Oh No!!! We found several issues pumping out the old well. Part 2 of the sprinkler pump build

[@tomfarley3924]

You might try to rent a trash pump to remove the sediment. There could be quite a bit of build up after all these years. It would also help with recovery time. I hope it all works out for you.

[@eagle2019]

I was going to suggest the same thing. You probably have a lot of silt in the bottom

[@kd5inm]

I was thinking the same thing. Suck up all that sediment and flush it out.

[@cathydickerson1420]

That looks snaky

[@kern123]

Or maybe even auger it out with a sign company type large auger…. Or have a well service bale it to get the sediment out. Aren’t those type wells usually down to bedrock? It may rejuvenate that spring,

[@trophyfishn9757]

2 in trash pump new at harbor freight is about $250. They work great.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi.... Evan and Rebecca thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

[@thomasgreene5750]

Once you get the old building out of the way, you might consider extending the well deeper to improve storage and flow rate. A submersible pump would reduce freezing risk. Finally, an external water-storage cistern of a large size would allow you to collect water graduallly from the well and deliver it at higher short-term rates for irrigation and similar uses.

[@jayfromtexas6718]

Well said! Pardon the pun😊

[@elbertfreeman8124]

You have my admiration. I have removed cats, rat's and possums from on wanted locations. It was news to me; our nose is a chemical receptor. So, if you smell it you actually in contact with the corpse! Gross! Put an ample amount of Mentholatum under the nose and in my case up the nostrils helps but by little.

[@jahn9960]

A 500gal holding tank will be the best bet. That way the well can recover and you still have water to use.

[@pops4638]

Evan if you use a funnel to fill your system it will go faster. You want to fill the whole piping system from check valve to top where the funnel is. Also get a septic tank truck that uses a vacuume pump to sucksune all the sand and silt from your well. The refill will astonish you. Good Luck old Pops

[@157-40_T]

Braver man that most!

[@rt3box6tx74]

Yes!🤢🤮 I would have been gagging. 😄

[@jeffreymorrison6084]

great video. Also liked Part1. Learned alot. Thanks.

[@samuelhitchcock8547]

Awesome videos! Something that might work for you too is a ram pump off the overflow drop of your pond and into a storage tank in the barn that can then feed the water tariffs for your animals. A ram pump doesn't use electricity or power and works off the pressure built from a drop of elevation of the water. You can you tube some videos on them but then with your float systems in the water tanks you'd never have to worry about water or using fuel or electricity to get water to the animals

[@krickette5569]

Small children would be a concern as far as that well/well house goes. Glad you got it all cleaned out and have another water source, always a good thing.

[@JamesCouch777]

Send a kid down in the well to clean it out. I cleaned out several when I was growing up.😁

[@4knanapapa]

Every since you first showed that well I've been wondering if it would be useable glad to see you giving it a shot.

[@groomfamilyfarm]

If the well is on a good spring you should have plenty of water. My grandmothers well is only 4 feet deep and fed the house and barn and irrigated all the gardens.

[@edwardbusby9402]

Ivan you may have two drill more holes but you may try rapping the pipe with screen wire to help filter the water and it may help the small screen from pluging up

[@oxfletch]

Now I know how to build an effective groundhog trap.

[@rt3box6tx74]

🏅🏆🥇comment of the day!😆

[@chaunceypullman3380]

I know exactly what you're talking about Evan. My Grandma's place was like that when I was a little tot. It was more than 7 homes all using the same well. Boy, flushing the toilet was a chore. Back then we still had the Ole washing machine that stayed outside and had those rolling pins to squeeze the water out. Talking about a task and a half to wash clothes for 10 people. Now, if I was you, invest in new building. Pre fab used shed will work fine. Just insulate it for your cold climate and solar panel for its own usage. That's what I did at my place. Haven't had a problem yet.

[@gkenn99]

If you had a tote (4x4x4 water tank) and used it as a storage tank, you could irrigate and the well could slowly fill the tank after you're done.

[@Iamkcs2c]

1:04 Man I believe you when you say that is nasty and "where are youtube censors when you need them" XD

[@DustyMeadowRanch]

I sure hope this old well wasn't the problem with your cow Lucy. Listeria is known to be problemadic in water and wells and old storage tanks.

[@upnorth1955]

Love what you do and the information you provide!

[@marthabartel604]

Get a disinfectant everywhere out scrub the well, pump out to clear. Then, hit that wall with your 🚜 ground level d test well for pure after flushing and in-line filters the start installed 12x10 shed, with solar on top. Do it right, and water sprites on outside or small water over flow drip for animals.

[@SFCRambo60]

I would take a inner tube and put on the end of your pump pickup so you have it floating and not touching the bottom of the pond. If you worry about it floating back to shore than tie a rope to it and some type of anchor ⚓. Enjoy your channel.

[@SFCRambo60]

I use an inner tube on my live fish basket, that way I just let it float beside where ever I am fishing. So just get a small inner tube and put it on than put a larger inner tube below the one small one that is tight on your tubing.

[@markpriddy1]

Love free water. 😎

[@setholson6550]

I expected a snake to fall on you or step on it at any moment. Hope you figure it out and get the amount of water that helps. Good video. Susan

[@BillTheTractorMan]

We had an old well on my grandpas farm like that, it was a silo type hole made of concrete and block with a shelter over the top. I think it was about 15-20ft deep. It was dug in by my great Greandpa in the 1930's, and did well until the 1950's went the first electricity was ran to the area. Grandpas dad put in a much deeper well and an electric pump at the time for the house. They used the pit well for livestock and the garden until the 90's when Great grandma was too elderly to garden and the livestock were gone. In 2011 we opened it back up, and put a gas trash pump on it to irrigate with. We used it fo a couple weeks and it just never really recovered. There used to be a spring that kept part of the farm a pond and even that dried up. We think it had to due with all the urbanization to the south of the farm 3miles and the irrigation pivots in the area pumping off the aquifer. In the spring there was plenty of water to pump the pit, but by July, August it was dry.

[@007darryl]

Hey brother, Why not have the old well pump into a large water tank. Then you can use the water from the tank for whatever you want.

[@mga7649]

Go down in the well and clean it out. A post hole digger works great.

[@patrickmoore1602]

Oh boy, that was great . Just sat down to eat dinner .. thinking I should pause this . Of course came back to finish watching . Always enjoy the videos Evan, thanks from CT.!

[@randybutler4772]

Kinda gross! Good luck w/ saving that well. Thank you for sharing.

[@rt3box6tx74]

The springs flow rate should improve with use. Being dormant for years silt may have backed up and obstructed its flow. Constant pumping might reverse that. Is there a sign of a spillway around the outside of the building where excess water was meant to run off to a pond or creek? Silt buildup will require air pressure or vacuum to dislodge. Engineer775 channel might have some info that would help. There's also a youtoober channel *h2o mechanic* who works on domestic wells. If it was mine I'd put in a very low flow rate pump with an auto off switch for when (if) it runs dry. I have my deep irrigation wells flushed with water under air pressure which blasts the fine sand and gravel away from the steel well casing's slits. Those slits will rust up and globs of rust fill the slits too. After a tune up the flow rate improves significantly, but these are wells that pump 750-950 gpm anyway. In the 1950s - 60s when originally drilled they pumped 12-1500 gpm. Times like this is when you need input of pioneers who dealt with developing springs. I've always been curious on that topic. Springs were rare in my region, but there were some in places where the water table was shallow. We have towns named after the springs in this area. Springlake, Shallowater, Buffalo Springs Lake, etc. 🍀

[@paulgagnon7153]

you need to dig it out to open the spring up!!!

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Too bad about the well problems Evan. We know you'll stay safe with the testing of the water after you decide what you'll do with it. Keep up the great work around there. OLD DAWG DREAMING Fred.

[@johnsadler8637]

Hey Fred

[@stevemench786]

You may want to get that old building out of the way and drive a point down for a more consistent water flow.

[@eberntson]

That silt may be hiding a lot of depth in the well. If you clean the well out, you may find a lot more capacity. No one has a well that is only 60" deep, 8 feet, maybe. A well-house doesn't need much space; it has some hose, some electrics, a pump, and a tank. Keep working at it.

[@charlesletterman6245]

Sounds like an exciting project in building a new well house. I know whatever you come up with it'll turn out great.

[@TodaysAdventureswithElwin]

Sometimes a well will return to max capacity after it's worked. I'd try using it for a week or so to see if the recovery improves over time.

[@trwsandford]

Ethan, the more you cycle that well.. the faster it will refill.

[@elbertfreeman8124]

I agree, a float set near the top level along with a latching timer/relay. could bring back and drastically increase flow of well.

[@trwsandford]

@@elbertfreeman8124 exactly! no need to do all of your irrigation in 1 hour. have it powered by the sun, and irrigate when full!

[@cajunnathan4586]

Alls Good!

[@CurtisWestsail]

Dig the well deeper.

[@rkthing55]

"Lassie...Timmy fell in the well. Get help! LOL

[@martihetrick609]

Till you get stuff use wire on the top to get critters out and now door

[@terrycastor8299]

Best laid plans... Hang in there, Evan!

[@farmyourbackyard2023]

Two things. The well might have recharged more quickly in previous years. Adding swales uphill from the well will help sink water. There are other things you can do as well, like putting a storage tank beside the well for extra holding capacity while it recharges. Second, I just finished reopening a well on my farm, and put a metal cap on top of the well with a hatch. I plan to add the pump house as soon as I work out the solar set up I want to use for the well and the pump. Thanks for showing the process of using your pump with the solar generator. I plan to do the same until I have my full solar set up out there.

[@thewalkingdad68]

You might want to run some bleach water through that pump before you water the garden again. That water might contaminate the veggies you're growing if you don't do that. Just wanted to put that out there. P.S.: great job on at least trying on the old well. Was wondering if you would come back and actually investigate it after you showed it a long time ago. 👍

[@loganh6736]

To get the wood out use a three hook fishing lure then put your metal magnet down there on a rope to get any metal out. If you have a company that has a hydro vac truck that does horizontal drilling see what it would cost to clean all the sediment out some well drills may have that equipment. But first see what your recharge rate is. There is a old saying when you have to conserve water If it’s yellow let it mellow if it’s brown flush it down

[@michaelraby7043]

You could think about using a 2-3k gallon tank with a float system to keep the tank full and use that as your water source for watering plants and animals.

[@jackwhite6030]

I have four tanks to draw off of but I have artesian to fill them up. Irrigation really pulls a lot of water fast.

[@kennethlowe6337]

You could try having a well company come out and frack it.

[@ThePenn7]

you need a dedicated solar panel and inverter to power the pump.

[@teenagefarmer]

Very cool, glad to see you were able to get a better look at that Old well. I am very surprised that it isn't deeper. Great video keep it up

[@SwannOG]

Get yourself some plastic water tanks and pump into them for use in irrigation

[@Void_And_Absent]

You need a well company to come in, and start again.

[@davidzemke2549]

Nice job. A solar pump with a larger reservoir may be a option until winter... looks like a few + thousands in costs. Appreciate your video.

[@michelehumann811]

oh boy another project we get to watch you do

[@jayfromtexas6718]

That well is definitely worth fixing.

[@arlodewald5378]

Some times wells sills in when they are not use on a regular basis . When some wells are first drilled they can produce more water over a period of a few hours or even a day or so . Most wells will be dirty with silt than clear up as they are pumped for a while .

[@michaelchamberlain4618]

The well is a lot deeper but sediment is in there You have to remove it.

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

I turned this on and then turned it off again really quick lol. I was eating dinner when I turned it on the frost time. 🤢

[@edadpops1709]

Hey man try a long neck funnel to prime that pump

[@joannak4640]

Shoot. That's too bad...I know that well has been on your mind since you bought the place. Good for you for trying and figuring some stuff out about it 👍 You'll have to let us know how much the pond irrigation for the garden offsets your water bill come fall/winter

[@roberthuckeby2825]

Sorry the well house didn't work out, but you still have the pond as an excellent source for irrigation. Will be interesting to see what happens to the water level in the pond if you irrigate for several hours at a time

[@philswords6390]

Water maybe 10 feet or 110 feet? Deep well likely uses 240 volts? Quick draw may be in shallow part of well. Deeper you go more water. Good luck.

[@csnanny1882]

O no, I just sat down to eat a sandwich and watch you. So I had to postpone my lunch for a few. I am surprised you haven’t checked on this before now. But I know you have lots of other things to do. God bless, keep cool. ❤

[@BH-by5ky]

Good start on refurbishing the old well. Be interesting to discover how deep the sediment has become over the years. Once the building is out of the way, clearing the sediment and maybe extending the depth might be a partial solution. As others have mentioned a surge tank to store water would help even out recovery rate, the only issue being winter time freezing. I expect it’s a bit more of a project than originally envisioned.

[@scottparker8425]

I can smell those dead groundhogs through my monitor...

[@rt3box6tx74]

I lost my sense of smell in late March due to a certain *virus*. I've tackled many stinky jobs since I recovered, but I have to hurry - it's coming back. I smelled vinegar the other day. 😳

[@corydriver7634]

Pumping contaminated water out of a shallow spring fed well -right back onto the well site is probably counter productive. As far as well capacity goes there probably was a sand point in there at one time.

[@Andrew82688]

If the well can’t keep up run a float switch or timer.

[@thematthatter1]

i like what you do man.....could always bring a tote of water and a pump and flush out from top by running line to bottom.....like jetting a well...ive jettet many a railroad tie and dock pylings from irrigation pumps, pressure washers etc....the power of water impressive....about to jet own irrigation well here in fl.

[@gavinhowell2833]

I am not grossed out I do that all the time

[@miguelavelasquez8056]

Hay Evan cool to see you are maybe rebuilding your wellhouse can't wait to see you you come up with regarding your well im sure it. will be done right thanks for sharing

[@ianhaggart1438]

Joys of exploring old Wells 😅... you could always fit a submersible pump with float switch down there and fill a tank on the surface to do your irrigation job with.. just an idea . Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@theodorewilson399]

Brother, you might consider "rinsing out" your pump and hose w/a little bleach water before using it for something else, i.e. watering animals, etc. : )

[@Dan-qy1rg]

Nice video, I think the well is good to use for the water troughs, like you said. It looked pretty clean to me, albeit the groundhogs contaminated it, you can still clean that up along with the sand and debris. Good luck on it, hope you have a nice weekend.

[@TheJchannelofficial]

Add a tank/reservoir for storage. We use to water cattle off shallow well with a windmill that pumped into a reservoir that in turn filled two cattle troughs. That would give you extra capacity to smooth out supply/demand.

[@richardlancaster8303]

Clear around well house then remove building design a cover for the well so you will plenty of room to work.

[@skitzochik]

quality over quantity ...

[@EngineersHomestead]

When we had our main water line replaced, we pulled up a 6' diameter concrete disk. It was 8" thick and to our surpise had a rock lined old well underneath with clear water probably 15' down...perhaps at the level of a nearby pond probably 60' away. You could see old pipes poking in and a couple spray cans from who knows what decade floating inside. The well is very close to a septic field or id consider using it for something. Luckily we have city water despite being in country.

[@TallTexasGMan]

Get an external tank and let the pump on the well refill that tank. A couple simple floats for on and off would solve the issue (the extra being a backuo off in case one failed).

[@georgewallacejr5644]

Hello y’all I would try this when you rebuild the well house put a150 or 200gallon storage tank and pressure tank and a pump with a long float on the pump. Where the water get low it will cut off Have a bless day like y’all video s. 👍👍👍🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@davidkraft3690]

Love your experiments. Thanks for taking us along,

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello Evan looks like nice well house. Dont think need larger in my opinion it looks like it would work great. Hope you get a cover on it to stop any more drowning. Nice job have a great day

[@bwlyon]

It would be interesting to hear what the recovery rate of the well. Even if it won’t flow enough to irrigate the pasture spring the ability to water the animals is good. Can’t wait to hear the final verdict.

[@jeremycraddock4108]

I agree with them saying get a pump truck to come clean out the bottom and see if it increases the flow.

[@terrypomatto907]

A cover is the way to go. It is difficult to keep a pump house from freezing up in the winter. We battled the problem for twenty years before we got county water system. Good luck with the decision that you end up with.

[@richardgreen5602]

Maybe the well is silted in and you can bale it to get closer to the water source.

[@Comshawfactory]

If your going to put that pump at the pond. I would get a dog house pit the pump in side, and run a solar unit from harbor freightput the panel on the roof of the dog house and use a battery box for the battery. And a power unit to plug in .

[@Kookamungawerewolf]

When I saw that dead guys head(ground hogs)floating face up 🧟‍♂️, I almost freaked out. I think I would tear the well house down and put up a new one. We were on a well from 1965 until 2008, then after the town water service got so bad(rust and low pressure) we went back on a well in 2020. 4 in. submersible and 60ft to water level.

[@gcranch9913]

If the well is weak think about filling a large storage tank or cistern to accommodate needs

[@kd5inm]

Maybe look at opening the door up bigger to the well house. Many of those well houses are built that way to protect the spring from contamination. If its a concrete foundation and concrete around the well on the floor, the wall at the bottom of the door keeps animals from digging under the door and getting inside to pollute the well. Thats the reasoning for the small doorway.

[@rogermccann7627]

There should be a way to pumpout a lot of the sediment/trash, etc.. The spring /well had a pressure pump at one time. it's probably a "hidden gem"....waiting to be discovered......have someone who drills wells look at it......

[@vikinghog]

You need a funnel to help prime the pump instead of trying to pour water in that small opening.

[@racsoga]

I love your content!

[@nancydunn2620]

I miss seeing all your animals. Do you still have your goats??

[@LFfire1597]

How about building a small pump house next to the pond? Drive a small water pit lined with 5 gallon buckets with the bottoms cut off and dropping the suction pipe down inside that?

[@jasonmushersee]

usually drop down a ladder clean out with buckets need to do the same with my backup dug well suppose to be 65ft it's half that now filling with silt im on 3 billion old granite ledge there's a artesian spring that supplies the old dug well. in the 50's dad worked for a well company dug wells by hand in level 3 wetland never go dry but fill up with frogs daily

[@farmtheland]

Old wells can be dangerous, tear down the building, rip out the well and fill it in. Build a well house at your pond, do it right and you will have good water for your Animals and garden. Don't waste your time and money on that old well, If you just have to have a well, build a new one. Good luck

[@markhudspeth8503]

Stock tank water heaters in the winter are exspenive to run. Research.

[@johnzink3309]

thx

[@nickmastroianni5557]

You might want to consider drilling your own well which is not too difficult to do especially with your tractor to apply downward force on the drill pipe. I have watched several U-tube videos (Bush Radical) where people have easily installed their own drill pipe to 15-18 foot depths and mounted a hand pump at the top. Something like that might work for watering the animals.

[@yvettekinchking8838]

One project leads to another .