Part 1: Digging a 9ft Well With a Shovel
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I can't believe it, we are actually digging our well ourselves! It has been a crazy experience so far and we hope it works out in the very end. In this first part we dig down almost nine feet, hitting water at six feet.
This process was a lesson in the value of pressing onward against the grain in a positive way. We found quite quickly that the state government strongly discourages a landowner to dig their own well, though the law clearly allows it. We asked for some advice from a local well driller who encouraged us to go forward with this project. I am so glad that we did.
Please don't use this video to dig your own well, I would be very scared to think of anyone using this as their only resource for digging a well.
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I’m watching a guy dig a hole in the ground.
You are currently watching a man descend as he works his way downward to achieve what is called a hole with the height of 274.32 centimeters.
re-watch it with "diggy diggy hole" as a soundtrack, you are _WELLcome_
And im pround of it
...and loving it
Land of the free. Needs approval from government to dig a hole in the ground..
Father America said no digging in his lawn
Lol they could hit cables or pipelines you know...
@ "but what if this happens" "what if that happens" (add offensive voice)
crap
Also have to pay them for everything
A few tips from another guy that's done this job. The heavy pry bar is your friend in heavy hard pack. Get hard clay wet prior to digging, use dish soap to help break it up. A dirty water pump with a metal attachment will allow you to dredge deeper once water started to seep in. Use that water to your advantage. Use nylon mesh to cement the area below water table to prevent cave in, the orange stuff works fine. Chicken wire and metal fencing corrodes and rusts, you don't want that. Great digging, it gets chilly down in that whole once the water starts in, stay safe. Short update, depending on size of hole, you may want a short shovel. So many cheap ones that break off low on the neck, they work great when your down in the hole.
This is great insight. Thanks for sharing it with me and the rest of us.
you are nuts! I think i'd hire this out or get an auger of some sort before I'd got in a hole like that
In my research how the old timers used to do it was use boards and cross bracing to prevent cave ins.
What would that look like Michael? tell me more please.
@@marilynreno7510 they would have boards along the side so that it makes a wall
You're my kind of weird buddy! Digging your own well? F YEAHHH
I am too. I want to see if i can do it. I have a 25 foot cistern that was dug in 1900 and plastered up with cement. It did no cave in. I have clay soil and it will hold together unlike sandy soil. Im 69 years old and im determined to do it.
Jon Does omg DO IT!
To anyone thinking of digging your own well, how this is being done is extremely dangerous. Any hole over 4 feet that collapses has the potential to crush you. These holes will collapse. For every foot down you go, you should dig out a foot. This will keep you safe. Yes its a lot more work. But you wont be dead.
What do you mean by digging out a foot?
Never mind I get it! Thanks for the advice! Wonderful advice!
This is awesome Jared! Excited to follow along your journey. We really need to come visit your homestead!
The Jurgys Thanks! You two are welcome anytime. I'll have more to see and better places to stay as time goes on.
that mud was my tablet when i was a kid
Kids now enjoy showers and doing their hair!
New texture pack looks really realistic.
THIS ISN'T MINECRAFT!!!
It's 3D Terraria. Idiot
That is very dangerous, especially when the ground is saturated. You should have used WELL RINGS and added them as you dug deeper. They would line the walls of the well (which is needed) and kept you safe.
Anything deeper than 4 feet should have shoring or be sloped back to prevent cave in. There should be a ladder so you can get out, too. Dirt is heavy! If it buries you, you can be crushed no matter how fast you are dug out.
A guy I used to work for died that way.
you didnt listen to a word he said
but this is hardcore, like "there will be blood", a hardcore business, lol, thx for the info im digging right now i think i will find it at 1.80m
Some one I know once dug a hole in his garden
That was good clay if you could make an impression as easy as you did. My understanding is that everything deeper than four feet should be shored up for safety's sake. Glad you found water and lots of it.
Well thx mate, now I'm planning to dig up sand hole in saudi and gonna fill it up with soil and compost to found out whether can it grow tree or not.
Any luck?
There’s no such thing as private property. You buy the rite to rent from the government.
It shouldn't be that way
4:06 to 4:12 right next to his right arm in the background there is a small dog.
I have a question. Why do Americans always dig with a round shovel with no handle on the shaft? Firstly rounded shovels are designed to scoop loose stone/gravel. Secondly there is no grip without a t handle on the end. this always fascinated me. I thought it was just a hollywood idiom.
Mats Vineyard 6 days ago."I have a question. Why do Americans always ...."
We American's have short square 'T' handled shovels (Check internet) We're just too dumb to use 'em.
See, No kidding: www.google.com/search?q=short+T+handled+shovels
One word awnser....leverage
I do landscaping and I use a full metal spade with a sharp straight edge for digging. and then a square scoop shovel for cleaning out the spade has a handle
I agree. But, FWIIW, a spade/shovel with Y or D handle is more comfortable to use and is what I would recommend.
I'll out dig all of you with a spade. Who needs a T handle unless it's for a sharpshooter.
Man that is some easy digging. Where I am at its all rocks and clay.
Great to hear your state still allows you to make your own well.
Same as me👌
Im digging in red clay soil which sticks together and probably safer from collapsing. Im down 3 feet so far. Im using a punch iron pole and then digging out the sides.
in our much younger days we hand dug wells 20 to 50 feet, total craziness and all for very small money, at least you have a good solid wall around you, but keep in mind looks can be very deserving and turn real bad real fast, my land is hard red clay you cant even begin to dig even an out house hole by hand, I had a big excavator dig down 38 feet and was still in the wettest red guwy clay you ever seen I ended up having it drilled, 60 feet in red clay, though 12 feet of cores gravel 17 feet into bed rock the drill bit dropped into a 18 inch cavity in the rock, right were 3 big vanes cross, {just as I witched them} I had them drill down another 14 feet for a sump, in 30 years have never had water problems, no iron just crystal clear spring like water, what I love about my land an why I bought it when I was 18, nno building permits needed for anything, build what I want were I want, the only permit I would need is if I had hydro put in
+Arnold Romppai That sounds like a good well. I definitely have good soil for digging, I've also experienced hard soil in my life, we are blessed here. The thought of building without permits does sound wonderful. I'm afraid that this world is now one of permits in most places now. Fortunately I am having a better time of it than I expected.
Your video and well are amazing, but please be careful in your future digging. A hole like this - if it caves in while you're digging - can turn into a tragedy. That said this is a great video, thanks for documenting what you accomplished.
Lots of "pitfalls" in the regulations on digging holes.
6:18 the Hungarian lyrics translates to something like "I'm standing outside on the balcony, I don't give a f*** what the f*** is going on" :)
“If it collapsed it could kill you!” Why would you put a exclamation mark xD
Did I mention that my uncle doesn't like wells as much as me
Good job on the well. I can't even dig a 3' hole in my clay soil. It's hard as concrete.
+Liberty Garden Thank you and yes, it was a really easy dig compared to other digs. It would be a different video if I were digging in your soil. I probably wouldn't find water so close to the surface. I'm thanking heaven for the conditions we have so I could get that far in a day.
I bet you slept great that night. My dad love the pick axe too like Pal Bunyan😁
With any luck you will find gold or strike oil. Then you can move like the Clampetts did.
Minecraft
@@hohoo4067 thank you muysicboy, very cool!
@@stupiddumb182 ?
@@hohoo4067 it was very cool!
@@stupiddumb182 sure it was
Im digging by hand and I'm 9 foot down . . . Scary . . . very scary down there, just got through the Clay and very wet now !
Did you finish your well?
We need an update lol
Unless you are in a concrete rings that there is nothing to worry about
Did you find anything interesting in the soil when digging.... .?
Holes! ^_^ Thank you for this. I hope I can do this on my own.
You’re my biggest fan Want to don’t know why I love digging
I dont think you said that correctly
“Oh WELL I’ll get back to it!”
No pun intended 😂🤔
Andale como te enseñe
Come look at my garden it's not far off yours ..haha
Guys that built my house you couldn call them cowboys.. it's an insult to cowboys.
After heavy rain I could rent my garden to ducks
I want to dig a well in one corner and use french drains to help drain some of the surface water back into the well and add an over flow pipe back into my rain drains just in case of a storm
I live in washington
EDIT: Thx you for Likeing my Comment:D
My opinion...
We are failing the younger generation, allowing so many "laws" on our own land. It's not right , by any means and it's sad so many just don't care. Say If you own a few acres of wooded land, did you know, It's not legal to stay on YOUR OWN LAND, in a tent , over so many days? Lol 🤣 this should have NEVER BEEN even allowed, yet here we are, loosing more and more and more ... It's a shame
Worked for a water department in the Midwest as a teenager. We spent summers replacing old lead pipe from the mains to the meters. A lot of the digging was with back hoe but also a lot of shovel. Just about the deepest hole I ever worked in was 8 feet trench, and yep, it collapsed, and yep, one guy got buried. Part of his face was uncovered and he was freaking his shit out, we dug him out and it all turned out okay.
How long?
Im digging a bunker and im going to use a 55 gallon barrel as a cason to hold up the walls because i live in Mississippi and the ground is gravel. I have to dig about 75 feet to the east from where i started to get to the right location. By my current speed, my estimated finish time is 3 weeks till i have to start moving east since i can only work on the weekends
I get water after the first scoop in Florida
The perfect 6 inch deep well! *tastes alligator shit*
Lies I live in Florida, dug a 4X4X8 hole with 0 water!
@@_Belteshazzar_ I hit water at 8 foot in Pensacola. 11 foot deep well runs my house year round
@@CaptHayes-tl4tj thats the dream. Have well water year round.
I get nervous when he says *"im digging my own"* 😓
Awesome video thank you may God bless you and your family !
No such thing as god.
Nice job! I love to dig too. This was a very inspiring video.
Gravedigger, dig my grave, make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain
I watched this video and it gives me the idea to make a tornado bunker for my family with just my two sisters and a couple of shovels
Your suppose to call utility locator before every dig its the law
I yooped my yants
You don't even have clay that deep?? AHaHggggHHHHH it sucks digging out a garden in North Carolina! I came here hoping to find techniques that would help me dig with a shovel through clay. I like the channel though.
I did it at home
You guys are a great working team! It was so much fun with you narrating the digging of your well!
Thank you, I'm glad you think so. I hope my videos get better and better.
@@Simplegroundlife well done man! how long did it take you? ; - D
Good luck 🥳
I search for the song and no results come up.
It is a Hungarian song for sure. I couldn't find the artist, I just understand the words.
I think it is near in river or sea, because the lower level of water in that place about 9 feet deep.. isn't?
Just found your channel, and good video! Love your positivity. Subscribed.
You're awesome man! so glad I found your channel. Such a good nature!
Thought you were in a third world country until you said Washington. Why not rent a machine for a day? $300-$400 bucks
im doing the same, im at 1´50 meters, but i have a 60% of rocks in my terrain so the thing is beeing harder
Go to Latin America, and you will see how people dig 200 meters well by hand. Sometimes it takes months since the ground is dry, hart and rocky
Man get a pump in there to suck the water out then dig with shovel. takes like an extension cord and a used pump u could get for 10 bucks at a leftover construction store. Your doing this the nigerian way with two people and buckets.
O God I was worried about youre water safety before you said you plan to cover it ..you should run over the area with dousing rods. There's a hand tool you can get to dig a hole its much quicker and safer and easier than doing it with a shovel theres a guy doing yt? Videos about the easier way my uncle did it that way ..it gonna have to dig so wide putting work on yourself
Wow you are a digging machine! How many hours were you digging? You must have some sore muscles after that.
+Tracy Good Thank you, you are right about sore muscles. But it was lifting the bucket that made me the most sore. I was digging for just over five hours, but the project took all day.
I wont dig a well, I will just dig holes all over my yard. I will live like a prairie dog.
well if you dig a hole how are you going to get out of the hole are you going to like make like a little sub to get out or going to get a ladder
People dug wells like this all over the world, with more people of course; I probably won’t do it myself .
I wonder how many blisters he has! I can’t believe he’s not wearing gloves! I guess in his research that wasn’t included.
You remind me of bob ross. Have fun with your well (:
i dug a 7 foot hole
i wish my terain was so soft at digging i am digging on top of a rock underground reached 1 netter so far i need 2 more metter down
Mine is soft and at 4 feet i hit water
Well with a shovel. Sigh
I understand because I have to dig a 6 foot hole and I’m not looking forward to it😂
You say you are in Washington. I have to woder what part of the state. I have lived here for more than 50 years. I've never been able to dig more than an inch or two without hitting large stones or rocks. I once dug a pit four feet deep with just my hands. All I had literally to do was pick up and haul off every rock big enough to pick up wiht my hands.
The soil at my place is truly unique. I'm about 40 min west of Olympia. I don't really give out much more of a location than that.
good to know about the law, I'm wanting to get some land in washington.
People in the country want to stay... country. Just an FYI.
Howdy from SW Washington. Stumbled upon your video as I was looking up regulations for digging a well in WA. We bought property with 1. Irrigation rights in the deed from the creek (selling point, since I have a hobby farm), and 2. A spring well. It's been difficult in summer, it likes to run dry. I think the sides did collapse a bit, it's hard to tell. It seeps, and not fills, I think, similar to what you've got going on, here. We have been fiddling around with various things for three years now, trying to handle the load of doing laundry, watering a few cows and a garden, and not losing the prime on the pump in the pumphouse because of low water. Ugh... And sediment. Let's just don't even get started about sediment. The cost of having someone come drill a well was quoted at $15 thousand. Then we got talking to farmer neighbor old timers here and there were some suggestions I won't name here. But I got to looking at what's legal, because everybody knows how WA LOVES to tell you what you can do with your own land (and yet they still have no problems collecting those taxes... hmm...) , specifically places that have a creek or wetlands. My Dad finally got tired of Thurston County and moved East, thanks to those excessive wetlands and other restrictions. Land you cannot use and still have to pay taxes on... ya, no. Eastern Washington is MUCH less ridiculous, but every area has their drawback.
I've been looking at all sorts of things, like tapping (or is it capping?) a spring, since we have plenty of those here, and that's basically what our well is, a seep from a spring. We have a whole hillside that spits out water in various places all year long. Less in summer, but still a steady seep. I have been repairing the existing irrigation ditches put here by the original farmers before us, and finding that a two foot ditch fills with water overnight. So, at least here, it doesn't seem to matter if it is a round hole in the ground for a seep well, or a long, shallow ditch. The water comes, and the bigger area for collection, because the ground has water everywhere, the more water you get and faster. Also, I see that the water is in the upper layers of the soil and if you get down to the clay bed, there isn't so much water. There seems to be a layer of clay down deep and the water flows on top of it in the ground and then pops out at these various "springs". I'm just trying to water my garden and livestock seperately, so that I can do laundry and not have the water quit, or not be able to take a shower after I do laundry or fill the cow water trough. I only have 3 cows. lol
So I have been a bit chicken to put film footage about this whole water business on YT, because, as you noted, legality issues everywhere. I'm not doing anything illegal and don't intend to. But also, there are scads of just nosy, tattle tale people with nothin' better to do having a cow about stuff that is none of their business. Already experienced some YT lashback about a video of mine using a weaning nose ring on our calf. I showed that we removed it because it wasn't a good option, but people freak out anyway. Such is the nature of the online beast.
Ayways, thank you for the video. It is nice to find information for our specific ground type in the same geographic location. Have been finding info for places like Tennessee and so on, where they don't bother you so much about just trying to provide for yourself. They have rocks. Not a single rock on this place, here. All clay.
We love tactics of tunnels in pickaxe and axe hammer ⚒️🔨 to break rock
"Well" done. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
Excelent! Thanks
I like your choice with the keltic music. Very timely with the well diggin demonstration. I just bought a property that shows nothing but field, woods and streams but it contains the location of the original 250 year old grantees homestead. You can see the sparse remnants of an old orchard and the folks who sold the property pointed out the location of an old hand dug well. Only problem is I'm not full of piss and vinegar anymore so I'll happily pay someone to drill a well for the made in Maine Simple Pump. Great video, thanks for doing this.
After all that you didn’t even show the well. ☹️😠😡😡😡😡
Remember this ya could dig into a under ground cave. So ty off too a tree🙏
Watch daddy get buried alive honey....... No side wall supports.
Had fun watching your vid...currently digging a hole for septic system 8ft wide x 9 ft deep...
That's a good size hole. I admit I used a backhoe for a good part of my septic install. Be careful with the soil in a hole that deep too.
I just dug a well 20 feet deep with a post auger. Lots of exercise. Hit water in about 14 and went down to 20. I used a 6 inch casing. It is about 3 or 4 gallons per minute
Cement the well on the way down with field sones, there are no well rings from a hundred years ago
I drilled mine with 2''' pvc , a 1.5" trash pump, 140 gpm and a home made bit out of galvanized 2" coupler cut in a crown shape. Some days I did 10" some days 10 feet, sand stone and clay mostly, my neighbors well is wet at 60 feet ( my Goal depth). When It got to 85 feet deep my bit broke off, no water, that was 8 years ago. My experiment exceeded my goal of 60 feet by 25 feet, some day I might try again
if 50 people participate in digging tunnels, tunnels can complete one month.
How did you determine the location had water before digging?
I don't think he did per se. He had a well expert to help him, and the expert probably said the area to dig.
They would line the walls of the well (which is needed) and kept you safe.)
14:42 ... I would like to say that you have a very nice soul & face & all. 🇮🇳
Honored, thank you.
I pulled water from 280' on Mt Shasta- well existed, but I did all the lines and pump/generator and built a rig to handle the weight... I'm not sure why you didn't run a pump once the water started moving- anyway, some great comments below. Would have loved to see it finished... Best, *A.
Hey man. You’re living the Dream. 👍🏾
It not free you not free any more even to dig a hole in the ground of your land??????????????????????
You are lacking of cooperation teamwork. Do you need help?
A grizzly would have done all the digging in 20 minutes.
What the money hungry “states” don’t know, want hurt them. Keep to your family and self and drill your well.
How did you know where to start digging?
Hey man, I just wanted to say thanks. I just dug a 7, maybe 8 foot well. When I reached 5 feet I thought back to the look in your eye when you said how dangerous it was. It's really fucking cool when you do that first bucket of water. Don't think I'll forget it.
Tnx man....good work. I believe I can start my project now
Good luck! Happy digging!
The whole time, this guy has a gleam in his eyes that says, "I am cheating death, and I know it; but it's worth it - and I survived - my project was a SUCCESS."
mat vineyard , a pointed shovel penetrates hard dirt much easier then a flat tip shovel.
my question is where do these people live that have a shallow well ?? my place in Wisconsin where I grew up we hand dug our wells because of all the creeks and rivers. in Texas on my present farm I have had over 8 different well drillers not be able to hit water at 800 feet. my neighbors have wells at 600,-900, and wells at 50 feet. we live on a hill and these wells are very close to each other. yes a 800 foot well close to an 50 foot well next door.
You are looking like proffeser in money heist 😂
Too much talking not enough detailed video of construction?
It would probably be better to get a backhoe to dig the first 10 feet
Dont drown in the well, and use the soil in your garden,..Smile... The Good Lord Says where there 's a will , there is always a way... Ninette Bird- The Caribbean Wife.