Fastest way to find well depth!

[@sergo2126]

Amazing abilities to distinguish sound of whistling unrolling tape , weight hitting wire guards, weight splashing at the bottom at 200', and of course the ambient sounds especially when car goes by, etc. I ENVY THIS GUY ALOT ! 😂

[@preparedandmore]

Really isn't that difficult if your ear is near the well top.

[@AlanSanderson-u4t]

In Oregon you can obtain the well report on line from the state. It reports depth, static water level, GPM, and soil types, as well as screens, holes, casing depth, etc.

[@richavic4520]

I have about 40' of water above my pump. Static water level is about eighty feet below the top of the case. Environmental supply retailers have bailers used for sampling monitoring wells. They're basically a plastic tube with a check ball at the bottom. Common size is one quart. Attach some cord and you can bail five gallons by hand in pretty quick order if power is out or due to a pump malfunction.

[@revelationakagoldeneagle8045]

Very informative, thank you. Will be using one or possibly two of the methods shown on my well. Preparing to replace the pump, water line and electrical. Have a blessed day 🪶✨ Georgia USA 🪶✨

[@peteinwisconsin2496]

A fourth way to measure the depth of a well, at least to the surface of the water, is to use your two hands to "bop" the open top end of the casing. You will hear a series of Bop, bop, bops coming back. That is the sound wave going down the pipe, bouncing off the surface of the water and coming back up to the top where it bounces off the top of the casing and goes back down again. I recorded the bop, bop, bop with my laptop, displayed it graphically and determined the travel time precisely. That and the speed of sound led me to the depth of the well, or at least the dept to the surface of the water. I like your tip of measuring to the bottom of the drilled hole as mine might be filling with mud from the bottom up. I gotta check for that. Thanks.

[@davefletch3063]

You forgot to yell down the pipe and count how long it takes for your voice to return…

[@preparedandmore]

Similar idea to dropping the ice or chlorine pellets, but yelling down the pipe is not as accurate.

[@bruceshepard1136]

When you say bottom of your well do you mean like a bottom or like the earth bottom? Thank you for sharing

[@preparedandmore]

Bottom refers to the deepest point of the drilled well. There will be rock or dirt below that. The methods discussed here mainly determine the static water level which is the top of the water inside the well. However, the tape measure with a weight method can be used to find the bottom if the weight can be lowered past the well pump. Hope this clarifies.

[@scatdog1]

Great video bro !!! Thanks

[@preparedandmore]

Glad you liked it!

[@MTMabowels]

The tape measure method seems to be the most accurate, but I wonder did you take into account the time it took for the splash to reach you together with your reaction time, as you did with the previous method. 🙂

[@preparedandmore]

Great point. No I did not. Probably did make a few feet difference.

[@a.michaelshumate7826]

You said you had a video on different hand pumps for well but I can’t find it

[@preparedandmore]

Thanks for watching our videos. I am not sure exactly what I said, but the only video that I can think of is the one titled "If you have a well, then you need this..." Find that under our videos for water.

[@jeffa847]

I'd be careful dropping any heavy object on a tape measure to make sure it doesn't get caught on anything or damage something on the way down. I am no expert but I think on many wells there is a torque arrester midway down that for one might block anything dropping past it but more troubling the ones that I have seen absolutely look like they could grab something like that dropped down into them and not let it go that easily. I'd be awfully careful as to what I dropped down a well casing. One guy further down the comments was talking about using a cell phone and holding it over the casing and using the distance measuring app...oh good lord... imagine dropping a cell phone with all its toxic parts into a well and aquifer.

[@jeffa847]

In most areas simply call the department of water resources and they will tell you what the static water level is in your area. If they keep the info - which most of them do - they will also have all kinds of other useful info like the well drillers log from when it was drilled/ what the static water level was then/ what the drawdown was like in the testing of the well as well as the original depth. It won't work for everyone but many people it will

[@rabaham]

How about a laser measuring device

[@preparedandmore]

Not a bad suggestion. However, a laser device must be precisely targeted and it would almost impossible to get it aimed correctly down into the well AND avoid all of the piping, wires and the well pump. Using a laser measuring device could would likely only be accurate if all of those items were first removed from the well.

[@lamanchamediatube]

Awesome!

[@preparedandmore]

Thanks!

[@jalebjaba1487]

Is there anyone that can help dispute A price gouging,we built A home ,unfortunately the contractor didn’t line up A well digger ,so my wife hired someone with A awful reputation j thinking we would get in faster , they charged twice as much saying they had to go 500 ft, in November 2022 ,we want to hire someone to check it, Thanks for your Video. ❤

[@preparedandmore]

You should be able to hire a local well service company to come verify the installation.

[@TroubleActual]

Maybe I'm a simple man, but why not use a fishing rod, you know, lead weight and big floater?

[@preparedandmore]

That's not a bad idea. Just make sure the floater is small enough to get around the piping and other items in the well pipe. Then mark the fishing line.

[@tomgreene7942]

I liked the video, exccept that you were contaminating the well by touching everything and putting things on the grass. Hopefully you decontaminated the well afterwards.

[@ExclusiveLM]

Or..... You can just get an app found in most smart phones that is a distance measurer. Then, put your phone camera facing into the water well hole and ALSO have a high powered source of light like a high beam flashlight facing into the hole at the same time and aim your camera as centered as possible into the hole and you will see on the phone screen how deep your well is once it has established the bottom part of the well. Your welcome.

[@preparedandmore]

That would be almost impossible to get an accurate reading with so many obstacles in the path.

[@ExclusiveLM]

@@preparedandmore It worked for me. I used the app just to test how accurate it was and it worked within 2 inches which to me is incredible. The well professionals that installed my well had already told me the depth when they finished the job. That's why I know the apps accuracy. Your welcome.

[@kirumiratonny]

Where can i get the machine that detects the depth of water

[@preparedandmore]

This video focuses on how someone can do it without a "machine". However, if you wish to spend the money, they do make more sophisticated "machines" that will measure your well depth. Here is a link: amzn.to/41PLVd8

[@dave_in_florida]

Or just read the label on the side

[@preparedandmore]

That would be easy IF you have a properly labeled well, but many do not. Also the water level can change based upon drought and other conditions.

[@safffff1000]

Lol I can't take of my cap it's holding the well pipe from falling.

[@preparedandmore]

That's not good. You certainly don't want the pipe to fall but you need to be able to open the cap. Interesting dilemma.

[@benjaminjohnson5469]

Saffff1000 has an older type cap. Before the type you have was developed the pipe was attached to the cap. Usually, the cap was split the pipe come out the top. Older wells had these. That is why most farms or ranches had well houses everywhere. I have about 10 of them on our different ranches. The pressure tank and plumbing is installed inside the houses. And your trick with the tape measure wouldn't work on most wells. Usually there is a rubber arrestor on the pipe about every 100 feet. It to help reduce torque of the pipe, and reduce wire rub.

[@preparedandmore]

Great information. Thanks for the comment.

[@dmills13F]

@@benjaminjohnson5469 Or they just don't live where you live. Well seals are still in common use where weather doesn't dictate a buried well head with a pitless adapter

[@gjh42]

When I installed my first well pump in a 165' deep well, I didn't know about arrestors and dropped the pipe and wires straight down. 10-15 years later, the wires shorted out and I pulled the pump to find the insulation rubbed off. Replaced the wiring and reinstalled with arrestors, and have had no trouble for 30 years.

[@greghill1106]

Please spare me the info on how to take off the cap....jfc!!!!

[@preparedandmore]

Not a bad suggestion, however, it would be very difficult to point it down into the well and blindly avoid all of the obstacles. If you have a larger diameter pipe with the well pump already removed, then a laser pointer might be a great option.

[@USSBB62]

Everything you need he says at Eleven minutes into the video. Other wise ho hum !

[@preparedandmore]

Glad you found the information that you needed.

[@christopherhaak9824]

Tells you nothing about well depth, only static water level. If you really want the depth of your well, go to your state database for wells. Every state has one and all wells are listed in there. Often you can search by location or map and it lists all of the data for your well. States are required to keep track of all of this information. This video itself is fairly useless.

[@preparedandmore]

Most experts would say that the static water level is the most important of the two numbers. You use the static well depth to place the well pump. You don't place your well pump on the bottom of the well, but instead place it 30-40 feet below the STATIC WATER LEVEL. For the purposes of this video we are attempting to find the static water level to determine what type of water pumping system could be used to get water out without electricity.

[@kristinatellefson4149]

Mine too old for the map.

[@MrFlorida58]

Ha. Here in Tennessee. depending on the county one is in obsoletely NO RECORDS are kept on anything except maybe your septic. I lived in Florida for many years and my well depth was also irrelevant. If you listened to his video carefully he explains that it is for static water level. 🙄

[@mnolan1490]

Ky doesn’t require any registration of any kind.

[@bdbdwd]

My state has it , yet well driller did not report it !