I dug a 40 foot well in my backyard

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[@BadHomeowner]

Wow 250,000 views! Comment and let me know what project I should do next

[@elrolo3711]

Hope you are in a warm climate where it never freezes, otherwise everything will burst. In cold climates, we build insulated pump-houses with a heat source for winters.

[@BadHomeowner]

Things do get cold here, but since I only use for irrigation I just drain everything in November so it doesn't freeze

[@devon9075]

Wow it would be great to live outside of alluvium or glacial till and be able to go more than 1' without hitting cobbles and boulders. This was a cool project tho. Well MacGuyverd

[@user-do1fq8oy9c]

Sadly, many municipalities have rules against his. They will tell you that its for health safety. But really its for you to pay them for water.

[@BadHomeowner]

Most cities operate their water utility at a loss, not a profit, so they usually aren't making money off water. The rules are mainly there to make sure people don't pollute the groundwater, which is a resource shared by many people.

[@rsinghglobal]

City/County rules do not allow personal well digging. You have to pay about $10,000 as fee to county to be able to dig a well, plus proper engineering docs. This guy just shot himself in his foot by creating this video. So sad.

[@user-do1fq8oy9c]

@rsinghglobal I live in Creek County Oklahoma. We are about as free here as can be in this country. This would be a problem here. This is why wells have to be registered. Don't get me wrong. I love the video. My uncle punched a 29 footer in Laport County Indiana. He was old school AF! He passed away last October. The world truly lost something when he died.

[@BadHomeowner]

@@rsinghglobal My county requires only a small permit fee ($100 I think?) with a map of the proposed site, which I submitted and paid. Every county is different.

[@thethinbluelinegang]

@@BadHomeownerDo you mind sharing the state at least? Cool to hear someplace sane.

[@Nonyabusiness911]

When I did mine I wanted 45 ft. That’s what the city does for all their sprinkler systems. Once I got to 27’ everything I sent down just disappeared. I tried bentonite but it didn’t help. I did gravel around the head and it’s been pumping beautiful since 2013. I guess I did it right. It runs 3-4 hours a week and even after a drought that lasted over a month never have I been short of water. If I had to do it again I would use galvanized pipe and just use a jack hammer with a home built fitting. That’s actually how the guys that do it for a living here do it. Except they have a 100lb sled that slams it down. My first pump was a cheap Lowe’s pump. It lasted 10 years. I now have a Gould which pulls way more more. I only use it for watering not my house water.

[@kevinward6117]

What an awesome video. I'll be doing this on our ten acre partial me and my wife recently purchased.

[@thienthan324]

I bought a house that has a well and I didn’t even know it. It’s in a suburb. One day my uncle told me it’s a well so I hired a guy to pull it all out and change out everything. My other neighbor told me the previous owner digged it himself about 35 yrs ago. The well is only 18 ft deep so I just use to water plants.

[@ahumanbeing6875]

Get it tested to be safe. If it has bad chemicals, you don’t want that in your plant, if edible! Testing is cheap!

[@davidbryant3532]

He digged it? Wow....low education

[@thienthan324]

@@ahumanbeing6875 I bought a test kit on Amazon, the result is good. Hopefully that test kit is enough.

[@thienthan324]

@@davidbryant3532 well, I don’t know the exact detail of how the guy did it. But it’s a small hole down about 5-6” diameter. I figured he used some hand tools to do dig it. Or even those pounding method.

[@me-sd1sq]

Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.

[@onamissionfortruth6326]

Awesome job young man. Love this & love that no one has to know about it but you.

[@Mynameisdiy]

And us

[@IntoTheWoodsWithJessicaandCurt]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@guisekula769]

Great watching video... would be excellent for us in the villages all over Papua new Guinea. Thank you sir.

[@isaacwarne7758]

Nice work!

[@adamsoutdoors]

I like it!! May have to give it a try.

[@dianew1966]

Great job!!

[@parsons585]

Good back up well to operate commodes and get a purifier to be able to use water for emergency baths and cooking if main deep well goes out!

[@CCNB04]

Great video I love this!

[@getitup100]

Wow very well done my friend, impressive.

[@allkindsofoutdooractivities]

Nice project

[@sm-gv2kk]

Thank you!

[@joesjhskates]

Good job man

[@billyrowe0064]

This was a good video! I've subscribed!

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

That was most cool. tHanks for the video. (I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)

[@andrewrivera4029]

Nice, I’ve got a ranch in a valley and there is tons of water just under the ground, will be doing this in the spring.

[@BadHomeowner]

Go get it!

[@Motoicon]

Very resourceful- Lucky you didn't hit a large rock on the way down. Drillers will go on standby with their special core bit.

[@joycedudzinski9415]

Should have put it over that roof of that building next to you and that way it would support that long length while feeding.

[@fredkelly4365]

Great work. Really enjoyed your video

[@BadHomeowner]

Thanks!

[@greenchilebear1946]

great video man, my type of KZbin

[@Petesworkshop2225]

Dude awesome!

[@aliciaezell6166]

🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge

[@JohnThomas-ou2rn]

Good job!

[@KeithWitts-ck4bn]

If you use some plywood with some old inner tube around the pipe will help you alot ,,I did this 50 years ago junky pump & old pipe ,,all that was available!!

[@benschlack5814]

Nice

[@akbychoice]

Did something similar but used a threaded adapter on the bottom of the 2” pvc and threaded a piece of steel pipe into it with the cutting teeth.

[@BadHomeowner]

I was worried about putting something threaded on the bottom twisting off as I dig. Was that an issue for you at all?

[@akbychoice]

@@BadHomeowner I drilled a hole in the pipe and used a self tapping screw to secure it to the pvc after threading it on.

[@BadHomeowner]

@@akbychoice ah good idea

[@007bird]

for that style pump would be best if you put a foot valve on the bottom of the 1 1/4 in pipe. pump will last longer and never lose its prime.

[@BadHomeowner]

I'm using a check valve instead. There's a well point at the bottom of the 1-1/4 pipe so you can't put a foot valve there.

[@wachinpntdry.]

@@BadHomeowner yes you can... virtually all point wells have a foot valve... that check valve you installed will not last long unless you've got some very clean water that's close to neutral pH and low TD solids... i have the same check valve and they usually seal up well for maybe a year or two... your pump likely has a bulit-in check valve as well, but that and the other one can't be relied on for very long to be completely tight and prevent loss of prime..... foot valves are reliable because the weight of all the water above them pushes them closed, instead of just the spring in a check valve

[@jaken1319]

Damnnn thats some rust free well water

[@BadHomeowner]

well it looks good when it comes out fast, but I'm definitely getting some iron buildup inside the pipes as time passes.

[@thetechman3177]

lol one of them cone drill bits 😂

[@George-gb2zn]

We live in Florida here you dig a hole 6 ft and sure will find water

[@dononebullen]

We have shale here id need to suck the stones out maybe even drill though bigger lumps

[@jeremytodd4906]

Me too, ground is like concrete.

[@paulshamblin6260]

Sweet

[@oldnotweak]

every 4 - 8 inches you would hit a rock the size of your head or chest at my house... XD

[@sallyfitzpatrick9750]

Great video job well done the horse next to well good idea what is the electrical voltage on your pump?

[@BadHomeowner]

This pump works on either 110/220 volts.

[@curtiscottrell6499]

What I see running back down the hole you're drilling could've been taken care of with a 4" to 2 " reducer and you wouldn't need to cement it...just from what I'm seeing...but great job...anytime I see anyone trying to figure out on there own is inspiring

[@BadHomeowner]

Figuring it out on my own is the only way I know how to do anything. For better and for worse...

[@paulsawczyc5019]

@@BadHomeowner Yes, and the last thing you want is some "help" .

[@sm-gv2kk]

how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!

[@BadHomeowner]

They're available on Amazon, I used these: amzn.to/3UtVPxB

[@kchaney56]

We should all be free to do this.

[@shawnkiesel5349]

Completely agree

[@Maybe-So]

You've got dirt in the water - pushed up out of the - 2in pipe, running *right back inside* the 4in pipe. Some of it is washed away, but I'll bet some goes all the way down to the bottom of the 4in pipe. Seems like if you diverted that dirty water, it would be better, easier, to push the 2in pipe down. Thanks for the ideas, showing us your work. This is definitely a cool idea!

[@greenchilebear1946]

where is your well

[@JoeWayne84]

I would recommend not doing that so close to your house … kinda creating a pretty shallow cavity underground right next to your foundation.. besides that this is how you put in a shallow well. If you lived I. Florida or South Georgia this is a good way to do it haven’t ever done it anywhere else personally but I’m sure this is a very geographically dependent method haha…

[@BadHomeowner]

It's next to my shed, but yea id probably do it 10 ft away next time.

[@mike97525]

I enjoyed watching this video about drilling a backyard well, but I’m not sure if it would work in my yard. We have a lot of rocks in our backyard soil, and I think that might make it difficult to drill a well. It would be great to have the freedom to drill my own well, but I don’t think it’s practical for us.

[@BadHomeowner]

Depending on how big the rocks are, you could try driving a well with a steel well point. That can help move some of the rocks out of the way if they are smaller as you drive, but you probably cannot drive down 40 feet with that method. Points get very hard to drive past ~20ft or so.

[@bigk4755]

Just a thought here. If you know of a new home, or a pop top house, or a major addition happening near you, try to talk with the GC at that project site, and ask him about what his engineer’s report said about the soil in this area. Because engineers have to do a soil analysis to draft a report regarding the load bearing capabilities for what soils the foundation will be setting on, they will generally commission a drill rig to do a core sample which gets analyzed for bearing potential, you can gain valuable insight to the first 11-15’ of soil below grade in your area. If you get real lucky and the job is a 5 story or taller commercial building, you might get to learn about the soils going down 20-30’ or more; quite often down to bedrock. If this were me trying to question a GC about what his engineer’s report said, I would bribe him with a cold 6-pack or 12-pack of premium beer for this knowledge (ask the GC what is his favorite beer). That report would be telling you a lot more than you know now. Play your cards right, and he will probably drink a couple of cans of that bribe with you.

[@peopleareawesome8141]

you struggled so hard shoving that final pvc in the hole when all you had to do was take a step up the ladder.

[@sallyfitzpatrick9750]

The horse head water source tell me how and when installed it to well casing

[@oldschoolautoupholstery]

Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.

[@BadHomeowner]

I will work on getting that out

[@oldschoolautoupholstery]

Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!

[@BadHomeowner]

Yes you could. I wanted a 4 inch casing to make the initial digging somewhat easier, and in order to install a well cap (which comes in 4 and 6 inch sizes) to keep out debris and stabilize the 1-1/4 in pipe. And some areas may require a casing of a certain diameter if you want it to be "legit". But no it's not technically required.

[@Winkleo.x]

There's a 33-foot limit to using suction to draw water upwards, so you're at the max without going submersible. (Suction above 33' will cold-boil the water)

[@BadHomeowner]

Yes, but that's measured from the water head, not the depth of the pipe. Pipe can be 1000ft long and you can still pump it with a shallow pump, as long as the top of the water table is

[@Winkleo.x]

​@BadHomeowner Yeah, you're right. You did mention the water table was 10 or 15 feet. That's awesome, I'm jealous! I'm looking for a way to do this here, but water is at 100 feet with mostly clay to drill through. Great job on your project.

[@trevor5379]

It's 25 ft not 33. Professional well guy here. He's right, it measures from the top of the water. We jet down a 24' piece of 2" pipe then slide a 20' piece of 1.25" pvc with a 4' pvc screen then pull the 2" back out. Obviously we have a big pump truck with gas powered pumps, but the concept is the same Edit: i just hit read more on badhomeowner's comment. Also, i would recommend spending more money and getting a better pump. Those box store pumps will move significantly less water than a Star, or especially F&W

[@wachinpntdry.]

if I could get 4" pipe to move through the soil that easily, I'd do entire depth with it and put in a regular submersible well pump connected to actual well pipe.... a little more upfront cost, but well worth it and cheaper in the long run...much more efficient to push the water up from the bottom, than to suck it up with a jet pump smaller hp submersible pumps more water, lasts way longer, uses less power, provides steadier flow a reg submersible well pump lasts longer than 3 jet pumps, ...and you have a 1 piece continuous, virtually indestructible well pipe from the pump to your pressure tank... instead of the 10-20 different fittings, couplings, adapters, valves etc between the bottom of well and where you finally enter the pressure tank... aka, no weak spots, no failure points from corrosion, or in the case of an outdoor setup like here, all the pvc eventually disintegrating from exposure to the sun.. you need to paint all that exposed pvc, even if it's mostly in shade year round, the sunlight will make it brittle and fragile and eat away at it

[@BadHomeowner]

Keep in mind that the cross section of 4" pipe is 4x the size of 2 in pipe. So it would take 4x as long to remove all the sand/clay that you're drilling through.

[@environmentaldataexchange3906]

Use clear primer.

[@mikeg7843]

Where in the coast of Va. I live on the middle peninsula and was thinking about doing this myself. Used to have a portable well drilling machine myself but it vanished! I think mines at 28 foot and the sulfur muddy smell is awful. Was thinking about going deeper. Whatcha think?!

[@BadHomeowner]

I'm southside. So, on the middle peninsula you've got tons of accessible groundwater, which is why they built the West Point paper mill up there. Paper mills are notoriously prolific consumers -- and polluters -- of groundwater. You can probably dig using the same method I used in this video, but you'll want to test the water thoroughly to see what's in it.

[@justthinkalittle8913]

dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.

[@BadHomeowner]

I went through quite a lot of hard clay, but no rock luckily.

[@BadHomeowner]

@@carmichaelmoritz8662 where? there's no city water involved here.

[@justincabral1150]

Do you live in Texas?

[@integr8er66]

Well to get water where I am you have to go 400 ft and 390 of that is solid rock

[@BadHomeowner]

Luckily I do not have to go that far!

[@ISmellLikeBeefandCheese]

Same, I live at 5k ft in the Rockies and just spent 40k to get my well done. 400ft deep @20 gallons a minute

[@chuckm1320]

$40k is a bargain! I’m at 5800’ in Utah. The greed is rampant. I’m being quoted $60k for 300’ (local water level is about 220’)

[@chuckm1320]

Who installed it? Give them a plug for reasonable prices….

[@ISmellLikeBeefandCheese]

@@chuckm1320 western water wells out of Helena

[@jakobechildrey1220]

Cone drill bit = step bit

[@borderm3]

How does this work in mountainous regions with clay and stone?

[@chriscarter1177]

Cone?? You mean step bits? Either way you got some pretty good ideas

[@-eg2no]

We call them unibits

[@jdmac4049]

Is it still working well? No pun intended. Also, would it be good to run a 4" pvc sleeve all the way down and have holes in it to keep out large debri and dirt?

[@BadHomeowner]

Yea it's been working for over a year now. Technically you could run 4" much deeper than I did, but it takes a lot more time than digging with the 2" pipe because you have to remove ~4x as much material. I think you'd want an actually drilling rig for that.

[@ARfourbanger2000]

Would you be able to calculate the gallons of water were used to dig the well vs how many gallons you extracted? Curious how long it takes before you brake even on the water consumption

[@BadHomeowner]

I only used about 200 gallons to dig the well. I'm pumping about that much in a week, so payoff is pretty quick.

[@mikelondakos9723]

I'd like to see you add a filter to this to make it potable.

[@BadHomeowner]

Yea I still need to do a water test to see if a filter can even make it potable. Maybe a future video

[@adamnerowski7101]

next time use 1 1/4 inch pex hose

[@DanTheManIOM]

hmm, I have a quest to find undisturbed soil so I can sink a pier and build a 4 car garage with 2 garage lifts in them. This working on cardboard or a creeper on bumper concrete in the driveway sucks, esp after you had a lift at the old house.. I also know there is a 2-4 foot band of sandstoneburied under the top soil. And we know, Half a mile from my house, there is still that band of sandstone - I saw a foundation being built and saw that same band of sandstone. Finally, about 40 yards from where I want to build, an excavator guy found that band of sandstone, so we know it's there. Joe dug a trench and to catch any runoff. It was filled in later, and just don't remember the details. I'll sleep on it, but why not do what you did here and sink 4 inch or 6 inch pipe as the "sleeve" and fill it concrete as my pier ?

[@seanmarron8423]

I’m assuming by the layout you have city water. Looks like its time for you to get a backflow test every year.

[@jimgraham290]

Even if the two systems are not connected? Why yearly backflow test??

[@seanmarron8423]

@@jimgraham290 because the systems could be interconnected at some point by someone who doesnt understand what they are doing, the public works side must be protected from backflow. Backflow is a yearly test in most states and countries that test them.

[@congoparrot]

in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.

[@YHERVIC]

How would they find it?

[@SnickasBah]

I'm in Ohio next to a creek I don't think I'd make it 5 feet - was enjoyable to watch though.

[@BadHomeowner]

Maybe 5 feet is all you need!

[@trippymalc]

I nearly fell down a well, because i could not see that well.

[@PittsburghWelder]

I would be so paranoid about having it so close to my foundation, 🤷🏻 but like dude said above, how the hell didn’t you hit bedrock 😂 over here in lower Pa by West Virginia it’s like all rock. Out my way if your a home owner and don’t own a mini or a bobcat you would be considered under prepared haha. Nice job dude lol funny video. And that blue pump you have lasted me about 2 years befor the seal went. Just a little fyi, I had that same exact one. I get my water from a natural aquifer. Oh yea. And I’ll sub buddy 😇

[@BadHomeowner]

Well it's by my shed foundation, not the house. And the groundwater recharges quickly. So it will be ok. I don't think I'm going to create a sinkhole --but if I do, I'll definitely put that on KZbin lol. I'm closer to the coast, so I think rock is way down there, like hundreds of feet.

[@PittsburghWelder]

@@BadHomeowner sinkhole video 😂 😂

[@brentfoster9138]

Hope you’re putting in a septic too, otherwise you’re freeloading off the municipality’s costly treatment plant and your neighbour’s property taxes with every flush. Water bills help cover the expense of water out too, not just water in.

[@BadHomeowner]

I'm only using this for irrigation. All the water soaks into the ground, ending up back in my well!

[@Chuckles17]

So different to where I live. Here, there's barely 6 inches of topsoil, and then you hit bedrock. There's no such thing as digging anything much by hand.

[@guypierson9598]

How did you know where your water table was at? How did you know if you hit water?

[@BadHomeowner]

I didn't know exactly where it was, but I'm at 10ft elevation above sea level so I figured it would be around that deep. My water table starts at around 8-9ft. You'll know you hit water because you can hear it splash when you lower the next pipe in.

[@alecaaa1]

Sink hole?

[@ironhead320]

How did you know there was a well there

[@BadHomeowner]

There's water everywhere!

[@andreamarasca2117]

Never build a well to close to the house... the water erosion can damage your foundation.

[@makethingshappen8427]

How you secure the jet nozzle at the end of the pvc? When you add another 10 ft piece do you simply pull out the nozzle and feed it back again? What keeps the nozzle at the bottom and not float/kickbacking back out?

[@BadHomeowner]

This specific type of nozzle has jets that shoot backward as well. You can see it in the photos here: amzn.to/4c8ndsG Yea for each new 10ft section, I just pull the hose out, attach the new pipe, and drop the hose back down again.

[@makethingshappen8427]

@@BadHomeowner much appreciate the quick reply and clarification. Im assuming you didnt hit any rock and if you did you would start a new hole?

[@BadHomeowner]

@@makethingshappen8427 I didn't hit any. And it depends on how big the rock is, I guess, as to whether you need to start a new whole or try to wriggle your way around it.

[@makethingshappen8427]

@@BadHomeowner thanks ill give it a go

[@jon4973]

How does one find out where the water table is

[@BadHomeowner]

Some counties publish data on permitted wells in the area and where they hit water. If not, you gotta dig and find it yourself!

[@roswellbeau3894]

I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?

[@murraygrigg]

Depends on the water. Amazon has water test kits to find tds and specific ions. Water treatment for solids is easy but high tds requires more work to make it potable. Water for outside use is ok below 1,000 tds but water for house drinking is likely 200 ppm or less. Iron leaves staining and needs to be removed if it is high. There is quite a bit involved depending on your situation.

[@BadHomeowner]

Yea I may get it tested here soon, just for kicks. I doubt it's drinkable, and I'm not sure if it can be filtered enough to be drinkable. But I'll figure that out at some point!

[@bigk4755]

Because digging private wells, even on your own lot, is highly regulated and generally restricted, and because many municipalities own all mineral and water rights under your property (read your title/deed), having your water tested raises the possibility of getting busted for a private well. You can probably get away with having one or two samples of water tested for potability, but regular repeated testing will lead to questions being asked about where these samples are coming from and why you are having your water tested. Property owners who do have private wells and are grandfathered in from before municipal water supplies are required to have their wells tested annually or semi-annually. And to be truthful, anymore I would be real reluctant to not get water from a private well that I/my family was drinking not tested.

[@user-rf4bh1jg5x]

i did not see setting up the shut off

[@nealnelson9309]

Did you use a blader tank?

[@TravisWebbUSA]

Yes, it's a 7 gallon pressure tank

[@jonl5889]

how is that pump working at 40 feet? i didn’t see an injector go down the pipe. Is water table less than 25 ft down? Shallow well pumps typically don’t work past 25 and jet pumps require an injector (i think).

[@BadHomeowner]

Good question. It works because the TOP of the water table is only about 15 feet below the surface in my case. As long as the top of the water table is

[@BadHomeowner]

The main reason shallow pumps can't work at, say, 200ft is because typically those depths reach into an aquifer which isn't "connected" to the water table, e.g. often there's a layer of rock in between. And so the water table at ~15ft doesn't "count" in that case. I'm sure someone else can give a better technical explanation, but that's basically how/why it works.

[@sheppardfun5360]

Why did you assemble the entire 40’ well point section prior? Couldn’t you have assembled it as you were lowering it? I understand you don’t want to lose it, but it seems really hard to feed the 40’ into the hole

[@BadHomeowner]

For one person doing it yourself, you'd be holding a many feet of pipe with one hand while somehow cementing the next pipe on top all while it dangles over the abyss -- no thanks. You really need a 2nd person if you want to assemble it piece by piece as you lower into the casing. 40 ft of pipe is heavy, and because the couplings are on the interior of the pipe, there's basically nothing to grab onto. Pre-assembling it and cramming it in there in one fell swoop was irritating, but very do-able by one person.

[@sheppardfun5360]

@@BadHomeowner That makes sense. Didn’t think about holding the many feet of assembled well point line as a solo DIYer.

[@CloudfeatherRusticWorks]

Where are you located? Approximately? Planning a shallow well to keep a pond topped off once it's dug.

[@BadHomeowner]

I'm on the east coast of Virginia That's one of the things this well is doing. I have a float valve in my pond that automatically fills it up, hooked to my well pump.

[@CloudfeatherRusticWorks]

@@BadHomeowner That's interesting. My pond, if it comes to fruition, will be fairly close to an above ground pool that has power run out to it. The plan is to upgrade the power then the well pump and aerator can be powered from there. We'll see how it goes...Lol Any info or links on the float valve? Thanks. :)

[@bobniles1928]

In some states and/localities, it is illegal to drill such a well. Or there is a depth limit, 18 feet is typical.

[@BadHomeowner]

Right, I'd recommend looking up your local rules before doing this kind of project.

[@Pabkojdim]

Would it be possible to cycle or reuse the old water

[@bigk4755]

The water coming out of the drill pipe/casing will be full of abrasive soils material. This will eat your pressure washer’s pump alive. And no, it is not practical or feasible to filter this waste water for reuse. So the quick answer is NO.

[@ChevyRob313]

Watching him almost break a window with pvc and struggle with 40’ pipe yup he’s from California 😂

[@BadHomeowner]

I am an east coaster. I have no use for California

[@swamproadbaskets]

Are you using a jetting hose with the pressure washer or just the standard wand end? Thanks

[@BadHomeowner]

Using a regular pressure washer hose with a jetting nozzle on the end

[@swamproadbaskets]

Thanks I was confused, it looked like the ryobi pressure nozzle on a wand.

[@Floutlaw87]

How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?

[@BadHomeowner]

I dug a hole and stuck it in there! It's connected to the well pump.

[@Floutlaw87]

@@BadHomeowner ahh I see

[@dougdearinger5837]

If that is a one pipe pump,

[@Wheeping-Angel]

Right beside your old house.

[@BadHomeowner]

It's right beside my shed. But yea, shed is same age as the house :)

[@larryjanson4011]

come to my place and try to dig a well.

[@Goodellsam]

Did you have water tests done to see if it was drinkable?

[@BadHomeowner]

Yes I just did that recently! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5_aZYeHjrusfLc

[@user-tp3ji7md9u]

Hey How much water you think you used to drill well??

[@user-tp3ji7md9u]

With pressure water?

[@BadHomeowner]

I estimate about 200 gallons.

[@franklotion8]

Whats with the parachute yer wearing?

[@BadHomeowner]

It's a camelbak. It was hot outside and wanted to carry around some water

[@vinylexperience77]

You are going to have problems putting the check valve where you did. You should have used a foot valve.

[@BadHomeowner]

There's no difference, and I've had no problems since I installed it a year ago. If/when I have to replace it, I'd rather have it at the top than at the bottom.

[@TheosLogos]

Its sad there’s probably more wells in africa than in cities and communities in the USA.

[@BadHomeowner]

That's the reason one of my favorite channels on KZbin is www.youtube.com/@h2omechanic

[@olderolderman4603]

Where in California

[@BadHomeowner]

This is in Virginia

[@johnlashbaugh6194]

Where did you find the 50’ hose and jetting nozzle for the pressure washer?

[@BadHomeowner]

Hey, I just got it off Amazon. 50ft hose and nozzles: amzn.to/4eazjms

[@raymathews366]

AMAzon called the snake

[@wardchristman1723]

I need to see your permit. You can’t drill a well without the governments permission…😂