Let's hand drive a well

[@tomn5880]

I'm on a Ogala sand plane. The Ogala aquafer is 8 feet below my surface grass. I used a post hole auger to bore down to 10 feet. At that point I couldn't bring any sand up. My well pipe is 14 feet plus the 5 foot sand point. Well is connected to a 220 v 2 hp irrigation pump and pumps about 45 gallons a minute through the 1.5 inch outlet. That is connected to 1 inch zone valves and pumps one zone at 45 lbs.

[@actontreadway1168]

Spinal Tap approves.

[@danielwalcher779]

Once you have the WellPoint driven, drop some dry ice down the pipe. This will expand the cavern for more water and purge the well.

[@frankjennings4022]

Let's drive a well into this hard Rock mountain I live on. I'll watch.

[@brownsrvlifecampground9322]

You made a cool video

[@blipco5]

I had a friend sink the same type of well. He took his extension ladder apart and made an A frame. Then he hung a pulley and hooked it up to his slide hammer. Bingo bango, no problemo. Well drilled in no time-o.

[@gadsdenconsulting7126]

Lma-O!!!

[@wolfmantroy6601]

I made a cap that I can hook my air compressor to. I let the tank build up to 130 pounds and then open the ball valve. That drops the entire 40 gallon tank of 130# air at once down the well. Blows the screen out .

[@BUBS_HD]

Get an adjustable post hole twist auger and add sections of 3/4" pipe until you have enough to reach your water level. Then you can simply dig til you hit good wet sand and then drive your pipe a few more feet to make sure you have enough water. Works every time and you won't beat yourself to death either.👍

[@AwsomeVids83]

That would be very difficult to go down to 27 feet with that method. That is better for really shallow wells, like less than 20 feet. Driven wells can go down much further than that.

[@BUBS_HD]

@@AwsomeVids83 we do it 20-30 foot all the time and is very quick

[@randybeard6040]

When I was a Boy back in the 50's All the Country folks like us had a Pitcher pump-Usually we had Good Water about 20-25 ft. down--I really miss that Cold Good Tasting Water--From Arkansas......

[@fjgg1955]

Ok ok

[@charlesm8482]

I drove a point down 40 feet using a fence post driver. I think it took me about a month.

[@mikeschatz9153]

These are smart men

[@MrDavidelliottjr]

Yeah, that's for the birds.

[@12vLife]

The blue spike on the end partially shown in this video, what's it called and where do you get it? Also possible to jet water into to pipe while driving it down so it makes it easier? I'm in central Florida and was told my water table is only 10 feet below. Was thinking of just using PVC and jetting it in, but I'd rather not have to pull it back up once in. also do you think having well casing that fills up will make for a better well? Any way to back flush these wells if screen clogs up?

[@danielwalcher779]

It’s called a well point

[@jonesy4588]

you can hand drive a well unless you live in a swamp

[@potshot23]

Keep water running in the hole, It goes down much easier..

[@Imwright720]

You could of rented a jackhammer and welded a fitting and it would of gone down like a dream. Why everybody picks the hardest way.

[@beaupeep]

Because not everybody is a welder!

[@patrickbodine1300]

*MAYBE* they are using just what they have. Just sayin'.

[@Imwright720]

@@patrickbodine1300 who has supplies around to put in a well. It was planned. Maybe next time or someone who watched will be like, wow I didn’t think of a jack hammer. The pros basically use a giant hammer. Mimic as much as possible.

[@kc5hgv]

You need to Hydro the pipe during the punching. Use lots of water on the surface during the pile driving.

[@fudogwhisperer3590]

Where did you get the casing?

[@MrHeathDoyle]

Were you able to get the pipe couplers to screw all the way on until they seated properly Against the pipe without having to add any threads to the pipe? I found the pipe threads on the galvanized pipes from The big box store don’t seem to be deep enough. But I haven’t a put cheater bar on the wrenches and tried forcing it. Perhaps if I do that I can get it it screw down the last half an inch?

[@summerland6397]

You can have Home Depot thread them properly on their machine.

[@travishanson166]

Pipe threads are tapered. A proper thread will not thread to bottom. Apply thread sealant, turn until you need a wrench, then turn 1 to 1.5 turns, and done.

[@MadDoktor88]

The tapered threads are great for sealing, but for this work you need a regular thread... I don't know the name of it, but it's not tapered or compression threads. And get the guy threading your pipe to run the threads up a way...an couple inches won't hurt...

[@Johnrider1234]

How do you keep the pipe ends from smashing while your pounding

[@jessmichigan3241]

You use a driving cap

[@justintyme2764]

Should rent a portable gas powered post driver!

[@DRONE-e]

You know you could have just used a simple water hose and liquified the soil which would just suck the pipe down....

[@ceh4702]

I think a good back hoe can dig down to about 14 feet. Often if some shallow depth water is found they would put in a cistern and fill the area around it with porous large gravel. Then pump the water out and run it to a large water storage tank.

[@jurosmilkovich1427]

This is what I want, because we have no water during a blackout event.

[@bobbg9041]

Hey guys, take a 15' pvc pipe use sections you can add on hook it to a hose with pressure and water blast a hole down to the water table depending how deep it is if your lucky you won't run into ledge on the way. This all depends on how deep the water table is. And if you need a tanker truck to supply the drilling water. you can cut a 2" hole or try a 3" hole at some point you'll have to install a larger pipe to put you pump into. If its just to water the lawn instead of city water almost anyone can do this search it on youtube.

[@donalddday7741]

for the heck of it it I took 3 1inch galvanized pipe and went down with the house water running through the pipe,25 feet hit a kinds of water,so if I was gonna put in a pipe like they are I would just use the house water to make hole a little larger to make pounding a big pipe in easy

[@MadDoktor88]

That's how I dug my well... I used pvc pipe and a neighbor's water to wash out a hole. I found that the sharp end of the pipe worked better if we cut a diagonal point on it. Push it down, turn it a bit, and push it some more. Pull it back now and then and keep the water running... When you hit gravel you will feel it. And the water will stop flowing out of the hole. Gravel in my neck of the woods means water. I suppose a more industrious fellow would have pushed further, adding a driving point and metal pipe, but at the time I was happy to have water. It was clear and cold and didn't smell bad and tasted good, so I let it ride.... I pulled out the PVC pipe and dropped a driving point / screen and 1 1/4 metal pipe and a 1 way valve in the hole. That was in 2005, and it's still making good, clean, plentiful water using a $100 water pump from Harbor Freight...

[@themaximusone]

lol next time use an extension on a motorized post hole digger it will go up yo 8 to 10 ft :)

[@ireneschmidt6944]

we have so many rocks you'ld have to use dynamite

[@miketapia9393]

You guys do it the hard way, we dig about 15 feet then we dig the well point with a 21 footer galvanized, took me half a day!

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

So you telling me I'm doing it the hard way you dig 15 foot most likely you're not doing that by hand you probably have access to some equipment that digs at Deep fortunately I don't have equipment like that and we're not shy of good old-fashioned hard work we had this well dug or driven let me say that driven and one day as well tomato tomahto

[@bobbg9041]

I was in a old houses back yard they were tearing the house down the demo guy found a 90' deep hand dug well about 8 to 10" in dia it took 4 large sand trucks to fill it back up. you could drop 10 vw's down it and still not fill it up. And dam you could fell the cold air coming up from it. That's why a well diggers ass is cold about 56 dgr F. I'd never seen a hand dug well that dam deep, that's hard core. Think how log that took to dig and part of it was brick lined. You drop a rock and wait for it to splash down 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009? it was deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep kerplunk. echo.

[@johnpike9612]

@@bobbg9041 90' is too shallow in some parts of the country. They once found an old hand dug well in Scottsdale Az that was about 400' deep.....I don't remember the exact footage but I'll never forget the feeling I had knowing I was driving over it in my car and the only thing that covered it was a bunch of railroad ties from who knows when and a couple feet of fill they put in when they paved over it......😨

[@honuswagner9348]

@@johnpike9612 railroad ties are hella strong, your car isn't gonna break one LOL

[@johnpike9612]

@@honuswagner9348 it will with time a degradation of the tie....ive seen them so bad you couldnt stand on one let alone drive a car on it...thats why they replace them based on age and not just visual condition

[@ceh4702]

I watched some videos on well digging in the west in Utah and Idaho and in a lot of places by law you have to have a special license to dig a well deeper than 18 feet. In Idaho they require a sleeved well pipe down to a certain depth because of ground water contamination and often you run into layers of mud like sediment of different types. Also digging deep is dangerous because you have underground aquifers.

[@markroberts8376]

I live in New York I wanted to drive one for my house water but don't know how to hook my shallow well pump up to it

[@0778drz110]

Put a check valve at the top of the well casing then the pump. Fill the pump with water to help it purge the air out on first startup. Once all the air is out it will work

[@boathemian7694]

Nice fucking job boys

[@doctim111]

Why don't you flush the hole with high pressure water spray do dislodge the soil?

[@jimm1028]

Good work! How did you know where to locate the well?

[@Joe_Goofball]

What sort of pipe is that, and didn't the80lb driver damage the threads?

[@shawnmclaughlin735]

you dont damage the threads because you put a collar on the pipe then hammer down

[@MadDoktor88]

Inside the 80lb driving ram, there is a wooden piece that keeps the threads from being damaged. If you slam metal to metal, the threads in the driving cap will get damaged and you"ll play hell getting your next connector threaded. The connectors...they make a special connector where the top and bottom pipe come together and make firm contact, so that the shock of the driver isn't absorbed by the connector. Oh yeah...pipe threads. Use standard threads. The compression threads won't let the pipes go far enough into the connectors to meet up.

[@jeromegarcia5396]

@WHATS YOURSOC umm... if you have water and water hose, why you giving advice on a well... so off grid where do I get water and a hose to do such??? Just saying

[@wolfmantroy6601]

You can buy drive caps or I built one myself from a drive coupler. Tighten firmly and the threads are not damaged. Also a electric jack hammer works great for driving.

[@ecozones2d627]

you digged randomly or you know where the water was?

[@tomn5880]

Oh....after boring to 10 feet I put a 6 inch PVC schedule 40 pipe as a casing.

[@tomn5880]

@WHATS YOURSOC No. I augered as far down as I could pull dirt up. When I could no longer pull up the wet sandy dirt I put the casing pipe down then hammered the sand pipe using a post pounder.

[@tomn5880]

@WHATS YOURSOC No, I augered with a 6 inch post hole auger. Had to use extensions.

[@jamesjohnson7266]

it'll take water it'll make water

[@johnpike9612]

Not always true. A dry well will take water but you'll never get any water back from it.

[@catrat1967]

Wash a hole down first, the install point and pipe, done in a few hrs! Should have salt and pepper sand when hitting water, didn't see and water pumped!

[@dc440-4]

Reading the comments I see a bunch of people have problems with the cussing but I didn't even hear any cussing, maybe I cuss too much!

[@joebruno8785]

You just missed it...

[@rogerdavies6226]

dont work to well in real rocky round. voice of experience

[@adrianw7791]

I do thos for a living they dont need to use pipe to tighten that for god sake

[@DevinHeaps]

Yeah, brute force that thing.

[@pipedreams57]

I had a neighbor one time that drove a drive point down about 35 ft and hit bedrock, then dropped 2 sticks of dynamite in bottom. Worked pretty good. He was lucky I always figured that he didn't blow his pipe out of the ground, LOL.

[@joemommma6573]

id use a loader bucket lol

[@harrykrumpacker871]

I didn't see you taping the joints - so you'll be doing this again very shortly. Also, next time instead of beating yourselves up, rent an electric jackhammer with a driving tip. you could drive a well like that in about 15 minutes (time spent taping the joints included). I've done this a few times and am getting ready to do it again...

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

Harry Kikehammer joints was sealed

[@harrykrumpacker871]

Great!

[@jeromegarcia5396]

Jackhammer... huh, nice thinking...

[@jeromegarcia5396]

And taping joints you mean teflon or some type of thread tape?

[@johncolasont6195]

What gauge of sand did y'all find?

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

20 feet

[@michaelsmith8065]

Dr. Watt's Botanist & Cannabis Cultivator wat state u in

[@fitzroydouglas2149]

I would weld 4 handles on the 80lbs weight. Less effort to lift.

[@anonhackit7274]

THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE

[@michaelsmith8065]

How deep you go what state u in

[@rbnhd1976]

That pump needs a frog and cup leathers, it should dump 2-3 cups per pump at least, how'd it turn out?

[@donnieporter7890]

Rare u dont see any videos of people working hard anymore

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

Thank u Nobody has ethics anymore

[@vistagraphsnet]

You should have poured water in the pipe as you pounded to soften the soil.

[@herbnat2560]

Growing weed?

[@Sireamonncooperda3rd]

I really don't get why people don't like cursing. Cursing is a sign that a person knows how to accurately portray their emotions. Why do people think otherwise.

[@benjaminantone9962]

eamonn cooper, I don't trust any man that doesn't curse

[@timothywashburn9551]

It's really the opposite. Swearing is the person that can't articulate thier feelings. The swear words make up for the fact they are hurt, mad, etc.

[@Sireamonncooperda3rd]

Timothy Washburn ok if that's how you want to quantify thins then take this as an example. Without swearing; "you're not a person I like leave me alone" require little mental effort to understand what the person has just said. With swearing "fuck of you cunt weasel" requires a lot more mental effort to say and understand. You have to unravel the double metaphor that is cunt weasel (cunt weasel=dick=person you don't like). The intelligence require to both understand and formulate a rebuttal to the statement with the curses is far greater than the intelligence required to respond to the almost simplistic non swearing statement.

[@timt186]

@@Sireamonncooperda3rd wow! You have really thought this swearing thing out. Imagine if you could put that effort into learning bigger and longer descriptive words. 👍

[@Sireamonncooperda3rd]

Tim t hey man swearing was the origin of modern poetry. Every time you read a poem just remember that.

[@gijoe4jc]

What's with all the language guys? You guys want people to watch it but you have nasty language.

[@TXSNOWMAN99]

Bad language shows ignorant people that have limited simple vocabulary.

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

Larry Walker Look Who's ignorant to KZbin a video about hand driving a well ... fuck u punk bitch

[@prophez23]

That's exuberantly illogical and fucking insulting to us educated jackasses that love to curse and read poetry and shit.

[@andymoss3132]

Larry has big words memorized. Larry must have had a shitty childhood and couldn't play with the other boys and girls so he get to learn a new word everyday and when daddy gets home he gets to sit on his lap and discuss the new word and little Larry liked making daddy proud didn't you Larry.

[@johnpike9612]

Actually recent studies show that people who DO curse have a (on average) higher IQ than those who dont. It's like the old school saying; "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never fucking hurt me!".....LOL

[@christbeliever7582]

Be better vid if they'd stop the cursing and be thankful for that water God provided

[@gasfarmer_aka_drwatts]

Christ Believer I'm also thankful all the dicks out there that try to tell me what to be thankful for as well

[@christbeliever7582]

sure r a filthy mouthed low IQ acting bunch. Is that what pot does to ya

[@fastsetinthewest]

madd farmer I'm late. Just found this water channel. The history of curse words started in 1066. The Norman French invaded England. The Normans spoke French. Typically, the Normans married them English girls. The kids were learning both languages. Woman got French tutors for the kids because French was spoken in the Court (Monarchs House). So mama would tell them kids not to say schitt. The French words like toilet became the good words. This went on until 1250. The new version of French entered France about 1250. Teagards...

[@get-the-lead-out.4593]

Well said Christ Believer... no one needs his foul mouth especially when trying to watch some videos with my children before trying to do our own well

[@pcguysoffgridcabin]

Can't expect much out of a bunch of dope heads

[@doncarolannhall7918]

Better if they didn't drop the F bomb all the time.

[@dannymalone6400]

Don & Carol Ann Hall if you are worried about the language then take your ass somewhere else

[@johngagne33]

Bad language. .