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[@lauriekerestes7840]

no doubt from the lag in videos you are dealing with your dog. Prayers are with you in this time of grief. Thinking of you guys always

[@ampatriot]

You should let the chickens free range while you guys are outside working. They will surprise you at how well they clean up under brush and what not. They'll come back on their own to roost.

[@colindavies3079]

most probably your pipe is block with clay. Make a "water lance" strong PVC pipes that will fit inside the steel pie . Cut the end of it with a 45 degree as a pen nib. Other end attach a water hose with very good pressure. Gently lower the lance to the blockage and bit by bit move the lance on the blockage. the water coming down will keep the lance clear and move the clay up and out of the steel pipe. Good luck ! This works in Western Australia where most house have ground water to water gardens

[@mikeduda3173]

The pump has to be primed each time you disconnect it. Bushradical has GREAT videos on pounding shallow wells.

[@violawilliamson49]

Cody, you have to prime the pump to get it to work correctly ❤❤❤

[@docdonsmith]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4auh4tooJh0sLcsi=fTYuCeRFjrWW652P Bushradical Water wells

[@lunachic03dh]

Also - I don’t mean to sound stupid - but here goes - if you’re taking a pipe and pounding it down into dirt, clay, rocks - doesn’t that said pipe just fill up with all the dirt, clay, and rocks??? I’ve never done it - I’m truly interested in how that even works!! Looks like you’re in a great place to dig the well - with all the water filling in the hole. So that looks promising!! Good luck!! I hope I get answered on how this is gonna work??!

[@rozetiamomoh2044]

Prime with water. 😮

[@debbiputman3482]

Bushradical lives in MI where the ground is very sandy. The clay soil here is a whole other ballgame!

[@lucyl2770]

I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Bushradical channel here on KZbin. He has a video dated about 2 years ago about digging and installing a Yellow Antique Hand Pump Well (dated June 2022). I’ve seen other hand pump wells he’s done. His wife’s channel, A Girl In The Woods, has also a video that she did. Hopefully one of these will help.

[@pamthompson6311]

You two amaze me. Trying is better than not trying. Keep following your ❤.

[@wandaking4229]

You got sick because you were fanning in the weather. Just because it feels warm and the sun is out there is still a chill in the air. Kudos on trying to do the well. You'll get it just be patient.

[@TheAustinpaul]

You don't get sick from cold,it takes bacteria or viruses.

[@mrmotofy]

Being outside when chilly is an old wives tale. People work outside all day long all through the year

[@jeffzorza1830]

What Mike said, Bushradical has excellent videos on sand point wells.

[@jenthrasher5056]

Today's Monday it hit 74 today. So I spent all outside prepping gardens and raised beds, mowed leaves to mulch them. Cleaned all 3 chicken coops . Was a great day. Not false spring all my flowers and trees are in full bloom. I'm in Indiana

[@bradh74]

Usually the shallow wells are just used to water animals nowadays because the water can vary quite a bit. Never had to drive a well pipe but that slide hammer is usually the best wat to do it(manually). I'd use a sacrificial pipe nipple and cap. Maybe they have like a mini pile driver that works off of compressed air you can rent. You might want to use the divining rods (witch sticks) to help locate the best spot for your well. Just because a place is wet doesn't mean it's water that you want (plus it may only be on the surface). If you have access to a Jack Hammer you might be able to rig up a way to drive the pipe without damaging it. Good luck guys, hope you feel better!

[@pathann4195]

Get a magnate on say a bracket to keep screws or nails. Hang it from a string to find dropped ones. old speaker mag works great

[@dennislamers986]

You may need to fill the pipe with water and put air to it. The screens might be plugged

[@susansolais8958]

Ambition Strikes dug a well with their backhoe. I highly recommend watching their video to see what they did.

[@ianmelireland3699]

There is a channel called The Nomadic Movement, they're a young American couple living on a mountain property in Panama and they're also off grid. They didn't dig a well but they used a water source that trickled out of the mountain and made like a little dam for it and it would fill and they were able to get the water back up the mountain to fill their water tanks. Maybe watch some of the videos they made for water. But also you could reach out to them they're the sweetest kindest couple.

[@lunachic03dh]

Didn’t Justin Rhodes do that with his natural spring up on the top of a mountain?? Big 50 gallon bucket and gravity fed to lower collection??? Something like that??

[@rknight1959]

Girl get well and hope you feel better soon 🙏❤ pray and love y'all both get well soon

[@dantco]

Hook your Bluetti (sp) to a pump at the pond and water jet the well pipe in...there's a few videos on YT to show how to do it. Most homesteaders don:t have a water source close enough, so they drive shallow wells. I grew up drinking from a shallow well for the first 18 years of life...just make sure it tests safe. A few extra minerals don't hurt.

[@almonjacob3496]

Cody, I just want to make sure you appreciate that lady of yours. I am in the middle of grinding the seams of my containers after cutting out the walls. It is a MISERABLE job, I'd almost marry a girl willing to do it for me. LOL

[@mrmotofy]

Get a prenup haha

[@almonjacob3496]

@@mrmotofyI said ALM0ST! ROFL

[@johnpowers3728]

Hi my name is John when when I was in my 20s I drove a well with a ost hole pounder I went 68 feet just water gloves and keep it it's worth it

[@oclost]

To get the pipe out of the ground, put a choker sling around it (chain or strap) and pull up with the tractor. I found in E. KY that one must have teeth on ones tractor bucket to assist in road construction. The backhoe and toothed bucket can build a road by themselves. The teeth bar, pirahna bar, is bolt on, and so are some chain anchor points. Upgrade the bucket to do more work instead of buying more equipment.

[@TheBeansgood]

Summer, oil of oregano is my go-to when I feel something coming on. It's the best thing for preventing and knocking a cold out of the park. Wild crafted Mediterranean oregano with 80% carvacrol. Do a little research on it. :)

[@archangel20031]

If you hit a big enough rock, or bedrock, the well pipe is not going any deeper. You might be better using a large diameter post hole digger with a bunch of extensions and just keep drilling to make a surface well, then line it with a filer cloth then fill it with large rocks. The water will fill between the rocks and you will get some ground water, but it might only be dirty water needing to be filtered and treated.

[@waderue]

now I saw on one video a guy took his backhoe and dug a big deep hole as far as he could and drove the pipe and hit and connected pipe and filled it in really worked good

[@roberhoare2749]

Have put cheap bores holes over many years, if you are. using 1 inch pipe get a length of 1/2 inch pipe that will fit inside. Get a pump and and pump water down the 1 inch, this will act like a drill and put a pilot hole in the ground. This system is called a s SPEAR BORE. Hope this will solve your problem Bob from Australia ( now living in Thailand)

[@johnkirby6547]

Hi Cody, since you dug a hole already and have water to use.. Rent a trash pump hooked up to 3/4 or 1/2 in pipe pinched off on 1 end with threaded ends to add more pipe as you go and use that pipe inside your well pipe to blast your way down, you should be able to push your well pipe down as you open up the hole under it unless you're hitting rock which the pressure pipe would tell you..

[@ProudAmericanPhil]

I don't know why that guy told you the gas-powered post driver would not work. I personally think that would work well. Hell, if nothing else, it's worth a shot. Just tell him you're driving post none of his damn business what y'all are doing.

[@thomastimothy777]

SUMMER IN THAT THUMBNAIL… girrrrlllll 😍🥰

[@thomastimothy777]

18:23 oh no 😥

[@ThePropertyProject]

I got super lucky and have a gravity fed system. I haven’t tested it for drinking quality yet… but the toilet flushes just fine haha

[@dtaylor2623]

Definitely prime the pump each time. I learned this from my childhood days with the old fashioned pumps.

[@lauraquigley6403]

Feel better sweety! Hope you are able to get a good amount of water!🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s

[@krhayes100]

I used a Seymour adjustable Auger you just keep adding 3/4" 5' pip sections that well get you at least 15 t0 20 feet depends on your ground.

[@doubledforge]

I don't know what your water system is now, but when we first moved to our place 39 years ago, we had a precast concrete cistern set in the ground and a jet pump that pumped water into our house. I had a 325 gallon poly tank I carried in my truck bed and just picked up water on the way home from work as needed. We're happy to be on rural water now, but we hauled water to our place many years.

[@Cavecreekjojo1011]

Love the progress !!! Feel better guys !!!!! 😊

[@ivankaput9083]

Perhaps watch some homestead rescue I saw marty dig a big deep hole and put in (I think) a 2 feet wide tube with holes in the side so that the water will be collected in the tube and will be taken out via pump hose

[@mrmotofy]

Look at water jetting a pipe. Especially if you have the pond as a source. Will very likely be your least work option. What I did was drive a 2" Sand point 25 or 27' or so then dropped 1 1/4" pvc pipe into it with a foot valve on bottom. The fittings are just a hair large diameter so use a belt sander to shave outside circumference off a bit. To fit smooth through pipe. Then at top just use a 2" cap with hole drilled for pipe to exit. Then a male pipe fitting goes inside of cap up through then screw on a female fitting with a Tee. A branch of Tee is on top so you get vertical access into pvc pipe for priming fast, water treatment etc. The pump inlet pipe runs off the horizontal of Tee, use a threaded fitting so the well section all stays there and in place. The pump inlet pipe can be cut or replaced easily by just unscrewing etc without really interrupting well drop pipe

[@mrmotofy]

I forgot to mention with a drop pipe down in the larger 2" well pipe you don't have thread leak issues. Once the drive pipe is ready figure out your pvc pipe length and use 10' sticks...you get minimal joints for most wells.

[@ArthurValencia9438]

Thanks!

[@PaulWinters328]

My question is this. What are your plans for 2024? What would you like to achieve this year? Also, love your channel and hope you feel better soon! 🇬🇧

[@alfredoalvarez2173]

Stick a water hose down the pipe with the water running

[@janetaldrin383]

Sending thoughts and prayers your way that you both will be better soon. Good luck on your water well.

[@brucemartin5510]

You might try renting a post knocker that fits on a 3-point hitch on a tractor.

[@up2uup2u]

My Dad has drove 2 shallow wells using a electric jack hammer with a modified end. Closed end oversized pipe with a cut off chisel welded to it.

[@barbaradonley5721]

Good luck with the well and I hope you guys feel better soon.❤️

[@davidcharles3131]

We had no luck driving a sand point. The threads on the pipe(made in china) kept distorting and leaked making it impossible to prime and use pitcher pump. Ended up using post digger, rotary hand kind, and emptying every 6 inches. Installed 4 inch pvc pipe with saw slots on bottom section, toilet flange on top for pitcher pump. Use your 1 1/4 inch pipe as your draw tube. Good luck

[@Luvlacegrl]

Sure hope you start to feel better Summer.

[@connyscheringa6106]

Yess ' girl in the woods " she drill her one water out in the wood. 🤗❤❤✌

[@LullabyForBabies1]

If the shallow hole has water then dig a big hole like 15-20 ft around and as deep as possible. Line the hole with fabric and put a perferated pipe in the hole. Then dump lots of crusher run rocks in the hole. Then wrap the fabric around the top of the rocks. Then cover the top with dirt. essentially creating a void for water to fill in. The water will fill up the pipe and then put a sump pump in the hole to pump the water out. ambition strikes did this.

[@raybo34]

Can’t wait to get home and watch. I’ve had some experience with shallow wells.

[@barbarap8580]

Cody is such a brilliant problem solver 👏👏👏👏👏

[@kariwebb5523]

I hope you feel better soon summer.

[@karenbrest187]

Hope you feel better soon 🙏💕

[@Kristina_Australia]

Hope you're feeling better. I don't have any questions but I wanted to thank you. In the last vlog I suggested to show more of your property, I realise it will be a fluke but to see the area your living in is wonderful, so thank you 🙏❤️

[@suzannasymonds8982]

Pom

[@bradleyschneider3871]

If you watch videos of drilling wells they add water with a trash pump, you can rent them probably gonna need it for a week,do the research, also you can use lengths of pvc say around 4inch take and cut slits in the end you're gonna drive down so it looks like an auger,use the trash pump at the same time twisting back n forth and down pressure, once you get into sand (20 to 25 ft) then put your medal sand point down and drive it even farther,hope this helps?

[@valfunk4669]

Praying u feel better very soon Summer 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@viralprimenetwork]

Love it!! You always inspire me! It's always better to give something a shot than to regret not trying at all. Keep it up. 🥰🥰

[@PM_Doug]

@haxman gives a great video on how to drill a shallow well and some of his learnings around it. I enjoyed his for when we buy a piece of land we want to install one.

[@LisaMac36]

Interesting about the pump! Hoping you both are feeling better. ❤️

[@lynnteneyck8487]

Do you ever think you'll build a run for the dogs. Or do they just stay in the the house.? No. 2 Do you ever have plans to expand the house? You know when the kids come along!!

[@jerrystout3032]

Great Job guys!!!!😇!😇

[@ridetofreedomf.e.3039]

Ánimo seguro que el agua saldrá 💪👏👏👏👏

[@renshaw5darlene1519]

You guys are so wonderful. Keep up the good work 🥰

[@patriciafuchs5970]

So glad to see the two of you again and thanks for suggesting a generator for c pac machines! I really enjoy watching your lives evolve! You are lucky with your water, we dug an artesian well, 225 feet, only got about 4 gallons a minute and it cost $7000 in 1986! I shudder to think what it would cost now! I know you will get your water tested. Great music, guys!! Feel better soon.💕

[@augustzepeczauer]

Magnet on wheels makes a big difference during projects so you don't step on something later, love the videos yeah its been 70 in Detroit this weather is crazy

[@teresaedwards3659]

Thanks for the video, sorry you got sick

[@davidkeys1879]

I like the idea of early spring better than false spring lol

[@coralsancetta7242]

Get well soon.

[@garytnew7504]

Hiiii just saw you trying to find the staples ,,, got an idea for you sweetie,,, if ya can get a horse show get it magnetised and you can use that for nails pins all sorts of things a Round home and the farm dropping stuff on the ground

[@davidstoddard9160]

The type of well you are trying to get is called a sandpit well for a reason. You need to be into sand or gravel so the water that is underground has a route to filter through to pull up the water.

[@samuelvera9449]

Love these videos

[@keylargo2001]

If your chickens are eating sand. Mix crushed oyster shells in with their food. The shells will help their crop digest and will increase their calcium need to produce harder egg shells.

[@samanthamooney9817]

Elderberry gummies for your cold if you're starting to feel sick or are sick. I swear by them!

[@debbieb.8708]

That's everyone's weather this winter.

[@timothygunn4160]

I’d recommend using a heavy duty Velcro and a pole at the bottom of your chicken coupe. Would make it easier to take off then the staples.

[@CantContainUs]

Great idea!

[@msmith9730]

We have used a hand auger ( post hole digger) before and went down 22'

[@clydebaker1857]

We call that Indian Spring Honey 😊

[@todddejong4817]

I use a turn style post hole digger w/ 1 inch pipe that threads into it. It accepts threaded pipe and has a handle on top. You turn it in a circle and lift it out of your hole. I have done 4 wells this way. I can get down to about 15ft. then pound the rest of the way. Make sure you put a hardened cap on when you pound. Use pipe thread compound on your couplings. And after you pound turn your pipe to make sure they are not loosening up.

[@dennislamers986]

Drove a few sandpoints in my day. We drove them 25 ft and yeah it sucked but we were driving in sand. Going in is easier the pulling them up. I hope you used heavy couplings. Tractor is bad idea. Drop a string line on the inside to check water level.

[@gaylerichards7409]

Hope you feel better soon guys. Also, hope you get the well figured out.

[@wadeprior5203]

Hey good afternoon folks how are you folks doing today hope everybody's doing good looks like you got some water problems I hope you'll get that thing sets fixed up I would go to the make it a little bit deeper so that way you'll be able to fishing and swimming in the park with all the fish but you folks have a great day and be praying for you

[@vanlifenomadfirekeeper]

Pipe is packed full of clay. Maybe a sewer auger to clean out the pipe

[@dusitnellison1587]

If you have a rental store around rent an electric jack hammer, it will help. When you get it set use a garden hose pump to clean the sand point, it is much easier and faster than trying to pump it by hand.

[@charleshutchings9355]

Sorry no help with the well. I hope you both get well soon. Best of luck with your drilling. Too bad it costs so much for drillers.

[@shawnda4109]

My grandfather Doug a well with the other kind of post hole digger its on a pipe down the center and you can keep adding on pipe to it.

[@CorbinAce]

First thing to mention, these suction type hand pumps are only good for about 25 foot deep wells. You can try this. You may get lucky but I doubt it. One of you pour water into the top of the spout while the other pumps the handle. You need to cause a suction any time the pump dries out or If the prime in the head dries out or the water drains down into the pipe. Also if you leave the handle up when not in use it will drain. At the beginning you were not as deep so the pump evidently was strong enough to suck water. The pump looks new. Depending on how much you will use the pump you will find you will have to replace the leather seals in the head. you are doing a lot of extra work for nothing. With that pond up above there should be plenty of water down below. You can still try 25 feet of pipe. You did get water before. The two of you make a cute construction crew! 👩‍🏭👷 Good luck. Hope yuall are feeling better.

[@gallmanconstruction728]

It would be much easier to uncover the chicken run if connected the plastic to a pipe at the ground on one side. Then you can roll the plastic up and over the run to other side. Also you could connect rope on one side of the run under the plastic and use it to roll the plastic like a roll up window blind, if that makes sense?

[@allengrimmett9283]

Watch Martin Johnson . They hand dug a well. You but the digging piece the you put on the end of your pipe and it has a handle to twist it to dig done.

[@joanlenhard82]

Cody you are amazing just thinking about tking on such a big goal. Good Luck. You got yhis.

[@troyclinkenbeard2529]

It looks like your water source is above 7 feet. If your backhoe can dig down 6 feet or a little more and you dig out about 8 foot diameter, you should see where your water source is flowing from. You might need to pump out water with a sump pump to see where your water is flowing from. Then install a 6 foot diameter culvert 6 foot deep and that should give you about 1200 gallons of water. When I was a kid growing up that is all we had as a water source. Some summers it would get low, but it never ran dry. Good luck. I do enjoy your KZbin channel 😊 I'm watching from Saudi Arabia

[@jojosworld956]

Love from Cincinnati

[@estellaknox9285]

Cody you going to get the well done

[@fiendeng]

y'all rock !

[@user-hs5ky2rp2z]

Good to see you guy’s, sickness is everywhere right now. Hope you both get well quickly. Is maybe the pipe filling up with the dirt and clay and not allowing the water to come through. Good Luck👍

[@billiehuskins8129]

You need to prime the well no 😊

[@billiehuskins8129]

Pour water down the pump about a gallon. Maybe it's plugged up.

[@williamganley4739]

The USGS website has online maps on wells that you can look up in your area to get a general idea of how deep everything is and where they're located. Also you could try just digging a hole with the Kubota as deep as you can go then use a post hole digger and finally hammer in pipe. That could probably get you around 18 feet down.

[@renelabuschagne1615]

Hope you feel better soon, it's miserable having a cold 😪😪

[@johnbeattie5765]

Pick up any lost staples or nails on the ground try dragging at least a 100 lb. capacity magnet across the ground where required !

[@jwilb007]

Love your videos i go straight through your town when i go to boonville from dexter mo.

[@joshua511]

I'm on the west side of the state. I tried a sandpoint well last year and failed miserably. Our thick, clay soil does not seem to do well with sandpoints. I may end up calling a pro to do it. I do like your idea of using the front-end loader to pound the post down!

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

I put down a 2 inch point well. Bank won't call it a well unless it's at least 2 inches. You can get a 2 stroke water pump like the Amish use. Even a small 2 stroke water pump can push water up to 50 feet vertically and over 300 horizontally. Put a check value in the pipe to keep from priming. I had to go 25 feet down. My well flows up to 2 feet. If the hole is filling go deeper you should be able get your well to flow. It took me 3 days of pounding to drive mine. I added weight to the ponder to make it like 50 lbs. Bolted a square tube on top and added old window weights in it. I have enough flow I can hook a stand pipe and ram pump to my well. The water loving plants told me where to put the well. I dug a seep in a wet spot. We now call it the frog pond. Actually have washed up in the frog pond. But it was only seeping at a certain layer close to the surface. I had to go closer to our spring. Do you have any cotton wood or willow? Might want to try by them.

[@delandbrooks3291]

Grab a magnet at HF or RK next time you're there. Just carry it with you for stuff like the staples (keeping it close may catch staples as you pull them) put a rope to it and you can pick up nails etc.

[@MematheLion]

Start taking zinc daily! It helps me. Haven’t been sick in years!

[@darrengauthier1067]

Hope y'all get to feeling better

[@jamesbromstead4949]

Question, did you prime the pump before pumping?