Hydro-Fracking Water Wells that Run Dry, Pump Testing Before & After to see What GPM it Makes Now!

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Комментарии • 188

  • @johnscully1924
    @johnscully1924 21 день назад +2

    Glad I happened across your channel. I live out in the country in central Ohio (Granville Ohio). Hilly terrain. 60 acre ranch. Due to winter, and the age of this setup (around 1969 I think), there is a 7' x 10' concrete pit 10' deep, with the well head and three large expansion tanks down there. pipes run from there to the house, pool, up the hill to stables (1500', 80' lift). We have a 125' 6" well with a 2HP pump. I run the switch at 70/90 due to the need for the lift to the stables.
    The only reason our well is that deep is the upper aquifer has a lot of iron and the deeper one is cleaner. When we have a dry spring and might be running sprinklers, or filling a pool we run 30 GPM without over drawing the well. The static water level ranges from 10' to running artesian, overflowing up to 30 GPM or more. So there is a large drain down there, running further down the hill.
    So, during serious drought I know the well can produce 20 to 30 GPM, and in a wet spring more like 40 - 50 (we can have multiple hoses wide open, drawing say 20 GPM and well still overflowing 20+.
    First few videos of yours I watched I was stunned. 400' wells? happy with 6 GPM? Damn, those must be expensive wells...

  • @marlinpruett8343
    @marlinpruett8343 18 дней назад +2

    My daddy one time had a well that was shallow well you know it was like 150 ft I think you're 200 now they've been 200 but what he done he took his 30-06 and fired it in that well three times and it started producing more water I guess the shock of it must have cleared it out

  • @mikefightmaster
    @mikefightmaster Год назад +13

    That well needs a pump with less GPM, like a Grundfos, with low water cutoff to save keep the pump from burning up.
    Also needs more (or less) bladder tank capacity.
    They installed a pump based on what they wanted and not what the well could produce.
    Another good video-Thank You.

  • @haroldgreen1425
    @haroldgreen1425 7 дней назад +2

    Very informative. I'm not that much above sea level, perhaps 80' along the upper texas coast and my 180' well keeps up with a one inch line irrigating my one acre orchard. Have never checked the flow but I have an aerated system blowing water up into a 500 gallon holding tank and that two inch line looks like a firehose when pumping. Now to my point. I dug a small lake and wanted a shallow well to reduce the evaporation loss of the lake so I hand drill a thirty foot well and used a shallow well pump to pull water up to the surface. I always felt I didn't do a good job as the well only produces 4 gpm. Now I realize it's not that bad.

  • @transmitterguy478
    @transmitterguy478 Год назад +12

    I would still have the fire company come and fill the swimming pool to get them started. Great job Phillip.

    • @howardtravels
      @howardtravels Год назад +2

      Most Fire Departments will not do that anymore. The equipment cost, wear tear and puts firefighters and equipment out of service also..

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@howardtravels The water will also quite green, if they're bringing city water, and needs lots of shock and filtering before it gets nice and clear. You can add lots of potassium permanganate and backflush the sand filter often to help clear things up.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      A fire truck might have 1500 gallons, a tanker truck can bring more depending on how many axles etc, but an average 20x40' pool with one deep end holds 20,000 gallons. That's a lot of trips with water. Even a 5 axle semi truck with a day cab could maybe bring 8000 per load, without going over 80,000 gross weight limit. The tankers can deliver 9000 gallons of gasoline, but water is heavier.

    • @4sl648
      @4sl648 Месяц назад +1

      We used to do the filling in my fire dept maybe 30 years ago, usually 1000 or 2000 gal only to let the pool compant set the liner. Pumpers ran steel tanks and often the water was rusty, esp in a quiet dept. Owners were not happy.

  • @hadley70
    @hadley70 2 месяца назад +3

    I wish you could help me with mine. After watching you I would sure trust you fix my well. Not sure where yall are at.

  • @normanmack2368
    @normanmack2368 16 дней назад

    People don't really realize what we do to fix the problems. You are the exception.

  • @cracky_wainwright
    @cracky_wainwright 15 дней назад +1

    Great work and excellent teaching video. As rural county water authorities have become paralyzed and unable to provide new water lines to customers (2015+), I think the skilled well technician will become more and more in demand. Many of these water "authorities" are -- no pun intended -- just treading water with the customers they had 20 years ago and highly resistant to expanding new water infrastructure.

  • @hardwiired
    @hardwiired Год назад +9

    I actually cited some of your videos on a college paper on well water systems. You are such a wealth information! TYSM!!

  • @George-xm6di
    @George-xm6di 10 дней назад

    Thank you for the before/after. Every time I watch you frac a well, I wonder if it worked. Now I know. Thx. Your vids are addictive.

  • @JJ-gd7gf
    @JJ-gd7gf Год назад +13

    So, do I understand that your fracking method forces water from an above ground tank into the well and its feeder veins, thus opening the veins for better water flow into the well? If so, that would be similar to a medical procedure for removing plaque from arteries so a heart can work more efficiently? Great video

  • @waxore1142
    @waxore1142 17 дней назад +1

    omg when you seen that black widow, what you said reminded me so much of Mr. Poopybutthole from Rick and Morty. whoo whee look at that guy right there. he might cause a bad day. whoo wheeeee

  • @markf350s
    @markf350s 5 месяцев назад +2

    Hey, another great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your work. I know that orange you guys must attend State auctions that's the same color. Our equipment is for our State equipment that we can buy at auction day. Thank you for sharing.

  • @danielson101
    @danielson101 Месяц назад +2

    i can hear it!

  • @stanleyroberts2461
    @stanleyroberts2461 Год назад +10

    Love the details in the numbers. Thanks for showing the process!

  • @deanotex94
    @deanotex94 16 дней назад

    Have y’all ever experimented with using some form of proppant like is used in oil and gas wells. Would seem that it would be effective in replacing the silty dirt with something more permeable and long lasting.

  • @BWIL2515
    @BWIL2515 Год назад +3

    New subscriber I've been in construction my whole life and this is absolutely the new best content creator

  • @normanmack2368
    @normanmack2368 16 дней назад +1

    Thank God you are persistant.

  • @jareds6611
    @jareds6611 Год назад +2

    Having a large addition put on and the well was too close to the addition for the county so they told me I had to move it. So driller comes out, drills 650', snaps 3 carbide bits (lots of granite) and only getting 5 gpm. I need more than that because I have already been through this with my other well for irrigation purposes. Need 7 gpm minimum. Driller said the best bet is to get it fracked. uggg. My old well was only 428' deep, puts out around 15gpm and its literally 20' away from the new well but the new well is also about 15' higher on the top of the hill. The driller is a customer of mine, good people and they have been in the business for a long time so I trust them. Just hope it works, this has gotten to be one expensive well! He is charging me $3500 to frack it now. Would be a whole lot more to do it later apparently.

  • @RobertBeck-pp2ru
    @RobertBeck-pp2ru Год назад +2

    Where I live in Ohio, we have trucks that will haul pool water to your swimming pool. Don't know the cost of that though. Our well of 80 feet does about 8 gallons a minute, but if we draw too much, the water will turn grey. It happened a couple of times over 30 + years. You really know your business very well. No pun intended

  • @billveek9518
    @billveek9518 Год назад +3

    Im currently getting 40gpm on my well and the static level hasn't dropped since 1960 when it was drilled, this is in Arizona!

    • @scottmeek920
      @scottmeek920 11 месяцев назад +1

      You are lucky we are in New River Az. And our static water level has dropped 80 ft and is now at the bottom of the pump. Can't find anyone to extend the depth just want to drill a whole new well at 45.00 a ft plus pipe casing and pump. Now having to haul water

    • @billveek9518
      @billveek9518 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@scottmeek920 crazy but I own land just north of you off Table Mesa Road, my well that I was referring to is in Young AZ

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@scottmeek920 How deep is the well? It's pretty hard to drill an existing well deeper, have to know exactly what type and size of drill bit was used, was it a used bit or a new bit. The problem with trying to drill thru an existing hole is the bit can jam and break off the drill string. Also it's difficult to get the drill precisely lined up with the existing hole. It can actually be less total work to just drill a new hole. 400' would only be roughly $27,000 that's not too bad. Figure I pay roughly $65 a month for city water at 3000 gallons per month average. Yes that 27000 would be 34 years worth of water for me, but, that's very minimal water use, since I don't need to irrigate anything living on a large lot in the midwest. In Arizona whatever you don't irrigate will be dead. And in a hot climate you'll be taking more showers and drinking more water, so 3000 gallons a month might be enough for only a single person. I can make do with 3000 gallon a month here with 2 people in the house, it's just me and the wife here. If you were at like 9000 gallons a month then the payback period would be only 11.5 years, and city water in Arizona even if you could get it I'm sure is much more than the rates here.

  • @tomstrum6259
    @tomstrum6259 Месяц назад +1

    Exciting video..., Replace that wore out "Iron Duke" with a hp Small block V8 or Big Block "Goin thru" the gears should Blow the veins clean out in a min or 2.....

    • @marshfield01
      @marshfield01 Месяц назад

      v8 sounds great till you turn your packer into a 1500psi water rocket or start blowing lines. Iron duke is idiot proof and easier on equipment, more reliable too.

  • @MrBigbmcc
    @MrBigbmcc Месяц назад +1

    I’d like to see the bottom of a well with your camera please!

  • @wdxwm300
    @wdxwm300 10 месяцев назад +1

    I always like your informative videos and your presentation and wish you were closer to this area Thanks

  • @strobelightbrian
    @strobelightbrian 7 месяцев назад +3

    This was supper cool to see!

  • @arlynsmith9196
    @arlynsmith9196 Год назад +2

    Very interesting! And good job with the narration and camera work and editing the result. Glad I found this channel!

  • @tomstrum6259
    @tomstrum6259 Месяц назад

    So much Smart & efficient technology & Experienced execution here !! ....Pressure Hydro-Frac gets Results to make everyone Happy....

  • @jimw7ry
    @jimw7ry Месяц назад

    After filling that swimming pool, the well veins will be cleaned out even more, and have even more capacity? I believe wells increase the output the older they get?
    Great video!

  • @scottfrost4816
    @scottfrost4816 Год назад +1

    i would be in the $1800 range up to the excavator. Crane would take it up to $2500. nice work man!

  • @madusmaxamus8670
    @madusmaxamus8670 10 месяцев назад +1

    One problem with hydrofracking is the possibility of breaking into a natural gas pocket of an area of bad water that could cause some major problems with the well and the surrounding area. That has been shown in the past when fracking had been performed in other areas. Depending on the area and what is down there the risk can be not there or if there problems could result.

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  10 месяцев назад +4

      Your 100% correct. Just not in my area.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@h2omechanic In West Virginia there's a lot of brine formations, in fact in Nitro, WV there was a lot of chemical companies that set up shop in that area and also south of Wheeling, because of the good brine wells. They used the brine to produce sodium hydroxide, which is the base chemical used for many other industrial processes. In the old days, they would actually get pissed off if they hit natural gas or oil, they would cap that well, and start another drill, because they were interested in the brine.
      Which leads to my question, have you ever had a well after fracking that suddenly turned salty? Or maybe your area is far enough away from the Brine formations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

  • @user-mybigtruck
    @user-mybigtruck Месяц назад

    I had this done to my well, and i am happy that i did.

  • @rickatkins1493
    @rickatkins1493 Год назад +5

    Great job, I think the filling of the swimming pool will be a great test for that well. A well is a nonlinear function. Meaning 1 inch above head there is zero water flow. And 1 inch above the bottom of the well, the flow rate could be three times the flow rate that was given. ❤ your channel. Outstanding job of explaining what you were doing.

  • @dhulyaqaan
    @dhulyaqaan 4 месяца назад +1

    Would you name the equipments you are suing please

  • @rongray4118
    @rongray4118 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for posting your video and testing! I will be doing this for seeing if we can recover a high mountain deep well (220' deep).

  • @mattc7820
    @mattc7820 Год назад +2

    I love your fracking videos. I wish I could find someone around me that can frack a well. I've called numerous companies and none of them do it or know someone that does. I have 2 wells paired together, 1 produces 1/10th gallon per minute, the other is 2/10ths. Combined, my wells produce half of what that well produced before fracking...

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад +7

      It's a 250k setup that we use a dozen times a year. Hard to justify that cost wise. But for me, as a driller, it's a tool that necessary for 1 in 50 wells. It saves the day & cheaper than 2-3 other wells.
      Most commercial Fracking companies will travel 5-8 hours but charge alot more . With a 97% success rate and you having 2 wells, id research Fracking companies that offer traveling from far away. May cost you 10k, but worth it in the end.

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      If your well has rock crevises that tight , you could probably frack it with a pressure washer pump. Just need a way to seal the casing in an area that is securely grouted in a way you can pump through , and in a way that will contain the pressure. Im pretty sure he doesn't have a low enough gear to even begin to track your wells.

  • @Chris_In_Texas
    @Chris_In_Texas Год назад +1

    Wow at 864 per day isn't too much for a large house. My boat has two (for redundancy for ocean crossings) 1800 gallons per day watermakers (75/hr or 1.25/min) on it with 900 gallon fresh water tank. It does draw just under 3KW when running power wise, so we do have to keep a generator running during the production. Great job on adding capacity to the well! 🤠👍

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      Not too much? I'm on city water at my house (even though out in the county, there's some exteneded lines). The monthly bill is usually 3000 gallons. Once a year maybe 4000 if washing a lot of stuff like bedding. That's 2 people on average 100 gallons a day. I did have one bill that was 9000 gallons a few years ago, that was from one toilet flapper valve that had a slow leak. A 'normal' house shouldn't need 30,000 gallons a month unless you're doing a lot of irrigation, or have farm animals etc. That can easily consume 10x what just the inside house stuff uses. Just one horse on a warm day can need a minimum of 40 gallons a day just for drinking water. Then you have to add in the evaporative losses from whatever water trough you use for animals to drink from, spillage etc.

    • @Chris_In_Texas
      @Chris_In_Texas 9 месяцев назад

      @@brnmcc01 We do run about 25K-30K at the house, but are irrigating with the 110F days during the summer. However during the winter 3K or so is our normal as well. I was just mentioning that I can produce 1800 gallons per day on my boat of fresh water from seawater, and have a 900 gallon fresh water tank in the boat. As an example my pressure washer is 4GPM when running, now I don't run it for hours on end, but will go an hour or so at a time. Not sure how much reserve is in that well before it start to run dry.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@Chris_In_Texas Yup, 10x is what I figured for a ballpark guesstimate for summer irrigation, things like that. I was pretty close for a SWAG! (scientific wild assed guess) :)

    • @Chris_In_Texas
      @Chris_In_Texas 9 месяцев назад

      @@brnmcc01 when we were on city sewer we always used minimum water during February as that is the month they used to figure sewage price for the year. Now we have aerobic septic system now so it doesn’t matter much. 👍

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@Chris_In_Texas Here they take the average of all the winter months for the summer sewer usage. I guess that's fair but can't cheat the system a bit by using as little water as possible for 28(29 in leap year) days 👍

  • @BlainsTube
    @BlainsTube Год назад +2

    You're doing well fracking. It's very interesting work. You do a great job explaining what's going on in the process.
    * Are you actually fracturing rock to allow for better water flow?
    * Or are you basically back-flushing (at high pressure), the seams and cracks that already exist?

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад +3

      Flushing out the Water seams that already exist.
      You can't truly fracture rock.

    • @nonofyourbusiness7631
      @nonofyourbusiness7631 9 месяцев назад +1

      Not with 1000psi lol we frac at over 10000psi up to 14000 to break formation when fracking oil and gas

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@h2omechanic For oil well, yes you can they set special high explosive charges at the exact depths and the supersonic shock waves fracture the rock. Works best in soft brittle rock like shale formations. What the oil companies refer to as "tight formations". The Marcellus shale formation is great for fracking, and produces lots of natural gas as well as oil.

  • @hodesto
    @hodesto Год назад +5

    Love your content. Currently live in house with municipal water. Building a second home in Vermont which will need a well. Learning a lot about wells through your channel. 2 questions how long usually does a successful franking last before gpm might drop. Does the weight of the water keep the well from just over filling and pour out of the well head ?
    I didn't have a clue about wells before I found your channel.
    Thanks

    • @earlestes8649
      @earlestes8649 4 месяца назад +1

      We have some wells in our county that runs out the top of the casing, called artesian wells. It’s a problem when that happens

  • @Rockwolf50
    @Rockwolf50 Год назад +1

    Curious as to who built the packer you are using. I ram down hole tools for Baker Hughes for 10 years and it looks very similar to ones that I ran while we were fracking deep wells. Also curious as to how you are inflating it as we used to just drop a ball down the tubing and pressure up the packer to inflate it.
    Well designed frac truck I must say. The design is essentially what most major stimulation companies have been using since the end of WW2. My dad stated in the patch with BJ Services, which later became Eskimo and then Dresser Titan. He was a frac crew supervisor for years back then. They used to use Merlin engines on frac trucks when they first built them as they has thousands of them left as surplus after the war.
    Great video.

    • @SOU6900
      @SOU6900 8 месяцев назад

      From what I've seen in his videos they use hydraulic oil to inflate it.

  • @ChristofM-mg7mx
    @ChristofM-mg7mx 15 дней назад

    What type of pump are you running? that's amazing

  • @brokeminer475
    @brokeminer475 Год назад

    Crazy how people have hardly any water. Apparently I’m lucky where I live. 11 feet down is water table with course gravel and another 30 feet to bedrock. Put in a 2 inch sandpoint 25 feet down and a 1 horse sprinkler pump. 60 gallons a minute. It ran for 5 days straight because I forgot I turned it off once. Still was at 60 gpm. And yea I had a mud hole!

  • @dentech4710
    @dentech4710 Год назад +1

    I moved into a house by myself and the well was 227 feet and produced 1 gallon of water an HOUR. 24 gallons a day. They built the house over the well. I lived like this for about 15 years before I drilled and fracked another well. I live in an area that has problems with water.

    • @crabmansteve6844
      @crabmansteve6844 Год назад

      I live rural myself, but luckily in Central Georgia, US, we can drill 45-60ft and have bountiful clear water here almost anywhere.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      Ouch! 24 gallons a day, thats not enough for even a single person. I use 20 gallons a day just myself to take one shower a day, and flush a toilet a couple times. One load of laundry is over 20 gallons easy. That well was only enough for cooking, washing dishes, and drinking water. Forget washing your car with a 24 gallon a day well, that's not happening.

  • @johnjake9496
    @johnjake9496 Год назад +1

    ❤❤❤ REALLY NEED HELP! Have well / point up at cabin brand new. Pump will pump up water get some pressure but never reach shut off level. And water from nearest sink doesn't have pressure behind it. What do you believe is wrong?? Everything is new!

    • @johnjake9496
      @johnjake9496 Год назад +1

      Thank you in advance anything will help at this point. Brand new piping going down new jet backer new pump new tank. Everything. Be headed up tomorrow to work on it. Thank you for any ideas.

  • @tonyd579
    @tonyd579 8 месяцев назад

    Your videos makes you money because we THINK as well owners we can do what U do,,,,,,,,, nope we can't and make our problems worse. But we love to learn.

  • @spitfirelast8761
    @spitfirelast8761 4 месяца назад

    Well done brother well done.
    How can we open up some veins without using heavy machinery? And does it open up naturally if like earthquake occurs or old age of well?

  • @Weldoholic
    @Weldoholic Месяц назад +1

    17:45 that is not just a trickle sir😂😂

  • @normanmack2368
    @normanmack2368 16 дней назад

    After watching some 10 videos. Do you ever suggest a water storage, 500 gal. Storage.

  • @scottfarmer3429
    @scottfarmer3429 Месяц назад

    Great Video, Looking for a company in Oklahoma that can do the same thing.

  • @seanwhite9848
    @seanwhite9848 Месяц назад

    Why did the bladder tank empty if no one was in the house? A check valve is between the well and house. Is the water being released coming back from the house?

  • @cantwellron11
    @cantwellron11 10 месяцев назад

    You fellas Rock = SOUTH AUSTRALIA

  • @danielson101
    @danielson101 Месяц назад

    Thats a Win Win!

  • @ericnewton5720
    @ericnewton5720 Год назад +1

    What’s the point of a frost free hydrant right next to a well elbow that exits above ground without using a pit less adapter… must not freeze in that area…?

  • @normanmack2368
    @normanmack2368 16 дней назад

    That sounds like a spring?

  • @waxore1142
    @waxore1142 17 дней назад

    have you ever had a packer blow out of a well?

  • @Bowhunters6go8xz6x
    @Bowhunters6go8xz6x Месяц назад

    Awesome job !

  • @steveo7006
    @steveo7006 Месяц назад

    I had a 1/2 gallon per minute well before I had mine fracked. We had to schedule showers (boat showers, no standing their enjoying the water running over you), laundry, even doing the dishes. Yes, you can live with it, but it really sucks.

    • @clintoncrawford6231
      @clintoncrawford6231 Месяц назад

      How much did it produce after fracking?

    • @steveo7006
      @steveo7006 Месяц назад

      @@clintoncrawford6231 8 GPM. Like in the video, it sounded like a waterfall pouring into the well. All the cracking was above 100 feet in a 300 foot well.

  • @ThumperKJFK
    @ThumperKJFK Год назад +1

    Question, what happens when the home owner is not home for a long time. What happens to the well with the flow of water into the well. Does the PSI of the water volume keep the water from filling the well to the point it will over flow out the well bore? Ore does the water volume PSI keep the vain from filling the well past a certain level? This was very informative. ✌👍

    • @crabmansteve6844
      @crabmansteve6844 Год назад +1

      It reaches equilibrium static pressure and stops rising.

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      If it's a full artisian we'll it will flow out. Pretty rare

  • @ThunderBirds255
    @ThunderBirds255 Год назад

    Love y’all got the preferred pump hats on!!!

  • @dennisryan7487
    @dennisryan7487 Год назад +2

    Are you driving a right hand drive vehicle?

  • @joelbrown7485
    @joelbrown7485 Год назад +2

    Drop your packer below 137’ and really open that puppy up

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.

  • @cajunnathan4586
    @cajunnathan4586 Год назад +1

    Question: Do you put a check valve on the bottom end of your casing? Is the screen that's on the end of the casing set in a Rock or Sand Formation? When you Frack (pressurizing below your Packer), are you fracking the screen area or the check valve end area?

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      Fracking will only work on a creviced rock formation. Wells with casing big enough for submersible pumps do not have check valves on the casing, Only perferations or screen in the casing.

  • @danielson101
    @danielson101 Месяц назад

    Wow! how cool!

  • @HubertofLiege
    @HubertofLiege Год назад +2

    My neighbor fracked his 160’ well that blew the bottom out of the other neighbors well and dirtied and dried up my well in six months.

    • @owendodman3037
      @owendodman3037 10 месяцев назад

      It has its time and place, generally not for groups of wells. I wonder what would happen if you fracked all 3 wells, but I think it would be hard to keep all 3 full and pressurized

  • @joewilmetti3296
    @joewilmetti3296 Год назад

    Excellent videos and content, kudos for your work ethic and attention to detail. Very informative! Question: when hydro fracing, how do you determine the depth to set your packer? What influences the depth determination? Thanks & keep up the good work. 😊

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад

      We use a camera to inspect the bore hole. Need to find a smooth area. Also we look for possible veins to frack (above & below) the more we know about the wells construction, the safer we can be while Fracking

  • @marcruel9401
    @marcruel9401 7 дней назад

    How long does that service last?

  • @notsogreat123
    @notsogreat123 Год назад +1

    Are all your vehicles right hand drive ? Of is it your camera that inverts the picture ????

  • @MrBigbmcc
    @MrBigbmcc Месяц назад

    13:21 are you talking in the third person?

  • @jderevere
    @jderevere Месяц назад

    is this a single packer or a double pack frack

  • @tjwatts100
    @tjwatts100 Год назад +2

    Really interesting.
    For comparison, my mains water supply in England does about 50 litres/min which is about 11.1 Imperial gal/min which is about 13.9 US gal/min.
    And my supply is exceptionally high pressure at 7 bar (sorry, can't do a psi in my head on that).
    Seems like, in comparison, getting 2.7 gal/min out of a personal well seems pretty good.
    But I assume people on wells have storage tanks in the house to even out flow for baths and stuff? Or does the well have enough buffer to carry short periods of very high demand?

    • @kevinroberts781
      @kevinroberts781 Год назад +1

      No tanks. The well itself will hold enough for high demand times.

    • @tjwatts100
      @tjwatts100 Год назад

      @@kevinroberts781 Thank you 👍

    • @houseman2414
      @houseman2414 Год назад +2

      We all have tanks (compressing air to store energy for pressure), but it's about duty cycle on the well. A very large tank might only move 40 gallons or so. The commercial equivalent is a water tower. Without the pressure tank, a typical well (runs at only one speed) would constantly click on and off and quickly burn up. If we run a bunch of hoses full tilt or something, the well is going to spend about half the time running.
      It's not a large buffer like a rainwater capture system.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      7 bar is 102 psi. That's too high for residential use, unless you have a pressure regulator. Standard here is roughly 75 psi for fire sprinkler systems, or 50 psi for bath and sink fixtures. That works out to a little over 5 bar pressure which is more reasonable.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      @@houseman2414 Yup, water towers around where I live (not very high density) typically have about 3 pumps. One 5 gallon per minute pump which is built for very long duty cycles. A 10-15 gpm medium duty pump. And an 'emergency' 50 gallon per minute pump. During the day if needed only the small 5 gpm pump runs almost continously. At night, depending on the days water usage, the larger pump will kick on when the electricity rates are lower. During emergencies like if there was a water main break or a large fire somewhere, the 50 gpm pump will be started remotely. Yes that 50 gpm pump will run the well dry eventually, but it's turned off as soon as possible, then the later at night when the wells have recovered and the off peak electricity rates, they will refill the water tower back to full at that time slowly overnight. The key is matching the demand to the right size of pump, and only running the larger pumps at night when electricity is the cheapest.

  • @petersherrouse33
    @petersherrouse33 8 месяцев назад

    Interesting. I'm thinking that if one set the packer at 90ft down like you did and did what you did and then moved the packer down some amount and repeated this 2, 3, or so times you may have been able to open it up more at other depths. It would be informative to know the success rate and how often it is not successful.

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.

  • @olinssercuevas1370
    @olinssercuevas1370 Год назад

    Good information man thanks

  • @giuseppepandolfo4815
    @giuseppepandolfo4815 7 месяцев назад

    Nice job buddy

  • @fullraph
    @fullraph Год назад

    Have you guys hired Eric from the Matts offroad recovery crew? 😅😂

  • @drob5664
    @drob5664 Год назад

    Good job!

  • @Pippy626
    @Pippy626 Год назад

    Have you considered just wearing a cam or putting the cam on the equipment and just post life of well drilling and well fracking or pump installing videos?

  • @jackwhite6030
    @jackwhite6030 Год назад

    Brilliant

  • @dhulyaqaan
    @dhulyaqaan 4 месяца назад

    What kind of equipment using for pump test

  • @truthserum8326
    @truthserum8326 10 месяцев назад

    Is it safe to say a well will produce X amount of water over a 24 hour time period when performing the testing method you used which only accounts for the amount that well produced in a 1/2 hour time period? My guess is you know this due to past experiences. Please elaborate when time allows. Thanks

  • @JoseOrtiz-zb7gq
    @JoseOrtiz-zb7gq Год назад

    Awesome

  • @russgosnell818
    @russgosnell818 11 месяцев назад

    How long does fracking usually last before it needs to be done again,, estimated?

  • @Jimmerca
    @Jimmerca Год назад

    I’m doing good if I get 6 gal per hour. That’s why everyone has a large galvanized water tank

  • @billmonroe8826
    @billmonroe8826 Год назад

    Nice work, sir! I'm just wondering if they'd be better off by putting in another well anyway since they seem to have a large consumption of water in that household with a swimming pool and all?

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад +2

      That's the next step if this well can't keep up. But we had to frack this first, before introducing another hole. 2 wells & youll risk fracking 1 into the other. I think they be fine for now.

    • @billmonroe8826
      @billmonroe8826 Год назад

      @@h2omechanic How far apart would they have to be to prevent fracking 1 into the other?

  • @robertlucht4657
    @robertlucht4657 Год назад

    Is this an open hole completion in a limestone formation? Do you ever use any propent? Have you every used an acid frack on limestone?

  • @integr8er66
    @integr8er66 Год назад

    Man, I thought my well was weak at 14 gpm. .6 is less than a piss stream. If I had that little flow I think I'd get a cistern and a pump that flows less than .6 gpm and let it run longer duty cycles.
    I talked to an old timer who ssid they used to drop dynamite down the well to frack them.

    • @brnmcc01
      @brnmcc01 9 месяцев назад

      Yup, but now oil companies used special shaped charges that have a high brisance (higher shock velocity, lower power) to shatter the rock. The key is getting a good fit between the explosive and the rock formation. Sort of like how a shaped charge used to cut a steel beam during controlled demolition needs a precise standoff distance. Perhaps a standard stick of dynamite is the right diameter for a 3" well, or was close enough to work.

  • @halledwardb
    @halledwardb Год назад

    Cool.

  • @sauravsanyal4397
    @sauravsanyal4397 5 месяцев назад

    Why don't you use #screen #Casing

  • @AndrewTa530
    @AndrewTa530 Год назад +1

    is your steering wheel on the right side?

    • @iconoclad
      @iconoclad Год назад

      Mirror image from phone front camera.

  • @johnraynor5095
    @johnraynor5095 Год назад

    Do you add franking sand to keep the formation open??

    • @joeycad
      @joeycad 6 месяцев назад

      He's not applying enough pressure to create new fractures by actually compressing the rock. He's just widening crevises near the well to increase short term flow.

  • @watertech011
    @watertech011 Год назад +1

    As Always a very informative and educational video! Get rid of that "Made in China" pressure gauge LOL

  • @brianthompson3145
    @brianthompson3145 Год назад

    What would the cost difference be between a new well and fracking it

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад +1

      A new well is 4 to 5 times more

  • @Kathleen-wf1jr
    @Kathleen-wf1jr Год назад

    Had our well hydrofracked. After the well yield test our water from the tap is cloudy with tiny air bubbles. It clears up right away. This didn’t happen right after the fracking. What could have caused this?It’s been three days now since the test and water still has them. The fracking was successful. Went from 1.5 gpm to 4.

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад

      Sediment plugs up the veins & fracking blows out all that Sediment. Give it a few weeks of normal use and the water will become clear eventually.
      You may want to look into a bigger Sediment filter. Google Big Blue Inline water filter,20"x4" & you can buy 1micron or 5 micron string woven elements to help control your Sediment issues
      The bigger filter will allow more water flow/Pressure than a small residential filter. Just don't use a carbon element.
      But it'll clear up in time.

    • @Kathleen-wf1jr
      @Kathleen-wf1jr Год назад

      Thanks! The cloudiness starts at bottom of glass floats to top and is gone in about 10 sec then the H20 is crystal clear with no sediment settled at bottom. Will wait awhile and see.

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  Год назад

      @Kathleen-wf1jr they might have had air in the lines when they fracked it, it'll return to normal in time.

  • @willdevault9720
    @willdevault9720 Год назад

    Where did you purchase your well camera/ cable reel system from??

  • @JeffreyStrader
    @JeffreyStrader 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hydro Fracking has been "COMPLETELY BANNED" in Oklahoma. The Oil Industry was literally creating Earthquakes with their Fracking. So our state government, banned all forms of Hydro Fracking.

    • @dsddownsouthdiggers1323
      @dsddownsouthdiggers1323 7 месяцев назад

      No! It hasn’t been banned! Water well and oil wells are separate! And You’re thinking of acid fracking.
      But even in the oil industry acid fracking hasn’t been completely banned. They have shut disposal wells.

    • @JeffreyStrader
      @JeffreyStrader 7 месяцев назад

      No, the state banned the fracking used by Oil Well Drillers. It was proven they were the cause of all the earth quakes we were having here. The largest earthquake known to be induced by hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma was a M3.6 earthquakes in 2019.

    • @JeffreyStrader
      @JeffreyStrader 7 месяцев назад +1

      For quake-prone parts of Oklahoma, the state ordered what is essentially a 40 percent reduction in injection of the saltwater that scientists generally blame for the massive increase in earthquakes. This year, before the new rules went into effect on May 28, Oklahoma averaged 2.3 quakes a day. Since then the average dropped to 1.3 a day, based on AP’s analysis of U.S. Geological Survey data of earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or larger. But some of those fewer post-regulatory quakes have been large and damaging.

  • @MRM5J
    @MRM5J 10 месяцев назад

    Where are you located ild like to have this done to mine. Or get a referral if you are not local if you have one

  • @jamesclark1588
    @jamesclark1588 Год назад

    HAHA I have that same Premier hat

  • @DH-mf2lv
    @DH-mf2lv 11 месяцев назад

    Wonder if a well 75 ft deep is worth fracking?

    • @h2omechanic
      @h2omechanic  11 месяцев назад

      No. I only frack wells over 250ft

  • @rakeshm8713
    @rakeshm8713 Год назад

    Your well pipe pulling to design send me i am also bore work

  • @Kathleen-wf1jr
    @Kathleen-wf1jr Год назад

    How do you rectify this?

  • @abrad3061
    @abrad3061 Год назад

    What are of the country do you work.

  • @bc_why
    @bc_why Год назад

    youre the goat