DIY Water Well Drilling | Off Grid Cabin Build #27

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

🔥 Watch from the beginning Off grid Cabin build kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3jJppqcqt95gM0

[@jimthomas777]

Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living , if you are allowed down 18 feet , why not get a crew and dig down 18 with 8 feet diameter , this will hold over 1000 gal. and replenish itself it a matter of hours , as you sleep at night it will be full by morning , but you do what you think is best

[@mohammadthomas5419]

Mr Martin pamiily ❤️❤️ 👍👍

[@nurmisvalle5434]

Hello, awesome job ! I would like to know where to get this kind of equipment?

[@mikemoye6399]

How much deeper do you think you could have gone? Where I'm at I need to go no less than 100', also where did you purchase your supplies?

[@passamaquoddy5590]

Yes thats the link I was going to po6for them

[@Imwright720]

That’s pretty cool. I dug an 8 ‘ hole with the hand auger then lined it with a 6’ pipe. I used water pressure to shoot down a smaller pvc inside down to 27’. Worked great. With the pond right there you could jet one down pretty deep. There are plenty of videos showing what I’m talking about.

[@samisastro8766]

Sumber air melimpah krn resapan air cukup luas. Good job.

[@PaullaWells]

Completely interesting. I also thank you so much for your music placement. I love that you remove it when people are speaking!

[@CamppattonFamilyCompound]

Good to see a fellow Idahoan making headway. Keep it up.

[@mkgg9637]

Love the family dynamic you guys have in the video. You have no idea how fortunate you are... or maybe you do.

[@mikaelchannel4622]

Senang kalau saling kerja sama 😎 Hal yg berat pun terasa ringan,semoga cepat selesai pak martin 😇

[@ikhwan7450]

pak martin sangat jenius...hebat pak salute

[@yasminghani2073]

Enjoy seeing the family together good luck

[@domalbe51882]

Another genius idea, thank you for sharing......

[@rogerdodger5415]

Great video! Thanks for educating me! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@abuesfandiar7599]

Pak martin dan keluarga...mereka para pejuang sejati..tetap semangat bapak. Keep smilling

[@DaveTheBigTomato]

Good job Next time use a few bags of pea gravel first ...then backfill. It will help stop sand particles from entering well screen. Again, great teamwork and job!

[@nathanmciver6737]

Weh! Thanks all of you for sharing this video! I have always been fascinated with whel drilling and not wasting money when you can do these jobs yourself. Awesome work!!!

[@Lorenz829]

excelente

[@djbarrgelinoxs6825]

Thank you....I Got your ideas on how to make a DIY Well Drilling Machine....Actually everyone needed to save money than to making contracts from anyone....Instead to pay, it is very saving to make our own DIY drilling machine...In my country Philippines if having a contract from drilling companies is not easy and you spending lots of money for just a drilling only without materials yet.... i am very enjoyed watching your videos...

[@ChileExpatFamily]

You are making me appreciate that we are using a Spring. Good luck. Jim

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Just wait till tomorrow. You are going to REALLY appreciate Spring.

[@ChileExpatFamily]

@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving Here in Chile is it SPRING! So right you are because it was frosty here this morning. We live in the temperate zone of Chile (sort of just north of the South Pole). We are as you know headed into spring here in Chile, and yes I am looking forward to it for sure. We have multiple springs on our homestead and there fore have many good sources for potable water here. Our spring has been "Contained" for around 10 years but we were the first to put a pump on it. The prior owner used 2 concrete culvert 4 foot pipe to contain the spring and it does an excellent job. We put our pump on top of the clam shell cover which lets a pipe with a foot valve go down to the bottom of the pool. We use it pretty strongly and had it tested as well and have had great results. Have you put in your septic system yet? We have done 2 at 4,000 Liters each which is over sized for our house and cabana (one each), with 150 foot of run for the drain field on each as well. This is about the 6 septic system I have personally installed over my short time on this earth. As you can expect we were not required to have permits or inspections on the septic or any other thing as well. Also with all of this we have NO property taxes at all for life. Thanks for the videos. Jim

[@RyanLambatan]

yeah, im keepsmile.. thanks for sharing this video...

[@jennifercullison]

Love that the whole family is involved.... Cool stuff

[@rollandelliott]

wow that home made one man auger machine is awesome!

[@underdog576967]

It’s not home made , factory built

[@bobjarrard]

End cap, filtration sock, one foot of well gravel at the base from 19' to 18'), well gravel up to one foot above the top of the inlet cuts, bentonite the well to grade, and add a concrete domed cap at surface level. You first bore hole is crossing to the new well. You use HP air to condition the well, it takes forever to pump out the mud and it clogs the inlet cuts but you had some major fun. (Good idea of square drive with pins, the water inlet is not as easy to engineer. Bob in Nevada

[@2mraid3r]

A few things from a geologist: 1) most kerfs on a circular blade are much larger than the typical well screen. The issue you can run into with that is that you will likely have sediment infiltrate the entirety of the well screen interval. 2) I did not see any filter sand inserted around the well casing. Next time, use a clean coarse silica sand (with a finer screen) and you will get much more life from your well. 3) always purge the volume of the well, plus some more, after you install a well to develop it correctly. Especially if you drilled with bentonite clay as your drilling mud and even more importantly if you ever were to use your well for consistent, relatively clean water usage. 4) please test this well for it’s water quality and be careful when using this well for drinking purposes

[@strongholds12]

Lance Croft so the earth is flat, motionless and the space agencies of the world are controlled by occultist, is what you're saying?

[@annoenesther]

One thing from a Well driller! never forget a sock on they end of the casing. Fine sand is needed when you drill the hole, you are looking for that and you,se that as youre infiltrate. And the Sock ofcourse. Greets from the netherlands. Oh yeay what i say in this youtube film, he was turning his rod outside the drillinghole!! danger!!

[@ykb946]

Lol Drilling with Bentonite? You realize this isn't for an oil and gas well? You didn't notice that they were getting there fluid from a pond, and that they are drilling with an Ice auger? Lol Edit your comment and tell them they should have drilled there surface hole with invert, and take samples every 1/2 ft to bring too the rock sniffer!!!

[@craigs5212]

Since it looks like your clay layer is always to the surface, I would keep drilling until you hit gravel below the clay layer. Generally the clay inhibits water flow. You can use a bit inside the existing casing to keep reaming the hole deeper below the current casing. Every 5 feet push the casing down 5' and attach a casing extensions (not slotted). Get the max water flow you can on the driller bit as it's what washes out the cuttings. Once you go below the clay layer into gravel, that is where the water should be. One thing: don't stop the bit in the hole the cuttings will settle out and freeze the bit in the hole and you will not get it out. Happened to a friend with the same sort of rig at about 100' down. Keep the bit turning while pulling it out, except while you change pipe lengths. Good luck.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

I can only go 18 feet legally without a permit and a licensed well driller.

[@alejandrocorral7148]

​@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLivinghi

[@lucycats6282]

I see you work so hard, Id like to offer a few suggestions. I am also on my own well project, Ive spent quite some time on the subject and feel I am qualified to point out some things that you should have done differently. 1- Cap the bottom of the pipe, sediment will build up otherwise inside the pipe rendering the well useless. 2- The slits you made in casing, too large, the casing will allow too much sediment inside again causing the well useless 3- You will need a gravel pack around outside of casing to filter the material that enters your casing 4- You made an effort to remove the coconut shavings within your well casing, just not enough effort, they will cause you future problems within the pump. 5- Off grid living implies a respect for nature, dumping your plastic shaving into the pond and into the forest implies your only concerned with what you have going on at the moment and little concern for the environment around you. You may wish to reflect on this, we all ( including myself ) try to tell ourselves that this little infraction is no biggie when in fact the little infractions made by us all add up to encompass the largest oil spills in history as an example. Good luck with your well, I understand your urgency to accomplish this but I would suggest a much greater deal of time spent in researching what needs to be done instead of jumping the gun on something that may or may not work for what you mean to accomplish. Have a nice day

[@peterpiper7030]

yep

[@ismailbettache9585]

Keep smiling ❤

[@juliejohnson9531]

Such a cool machine! Thanks Gary for helping us out this way! 😃

[@adisondasu]

I like your family..very inspired 😍

[@JM-yx1lm]

@@adisondasu did you make the water swivel? If so how? I need the water swivel to start my project just as you have here.

[@JM-yx1lm]

I actually thought this guy was the driller. Julie, can you ask about the water swivel please? And relay it back to me?

[@adisondasu]

@@JM-yx1lm yes I have,but now no more because I live in city

[@adisondasu]

@@JM-yx1lm you can refer on Google/KZbin how to make it..

[@guybroyles48]

I love to see a family all together get excited about something! (edit) Geez! I'm getting old and soft, I never used to notice things like that. 😂

[@dewaynewheeler3432]

I would have put a cap on the end of the well casing. The casing will eventually sand up from the bottom and give you problems. Also, a screen mesh around the sits you cut. Otherwise, it stll should last for a few years. Good job!

[@Makundu-y2j]

Great idea, I need to learn it from you

[@nexustablet1877]

Hi, I am not sure if you sealed the casing at the bottom, if not I believe you will struggle to get clean water. You want the water to come thru the sides of the casing and not the bottom.....all the best!

[@gmcinnis6304]

casing shoe.... 4" cap on end of the pipe... guide shoe.

[@ihsanulfajaralamsyah3392]

Sukses terus pak Martin😎

[@Rkk153]

Wow great job.

[@fernandoplantaex5308]

Me da gusto ver a familias gringas que merecen mi admiración, mi aprecio y mi respeto.

[@jonny1943]

Thanks!

[@Kingsleykrewvlogs]

Great video. That was amazing to watch it drop down like that. I kinda thought it could've easily gotten caught on rough ground on the side etc.. but it just dropped in like it was going thru hot butter. How awesome.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

I was surprised to. hahaha

[@patrickjobling8676]

Fantastic guys.. a bunch of funnins ..😁pip pips and carryon pilgrims

[@adihus67]

Very nice to work together with the family.

[@Rainman_actual]

Always drop at least a 5 gallon bucket of washed pete gravel down the casing for a sediment filter

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Good idea

[@Smegma_pirate]

That’s pea gravel buddy

[@jinno11]

Down the casing? You what!? AROUND THE CASING. Don’t listen to this idiot

[@jinno11]

Marcia Marcia the soil you remove from the hole should be the back fill, you drop gravel around the casing to filter, then backfill with soil you’ve removed from hole. Never place anything but the pump down the hole

[@TXCOyt]

I literally do this for a living you get quarts sand and fill around the outside of the screen (PVC with slits ) to two feet above the screen then you put bentanite as a plug a foot thick or expanding clay you hydrate the expanding clay and it keeps surface contamination from getting into the well then fill it with pea gravel or quickcrete

[@1969CampEvans]

Great Job

[@johnmccaskill2811]

They make a pipe that is mostly screen that is made for this. It keeps the mud and other particulates out of your well, but lets water flow in freely. I think, though, that you will need to be a lot deeper. A well man will likely be able to tell you the average depth for your area.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

The best estimate for a professionally drilled well is $30,000.

[@rollandelliott]

@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving it varies a lot, I've gotten quotes as low as $8000 with pump and pressure tank, red clay, charlotte, nc

[@stevee4942]

Enjoy watching your videos, friends of mine who live North of Spirit Lake, there well is over 400 feet down, lots of cool clear water.. I have a 30 foot surface well and it has run dry a few times..

[@blaineonabike]

Always just in time for my lunch break!

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Glad we can provide some good lunch entertainment!

[@juliejohnson9531]

Hey Blaine! :)

[@liatamauca]

좋은환경 까다롭지않은 지하수 이용을할수있는 여건이 얼마나 부러울가 ! Good works.

[@enricoroche4284]

Keep digging my friends u guys gonna live for over one hundred years! Cheers

[@masedup]

This is awesome! How's the well performance after 4 years? Also, do you have any guidelines on how to acquire the machine or diying one?

[@LatchkeyKidX]

17 feet 11 inches? haha. Gary is awesome!

[@ekalayac6]

awesome.... I know how hard to drill a well ... it s a very good job... I love the drilling machine...

[@sausanalialmusawi750]

Finaly you got water after a hard working.

[@Bansheeboat]

Nice episode! 👍😁👍

[@realestateinfonet9041]

Great video!

[@desireeshine2422]

Great family

[@newmancam]

Thx for this video. What is the solution if a big rock is found while drilling?

[@craigmonteforte1478]

Pretty neat set up since you have a generator running you should Swapmoutbthehandcrank winch for a electric or one you can operate with a electric drill or impact driver ? Otherwise I really admire what you guys built

[@بوبكرهاني]

عمل جميل و رائع شكرا لهذه العائلة العاملة بجد

[@WordsPhotos]

how can I set up the same operation, where did you get the shafts, bits, and the motor? Thanks for the video?

[@ElChris619]

Awesome video

[@loebas667]

did you consider a filtering system on the outside of those slits/ the pvc pipe? like how they do with drainage pipes

[@kevindixon5354]

Can you do a parts list on your drill setup? Like to know how the water inlet coupling was made?

[@richardbell5415]

Did u giys build tht rig if so do u have plans or kno where to find them awsome video thx

[@alitnugroz871]

Wahh hebat bikin sumur bor🤭....... semua bekerja sama dengan baik, sangat mamdiri

[@Mihnet_alhayat_Talal_Ismail]

very nice

[@MikeMurphyinc]

Love it! Did you run into any rock?

[@gmcinnis6304]

apparently not or they wud have been stopped by ROCK. not enough weight on the bit to chew thru rock.

[@bobjoncas2814]

.. u gotta keep trying things to get results..good vid

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

thanks. we keep trying!

[@muhamadhidayatamsor9483]

good job pa Martin .....salam from Indonesia jawabarat

[@mamadouousmanediagne3415]

Machine ok '.combien coûte la machine et ses tiges

[@kobihis]

I wish to live off grid when I'm out of college debt 😂 still paying 😂

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

hopefully you will get to soon.

[@NMA_NoMoreAmmo]

Why on Earth you went to college if you want to live off grid? Wasted money.

[@andraamaverist]

Gembira squad

[@genegoodman5233]

You best put a good filter system on this well. I hope it works, do something to stop surface water. Stay safe

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Have you seen this? Big Berkey Gravity-Fed Water Filter with 2 Black Berkey Purification Elements www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYW3EVO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ofzEDbQ73MW68

[@honuswagner9348]

@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving There's nothing special about Berkey filters. There's a reason why they haven't submitted their filters to independent testing (all of their testing is in-house)

[@elichappell2276]

That drill is scary looking

[@brownsrvlifecampground9322]

Nice video update also do your friend service Georgia area looking for someone to do a shallow well.

[@gordonwiessner6327]

No filtering mesh or sediment gravel?

[@bigredinfinity3126]

what happens if oil comes up do you load up truck and move to Beverly

[@robjus1601]

Where did you get the drilling equipment? Thanks

[@Featuringism]

Mirip dengan cerita Noah and his Family. Build The Ark dengan semua keluarganya. Mantul... ( Mantab Betul ). hahaha.

[@roy4708]

Great job..

[@colinhayward9184]

Maybe in the drilling process you are silting up the area contaminating the lower free draining soil with man made silt from the upper level. Is there a way to flush that silt out one you have reached the depth.

[@gmcinnis6304]

on oil wells they circulate and condition the hole for 20 hours before coming out for wire line logging... so the hole doesnt fall in and they have to go back to bottom all over again, clean out the hole... and come all the way out again to get logging tools.... and later casing if the well is deemed produceable... to bottom.

[@faris.official372]

How meter borehole and cassing

[@smilehidayat2296]

Hallo Mr.martin, how do you get that large area? whether buying from the country or buying from someone else??🙏🙏🙏

[@nyektijoe4590]

My father have tools to find source water like two pair tv antena..it work👍👍👍

[@robertw31968]

Nyekti Joe we had a water leak around our house and that’s how my wife found the leak for me to fix. I laughed and told her it wouldn’t work but she proved me wrong yet again. It saved quite a bit of money by her being able to find like that.

[@bay9876]

Water Witching? It works

[@robertw31968]

Bay it definitely worked for us.

[@jonathanpacres5590]

Sir Im happy for watching very nice your drilling machine❤

[@wydracon]

I can tell by the vegetation not only you are in northern idaho, but I can tell the elevation based upon the flora in the video.

[@drmoto8058]

did you make the drill bits or did you buy them? also what are you using to make the hose not spin?

[@pauldjerassi620]

Amazing i love your attitude we are not giving up ,what made you pick that site to drill ?.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

I thought the pond was a spring.

[@MrKylebeard]

That was crazy when the pipe kept going into the ground!!

[@NMA_NoMoreAmmo]

Straight to the China

[@gmcinnis6304]

til hit a rock. then that is that as takes WEIGHT and HARD DRILL BIT AND LOTS OF CIRCULATION TO DRILL THRU ROCK.... or beat a rod thru it to break it up if it isnt too big/hard like they do when hit a rock drilling under sidewalk for water pipes to sprinklers or whatever.

[@CynicalLight]

Where do I get this drill equipment?

[@KASAKAMOKO]

thanks for this video very informative keep safe BROTHER

[@arnoldpelingen-gf8gg]

What is the brand name of the drill you used? Thank you!

[@carlosmata564]

Nice job good for you but I can't do that in California were I need a 300 foot well

[@daviddettmers6616]

I'm looking to drill a well at my cabin myself, is this set up that you can buy or do you make it? Thanks!!

[@blairandersen8414]

Hi neat video and great set up...one question where did you get the rotary water coupling from ? if you could please add link to it or brand of unit... cheers

[@orangindonesiatinggaldiame6420]

Pak dimana beli alat sumur bornya? Thanks

[@aloallea3657]

Yes i ll wait till tomorrow for the next video

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

great. I hope you like it.

[@Canbechangedtwiceeveryfourteen]

What is the attachment you use to tee water into the drill pipe? I’ve seen some products sold online but they don’t appear to be compatible with an auger

[@ahmadbilal7558]

Mantapp

[@easy_sleko-sz4bq]

Tdk terasa sdh 5 tahun pak Martin meninggalkan indonesia n membuat rumah baru di amrik.

[@jehannova]

Wow

[@Ficotronic]

Amazing video !!!!!

[@paullopes5772]

Hi I have a well drilling rig the same as that one do you know where I can purchase the bit for it or do I have to have them made thank you

[@JustMe-mg6vw]

Where did the well driller source the rotary joint?

[@creativefireplace3329]

Hi. Do you know by any chance what was the power of that motor from the drilling rig? That is 1" pipe the rig is using? Thanks

[@lennieadi]

Hi Martin. Please where can I get all the items used to drill. I'm in uk but will me in an off grid land in jamaica in a year or so. I'd appreciate to be able to source the bits and pieces. What if we have hard rock to get through. Can this system do it? many thanks.