Water Well Drilling. Working on a Rig and Finding Fresh Water for the Customers New Business

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In this video I take you along with us as we drill a new water well for a landscaping company. I try out a new POV drillers cam to show you what it's like working on the back of a drilling rig & running the controls. This was a two day job.
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[@Dan-iv4qf]

The new is good but keep both. It's nice to have two different prescriptives and you'll catch more with two cameras going

[@h2omechanic]

It's always just one camera, I just move it around constantly. It's alot going on to do multiple cameras and focus on the job.

[@wallacefrey6247]

There is definitely more to drilling a well that I thought.

[@jefferyyoung6836]

I like the first person view

[@mxslick50]

Love the new viewpoint!! Most people don't realize how much work and details are involved in drilling a well. Thanks for all the hard work, both in the field and the edit bay!

[@duotronic6451]

Love the new POV. Love seeing the massive pipe wrench head welded to the pivot arm for example.

[@scottrakes1622]

In my opinion, this is the best video you've ever put out. I learned more on the back of the truck than I did through all of your talking in the past.

[@kirbygulbrandsen4507]

So you’re saying, show me don’t tell me.

[@bain5872]

Love the new camera rig. A great upgrade.

[@RM-iy7xx]

New viewpoint was great

[@davidbellomy8605]

This is awesome! Really enjoyed the new POV!!

[@davidstreling3690]

I always click the like button before I even start watching your videos as they are always great... stay safe eat

[@johncichecki2831]

Wow...great video...more involved than I thought...thanks for educating me on well drilling

[@lornabell5443]

Excellent video my 11 year old grandson and I we always enjoy you videos

[@paull.drownjr.5477]

I love the new view point. I really enjoy seeing what you all do to drill a well. You and your dad work together like a well oiled machine. your work ethics and attention to detail is great. Keep up the great videos!!!

[@creamysbrianna]

@H2o Mechanic I love the new POV and here's why. 1. Provides a first-person perspective all the time. 2. Allows you to work while filming simultaneously with a chest or head-mounted camera.

[@unclestevie9435]

I like your camera set up, you do a lot of good for people. Water is a must have.

[@charleswelch249]

I like the new point of view you're doing. You have a great crew and do great work for people 👍. Keep up the good work and videos.

[@normanmack2368]

Everything looks good.

[@BosnWayne]

Loved the point of view!! Well done as always

[@northwoodsguy1538]

Nice work. Love watching tradesmen that take pride in their work. 😎👍

[@tonycoffee7335]

No one walked ahead to check geound before the rig. Lol its okay I have done that in my work truck .. " ya .. It should be okay ....."

[@chonzie16]

Great new video view . I love watching other companies.

[@stevenrothgeb6040]

Video seems good.

[@garlenseong38]

Keep up the good work...

[@user-tg5wg6oe6o]

I do like the new prospective.

[@MaMa-qh4dy]

GREAT work. Thank you for posting!

[@glennmiller6513]

Great video I like the new viewpoint very well

[@markmurphy1727]

Can you explain and maybe one of your upcoming videos as to how you determine where a well will be drilled what are the factors that go into it and how do you know you’re going to hit water? Love your videos keep up the good work.

[@elbertmoore7876]

New subscriber here Enjoyed watching and learning how it’s done. Thank you for sharing

[@LodestarEquipment]

Nice work. I like the way you have your 450 set up.

[@imtheonevanhalen1557]

Great info, and a new respect for just how messy and complicated punching a hole in the ground can be!!

[@braamgreeff6567]

New camera looks good I like it.Braam from South Afrika.

[@xFlavoriax]

Long time a go i have been working a kind of rig like this ( Cyclone TH60) in Africa. This video took me back to those days..The site the support truck ..getting stuck etc.. now i am europe drilling for geothermal n geological or geotechinic drilling. I enjoy watching ur video and ecperianced ppls comments. Thanx🙏

[@CraigSnead]

The new mount is great. I enjoyed the better view of what you are doing when changing rods. Keep it up! One question: What did you mean by over reaming, just clearing the dirt around the top of the casing for grouting? Really enjoy the content and how well you and your dad work together.

[@WrenchHead]

I would imagine you and the crew are excellent lip readers with the sound levels on the job 😂

[@OldGeezerstoolbox]

Some new view is good, too much new view and goofs like me can get kinda carsick watching. As always, good video and I learned something--which is my personal criteria for making any video worthwhile.

[@davidolson7575]

Super nice job done. Hope to see the rest of it.

[@FrankLassowski]

Looks like hard and skillful work! I like the perspective and the smile ;-)

[@timwhitley1212]

Like it! All of your content is very enjoyable to watch.....I get to see what I cant do anymore. LOL Never drilled wells but lots of construction...thank you!

[@jasonwells7737]

I wish we had a drill rig like the one you have, my dad drilled water wells in Montana when I was a kid, ours was a back killer, grabbed drill string from a trailer didn’t have a side shoot or nothing

[@arkansasboy45]

Yep, I like this POV.

[@iankropp9538]

👍👍

[@lindsaylittle6535]

GREAT job! I really like the viewpoint. Keep up the great work! We will be drilling our well here in boulder country in the spring. So glad we subscribed. Very interesting work and now I know what to expect. thanks much for your videos. I enjoy them all.

[@jamest.5001]

11:03 , you ever pan these gravels to see if there is any Gold or other valuable stuff from the gound in it,? If i had access to a drilling rig! Id be out prodpecting every day could , just drilling fown through bed rock a bit! See what the bed rock is. If there is quartz veims. Or okf river gravel above it finding old riverbeds a million years old can be full of gold! More likely Ruby and safire other gems , the gold is likely close to the coast but not at the coast, its in the piedmont of NC north wnd south of Charlotte and about 30 miles each side of the Charlotte ares in NC and SC possibly VA also!! It took me 45years to learn there is gold mines atound Charlotte, Winston, Duram is about far east ad ther mines go!!

[@nooneknows6060]

I like the new angles.

[@marty0715yt]

Fantastic. Great view

[@baratono]

Nice! Enjoyed the "first-person" viewpoint.

[@wdxwm300]

Real good video nice and clear Thanks

[@davevario]

Love the new mount views!

[@samuelgomola9097]

I really liked this video, the new view is amazing!

[@boblowell4809]

INSTALLING A HOLE!

[@businjay]

Glad to see you are vaping buddy. I quit smoking 2 packes a day over 20 years ago. fascinating to see this process.

[@insanewayne442]

New shot looks great. See, if you can get a magnetic mount and hang it from the top of the rig. Time lapse

[@shignig383]

Currently hauling produced water off oil wells with a windchill or -61 lol ambient is -30 come on now

[@LeePatCab]

For me it’s too close to the workings. I like to be farther away so as I can take everything in.

[@kat2641]

Question 🙋‍♂️ have you ever had the glue joint on the casing slip off??an the stick go down the hole?? An I actually like the way you recorded it give the full picture of punching a well down❤ ❤ (edit. An should the casing go down? How do you retrieve it to put it back together again? )

[@h2omechanic]

Yes, on the metal piece we sometimes put on the bottom for strength (in my other videos). It's a 7ft piece of 6" casing, it slipped out of its connection & fell. My father thought the hole was lost because it fell 87ft. I had the idea of putting on the 6" bit & going down to 87ft, went inside the fallen piece and then poured a bucket of gravel down the well, the gravel locked up the bit inside the pipe and it came back up with it & we saved the hole.

[@kat2641]

@@h2omechanic thank you it has been something that I was going to to ask for the last months. A classmate drilled wells with his dad but his dad only did 2” lol now my class mate “son” drills 12” while my classmate stuck with 6”… it is fascinating seeing what comes up a well that no human has ever laid hands on… Thank you for all the time you spend entertaining and educating us all….

[@DAVIDVICK-m9r]

PLEASE TURN YOUR CC ON

[@wallaceloper637]

What does the inspection consist of? yep just saying

[@h2omechanic]

They just come to watch the over reaming process to make sure we fully Grout the well. Some companies will dig around the well with a shovel & pour concrete to give the illusion of a well Grout. Others will pour a 4ftx4ft concrete pad & hide the fact they didn't Grout the well. Once inspectors know & see how it's done, they look to make sure the driller follows those guidelines. Typically our company is who they use to teach new inspectors how it's done. (There was a new guy on site at this job, learning about the process) so we explain to him what's being done and why. So he'll know we he goes to other drilling sites. There's a few different methods of Grouting, the permit states which must be done & how deep

[@Pippy626]

I would love to watch a day lol can I come visit. I want to move to that area.

[@beachboardfan9544]

Whats the second channel called?

[@bpaul1110]

Phil, I love your videos. I've learned a lot I didn't know about well drilling. You may have addressed this before , but as an old meck-a-neck I was wondering what the drill rig is powered by and if you're going to do some videos on servicing it and the rig.

[@cornspace]

Well oiled machine.

[@aperson9495]

I thought you usually put a piece of metal pipe at the bottom to interface with the bedrock?

[@jetegtmeier71]

Nice video, the new view will definitely give insight into unthought of angles :) Thanks for helping educate the world :) P.S. Afterthought .... IDK if you have the ability to adjust the field of view on the hat/chest cam but I think a wider view angle night be better IDK????

[@fyfo1432]

what do you use to lubrificate the thread on rods? great job.

[@user-dn4iv2ne6r]

Great seeing the process. Afraid I'd forget a step along the line. I do have some questions. Does the inspector have to watch the overboring and grouting in its entirety? How, exactly, do you know that you have hit water? I've seen a bunch of driven wells being put in and never could figure out how they knew when to stop.

[@CalebDésir]

Hello all. What do we do as study to be sure to get water at ground. Thanks.

[@seanclark7783]

What is the difference between a hammered well and a drilled well

[@alanlevine3984]

Have you heard of Water Worker pressure tank HT44B and are they reliable?

[@yannickplabonte]

Why is he putting a piece of steel on the top of the rod? Make sure no debris fall in it and plug the holes on the bit?

[@andy_plumbs]

Love the viewpoint man. What’s the camera setup?

[@mikemmikem2758]

You oughta' take that rig to the car wash.. little wash and wax showroom ready.

[@ThatGuyFromArizona]

Wow, I felt I was doing the drilling... When can I pick up my check?

[@environmentsollution]

Is the depletion of aquifers/fossil water/groundwater, that is, the naturally stored water in the Earth's crust, part of the reason why certain parts of the Earth's crust are sinking (southern Sweden) and sea levels in certain parts of the world are rising by 1 mm per year (magnetic anomalies) regardless of how the polar ice caps fluctuate, as well as the glaciers on land fluctuating over millennia?

[@larrygwinn6649]

Hi, how do you know where to drill for water. Is it a chance you'll hit water

[@stanwooddave9758]

Just curious, my water well back early 1980's was drilled with a {Howard} Hughes Drilling Bit , looked like three balls with carbide chunks on it. Just curious why you go with your style of bit's. Cheaper? Faster?

[@1010tesla]

have you ever hit another utility while drilling? seems unlikely when you are just making an 8" hole straight down but I know how luck goes sometimes.

[@MacPoop]

So what actuates the jack hammer? Is it pneumatically controlled by air pressure going through the rods, or is it on some sort of cam that makes it hit with rotation? Always wondered how the hammer works and is controlled like that

[@user-tg5wg6oe6o]

I thought the drill truck was going to be gone for it’s rebuild?

[@Garrettpadgett56]

Where you drill at?

[@kingtut5923]

Alberta Canada minus 47 below today

[@ranmarks6739]

I know that you can have horrible luck drilling and your paying overtime but wouldn't you be better off to just keep drilling maybe tank in extra water between you and your dad just drill 24 hrs straight when you get started the inspection is for the quote concrete he's not there for the whole hole 😂... just to off set the cost of shutting down and warming up and possibly of freezing? Just a thought! I always hate going back to a job and restart something that I could have easier just finished especially in freezing weather... lighting can cover darkness... or do you have County or City ordinance preventing working 24hrs?

[@brucehobbs1734]

Need to get yourself a big Yankum rope. Much better for pulling the rig out. I thought the rig was going in for maintenance?

[@SOU6900]

What's the purpose of over-reaming?

[@keithjurena9319]

The irony of water well drilling is you need water to drill a well. How do you measure well production when drilling? I know a well is logged after completing using a pump and valve, measuring level decrease

[@johnbaskett2309]

I live in Alaska. I'm amused by what you fellers consider cold weather. 30 F above is a heat wave for us.

[@fenceman53]

Not sure what over ream the well means

[@claytonWells-tr8yl]

Hydraulic haha

[@kevinhenry7273]

How much does you drill rig weigh, loaded, ready to drill? You probably answered this before. Thanks

[@h2omechanic]

56,000lbs

[@Theempiresf49]

The truck probably cost half million $ easy. Prob slightly more by couple hundred thousand

[@Keith_Mikell]

Sell that slurry of granite. figure out something cool to make with it like necklaces or something and sell it. Bigger pieces sell as pieces. Small pieces put in a small container and sell as that. People would buy it. Once you are platformed like this, people will buy it. Congrats on your organic growth. as you know ive been here since about day 1.

[@h2omechanic]

I Always notice your comments ! Thanks for the support 🙏

[@Keith_Mikell]

Hell yea much love man. Ive been through the well drama before here in western PA. Theres no drillers left in my area. The last one died. We have 3 holes poked on our property and a cistern. Now we have city water. @@h2omechanic

[@01..........]

How much ? In California?

[@petepeterson4540]

noisy but seems somewhat more realfeel. 5x5

[@franciscodiaz7263]

Hey my friend, how can I contact you, I have alot of issues with my water well.

[@MegaTapdog]

Hydraulic, love your videos, anal about spelling sorry. 😢

[@apollorobb]

*Hydraulic

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

I'm NOT a fan of the POV view. Gives me a headache watching it. Love the content though!

[@kirbygulbrandsen4507]

You guys move pretty slow. I do realize safety is no accident but pick up the pace.

[@franksmith3602]

Great job guys... Here's a couple of tips. I've had many wells drilled. Always have the water checked for, toxic, plastics. Dot. Gov, hides this. By forcing biodegradable plastics be used in trash bags. The plastic has broke down like it should. What no one saw coming was this. The micro, plastic particles, are leaking down thru bed rock... hundreds of feet down. They have been leaching in to artesian water deep deep underground. The plastziers chemicals gather on the ceiling of the water in bed rock... When you drill thru the bed rock..the water you pump up will have, biodegradable plastic in it. Note, all wells on the east coast start at the Great lakes. Thin earth crust, great lake water, gos deep, get boiled OFF boiled water is cleaned thru sand stone. Underground rivers, all start at the Great lakes.... Ohio's leaking, deep underground nukler war heads, also, are adding radiation 235, to deep wells.....INJOY..there are charts for deaths, tied to toxic deep wells, from DOD, leaking of 235, into the water table...