Well diggin' is a dying art.

Just try it. Worked for me though walking over an iron drainage lid. Maybe because I can see the lid as well and it influencing the brain and motorics somehow. But apparently there are enough people around having success with it over buried metal. Bit mystified still about why this would work but I believe it now.

Very informative, thanks

Great video! Currently getting some bids for a private well in Central TX and want to make sure I know what I'm getting myself into. Any update on how your well is doing in 2025?

dowsing is worthless

For any of you well experts, we bought acreage in Missouri and found an old well here on the property. My husband is now very ill and we are basically broke but we own the land outright. Its just a pipe coming up out of the ground. We’ve been catching rainwater and buying drinking water. What would it “possibly” cost, AND is there much chance, for this old well to just be restored??? What all would be involved because we’ve asked about a new well and were quoted $13k (just for the drilling). We were also told that old well like ours are more trouble than their value. Have no idea what run off there may be in that water source but no one around really has animals. Its mostly hayfields and old forest surrounding this well. ANY info is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for also the good information. I had no idea about all of that. Now I feel better informed starting my well project.

Such a shame you aren't posting anymore. Sadly it took me 7 years to find you, but wow you are on par with the quality of Trent and Allie. Hopefully you come back to posting

Illusionist James Randi had a great way of testing dowsing and he tested several hundred people claiming to be able to do it, they all failed. I don't understand how dowsing is still a thing when it has been exposed as BS so many times (not just by Randi)

I have used rods many times and I do not manipulate the rods in any way, walk forward and rods cross, back up and rods uncross. I have not drilled for water in any of these spots but I have no explanation why the rods do this.

My first thought was " you need to sharpen your chain" . The older I get the less willing I am to cut down anything, but I have done some really reckless things with a chainsaw. I have several hung up leaners in my woods that I just look at and wait for the wind to take them down. Be safe, thanks for the video.

Well explained

Would you have done anything differently ?

Had a drilled well that smells like sulfur. Know why?

Wouldn’t the filter fabric on top of the gravel layer make it more difficult for the plant roots to grow into the gravel layer?

ashley and L did some virtual car shopping earlier. big brother seen yall....

can i be your motion collector at your new office? idk,well see

im a wlkn tlkn bad ass mfer MOTION detector...

well olivia and brayden it was so nice seeing yall again. same here u take care now dad... i cant thank u enough for making my life so much better.....

last time i seen u had a long beard and was in a jeep behind the compass. lmfao,wow krista your dad is so fckn smart

i aint wearing pads today

u must of lost about 30 lbs drew... thanks

weres your roofers at this place has been framed long enough? theyre in route as we speak

You did a good job with that explication as far as I'm concerned. I've been looking at putting my well in for a while now and I always have trouble flowcharting every aspect of the final sections, lifting out the drill and pouring freeze material on the outside of the the casing. guess I just am missing on the phyics side of it. One thing is for sure you'll never have to worry about recovery, you've got plenty of water down there. I am curious where or what elevation you did this well at. Have you ever regretted not going with the cable and chisel drilling way? Modern well drilling is so much more expensive than the old pound and chisel drilling. I recently got a qoute from a long established driller in my area and he came back with $14,500 for finding where he says the water is at, 200'. Used to be you could drill a reliable well for $3000.

Mate, I ran into the same problem. Can't say thanks enough as I thought I would have to send the fams chainsaw for repair. Followed the video and works as great, just need to give it a clean now. Nice to know that these old videos still exist.

I had a house built in the Northern CA forest a number of years ago, including the drilling of a water well but I was not present during the drilling process. I am going to move cross country in a few months and again build a home in rural area, including the drilling of a new water well. Your video has given me a much appreciate wealth of info to use since this time around I am acting as my own general contractor. THANK YOU

I'm curious as to what it cost you to drill that well all in 7 years ago?

dude was like i spent the 6 grand and im getting a video out of it

Dowsing is the ideomotor response

Explained by a guy who might know, but really doesn't know, but its ok bc its close to how and whats going on...😂

Can you tell us an estimated location of where the drilling was. 325 ft seems very far down is there any rivers around you or like any lakes or bodies of water... I'm curious if that would make the footage less if there was bodies of water around you..

Cost?

Hey, thanks for the detailed videos! This is super helpful. Just a quick question. Does the level of the gravel stay just below the overflow or do you bring the gravel layer up before a layer of sand?

I'm intimately familiar with this stuff from my builds. I like your channel. You haven't made videos in a while. I'd love to see where you're at now.

Thanks for this video. I'm doing this today.

Essentially what is happening is your engine is flooded. So when you leave the choke open and pull the throttle wide open, you're providing the largest possible airflow through the carburetor and engine, which is drying out the excess fuel while making a sufficient, though lean, air/fuel mixture to fire. Once the excess fuel is burned out it runs as it should. So you basically explained it properly. I'm a retired mechanic, although not an expert on two-cycle engines.

Great video, but I still have one question--how is the soil and broken up rock removed from the bore during drilling? Is it forced out by air or water pressure?

Ex oilfield (drilling) electricianhere, and I'm so glad your video just popped into my phone. Very simple and informative. Plus, there are lots of smart & informed comments from other viewers. Someone mentioned the tri-cone rotary bit invented by Howard Hughes and how he made the majority of his money. In a similar vein and related to your industry, we used specially designed big (50hp+) 3-phase submersible pumps to supply seawater for engine cooling, big refrigeration units, and for making drilling fluids. These pumps weren't ours. The company BJ didn't sell them. We had to lease them because of the proprietary nature of the motor, pump, and specialized pressure and flow control system up top on deck. There are literally 100's of thousands of these units in the oilfield alone, raking in $$$ day after day. Great minds think alike because the two companies merged, and Howard Hughes and Byron Jackson became BJ-Hughes with 1,000's of operations all over the world. And that's the rest of the story. Cheers 🍻 and happy drilling.

Nice! I'm about to dig a walipini and make the greenhouse walls from old tires and the windows will come from my parents home when they get their new ones. I'm so excited for this project!!!

Thanks for this nice explanation, some ppl can do the job but they can't explain to an unknowledgeable person like me to understand this rest. Thanks again

I like the intro buddy, it reminds me at primary school around the 80s where we had opportunities to take part in acting 🎉

with that amount of structure why did you bother with the shipping containers?

Veighns of water sounds like bullshit too, the water table.

Ultimate test is to leave the "expert" in a desert with no water bottle and ask him/her to find water to survive. The rods better swing 🤣

Dowsing rods and other equipment moves because you move them? YES. Its the hole point. The key is for the person using them to understand why he moves them in that location. Something like this would satisfy a rational explenation: even tough you can feel every muscle and tone of every muscle in your body doesent meen you do without practice. Even tough you can hear meny sonds in the background doesent mean you listen to them. Our brains filter a lot of information because we find them irrelevant. I takes a lot of practice for an athlete to control the tonus of every single muscle involved in a movement as does a musician to hear only the notes he is playing. It takes time, a lot of time... The same is with dowsing, it takes time to understand why your body moves (in this case tiny movements of rods). The question for you is: Can you move your toes individualy? Yes. How? Try stepping on a crocked surface (rock) barefoot; every finger will move in its direction and have a different tonus, if it doesent you will likely be out of balance and fall. The same ability of toe movement and tonization can be aquiered volountarily after a lot of practice. So the question is: what did that dousers body find , why did it move those rods? Water, void, something else...? Dishonesty maybe - there is always a chance. To wrap this up: dowsing rods and other equipment moving is unvolontarily MUSCLE CONTROLED movement induced by a disturbance that our nervous system feels. The key to good dowsing is to answer what type of that disturbance is. Highly trained water finders don´t even your dowsing rods because they can feel tiny muscle tonization and movement without seeing the dowsing rods move and know to a certain degree of certanty why thy moved at that spot. Unlucikly there is no way of testing their claims until a hole is dug or until we understand the underlaying mechanism of this phenomena and make a computer. I would say that it is similar to people who can do complex mathematical equations "in their head". We, regular people, don´t know if they are right until we chek on paper, that takes a lot of time. They have that ability due to number of factors plus practice. Until we made calculators same conclusions were made about them. I hope that all who do water finding are ethical in their aproach and have clear intentions.

How many Tyers does it take to build a house or how many tons of Tyers? So I know what to calculate when I do this for myself?

Thanks - great explanatory video!

what project is it? lol it looked like 1800’s

Crab people cameo was nice

I haven't heard of anyone still using steel casing. PVC casing is corrosion resistant and will outlast steel pipe many year over. If anyone watches this and attempts to drill a well use PVC Pipe for casing.