Drilling a Replacement Water Well - Old Steel Flow Well Sanded In

[@pear7777]

Thanks, as a European cityboy it's interesting to see all this.

[@hd77303]

Not sure how to comment on the main video. Is there anyway you could have dropped 2" PVC into the old casing, installed air compressor, and giving customer an air lift system? Would have saved him 7-10 thousand dollars vs new well. Just curious....

[@stvrob6320]

@@hd77303 that would have been a waste of time and effort.

[@johnfalkenstine8377]

Wonderful and rewarding work.

[@rampagent9226]

My grandads farm has a nice well system, only seen the pump replaced one time and there's tons of iron in our water. When they pulled the pipe out it was red with iron oxide. No damage to the pipe since it was pvc or whatever its supposed to be.

[@thezfunk]

Sounds like he had iron algae.

[@rampagent9226]

@@thezfunk nah/maybe. Good ol' Georgia red clay.

[@rustyshackleford7082]

Mine was drilled in 1958, lasted until 2010, same thing probably collapsed in on itself. Fortunately, rural water was available.

[@toursisland7585]

by the end I was just exhausted and I was only watching LOL great job guys I was pretty interesting you found the reason why I wasn't working 👏👍🥰

[@rampagent9226]

That's a beautiful property

[@jackwhite6030]

excellent job

[@denalayman5299]

We lived in a house once that had a well. The water was bad we had replaced the washer twice and the shower and everything was stained with rust. You never felt cleaned after a shower or drink the water.. We had company come out to do a water test. He filled a glass of that well water. He was so shocked because the bottom of that glass was full of dirt and sediment. He said he never saw anything like that before.

[@fongy200]

Out of interest, how much would a job like this cost? It looks to be a massive job. Very interesting though. Great work, thanks for sharing.

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

This was around 5k complete new well, pump an tank system.

[@fongy200]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell Wow, you know that's a fraction of what I imagined. Your a dedicated bunch. All the best.

[@redbovine]

Around my area in NC for a drilled well it would be approx 400 ft. Total cost would be 15-17k. Nobody has equipmemt to punch a well anymore either.

[@EmeryJude]

Yep, Northshore just now starting to get cool. Great video and hello from Metairie. Oh and would that gravel work in a fish tank? I bet it'd look nice.

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Yea were still a little country up here. Yea it is some nice mix for sure, not rounded but sharp pieces.

[@EmeryJude]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell LOL yeah I meant the weather. I was on Lee Rd. yesterday and it felt great but still warm on the Southshore.

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

@@EmeryJude Oh I hear ya, yea looks like we gonna have a colder one this year. Last year was a hot winter.

[@nova31337]

Hey Casey, y'all do work out in the Ponchatoula area? Also, if building a new house, would be best to drill the well around the same time the foundation is going in or before?

[@ObservationofLimits]

Worth it to buy bronze impellers for those pumps.

[@21stcenturyjacktheripper]

Was recently told to get my well drilled was going to be 10,000 dollars 250 feet deep and only four gallons a minute in flow. Does that sound right at all?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

It really depends on the area and the type of drilling required. Big air drilling rigs with hammer bits and steel casing is Expensive!

[@21stcenturyjacktheripper]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell North Texas outside of fort Worth. They say it's only 9 dollars a foot to drill but everything else seems expensive for only 4 gallons a minute.

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

@@21stcenturyjacktheripper Hey if that's all the water they have down there. Take what you can get, they know what they are doing. We don't really have issues with low yielding wells in Louisiana.

[@nova31337]

If you can only get 4 gpm, get a bigger storage cistern and just let it run. Unless you are doing a big commercial operation you probably won't be using 4 gpm 24/7.

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

New subscriber. Never seen this type of well drilling before. I've seen the casing being driven into the ground. Are you drilling with water?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Yes it's called mud rotary drilling. We have clay and sand layers to very deep.

[@nickmarquez2024]

I’m about to start well drilling down in Panama using a somewhat similar trailer mounted drill rig. I have a question: if you drill down and think you’re in the producing zone and you set your casing and flush out the mud and go to develop the well only to realize there isn’t water, how do you pull the casing back out? Are there special attachments that can be added to a drill rig to help pull casing if you need to get it out to go deeper?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

So that's a interesting question but I'll answer it the best I can. So when drilling you probably want to stay shallow at first until you learn the ground conditions. Shooting for making a well and being confident is better than pulling out and starting over. I have helped a guy pull a 250' well casing out that didn't make much water before. But this is all dependent on how developed the well is and if it caves in preventing you from pulling casing. Anything above 100' should be able to be pulled back up easily. You might still break the casing or screen off and loose it all even. Being sure you have a good sand and it's taking water as you drill is usually key. Every area is different so learn the ground, clays and sand to know better if it's good. Good luck, Thanks for the comment and watching, Casey

[@nickmarquez2024]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell thanks for the response. So you can just pull it out by hand if need be? Most of the wells around here are less than 150’ and basically no one uses schedule 40, it’s usually sdr 26 at best so the pipe itself isn’t too heavy. I guess you can just start pulling out and cut halfway between the joints where you would need to add a coupler if you reuse the pipe? Then ream out the gravel pack/bentonite seal and keep drilling?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

@@nickmarquez2024 Oh dang pull by hand.... maybe a 40' well. You kind of need the rig to lift out more than that especially if it caves in. SDR Yea some old timers used that stuff but its just too oddball and more likely to crack. Yea I helped Mr Joe drill one and we just went past 150 on to 360' through same hole after pulling casing back out. That video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpSqfZKkd5eMm7c if you want to see it, the first set was only making about 1 gpm not enough!

[@abm2958]

You should know how much it's producing before the casing ever goes in. In my opinion trying to salvage used PVC is a lost cause unless you can pull it back up with the machine.

[@nigelsmith7955]

So question do you guys use the pitless adapter on these smaller wells? Or not needed as you don’t get the cold weather?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Yea we do 4" casing as standard in our area, no need as mild winters.

[@gekkedirkie]

Nice work. will the well sticking out like that, or will it below the grass?

[@earlestes8649]

I’m in Indiana and we mostly leave them about a 1 1/2 to 2 ft sticking up

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

The code requires the well casing to remain accessible and 18" above grade to prevent possible contamination from light flooding and other things.

[@earlestes8649]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell I agree, but there’s still a lot of them that are covered here it seems like

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

@@earlestes8649 Up north they tend to put them in the ground to protect from freezing, we have very mild winters and rare freezing.

[@davestinson5691]

What does the concrete or mortar stuff do? Wasn't sure what he was doin w cut off bkt an bag. Sorry I just don't know. Very neat learning about this. Ty for sharing

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

It's called bentonite mud, it's thickens the water to help lift material out of the well. Once he reached the bottom with the heavy gravel he needed it to clear out so that we could set the casing. The thicker the water the heavier the material you can lift out with just water flow.

[@abm2958]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell Bentonite clay / drilling mud also swells in the borehole to stabilize the strata to prevent collapse.

[@nealkonneker6084]

Do well drillers ever check the tailings for gold?

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Haha.. No not down here.

[@nealkonneker6084]

@@ClearWaterPumpWell The first gold rush in America was in North Carolina (1800). Later gold was found in South Carolina and Georgia. There is still gold around, just not in commercial concentrations. Well drillers are making holes everywhere, seems like they have to be hitting gold occasionally.

[@SeasparrowDD979]

Have you ever gotten any gold nuggets doing that?

[@YodaWhat]

*The explanation of well failure starting at **3:30** does not make a lick of sense!*

[@tfish7330]

In my 27 years working with overhead equipment, just once did I get hit in the head with a big washer that fell from the rig. Imagine if I didn't have a helmet on how much worse it could have been. It only takes one time to get hurt bad enough for the rest of your life. Why don't you guys wear helmets? You will regret that you don't one day.

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

I appreciate the concern, Mr Tim has been drilling for 30 years I'm sure he was required to have them in the gas industry. He's running his own business and obviously knows the risks and is always very careful never in a rush. He maintains his own equipment daily so he knows it's in good safe working order. Thanks for the comment and watching, Casey

[@Jameson4327]

If I may ask, why didn’t you drill the well behind the building? It looks like there’s plenty of room to put the drill rig

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Well technically it is behind the shed but closest to the hookup to building. The fence and pasture was too close to the back, can't setup rig there.

[@russelljohnson6243]

The impeller wad PLASTIC? What a hunk of junk!

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

Yea they are not good the better impellers in other brands are made of resin and wont overheat, warp or melt they only wear a little and then no more.

[@josephevans5703]

Oh my God that pump on a drill rig sounds ratchet

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

It's a double piston pump and moves back and forth. One side I think was leaking so to made a different stroke sound. It definitely needed maintenance but also needed to finish this well.

[@noelgreene4265]

Looked at second video his fix worked for two weeks it turned out it was god fault and an old tank I smell bs

[@ClearWaterPumpWell]

You smell bs that a 100 year old well started failing to produce water and a company kept fracking around with it? Yea the replumbing of the pumps pvc and lowering the pressure lasted two weeks not two days like the previous company. So the only solution was to get him going temporary and barely have water till he had a new well drilled! How about take your BS non professional opinion elsewhere!