FREE Water, DIY hand well pump install two different ways. Off grid pitcher pump. Part 1

[@sarahnie793]

DUDE, WELL NEED THESE IN APPALACHIA RIGHT NOW.

[@TKCL]

Your not kidding! It pays to be prepared, you never what could happen.

[@jeremiahs45]

Very nice to have a backup water source on your property

[@TKCL]

Yes it is!

[@DossFarm]

That 6:58 mark 😂. Thank you Lord! We’ve all had a point in a project like that. Nice work man!

[@ryanzynda5114]

Awesome educational video. Thanks for sharing. 🤠

[@joebufford2972]

Looks awesome! My last comment got cut off but yes getting your own water is a key on being so sufficient. And by the way, big old Ruger looks like he's just a lovable big old dog 🐕👍🇺🇸🙏 thank you, Andrew ❤️

[@TKCL]

He's a great dog! Yes the water is critical!

[@mikerichard-FOPA3]

Andrew, Another great video, I see you had your supervisor there Ruger did a good job as well.

[@TKCL]

He did do a good job!

[@m9ovich785]

It's hard to concentrate on Andrews Video when Watching Ruger HAHAHAH

[@evgenyonishkevich8494]

Really looking forward to the new video on their off grid filter. This one was a good one too 👍👍

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@hrlee2381]

Another exceptional video. Nice seeing the grapple on the tractor.

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@ocean1233]

EXCELLENT JOB 👏👏👏👏👏

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@randybeard6040]

Renting an Electric Air Hammer will make Short Order of Driving the Pump Pipes, Best Method that I have Seen...

[@BADD1ONE]

Great video. This is one of the best well videos ive seen yet. You've answer many of my questions and ill be going with your pitcher pump recommendation. Thank you.

[@TKCL]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ronniepankey3252]

Thanks for you hard work!! Very helpful

[@TKCL]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rongray4847]

Hi Andrew, I love your reviews. Look forward to all your videos, interesting content. 👍👍❤️🇨🇦

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@patricialjones2000]

That’s a great chocolate lab ❤. We are also in north Florida with an existing clay? pipe where a well was drilled in the past. It was not capped, just covered with dirt. Going to look for your green hand pump.

[@TKCL]

Link for the pump is in the video description. Thanks for watching

[@johnmiller2278]

That was so Awesome. I learned a lot from that. Thank You for sharing. 👍

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@brianbosse8805]

That was great man! I'm looking do one on my land on Cape Cod

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching!

[@edsecorr7812]

Great job thank you keep up the good work

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@CircleCitySlicker]

Cool project!

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@vanguardactual1]

You "could" use a set of posthole diggers to establish an entry point to start with and save the excessive height to work with.

[@donnagarrett5196]

Love it....can't wait to see what you are going to do with this next time

[@TKCL]

Getting my supplies ready!

[@OurNewLand]

Good info, man. I really appreciate you showing the issue you ran into at the first well spot. Gracias.

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@mrz6462]

New Subscriber here, I enjoyed the video, nice job!

[@TKCL]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@MartinP1214]

A great teaching video, thanks!

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@humbleredneck8816]

It's funny, I just saw for the first time about 3 weeks ago a video of water jetting like that and thought it was brilliant! Now seeing u utilize it its like I'm the last person to know about it! So many applications for that method

[@TKCL]

Lol I remember as a kid sticking the garden hose in the dirt and watching it disappear.

[@dougdavis4439]

You can never have enough water sources. Really good information on how to reach shallow water Andrew. Wish I had that type of access here in north GA. Too much rock, granite, in the ground and hill country to try it but will be using the water drilling to get an established line under some driveways. Enjoyed it, thank you!

[@TKCL]

You sure do have some beautiful country up there.

[@dougdavis4439]

@The Kelley's Country Thank you, sir. Yes, it's beautiful hill country. Rocky and beautiful!

[@auburnaviator6167]

@@dougdavis4439 I grew up and my parents still live southwest of Asheville, NC near Brevard. When you say beautiful and rocky, you aren’t kidding!

[@TKCL]

Asheville is gorgeous! Very expensive, but beautiful.

[@ArcherCanobra]

You might have pressure on you drill site. That would make it an artisan well. That's a handsome pitcher pump.

[@stuartkorte1642]

Thanks for sharing both types. Planning for my shop build recently, ran into pipe clay from 2-10 feet. Hopefully I’ll find a good spot since the soil is generally very sandy.

[@TKCL]

Sandys is perfect, hope you find it.

[@lotus....]

Awesome we have been talking about doing this. We are like you guys..house, shop, & barns on the hill gradually sloping down to the ponds. I believe our 2 deep wells are around 100ft.

[@TKCL]

Mine is 160ft with the pump at 140ft

[@sharonurschel6753]

I remember as a kid our neighbor had a hand pump in the house that they used for cooking, drinking and heated it up to wash dishes. I remember how the water had a slight metallic taste to it. Heck we probably injested lead and didn’t know it when we’d get a drink at their house! Great video, never seen this done before!

[@TKCL]

There's no telling 😬

[@astikennel]

They may have had an artesian well which does tend to taste that way, but causes no harm

[@angelapriddy6308]

Wow. I was wondering how you do this.. thank you

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@m9ovich785]

Thanks Andrew. I was puzzled at the 1st one, Why so far out from the Tree line ? Then the 2nd one You moved it back. Now it is out of the Way. Mike M.

[@TKCL]

Part 2 will make more sense why the first location was the best location.

[@larrykusler5294]

I think the water table in my part of Las Vegas is down around 800 feet or so. I know there are some wells that were put in deeper before finding potable water. While a hand pump isn't likely here I still found the video great to watch. Andrew always does a good job of providing great information to those that need it.

[@TKCL]

Yeah I don't think it would work for you 😉

[@stevensaxon8888]

How much do the average well in las Vegas area cost per foot?

[@stevensaxon8888]

Andrew could you water jet say a 8"-12" well diameter using pvc pipe then go back with the Sandpoint well system inside the pvc pipe for more traditional well?

[@TKCL]

All you would need is a 3-4 inch well casing accomplish that. It's possible.

[@JosephOfBorg]

Keep in mind it's very difficult to dig in the Las Vegas Valley because it used to be an ocean floor the rock is super hard almost a stranger bus to concrete I believe they call it caliche

[@robertbrooks5385]

Haha 😂 I’m fat, I’m outta shape… ur the best. Keep the vids coming Andrew

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching

[@PineyGroveHomestead]

good video Andrew. Don't think we have water on our property that close to top, but I'll keep this in mind for the future.

[@TKCL]

Never know when you might need it.

[@PineyGroveHomestead]

@@TKCL We got that 2 cycle post driver....easy breezy!

[@TKCL]

It's on my shopping list

[@AllstarVentures]

New sub Will be trying this soon 👍🏻

[@TKCL]

Thanks for the sub!

[@scubajasona]

Works great in sandy soil......in Florida you can get thru a layer or two of limestone down to 40ft for irrigation, but I'd be cautious of using that water for drinking even filtered or boiled. Consider having water tested.

[@RobertKohut]

All's well that ends well... 🙂

[@TKCL]

🤦🤣

[@nwflboy007powell8]

I used to put down well 300 foot wells with a tripod with a pulley, rope and a old driveshaft. Deep wells because I'm in the highest elevations in the state.

[@TKCL]

That had to be rough work

[@LatitudeSky]

The gray clay will be useful for a dam if you ever put in a Letsdig18-style pond. Would love to see what he would do with your property.

[@TKCL]

A nice big pond is on my list if I can ever find that money lol.

[@kaula300]

I guess you're between a rock and a hard place lol, thank you very much I'm here all week lol, great video.

[@TKCL]

🤣

[@zipnasty2154]

You can always add a food grade strainer small to cover the outlet

[@TKCL]

I put trash bags over both pumps.

[@zod5966]

So you pulled out the 2" pipe completely and then dropped the steel wellpoint into the hole 14:29? The hole didnt collapse when you removed the 2" pipe before you could get the well point in?

[@TKCL]

Correct, but even if it did collapse, that sand point is designed to be pounded in.

[@Mister-Gee-9999]

Are Ram pumps a thing in the USA?

[@TKCL]

I don't know of anyone with one, but I've seen several KZbin channels promote them. I'm considering building one.

[@robdavis4209]

Ram pumps work. Local amish well driller installs them.

[@JimmyPooper]

Laying pipe is so much fun

[@richnessofexperience]

The pump shows a G1-5/8 inch fitting on the bottom. Will that accommodate a 1-1/4 inch pipe or do I need an adapter to connect the pipe to the pump? Thanks

[@TKCL]

I screwed standard 1 1/4 water pipe right into it.

[@alexwisienski903]

What length pipe are you using and how many? Does the 36" drive point count in the 22' depth for well draw.

[@TKCL]

4ft pipe sections, it's 18ft of suction from top of the sand point.

[@patriciamuskevitsch8359]

Where I am in Louisiana our water table is so shallow digging a post hole fills with water. We have a permanent well at 23 feet that hasn't run dry. Also we have no rock.

[@TKCL]

My last home the well was a little over 20 ft, and the water always stayed around 15 ft.

[@markrabbia8281]

You can get an air operated post pounder if you want to put another section of pipe down for more static level

[@TKCL]

I'm eyeballing a gas powered one.

[@InTexasMatt]

They don't make post drivers like they used to. You can weld the top of a sledgehammer to the top of post driver to get some extra weight. Helps with driving posts, etc.

[@TKCL]

I've been eyeballing one of those gas powered ones 😬

[@m9ovich785]

AHAHAAHA About 15 Years ago I added 15 Lbs to Mine, now it Weighs in at 32 Lbs I'm a large well Fit Guy and can wield it no Problem. I use it to Pound on My worlds Largest log splitter that Weighs in at 31 Lbs. HAHAHAHA..

[@TKCL]

I've got a few thousand fence post ahead of me, that's why I'm liking the sound of that gas powered one.

[@m9ovich785]

@@TKCL Are 3 point post drivers rentable down there ??

[@TKCL]

Never seen one at the rental stores

[@kennysmith8831]

Could have took post diggers and dug a 5ft hole to start to make it easier just saying

[@dalepellerin]

You’re so lucky to have so much water. In the desert Southwest it’s much harder to find and almost impossible to get a new well permit to drill and if you get caught with a non permitted well it’s a pretty serious charge due to very tight control and ownership of water rights across the aquifers . Great information and really enjoyed watching.

[@TKCL]

So glad we don't have that here.

[@Bward216]

That's kinda bs. What happened to the property rights where you owned to the center of the earth and as high as the heavens.... I could understand water rights on a stream or something but

[@dalepellerin]

@@Bward216 actually I’m not sure those types of rights ever existed in the modern world. Water rights in Colorado are a huge topic as Corporate agricultural interests have tapped into public aquifers thru wells drilled on their land and depleted water supply so the intent of the current water restrictions and protections are good ones. Of course big corporations are now buying up all the land with water rights to give them larger percentage of ownership to aquifer capacity. Many buy land in Colorado dreaming of a homestead only to realize it’s very difficult to get a well permit. Best to always buy land with an existing well but just that presence can exponentially raise the cost of land. Water is the new oil and gold in the desert southwest.

[@dalepellerin]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 not in the desert Southwest 4 corners region unless you have specific water rights. Water access underground is accessible only via State water permits. This helps keep the big agricultural corporations from siphoning all the water from the public aquifers. You’re probably right though about ‘most states’ but the desert Southwest of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and California have very different water laws and for good reasons.

[@TKCL]

It's not required here, I'm thankful Iive in an area without all the extra BS. My home well was drilled by a professional company and no permit required. I even had the sanitation department out here doing water tie in and septic inspections while building our house. Not one mention of a well permit.

[@jason27swg]

Andrew, say you left the pvc pipe in the ground and you wanted to water livestock. Could you drop a pump in the bottom say with poly pipe and use a solar panel to keep them watered is there enough water that shallow to do that ?

[@TKCL]

Not sure if it seeps quick enough for that or not. I plan to find out 😉

[@auburnaviator6167]

Awesome video! I’ve been wondering for a while if you were gonna try to install something like this since you started down the “being more self sufficient/homesteading” route. I remember watching my granddaddy dig their well when I was just a tike. I didn’t think anything of it at the time since I was so young but now looking back on the time he spent digging with a shovel/pickaxe (over the course of 2-3months) after coming home from being at work all day and then tending to the farm…. You just don’t find people with that work ethic much anymore.

[@TKCL]

It's definitely a different breed of people nowadays.

[@anagongs6353]

Does anyone install this for pay in Florida? Disable nurse here would love to have one installed but I can’t do the work. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@TKCL]

I would reach out to your local well drilling companies and see if they put these in.

[@rhb30001]

How can I find where to drill and get water though? Isn’t there only a couple of areas where water is?

[@TKCL]

Look up "dowsing" for water. Streams and aquifers run all beneath us, some shallow, some deep. The technique seems crazy, but it's commonly used here.

[@Glenn_and_ShannonsSalty_Life]

The gray stuff…bentonite? I seem to remember you having some strip mining done on the edge of your place. If so, bentonite is used as waterstop, no wonder the well wouldn’t siphon

[@TKCL]

Bentonite is usually white colored here. The clay mining done on my property was for red clay, great for building roads and more.

[@Mr.Swamp12]

Can you attach a hose to that well pump?

[@TKCL]

Not the pitcher pump.

[@kewpiefan72]

Crazy weather makes me wonder if you’ll ever have to worry about freezing and breaking your pipes/spigot?

[@TKCL]

Very simple process, unscrew the pump before winter and the water will go back below ground.

[@kewpiefan72]

@@TKCL chuckle! Yup!

[@brentphillips262]

How do I research how deep our water table is where we live, in a subdivision in Ohio sadly, and can I do this with us having clay ground here?

[@TKCL]

No idea, our water table fluctuates wildy.

[@stevensaxon8888]

Andrew can u hook up a harbor Freight 110v well pump(I believe it called a transfer pump,has it's own pressure tank) to the water well you just dug? Can a people water jet a larger diameter well say 4"-12"?

[@TKCL]

Shhhhhhh....... 🤫🤫🤫🤫 Coming soon! 😉

[@rodneyjones5907]

Over here in the panhandle around Panama City we call it gumbo clay that’s from a man who dug in the ground all my adult life

[@TKCL]

I've heard that too.

[@mouse5178]

Does anyone know why there’s a distance limit

[@TKCL]

All about head pressure, the deeper you go the more pressure of water pulling back against the seals of the pump.

[@johnndavis7647]

Dig a 3x3 hole about 3ft deep. Then use post hole diggers to go down as far as you can. Then you can put a 12ft step ladder over the hole and lower your pipe down into the hole. Buy a T and put an end cap on one side of the T for pounding on . Screw the other side of the T onto your pipe. Then run a garden hose into the bottom of the T. Turn on the water and start pounding on the cap. The water pressure will dig the hole and move dirt out of the way. Unscrew the T and add another piece of pipe as you need it. In most places you will find clean water within 30 feet of the surface. Be sure that you are at least 100 feet away from septic tanks or pig pens or other possible sources of pollurion. This water can be tested to be sure that it is safe to drink or it can be boiled or filtered before drinking.

[@SetitesTechAdventures]

I've been digging holes for a solar installation and they filled with water pretty quickly. It's made me think a Sandpoint well might do well here and I'm considering it for a hose. I have clay too so hopefully it's not as bad. Is the next step rain catchment?

[@TKCL]

Sounds like shallow water.

[@joebufford2972]

I've been waiting for you too. Address this because sometimes

[@TKCL]

Sometimes?

[@hansmuller9121]

Congratulations on building the pump quite quickly. Unfortunately, I had to give up the project because the water table is 150 feet and there is clay soil. A company once made me an offer for €5,000 plus the pump, which would cost another good €1,000 plus the high power consumption. That's why I prefer to use public water, which is cheaper. Greetings from Berlin

[@TKCL]

Thank you for watching Hans

[@kevinmahon4460]

Why didn't you use the tractor bucket to push the pipe into the ground? Bend it break it?

[@kevinmahon4460]

Never mind....just saw your answer below 😜

[@palladini9718]

Where can I get a microphone like your using? I grew up on Tobacco Farm in Southern Ontario, and we had 2 Green houses and in front and besides these greenhouse was a water tank, elevated about 15 feet in air that held about 750 gallons of water, and it was fed by 3 points sunk 13 feet deep in sand, and this supplied all the water needed for green house, showers that were set up in green house during harvest and drinking water at the tap at hip level for an adult

[@TKCL]

Amazon, Rode go 2.

[@pampilgrim2274]

Hi, Andrew! Very interesting. I am beginning to think there’s not much you can’t do. I do remember you hate hanging drywall. It’s a nasty job with all the mud and sanding. The lifting is awkward and heavy. I don’t blame you for disliking drywall work.

[@TKCL]

And painting 😒

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Interesting one. Now, what crossed my mind when I saw that fire pump are armadillos. If you can find their location (don't know what you call the place they live in) can you use it to destroy the "nest" with them? Just a thought:))) p.s. For putting fence posts I guess you'll need that gas post driver ( I saw one @Living Traditions Homestead), no comment on your fitness level, LOL

[@TKCL]

The gas post driver is on my shopping list. I've been considering the flush out method for armadillos myself.

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

@@TKCL LOL, great minds think alike🤣🤣🤣

[@madampolo]

I didn't see if you put that regulator in to prevent the water from going back down.

[@TKCL]

No because part 2 I'll be adding something else. However the back flow preventer built into that pump works very well.

[@5150cash]

Hopefully you'll build a little box underneath it and fill it with sand and gravel so we can filter back into the ground 🤔

[@TKCL]

I've got a lot more coming

[@5150cash]

@@TKCL ok copy that.... Can't wait to see it.

[@citylotgardening6171]

👍

[@hammerslap5639]

now a windmill with linkage that can be engaged to pump it for you when you dont want to hand pump

[@TKCL]

Yes sir, it's on my mind.

[@uncletom1986]

My buggy tail gate doesn’t like it when I tans on it like that;)

[@edwardenglish6919]

"Hold my beer!"

[@grammydayao7581]

My water is about one hundred feet deep 😮 can you show me how to make that happen .

[@TKCL]

Your going to need a professional well drilling rig to go that deep in my opinion. They make special deep well hand pumps, but they are expensive.

[@MTNmyMAG]

I believe you were checking for plumb

[@TKCL]

Yes, I have a bad habit of saying level because I'm using a level.

[@MTNmyMAG]

@@TKCL lol me too but I heard the voice of my father correcting me when you said it 😂

[@MTNmyMAG]

Maybe late do a cast in place concrete post with footer around the pipe for that pump to set on top of? Probably not necessary but would be a cool video and take the wobble out of that pipe while you’re pumping

[@TKCL]

Wobble is coming out soon enough. Wait for part 2

[@OldCritters]

👍💞

[@coreyhawk6307]

Why didn't you use the tractor bucket? Would have much easier.

[@coreyhawk6307]

Great video

[@TKCL]

Can't remember if I editing that conversion out or not, I tried and literally lifted the tractor off the ground.

[@ocean1233]

OMG... Two hours? I am NOT doing that myself. 😅

[@AdamDeal-KF0PRI]

work smart not hard thats how its done lol!

[@TKCL]

Sometimes smarter is a little more expensive and less diy friendly.

[@AdamDeal-KF0PRI]

@@TKCL true but sometime you have no choice

[@SherrickDuncan]

Can I get 200 feet deep like this?

[@TKCL]

No, these well pumps are designed for shallow, less than 20ft deep wells.

[@12vLife]

check valve can be at the top? any benefit to having it further down toward the point?

[@TKCL]

Check valve at top or foot valve at bottom. Both work for keeping water in the pipe. I wouldn't put one at the bottom if pounding the pipe in.

[@Lady_of_Ishpeming]

For those who are not so fit, they make gas powered post drivers 😉

[@TKCL]

I want one!

[@thiago_thesaint]

Wjeres part 2 video?

[@TKCL]

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[@jefffrancis6824]

👀

[@TKCL]

😑

[@mechapman1080]

Why didn't he just slide that PVC pipe down into the hole he put in from the first one? Either way he's running his sand point pipe into the clay. I would have just put that PVC in the existing one and then slid the metal pipe in it after he cleaned it out? Good thing he went farther in then 3" because to shallow and you can get contaminated water

[@TKCL]

Gray pipe clay does NOT percolate water well. No way I'd depend on a well head in it, you'd out pump it.

[@steakhouse45]

You need to make a post driver because the store bought one are junk

[@TKCL]

I'll be getting a gas powered one soon enough

[@aliasfred]

I had experienced "Brackish" water at some restaurants in the I-75 areas of The Villages, nasty tasting stuff, makes nasty coffee and other cooking. While I was only passing through, not living here. I was wondering if you have this problem where you live? The ocean water has infiltrated many fresh water wells. Now many restaurants now order spring water deliveries to at least for making coffee for their customers.

[@TKCL]

Not here, we are 40 miles from the coast with no inlets or Bays near us. Impossible for the brackish water to make it here as the majority of underground water flows are North to south.

[@davidhammer9283]

FORGOT CHECK VALVE

[@TKCL]

Pump has built in valve plunger that seals, watch next episode where I do have a check valve for the additional pump. You also do not need an extra check valve when I have a manual cut off valve below the pump.

[@davidhammer9283]

HEART ATTACK TIME

[@kirkl8695]

#fjb

[@kirkstinson7316]

Free water? I know the cost of the pump and all the pipe plus sand point. That's far from free

[@ArcherCanobra]

As far as your weight, no one cares. I've quit eating carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice) and lose 5 belt loop sizes and 5 lbs in three weeks.

[@paulgrice6766]

IN FLA TRY THAT IN NC RED CLAY

[@TKCL]

That's mostly what we have is red, the gray clay is far stickier.