How to DRILL A WELL the LEGAL WAY! Solar Powered!

[@MosmMAli]

good day from queensland australia wow very info detailed awesome coverage

[@bencapps5509]

I once watched an old dude. Use his witching sticks to try to find an existing well where the well casing had been buried about 36 in underground. The well had been dug probably 60 years before and he couldn't locate it for new wells, whichching sticks are never wrong because if you take deep enough anywhere in North America, you'll find water

[@elliotolsen8412]

It's amazing people still believe is such fake pseudoscience.

[@monicarust2383]

This is so awesome!!! SOLAR, PASSIVE love it!!!

[@rexoliver7780]

The water company in my area replaced the water main pipes and the service pipes for the homes in may area.The old pipes were breaking adn leaking-clay-asbestors pipes.New pipes PVC.The water folks used the devining rods to locate the present pipes adn the servicelines-trace them to the mains.I didn't beleive the sticks would work.They let me try-Did work but I was off-but still found the pipe.Figure the rods must be matched to their user.Only drilling and pulling done was with horizontal drills-no vertical drills as you used.The drills also pulled the pipes.The old pipes left in place-cutover was kinda neat!And when they made whole large peices of pipe from several sections.A pipe welding machine welded them together-the horizontal drill pulled the pipes underground.Was fascinating to watch.I have also watched a well get drilled-Many years ago-my fathers neighbows in Rapid city,South Dakota.Was cool when the driller hit water!!!They had to drill about 600Ft through rock-diamond bit was used.Thecleint had to purchase the diamond bit.

[@B-VILL2022]

I have worked in the oil fields since I was 8 years old . I have pushed tools for many many water wells being drilled. Your description of what was going on during drilling.. well it made my head hurt. ..

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

sorry bout the headache

[@xFlavoriax]

What makes ur head hurt.? May be we shared something together..

[@armandoizaguirre7057]

Bad ass job I’m proud of hard working people like you guys

[@vasanth9624]

which country is this???

[@ericphillips2741]

I've been part of this business my hole life my grandfather started Phillips well drilling in Indiana in the 60s

[@jamesbrubaker8395]

We used to refer to them as “Dowsing “ rods, not witching rods as a lot of people didn’t want anything sounding evil in nature. The drill pipe is referred to as “Stem”. We wouldn’t stop when the rods crossed as you can actually follow the underground streams. Sometimes the rods will pull down when you find artesian.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

interesting ...we call them witching sticks

[@CRE8TEDbyGod]

I am amazed how expensive it is where I live in the Texas Hill Country. I got a quote for a well, with drilling down to 800 feet and the whole job with a pump was about $50,000! Crazy money for a well. I guess it varies a lot depending on where you live.

[@deanbarr5740]

I had a well drilled in 1997 Josh. I'm a probably 4 - 6 hours north of you in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. He struck water at about 30 feet down. The fellar said by law he had to go to atleast 75 feet. He stopped drilling at 92'. You just can't beat a good water well. I've seen the witching method used. You can also use a peach tree limb and get good results.

[@jimjones5077]

Thanks Josh. That was very educational. I especially liked your narration style with muting all of the noise from the machine and having the soothing background music.

[@willardlocks]

Enjoyed the video Josh. They were two older men in our area who witched water they are gone now. We use a geologist now and he is spot on.

[@bslaws]

$12-18 per foot, I'll take it. Just got quoted $55-80/ft for a well in Idaho. Was told by three different drillers they are booked until 2023.

[@shaniaa9287]

Wow Josh, that'll be the best water👍 I'm so glad you dug that well for your cattle and all your water needs. So good ❣

[@summerland6397]

I watched an old guy witch and drill a well just like this fellow. It worked.

[@gateway8833]

I’m the Water Manager for my town, this is how we locate Water mains.

[@Dregandaapbt]

I learned this over 20yrs ago while working for an old timer! We had to trench across his backyard and no one knew where the water lines were! Since we were adding an electrical line the old timer asked if we had solid copper wire (which we did #6 solid copper) and he found all of the pipes that had water in them across the backyard! Even the old cast iron sewer lines! I still use this method to this day! Whenever I tell people about it they don't believe it! I pull the sticks out and tell them to walk over to the toilet and like clock work the wires cross over the toilet! Jaws Drop!

[@tomfillmore9710]

great video Josh thanks for explaining the steps glad you got water take care and have a good weekend thanks

[@1973quarterback]

Oh yes this is very informative. Professional too. Appreciate what you do for the proper care of your livestock as well. Makes the cost worth the effort. Good video.

[@chrisbaker528]

I have used these sticks to locate lines buried under the ground and they are extremely accurate.

[@farmingourway8493]

Here in sw MN our well for the farm is only 40' most in the area are around 90'. its the same well when my grandpa had a dairy and made it through the drought in the late 70's, thought it was going to dry up for how shallow it was. we have a rural water main line pipe that goes around our farm but its $18,000 to hook up to plus so much per gallon. and have heard of some bad things about the rural water here, low pressure and to many pig barns hooked up to it.

[@2002dkallam]

I have a set that the same guy made for me. Set them in the ground in same spot. 100% best way to find water. Seen it work first hand.

[@jasonac]

I put a solar bore pump in almost 3 years ago now. Bought a cheap one from China, panels, pump and controller, pipes etc AU$2000. Its moved about 1,500,000L to my tanks that gravity feed to 14 troughs. you dont need to spend a fortune on the gear and you can always upgrade it later.

[@badsms]

Do you have a picture of what you bought?

[@Dirtybird37]

Awesome video ! Very informative 👏 We are restoring our 1850's farm currently as well and are in need of an AG well. Glad you did this video. Can't wait for your solar pump video.

[@Harvesttimebluegrassgospel]

This isn’t a slight in anyway of your other videos but this was the most entertained I’ve been on one of your videos. I love seeing processes that I’ve never seen before. Very interesting video. Keep it up!

[@bearbonze8907]

Glad to see that your thinking about solar, starlink and the future off your farm. 👍

[@rickster9993]

It won't be long and he will add a solar powered hydrogen production and storage system for the home. There available now but the technology needs improvements. Give it a few years and it may be a great tool.

[@geraldtuck8864]

Great job Thanks for the close up video and your passion to show what you do on your farm.

[@kaingangevander2792]

I am a water well driller in Brazil, I perform dowsing to find geological faults. In the future I want to work with drilling in the United States

[@kylegoodyear8782]

Hired onto a well drilling company here in PA, starting on the 12th. Wish me luck haha

[@orchidhouse297]

Greetings from Essex, UK. Thanks for a fascinating, educational video. I've often wondered how these well are created. Looking forward to the next stage.

[@MrBoiler09]

Hi Josh !! Love your vids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@darltennant6005]

My dad worked for a sewer cleaning company and he was good at water witching just using #9 wire! I can do it sometimes!

[@ironleatherwood1357]

I did that on my off grid property and hit water myself. Great job

[@akvc2003]

Love watching your videos always learn something new

[@DJ-uk5mm]

I use this method. You can think about water (or copper gold silver etc). And you will find what you are looking for particularly if you are ‘tuned’ in. Secondly you can determine the depth by re working the area and thinking/concentrating on a depth Then. Refine the depth. By dividing in two. Eg. Think 0 to 100 m. If you get a signal Then 0 to 50. Then if still a signal 0 to 25. Then 0 to 12.5. If you lose the signal then think 12.5 to 25 then 12.5. To 20. Etc etc. Until you pinpoint the depth Just something that’s worked for me (although I’m not a well driller I just do it for fun

[@adamhogeland8033]

As a drilling rig operator love to see your content

[@emerlamine8184]

Some jobs still still we need some practice training because doing the right things you don’t have to have some bigger degrees or some diploma thank you everyone for sharing

[@anthomypoe2543]

In 1971 in Western Kentucky my dad had a friend come and cut a forked limb from our peach tree. He walked the property and located a drill spot. He walked away from the spot until his witching rod went back down. We measured it and it was 37 feet. He said that was where we would hit water. The drillers hit water at 35 feet and produces about 15 gallons per minute still today.

[@xFlavoriax]

Local ppls in Africa also using a branch from a' tree n telling us where to start hand dug wells.

[@jrisnerny]

Great information. Next year's business for me so this is helpful

[@cherrydowns7745]

I've done this in my yard looking for water pipes and sewer pipes so I can plant trees or bushes! When the gas co. marked their lines it was right where I had water witched!

[@Carlissaf]

That’s what my husband and I do for a living. We call them drill bits and the boom as you call it is a mast. Lots of stuff to it. In Montana you have to use steel casing and costs a lot more.

[@kentlange5338]

The terminology did leave a bit to be desired.

[@randysretired2020]

Is it stainless steel? I’d think stainless steel would be better, since it doesn’t rust, but I don’t know how important that is in this application.

[@timziegler9358]

Thank you for the video. Very educational as well as enjoyable. Best wishes.

[@johnjohnson-cv7kf]

Learned how to witch this way when I worked on a golf course In Red Feather Lakes Colorado in the late 70s. Works great.

[@HisgGalore]

he said legally lol 🤣🖤

[@emerlamine8184]

Great team work thank you for sharing

[@Montanagrizzly]

Just drilled a well on my property in Western Montana. 285 feet to bedrock and it cost $65 a foot. 20 GPM. Had to steel case it with 6 inch. I wish I could get a well for 15 bucks a foot. LOL

[@victorflores9790]

Wow! Educational! Thank you!!

[@graemecrowther.7557]

Yeah, it is great thing to do and watch, my 43 metre well cost about £375 to drill, the second hand pump and rest of the stuff you need cost about £250, and it all works just fine and I am really happy with it, It’s in Thailand that explains the cost.

[@jjwhitedog]

I subbed the second that guy said he was 50 - 50. Love honesty!!

[@darrenh5665]

Awesome Josh, never seen anything like it. Thanks for sharing.

[@stevenandrews6627]

That was so interesting, I watched the whole post three times.👍👍👍👍

[@tunnelfoxx3633]

I Live on Long Island working as a WELL DRILLER now FOR OVER 10 YEARS THE PROCESS is the same NO matter where We are. Theses days there’s a lot of demand for environmental ground cleanup installing monetary wells

[@MegaRobodoc]

An wonderful and worth full great job .

[@trevorsidley7697]

Don't know why but I've done this many times and it works, and can do for many people. When I was Scout Troop Leader in the UK we took simple wire coat hangers, cut them into "L" shapes and held them using the outer cases of Ball Point pens. We had about 25 kids in the Troop and at least 20 used this way and found water. Good Luck with your search! Incidentally on the Farm where I grew up they had a Ram Pump system that supplied the whole farm back in the day - It was first installed over 150 years ago - there's not much that's really new!

[@garylewis6192]

Happy for you guys

[@firemanrj4982]

I have watched it done using Willow "y" branches....several different times...being accurate each time.....also was glad they picked the right spot....because as kids we had to pound the wells by hand!!!

[@derrickburbage1597]

Great price for drilling. Up here in Ontario Canada we are about $40 -$50 /ft

[@Lucas-vk8fz]

Yeah so I live up in northern ontario ..the little claybelt area and my well cost me $16,000..we went down through 200 ft of sand and then another 5 into the bedrock..works out $78 a ft and I get 11.5 gallons a minute..

[@centraltexasoutdoors9802]

@@Lucas-vk8fz valuable resource :)

[@bhawanishankar8683]

In India there is 10 inch holl with hard steel ceasing pipe and the cost of drilling is $10 per feet and well cost is $6700 maximum with 750 feet ceasing and the technology of drilling machine is much better than wholl world

[@bcgrittner8076]

Man, your water is deep. Years ago we carried some divining rods in our surveying truck. I wasn’t very good with them, but our city inspector (old guy) found water, sewer, and gas lines every time. We always finished up with the locator service to cover ourselves legally. That was quite fascinating.

[@georgedavidson7986]

I did the very same thing working with Toronto water Canada

[@kentlange5338]

I've seen this too. Individuals would walk around with bent wires and swear of the location of underground utilities or trenches. Around 20% sucsess rate. Pretty sure I could guess n get that good of a rate.

[@georgedavidson7986]

@@kentlange5338 I have done it not you

[@kentlange5338]

@@georgedavidson7986 and that would prove conclusively what again? I've "done it" as well. And sometimes, although seemingly rare in my experience, I have seen it work. But, I'm here to tell you, I've soundly disproved dousers, water witches, whatever, when they've said "Oh yes, water, right here, a strong vein, about xyz deep, such and such gallons per minute, traveling north by northwest". Bullshit. I've disproven this too many times to put my faith, let alone my hard earned cash in some charlatan's pocket. If you have good "luck" with it, you do you. But don't try n baffle people with the bullshit that it's a hard and fast rule/fact of science.

[@georgedavidson7986]

@@kentlange5338 I do not do water. Too deep

[@bengrant8890]

The vibrating bit, as you call it, is a down-hole-hammer. It has a piston that beats up and down and you rotate the hammer to grind. The air, water, and foam exhaust the cuttings to the surface. I do rock well drilling up in Nor-Cal. We also do undereaming with max bit system on 6” steel.

[@shaniaa9287]

Love your videos Josh. Appreciate all the time and effort you put into all your informative videos for us 👍❣️

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Thanks so much

[@joebrownawell8597]

Truth brother 👍 we used the exact technique in Pennsylvania on our property to find water for our well

[@Fatamus]

I've witched lots of wells but I knew a gal that could witch a well and tell you how much water was at what depth. She would find the water in the area where you need water. Then she would make a grid setup like an eight point compus in the area 20-25' from where water was found. She would take eight readings and then do a little calculation. She was on the mark most of the time. She told me how but it's been 100 years er so.. FYI. copper rods will find any pipe (even wood n plastic), lines (gas, water, ele. ect.) and underground water. A wood witching rod, I find, works best for underground water if fresh cut; local willow or large shrub or young sapling works best ... one that drinks lots of water.

[@gary36535]

I ben using witching sticks for years.

[@waltmooredanwilson8754]

Fascinating process. I've never seen this done before. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.

[@danielalamo2075]

It's really cool watching first hand how it's done.

[@SWITCH7425]

Watching from Ndola Zambia 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

[@jaywhoisit4863]

My father in law could witch for gold (on the surface). We would hide a gold ring in the garden and he would use a green willow sapling and just walk in a grid pattern until the willow dipped. He found it every time!

[@russellheckert9616]

My dad did that when I was a kid in the 70s n 80s

[@carguy55]

My dad has a single brass rod and he can find how manny gpm of water the well might have and how manny foot deep the water is. He is ben using these method and never let him down. 100%acuracy

[@jimmysmith9957]

The well I had drilled last year went to 640 ft and only produced 1 gallon per minute. Decided to stop at than depth and not spend any more on drilling. Planning on having it fracked soon to try and increase production. You certainly do watch the money meter run for every foot of drill pipe going in the ground while your waiting to hit water.

[@budlite8207]

Watched two guys find the same spot for a well in North central Oregon for a dairy. It was there just 1200 ft down. 600GPM.

[@Ripper_RS]

JEEZE

[@davidvelen9835]

Good stuff Josh! Thanks for explaining the entire process and looking forward to the solar part coming up next .

[@johnnyholland8765]

I watched my neighbor drill a 16 inch gravel pack irrigation well. The rig they used makes these guys look small. It was almost like drilling for oil. Well drilling has always been a mystery to me. There is a science to everything...

[@dominicchavez7183]

Lol oil rigs are much bigger

[@Carlosity223]

Yeah and if the rigs were bigger, they go THOUSANDS of feet not hundreds so that’s an expensive well

[@ARCHERDAVE1]

Need to take you boys snipe hunting.

[@titogaray5224]

That was a great job, well done.

[@ddelano7408]

My grandfather showed me how to use a Willow tree branch, that was a Y shape, to find water. You held onto the two branches and the stem would dip down when it found water. It would agree with the dowsing rods, that you call witching sticks. Great video as always!

[@ddelano7408]

@Keyzer Soze That's your opinion. Try it yourself before condemning it.

[@yourchava]

you can find pipe or wire underground with those also

[@javier0304]

Hahaha that gentleman said "Legally" with a smile.

[@Fatamus]

ALSO Pump Saver works for low flow wells. It can be bought integrated into the pump starter or bought separate and added to an existing pump starter. It senses the drop in Amps and breaks the circuit for a programed amount of time .. 2 ~ 120 minutes to allow the well to recover so you don't burn out the pump. ..

[@cupwalker24.7]

I am a Driller 💪 ...sometimes I wished I strictly only Drilled water wells .... One type of drilling . Same truck same tooling and The drillers take good care of there trucks and tooling . Where I work we drill all kinds of wells all over the states ...rock coring well abandonment , big mud , air rotary, augers all kinds and different types of wells, monitoring wells , pumping wells, water wells .... . It has made me very universal with lots of skills but your body takes a beating and you are never home and you are behind a different rig using different tooling every other week . 🤠🤤

[@kalaipaa]

Super interesting!!! Thanks Josh!!!

[@sandybowden2388]

Cool to watch the process!

[@theoneandonlyowl3764]

I've used dowsing rods myself. The material they're made of isn't important, just the intent of what you're looking for. I used to use them to find lost buried power lines, but have used them for sewer lines too. No one in my country bores a well without dowsing first.

[@shaneheath6500]

I'm from florida 32 and have been drilling since I was 18, 2 weeks out of high school. Ive drilled for gas station systems, water mangment districts, tested for sink holes and set wells with that same style rig along with many other rigs. We like to use mud rotary while setting wells which is a much different set up and for me has much more pros than cons and is more effective. Not saying one is better than the other because in most cases it's about preference. But as far as setting the well casing , I didnt see any type of grout used to secure the casing. Usually PVC casing is set anywhere from 5 to 25ft into SOLID rock or limestone and then grouted on the outside to keep it stationary, block off any sand from falling past the end of the casing and/or to keep the casing straight as often times the hole drilled is wider than the casing being set. Once the grout is dried, usually 24 to 48 hrs, you can continue to drill to your desired depth for quality water. I'm just interested in how they secured their PVC casing? Did they use grout? Or was there another method used that may work better or be less expensive than grout?

[@briankillya]

Same thing was going through my head as well as what keeps surface water from running down outsides of casing?

[@chasehoneycutt4045]

I know this is an old reply, I’m a water well driller in Texas, we use air most of the time, occasionally mud drill on loose formations. But we use pvc 4 inch casing. Once we run the casing in the hole, we use a gravel/sand mix that we pour down the hole that packs around the casing, it filters the water before entering the screens, also holds the casing center. To finish the well we hole plug and cement 10 ft down from surface, and have a steel 8in diameter sleeve a few ft long that goes into the ground about a 1.5 and comes up out of the ground also about a ft and a half that is also cemented around the casing to protect the casing and seal it.

[@keithneal3253]

Interesting video. I’m I the oil biz but never seen a water well drilled before.

[@williammackey7243]

I'm happy for him. I paid $90,000 for 1,000' well.

[@gary98837]

We witched all of our bid irrigation wells,used willow sticks would twist down so hard it would tear the bark off.

[@44warlord41]

Great video sir. Well done

[@mikewigim4529]

In 1961 my dad located the underground septic line using whitching sticks. When he dug into the ground, he was right on the spot. He replaced a broken section the same day.

[@ndiagandiaye8459]

Great video. I was looking for the material to drill wells with

[@corywillbanks6348]

Wow amazing how everything is different is different areas. Our current well is 300’ and we get 5 gallons per hour (yes per hour) just enough to eek out a living. I was quoted $33k to drill to 600 feet.

[@michaelhoover4688]

Hey I know Patrick Smith I was down inspected one of his well drilling rigs I am from Pennsylvania.

[@mikeholland721]

I found my buried electrical line with two clothes hangers bent like witching thingys. Works well.

[@katelutterodt2479]

GOOD SHOW, GOOD INFO

[@chrislowery1348]

Finding water this way is sometimes called dowsing. I found that I can do it and after practice I found I can find underground water pipes, springs, gas lines, electric lines etc. It is very useful and I've done it hundreds of times. I mark the line with flags so I can photograph where the line of the trench is. I use copper rods in an L shape, the horizontal about 18" long, the handle about 6" long, not a U shape and put the hand ends in copper pipe which just fits the wire. That way the rods can rotate easily without me having any effect on them. I did not use them to put the well on my property, that was before I learned how to do it. But using the rods I found I could have drilled about 20 ft away and found more water at a shallower depth. My well is 150 ft deep and produces 25 gpm of sweet water. Deride it if you will, but at least try it when nobody is watching!

[@kentlange5338]

And deride I shall. Poppycock. I've drilled hundreds of wells, and proved to the dismay of many a water witch, that they were dead wrong.

[@oscarb9139]

I am always puzzled that these fancy rods that can find gold, copper, silver, water….. Strongly recommend the Amazing Randy. He loved this too!

[@chelemichele1524]

😆legally..hmmm Enjoyed this I find it interesting.. Have a good day 🌷🌷🌷

[@Brian.N]

My great uncle used to use peach saplings to find water,it works the same as copper rods. Everywhere he witched they hit water.

[@FletcherHillier]

In my area you find water pretty much wherever you dig, we have a lot of clay though. I could look like a genius with a couple of sticks :P

[@troycrabbe4349]

I put in test wells.for.landshark drilling and we, did spooning.as well

[@rabaswithfun5555]

Hope we have that things here in in the Philippines..we use only manual drilling to hard if we make in a stoney area