not being a great method) Plus the cost of the PVC sticks,couplers, glue, galvanized coupler, pool filter sand, bentonite clay. So all in about 350-400 bucks, not including my time.
Good jod when DIY any job it can be tasking I find this specially in stuff I have no experience with doing :)
@@paperburn Is correct! A pressure nozzle could help to loosen material at the bottom of the hole but high water flow (volume) is what it will take to flush drill cuttings up and push them out of the bore hole. We sometimes used an air compressor to blow water and muck out of a well too. It takes a big compressor (ours was 185 CFM at 125 PSI) with enough air hose to reach the bottom. This can produce a nice geyser, very dramatic ! 😲
Oh man, this was such a heartwarming video. I love your entire family participation! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching 😊
Man, l absolutely love ❤️ your attitude!
And your persistence and perseverance, not to mention your family who stood by you 🎉❤
It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤
It baffles me that this isn't every man's dream.
just pray for rain.
Proud of you. saved thousands of dollars. Unprofessional video but real and original. I like it. You are a hard working man. You needed to buy a batter pump though.
Thank you for your support
Dude your soils like butter, holy cow I would have found like six baseball-sized rocks and not first little bit you dug
Same problem here in mohave county. Baseball to chest sized rocks all over
Me too in manitoba.. rocks right up to boulders.. pain I the ass just trying to get down 1 foot..
This has to be Florida. Here in West GA it's a bitch trying to do this
I have a trench digger my property so hard for the first 2 feet. It’ll bend the bucket if I’m not watching.
@@kevinwithrowm ml❤8
I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.
Great video Steve. Working on a shallow well using the pressure washer approach. We're about 30' down and progress is now slow....Very encouraging to see others run into problems, work through the process and figure it out in the end. Appreciate you showing failures as well as successes. Keep it up man.
Interesting video, I don't think the process would be quite the same here in our rocky Pennsylvania ground, but it started the wheels turning in my mind. Pretty good story/plot delivery, thanks for taking the time to put the video together!
Happy you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
DIY Well Drilling Using a Hand Drill.
Great job!! I have drilled 3 wells with a Deep Rock one man drill and got plenty of water, but had a problem because I had gravel and the gravel wouldn't flow out of the hole very well, but I finally had success and got plenty of water each time!!!
How did you get the gravel out? Pump water faster and add mud for higher thickness
Thank you for sharing.
The galvanized “bit” that you made really helped your process, even if not cutting through shell rock I would think the steel vs PVC would cut so much better.
You've shown me that I shouldn't try to do this myself after all lol.
You had the right idea for the drilling bit, but you needed carbide drill points or anything that was hardened steel to drill through the shale rock easier. But at least you got it done. Now you know what to do for the next one. Good job.
Was going to click away early in the video. Glad I stayed till the end ! Good job you have true grit.
I appreciate that!
I especially liked your design of the tip of your dril pipe using galvanized steel pipe.
Makes me even more grateful that I live in West Michigan. I got a jackhammer and beat a well point down 25 feet to good water in an hour. The water is clear and delicious. I don't know why people want to live anywhere else. If you do, try a jackhammer and 3x10-foot sections of galvanized pipe and a jackhammer.
Great idea, thanks. We gotta go down a lot farther for good clean water
I've been a well driller in W. Michigan for a long time and will tell you that there are plenty of places here in this part of Michigan where a 25 ft well is a pipe dream. Sure there are a lot of places where the 25ft. well is normal and there are just as many places where it isn't... Ge thankful for the ability to be able to do it. Just remember that 25ft isn't deep enough for your well to be a legal well here in MI.
@@nickadams2270 AI Overview


In Michigan, the minimum depth for a drinking water well is 25 feet, and the well casing must extend to that depth. Additionally, all wells must be at least 12 inches above grade and not in a below-grade pit.
If you are going to hand drill do it in the valley center in a slight sloping ground, take two pieces of 2"×4" join them together with two bolts bore a round hole in the joint so when it is bolted around the pipe its tight enough to turn the pipe, use a belt as a shim if needed
Been there, done that several years ago. I found it works better if you drill the coupling bit and put a bolt through it so it can't unscrew from the pvc. If you make a paddle board that you can grip on each side and then use steel hose clamps you can tighten it up on the pipe and turn the pipe in either direction and then as needed loosen the clamps and slide the paddle board up to where it works best. I drilled three wells and lost the second one and had to abandon it. I've decided if I ever want to drill another I'll dig a pit to fill with water and bentonite and use a mud pump to flush the mud out of the hole and save all that effort.
Is it stuck..! That line hooked me perfectly..!
I live down in Hendry county and I want to drill a well on my property. your video was very informative Thank you and your Family.
Glad you found it helpful. The best method I found was the mud pump attached to the top of the pipe. The only issue with this is adding another piece of pipe. I had to let the glue set for an hour before proceeding again
@@SteveDoesEverything well, I can understand the wait for the glue to set, it would be extremely sad to have your pipe fall off in the hole where you cannot reach it.
@@Terkinstein yes. Happened to me on my first hole attempt
You got er done so good job. FYI, water volume is more important than water pressure. Two hoses sealed off so the water and sand/dirt/cuttings have to come up out of the hole not back up the pipe. And go sloowwwww. Let all that dirt/sand come out up away and you wont get stuck.
"this was not a task for the faint of heart"..... Is an understatement of the highest magnitude.
👍 this is Amazing . the Skid
Steer Drilling attachment
is an option ..
Nice work. You stuck it out - Congratulations!
Super cool dude, shocked pvc held up to the torquing from drilling
Excuse me SIR, you SHOULD be using a N⁰ 3 OR N⁰ 7 16 tap certified water pick axe combo unit with a galvanized steel plate for the first hole pipe.
I'm just being a turd burglar, lol, I love how you did this and the fact that you did it YOURSELF, with YOUR OWN TOOLS AND HANDS. BRAVO, kick ass!
I love how one of the key aspects to almost every DIY well vid is a water source, and not one content creator seems to see the irony.
Yep. Only other way is to drive. We’ll point down by hand or machine. This is how I got the first water source. But it was very shallow, about 16ft. Water flow was terrible.
So bring it back to your property 55 gallons at a time in a barrel...
@@honuswagner9348 I'm not saying there's no solutions. But I find the irony and ubiquitous lack of addressing said irony, hilarious.
@@joebobjenkins7837 every situation is different, there's no way anyone could make a video to address every single potential roadblock to getting water to drill a well
I just assumed they had a water tank for the supply.
Good Man, Your efforts, paid off, staying on point.
Thanks for the encouragement 😊
It's BRAVE to show the fails & successes. Good on ya
When you cut off the first piece of pipe leave enough of the pipe past the bell so that if you have to you can use the pipe in the future.
Thanks for the tip
This guy knows what tools to use
Damn woman asking reasonably curious questions while I am working on something, secretly winging the whole mess. All calculating and intentional.
steve in my experience i look about 20 videos before a dig my own well and you almost got it!
You need to circulate a clay/water mix going into the inside of the pipe and returning around the outside of the pipe using a 2 inch or better trash pump in order to stop the ground from collapsing around the pipe and freezing it in place. Dig a big hole next to the well (mud pit) and fill with the slurry and circulate it while drilling.
Dude I’m not going to Monday Morning Quaterback a thing IMO this entire Process was pretty Impressive , no matter what you attacked itvAggressively and came up with a possible Solution Yet Continuecto give it the Hard Work until Success
You did good , water will clear up in a few days , good luck with it.
Thanks 😊
Great video 👍 thanks for the lesson!
Oddly enough water jetting without predrilling a hole works better. If you pay attention to the videos created by the guy that started all this he’ll tells you. Use the well size you want and jet it down. I had coral about 2’ thick I had to get though. I made a drill bit using conduit. I cut a large bit in half wielding a section to each end. I used an impact hammer and after a couple of hours got through. If I ever do it again I will use galvanized well pipe and special couples and a jack hammer. The pros here use a sled with a hundred pounds to slam them down. I believe a jack hammer with a home built attachment would do it. I did 27’ before jetting stopped working. I ran 2 hoses and all the water just disappeared. It was 2013 and it has never run dry even after a massive drought.
Would love to see you talk about your finnshed setup. Tank, pump looks like you put a softner/ filter on.
I do have a video on that. I just need to finish editing.
Good job mate you got there in the end.
Thank you 😊
Definately the armstrong method. In Florida we can usualy zio them in.
Best part of this, the government doesn't know about it.
Good job man. I'm looking to jet a well with a 2" or 3" mud pump along with bentonite clay.
It look's like your in Fl. The "Shell Rock" is called Cashea (I probably slaughtered that lol), they have another way to do it and it's almost like an oil rig but way smaller and you drive 4" at a time. It's ssssoooooo much easier!.
various things... mount the drill on a frame, with enough height to pull each rod... or pair of rods. stops it spinning on you too... get down a few metres and its a nightmare... watch an oil rig setup...
on that note, you want the clamps to hold the string when you add/remove rods. doesnt actually have to be much fancier than a decent bit of plate with a hole in it. pivot on the top edge and the hole will grab the rod...
either grab some masonry drills, or stump grinder teeth, and weld them on the pilot...
and Steve kept the neighbors entertained for hours and hours and slept so soundly at night, no one could wake him !
Need a well at cottage. Might try this.
Doing one now in Punta Gorda.
Shell rock at 20'.
Making a separate drill stem from galvanized 3/4 and fitting at the end with teeth.
Connecting to post hole digger, to punch a hole through the hardpack. Should be fun.
Should be fun. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you. If I did another, I would use the mud pump from the get go and the clay to help cut and line the hole.
Did you use bentonite clay?
Are you a great handyman? Thanks for that
Yeah😂 ,it was entertaining.
In my opinion, knowledge is the first step to DIY own well drilling. Learning from the best (on RUclips, even if it's in foren language) will help you to be successful, with lot less of work
Nicely done!
Thank you
Oh man, if I got paid to replace every well a homeowner thought they could do on their own, I could make a lot of money. Oh wait, that's what I do!
That's good. This was a temp well. I had a real well drilled a few months ago
I would’ve answered the clay question to my wife the same way. “Nope, sure don’t.”
Is it stuck, what a dump question. That’s basically how I did mine except I didn’t think to use a pressure washer. Mud pump would work better with the large pipe then maybe the pressure washer. I made it 27’ before all the water just disappeared. At 8’ I hit coral. I made a bit using steel electrical conduit as the shaft. I hooked it to my big electric impact. It was about 2’ thick. In the end it took me about 2 weeks also. That was 2013 and it runs perfectly. 1 hp Gould 27 gpm pump. Since you have a skid steer you could of used it to drive down s steel point.
You get an A on perseverance!
Your daughter is enjoying her mud puddle very much. And she's a wise young lady in that she's wearing rubber boots, unlike some adults around here. But heh, with the money you save from not hiring a pro well driller, a pair of ruined leather boots is cheap.
I myself will be drilling a well sometime soon
Wish you good luck sir
@@SteveDoesEverything I need all the advice I can get I am looking for a good used auger to start with
@@davidsingh6611 you don’t necessarily need an auger. You can use a post hole digger to go down 2-3 feet. Just takes a little more elbow grease
We had a neighbor from england when i was young, he had forms to dig down 4 feet per day, mix concrete, fill forms and by the next day he could stand on the cement to dig the next 4 feet. It seemed to work pretty good. Dig as deep as you wanted in the ground in that area at least.
I make that same configuration when drilling horizontal under slabs for irrigation.
Best to make the teeth 45 degree or so..like a saw blade. Much better bite into soil.
Imagine the work involved in ancient times digging wells hundreds of feet -sometimes in rock!
Tell me about it.
Good Job. More need to know how to do this. 😀
You know they make a 4 foot extension for gas augers right?
Turns 4’ into 8’ or 12’
The cutoff wheel at eye level😂
you'll always be a better man for busting that ass to support yourself..great job
Wish we could have seen you do the second well?
I did 45 feet with just connecting metal pipes and a large auger type end to dig down all manually but around here it's supposed to be 100 feet that was way back in 2000 I might just invest in it because they want $800 dollars to renew contract that's why I am here looking to get ideas I had more energy back then
Your video was VERY AMUSING 👍😂😁😄😆
I was laughing endlessly.
Are you serious.
All of the great videos made of drilling an off grid home well.
OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG
You should have watched a few.
Your poor choices and methods were endless, even to a rooky.
I applaud your efforts, and willingness to share.
Hitting water or not, it was
A GREAT VIDEO 😂😆😄😁👍
If you are using galvanized fittings of any type you may want to check the lead content
I live in texas and we just use old oil drilling Steel pipe
You definitely have me thinking. We just had to have our well pump replaced $2,500 later. My current well is 220 feet deep with the well pump set at 120 feet. He said I could pump 100GPM which seems like a bunch... The well should always have plenty of water in it if it's that deep
I have thought about the steel pointed drill, the one you drive into the ground. But I'm afraid the water might be too deep to reach after hearing how deep our well is. Our soil is very sandy even though we are well inland. Here SE Texas where we are there is sandy clay under the sand. I have not been down much more than a post hole digger, but the dirt all looks the same everywhere I have put a fence post.
I think I have a shallow spring just outside of the back yard fence. Our pasture stays wet forever after a rain. Even though it has not rained here for two full months and we have been living with the 100 degree days my grass is still green in the low area that leads to the creek. Most of my grass in that area is still green.
I'm just looking for water for my gardens (2) and fruit trees.
You can check out the USGS ground water data for your area to get a good idea how far you’ll need to go to hit water
How are you removing the particles you loosen by drilling? Normally a drilling fluid (thickened water) is used to lift up the particles.
How deep did your working well go down?
On my second attempt I used the bentonite clay after about 15 feet and that worked really well. “Pun intended” 😊 total depth was 35”
went under a tree root. Just turn the digger backwards to twist out from under root... Happened to me twice...
Did anyone notice that you could just keep holding the power on the auger and it would come up while you pull. Like drill , stop drilling and big gets stuck so start drilling again and pull out.
I have drill a many a hols with my auger and never have gotten it completely stuck like he did
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This is so inspiring. Thanks
A high volume pump is what is needed to lift the soil & mud out of the well. If you hit rocks or Shale with this setup you are do e for sure. Rotary drills and carbide bits for most rocks is required at minimum.
Yeah If I lived in a rocky area. I would have probably paid to have someone else do it.
I liked to find a video how to dig for a well in New England .I see old hand pumps around I dig on my property I hit 20 rocks 🪨 in a 2foot hole
Very cool brother 💪
Lolol…. After she sees him trying to pull it out and finally shut off the motor….”is it stuck”? Lol
Wouldn't you recommend having the water tested for chemicals, bacteria, and spores?
Yes, anytime you drill a well you should have the water tested. We did have ours tested also.
Bud, you really need a face shield with that grinder .
You would go faster without the pressure washer, you need more volume of water to move the dirt faster.
Pressure washers are designed to do a lot of work with little water as possible and you need all the water you can get .
Nice work congratulations 👏
It would be nice to know what state you're drilling in
Fine video but try it anywhere but in sand like most of us have...the Poconos of P really knows how to grow rocks.
I was just up in the Poconos visiting last month. Stayed in Dingmans Ferry. It was beautiful.
You got it, bless you
Question:
How do you know where and how deep water is underground?
You can check out your local health dept for that info or check out national water table listings for your area
Mad respect!!
Good job 👍 I plan to do similar.
Next time build a wooden handle with hose clamps attached to grab and turn the pipe. Much easier to use than those heavy pipe wrenches.
I ended up doing that on the second we’ll attempt. Worked much better
I think your problem was choosing a pressure washer, instead of a large volume gasoline powered water pump. The loosened sand/dirt needs to be removed from the hole by the water coming up. A pressure washer doesn’t
pump enough water to do that.
Well done, I was watching your video couple times, as well as others. we're currently driving our own well. We also use same metal bit on a 2'' pipe for drilling, but 2 water hoses from normal water supply. we met small gravels, difficult to get them out. Question - did you smash the gravels and water rushed them out by using jet water? whats your mud pump's driving power or that of power washer pump? Thanks
Hi, if you connect 2 inch pump hose to end of drill pipe instead of 2 garden hoses, you’ll get way better pressure. Also if you use bentonite clay slurry in you water pump mix it will help bring small stones etc up from the hole.
@@SteveDoesEverything I'm thinking to get a high pressure washer to connect my jet hose, preparing to use bentonite...
Good job!
Thank you 😊
Try that here in Aridzona Caliche soil.
👍👍👌👌God bless you and your wonderful family 🤗
Keep the auger clear, never got my auger jammed.
when mine gets stuck... i rev it up and pull up while it is trying to dig down. It always releases.
Pita. Just named my Black cat that. Lol
Just be happy you can do it by hand, where I'm at you don't even hit water until 230+ feet and don't have a viable well until 300 pluss feet most of it is in hard lava rock
This might work in sandy soil with no rocks but does not work for most people. So if you think it is just this easy make sure you have the right type of soil.