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[@DennisEBridges]

I can watch work for hours, watching good work is an education!

[@jeffcotton2235]

He did an EXCELLENT Job! Give that man a raise! You taught him well! KUDOS to you!

[@WrenchHead]

I don't think I've seen such a clean crawl space! Man that's nice.

[@Bear1489]

Nice first time install 😊

[@1islam1]

​@@Bear1489⚠️ God has said in the Quran: 🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 ) 🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 ) 🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 ) 🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 ) 🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 ) ⚠️ Quran

[@waxore1142]

not perfectionist or overzealous. Honest, integral business practices. your a good man.

[@sc2LEGEND]

These videos are so awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in your trade, I find these videos super informative and well pitched together!

[@recardotorres3497]

I live in Europe have seen a lot of you videos, can only bless 100% craftsmanship Clear for everyone !

[@canadiansnowplowguy2852]

I always put 12 inches of sand around the water pipe and put tape above the sand. Never worry about rocks puncturing the line and creating a save zone for anyone digging in the yard at a later date. This is actually code here.

[@genemcnabb9389]

Outstanding! I’m getting ready to drill a well. Trying to find someone that will do the job right is a challenge. I wish you were in my area!

[@davidstreling3690]

Great that you took the time to repair the vapor barrier, that JUST shows that you care about your reputation that many others dont care about, it can be the little things that show shows your level of work ethic

[@markb.1259]

A+++ video!!! Y'all do great work!

[@chonzie16]

Every time I watch one of your videos my brain swells bigger and bigger 😊

[@minnesotasteve4479]

Yup, he did a great job..... reflects on what his teacher is like. WELL done... pun intended!

[@mitchl4456]

Growing up in a area that has 90% city water and 60% city sewer (in the city and towns around me) it's crazy seeing these wells. I feel like I would be scared to drink the water 😂

[@SLOCLMBR]

See, and we raised on well water are terrified of what the government puts in your water..

[@mbredline7603]

​@@SLOCLMBR exactly! city water tastes like bleach and chemicals.

[@TTV_VRT]

Whoever did that crawl space lining and insulation is a fucking god. And deserves a raise 19:14

[@brianguthrie1683]

I so enjoy the content of these video's , thanks for sharing

[@transmitterguy478]

Great, cool, and interesting work, Phillip. Love your other channel too, those boats can really move!

[@jenko701]

I always think I’m going to just watch a couple minutes, but I have to go to the end every time .

[@Mike_Neukam]

I like to put a bypass on the water filter. It's nice to have water available inside the house to clean the canister(s) when changing the filter cartridge(s). I use big 20's in my house and change them once per year.

[@BosnWayne]

Well done as always.

[@MoroMoro1]

Great video. I enjoyed watching

[@md2320]

Not many tradesmen do jobs how they would like it done. 👍

[@walterskelton411]

Did you ever drill through the roof of a large cavern?

[@jasonlutz8400]

No pitless adapter interesting

[@nick39]

Thanks for making these videos. They are very educational! I also enjoy watching you use your expertise operating the equipment. I’m curious about one thing. Why would an artesian well be a problem? Or did you mean it would be a positive thing? Thanks again! I was considering a DIY shallow well to irrigate with. I made a manual hollow drill out of my son’s old basketball goal. Used a 3000 psi pressure washer… I was walking through dense red clay pretty easy. Then, BAM!! I hit a solid layer of rock!😂 so much for that project. I guess I’ll leave the well drilling to guys like you who know how to do it!👍 Great job BTW!!

[@wallacefrey6247]

That new hammer is nice.

[@strobelightbrian]

Quality video!

[@dirtracer64]

A casing that is sized to allow the use of a sounding wire without removing the pump costs more, but saves money 💰 later and allows proper maintenance; static / pumping / drawdown monitoring along with pump “megging” and amperage draw testing. Retired 30 year water system operator. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Do you disinfect / flush and sample for HPC and Coliform bacteria?

[@JuventinoSantiago-p2m]

Good job man !!

[@AudreyWortman]

2 branches off of a apple tree work best when water twitching ❤😊

[@jasonhill6074]

Nothing like new hammer day! Turn the oiler up and let her eat!!!

[@johnbaskett2309]

Do you fellas ever install pitless adaptors? I live in Interior Alaska and our pipes are buried at minimum six feet with a pitless adaptor. We also run heat trace with the pipe. Not uncommon to run two lines(one main/one bleed line) to bleed water back into the well. Adjust the flow with a ball valve.

[@arthurr8670]

I know I've seen him work on a system with a pitless adapter, but I'm not sure if they ever installed one themselves It's crazy the amount of protection you have for that pipe. Heat plus giving it a way to have a constant flow without wasting water.

[@johnbaskett2309]

@@arthurr8670 The heat trace is only for thawing out a frozen line. Power is way too expensive to run heat trace continuously.

[@nhagler01]

Hey I've been Watching you videos for a while now love the content who knew well and plumbing would be so fascinating. On question though I'm in southeast Missouri and it's more common around here to see pitless adaptors on our wells. Why do you all just come out the top of the well instead of using pitless adaptors.

[@jasonharper2601]

in our area the pressure tank is at the well

[@darcam]

The question I would have, Could the old well been rehabbed and added casing extended so the old well could be saved?

[@MrBigbmcc]

Dowse rods I think work better with no foot wear onn

[@patblack2291]

I learn more about water wells in every video. Thanks!

[@marshallsayre58]

I find it amazing how you &those in your field do this..we live in suburbs. How do you itemize for the bill for work done?

[@bigunone]

Is your pipe dope petroleum based? My buddies family used to drill in our area, his dad told me there is a layer of rock then a layer of shifting mud/rock that you have to get through and cased or when you come back the next day it'll be closed in again. He said to many drillers from outside the area don't know this and come back the next day to find out their hole is filled

[@tonyhunt9674]

Great video love watching very educational

[@rockker87]

Thanks for showing what quality install is! I guess it's the OCD in me, but you sitting on the "over the pond" side in your truck is odd! When you change to selfie on the phone, you get a mirror effect, so writing and your driving position is reversed. I believe Android or Apple camera apps have a setting for this somewhere in the camera settings.

[@davidkraft3690]

Whin did you switch from Navistar to MACK trucks for a drill rig ?

[@ItAintMeBabe99]

Nice work. Why don’t the houses have full basements? They all seem to have crawl spaces.

[@viperlocc]

Is there a chance to cross thread your drilling pipes when adding new sections?

[@rusosure7]

Do you place the plastic 'WARNING' tape in the trench as you're back-filling it?

[@HighMansx]

Stupid curious question, how do you prevent cross threading of the drilling pipes when they're threading together?

[@ShainAndrews]

Thread style doesn't allow it.

[@bmanwpg]

How come you don't use a weatherproof box at the top of the well casing?

[@mariokhalil6701]

nice work i would throw couople hundreds of dollors and put a casing for the pipe all the way from the well to the house

[@JROCK.]

I have a question. How could I make my water pressure stronger. Like it is ok but I feel it's needs better pressure especially in the shower. Do I like turn the bladder tank up or something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Been watching your videos for awhile now. Why I thought to ask.

[@mikewest712]

When i worked in seismic drilling our boss would have guys steal hammers from the client. Oilfield booms leave little traceability when things move fast. Our shop owner would get the carbide out of our worn bits for scrap. When we moved shops i loaded about 5 brand new hammers on the trailer not knowing that our company stole Them. Easy 20k worth of stolen property i unknowingly hauled across the country.

[@jesuszamvale5854]

How many ft of surface casing did you set?? 9:42

[@dutch2630]

I'm from NE Ohio..been having well issues for last couple weeks..water will just go out on us. If I turn the pump off for a few hours and turn it back on the pressure in the house will go up to 50-60 psi and hold until I use any substantial amount of water (Shower, Dishes, etc...) it will go out and I have to repeat the process. We have replaced the Tank, Pressure switch, and Check valve. The pump was replaced in 2018 and is a high end deep well pump. It's been very frustrating to say the least. Could it be a Crack in the pipe connected to the pump? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[@floydalbright2129]

I don't see a main shut off valve ?

[@morgansword]

Almost all of alaska is permafrost, and muskeg till you get deep enough to hit rock. Yet there are places so easy that anyone can find water and really good water at very low levels as in say fifty feet that is not surface water but truly fresh nice clean water. Some are quite prolific and produce high volume yet say thirty feet give and take, you could drill to china. So given its at a low level, we still go down to hardpan and then run casing into the earth for some good distance and if no water is found at the lower level, they just cut into that casing and let it fill up the pipe so that it will pass inspection. Cristal clean water tested and not just someone guessing. I make a fool of myself and say that water is different in some ways in different places when it comes to finding and making it clean and clear, and a high volume.

[@citizen762]

Question: I’m trying to design a set up to work. I was given an old style galvanized 80 gal tank with an AVC. and I have a gumdfos on 1” black roll at 100’. Will this tank operate without some kind of a bleeder valve in the Black roll? Where/when can air come into the tank when it cycles?

[@h2omechanic]

Those systems typically have a bleeder tee about 5 ft from the top of the well in the drop pipe. For long term use it would need to have it, but you can run the system without it & just use a air compressor and add a few minutes of air to your galvanized tank once you've allowed some water to enter the tank. You need it 1/3 full of water as to trap the water in the tank. Then pump it up to 15-20 psi of air & itll operate fine for a few days before you need to add air again

[@citizen762]

@@h2omechanic thanks for the info. so to make it permanent I’m thinking that I can connect a 5 foot or so length of PVC down from the well head with a barbed adapter on the bottom that connects the pvc to the to the black roll. That way I can can put in a bleeder valve on the pvc and that should probably work.

[@bobbyclegg2065]

Great job . Ur not a perfectionist just very self conscious about your work ! Looks like the new hammer was holding good pressure 325 psi ?? Thanks for another great job !!

[@DavidLargeteau]

we use NUMA hammers

[@mike97525]

How much $ 4 this well?

[@DaninPNW]

Why dont you guys run the same type of pipe to the house as in the well.

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

The black poly (in the well) isn't rated for burial use.

[@DaninPNW]

@@PelicanIslandLabs In Wa we use the same rated pipe for both. May not be the type he uses in the well.

[@okechotete5839]

is a 25yr old well considered old

[@h2omechanic]

It's at the midday of its life. If its metal / galvanized casing, it has a 50 year life span before it starts to rust away & allow surface water in the well.

[@KenSilvers]

that aint gray water in that pipe going to the septic... it's black.

[@carlsartor1423]

Why is the video reversed? You don't live in Australia, do you?

[@hamscanner]

His plumbing job is better than your electrical did you run out of staples ?? look at the sag in that wire. you let the team down on that one 😥

[@emmettbenedum8127]

You need to do a 3 or 4 part video of everything. This showed nothing. All you do is talk about what you did.

[@markbroad119]

Thanks for saving me time of watching it

[@ni_wink84]

I don’t live in a place where anyone uses well water and I truly enjoy your videos, I think it’s very interesting to see the process of digging for the well and how you guys know where to dig, how deep and what the rock is doing. Super fun videos to watch! And I can tell even knowing nothing about well water you and your team do great work! Thanks for the great videos!

[@assassinlexx1993]

Have you looked into a shop that does spray welding? It add steel to worn out shafts etc. So those old hammers could be renewed. Well just a thought. Also enjoy your videos.

[@sygmaone]

How long did it take from start to finish? They are drilling our well for like 3 weeks now and I cant imagine what they are doing 😅 the depth has already been reached, it’s about 95m / 310 feet but they are still building it out. It’s through a contractor so they don’t report to me, was just wondering..

[@h2omechanic]

600ft takes us 2 days. But we are air rotary. Sounds like you have a old cable machine drilling your well. They are old technology and drill slow, 20-40ft a day.

[@WrenchHead]

So the hammering action is all done below the surface? For some reason I thought it was transferred down the rods? Either way, whoever invented it is way smarter than I am 😂

[@vtxdaryl]

Why does it look like you are driving from the passenger seat, unless you’re in England.

[@glassguzzler]

Forward facing cameras on phones mirror the image

[@pl747]

My well is 100 ft deep and cased and capped on the bottom. In fact I have two of them about 300 ft or so apart. It was drilled by the same man about 3 or 4 years earlier. $21 a foot cased with 5 inch inside when they were drilled. I used left over stuff from when I built my house and built a bricked well insulated well house. It has to stay 0 or so for two or three days before it even needs any heat. I have a Y in the ceiling outlet and use two 125 watt heat lamps. I use two just in case one lamp was to burn out. i have a remote thermometer in the well house so I can monitor the temperature from the house. My water level is 40 ft in the hottest part of the summer and they both flow over 20 gpm. Only thing I should have done different is put the well outside the pump house and use a pitless adapter and run water to the well house. It would make pulling the pump much easier when I need to. Also I used a 240 volt 1/2 hp 10 gpm pump. I wish I had used a 120 volt one. It would make using a generator easier. I have a replacement pump I got a few years ago just in case and it is a 120 volt.

[@kat2641]

There is nothing wrong with being a perfectionist and making everything look perfect. I love it.

[@woodworker3122]

What does the hammer do? I’ve seen drills etc on the ends of some of your drilling pipes but the hammers look blunt on the ends. What do they hammer?

[@fireynugget]

Can’t sleep but I was first like awesome videos man… from downunder

[@GotMoreCakes]

you were second

[@fireynugget]

@@GotMoreCakes you just beat me…. when I was typing it hadn’t updated yet lol

[@combrains1]

Perfectionist? No, you sir are a PROFESSIONAL!. So good to see a tradesman who takes pride in his work. It's the little things like filling in hollows under pipework/conduit that seperate the average tradesmen from the good tradesmen. My boss taught us to do the same thing when trenching in services - makes a huge difference to the life of the conduit.

[@Oceanus_Rex]

Would it be possible to hard face the hammer casing like they do for excavation buckets? May get more life out of the hammer before needing rebuilding. Line spots follow standard color coding: yellow=gas, red=electric, green=sewer, blue=water, orange=communication (telephone/fiber), purple=irrigation/reclaimed water. Interesting that you guys are putting in a well but there is a water line spot.

[@FlushCut]

Not very bright... It' like you see a completely unrelated concept and assume it applies everywhere you wish. Why not hard face your tires...

[@Justme-jt1ef]

23:05 I wish my boss thought like you.

[@gonesideways6621]

Could you case it out below soft zone and drill it deeper might have saved original well?

[@StevenBowron]

What is the wire beside your conduit, why isnt the wire inside a conduit

[@MrRickoscar]

Justine did a nice job.

[@zx12rob1]

Enjoyed..... you are very honest man

[@JustAverageJeff]

Gotta appreciate a worker who treats every job as his own.

[@matthewkennedy3169]

Is there any particular reason that y’all use PVC rather than a type A PEX?

[@sircampbell1249]

Inside elec box installed on top of well ?

[@sierge1]

Man that is a lot of lift for a 1/2 hp.

[@CrazyRFGuy]

I wonder if Abom could spray weld those hammer cases? Maybe with some hardend tool steel to ware longer?

[@ShainAndrews]

What are you talking about?

[@CrazyRFGuy]

@@ShainAndrews He shows that the old hammers arent bad so much that the outer case has wore down and is thin, risking it breaking. Im wondering if they can be spray welded back up to correct thickness and also done with a hardened steel that doesnt ware as fast as standard steel.

[@ShainAndrews]

@@CrazyRFGuy Hammers? Like the shit you swing?

[@CrazyRFGuy]

@@ShainAndrews Why dont you watch the video. The first sentence is 'We have a brand new hammer" and then "we have some more hammers over here". They are hammer drills. Its the outer barrel that is the ware surface.

[@tomesguerra5495]

Dude, I really enjoy your vlogs, full awesome information! Please let your jaws flap, all knowledge and experience! You and your team keep up the great work 👍 👏 👌 💪 ✌️ 🇺🇸

[@pl747]

it would be nice if that hammer had the outside sleeve designed where you could take that outside sleeve off and flip it upside down and get a lot more use out of it.

[@gerrybradley8084]

Good stuff lots of learning curves it never ends

[@pubcollize]

the bait in the thumbnail was amusing. you really made a lot of people foam out of their mouths in anger at the comment section of the dowsing video.

[@DavidLargeteau]

why not put hard surface welds around by the bit chuck to save from wear from the rock, we do HDD and thats what we do to save our hammers.

[@kevink4914]

Have you guys ever had one of them drills break or come apart down in the ground. That you couldn’t retrieve it out?

[@billmonroe8826]

Question. Is a capacitor unit not needed any more? My well pit has a box with a capacitor setup.

[@travismaier4567]

The only thing I would like if it was mine was sand around the pvc instead of the rocky dirt. But still a damn nice install.

[@mrfingers4737]

Drilling seismic it i hated getting a new hammer. It was always a lot heavier, and we had to handle it quite a bit. They also seem to smash harder when the internals are worn..

[@serengetilion]

I love to see how things work so this one is a treat!

[@rick_3.50]

Good video and tips but I am a commenter so i it is my duty to let you know you need more tractor time.... :) Thanks!

[@Garrettpadgett56]

Is that a ql60 or qlx60?

[@Garrettpadgett56]

Nevermind commented a little early when I seen the ql60 post

[@johnhollis5729]

Why don't you install two pipe system for a deep well pump?

[@Paul-pr5by]

Great video, thank you more education with wells.

[@jmazoso]

Do you ever run a wing bit on your hammer and drag a casing with it?

[@tonywestvirginia]

Another Job "Well" done!!!

[@yellowlab5624]

Great video !!!