Hand drilling a shallow well. It doesn't go as planned.
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Let me know if this is something you’ve done and your experiences.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
lack of water volume, not pressure makes a huge difference, got a 330 gallon tote and used that with a water pump and drove down 40 feet. (no shell rock) in about 6 hours. first well took three long days because there was not enough water volume to lift the sand and dirt out of the way, But now you independent on water and that is a great thing. bravo for keep punching intill you knocked it down.
@paperburn Жыл бұрын
What did your total cost add up too?
@terrafirma9328 Жыл бұрын
@@terrafirma9328 I already owned a 2” mud pump and a pressure washer. I bought the pressure washer jetter attachment and extra length of hose for about 40 bucks in Amazon. (Although the jetter and pressure washer method ended up not being a great method) Plus the cost of the PVC sticks,couplers, glue, galvanized coupler, pool filter sand, bentonite clay. So all in about 350-400 bucks, not including my time.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Good jod when DIY any job it can be tasking I find this specially in stuff I have no experience with doing :)
@Victor.McCann Жыл бұрын
@@paperburn Is correct! A pressure nozzle could help to loosen material at the bottom of the hole but high water flow (volume) is what it will take to flush drill cuttings up and push them out of the bore hole. We sometimes used an air compressor to blow water and muck out of a well too. It takes a big compressor (ours was 185 CFM at 125 PSI) with enough air hose to reach the bottom. This can produce a nice geyser, very dramatic ! 😲
@noyopacific Жыл бұрын
Dude your soils like butter, holy cow I would have found like six baseball-sized rocks and not first little bit you dug
@stich1960 Жыл бұрын
Same problem here in mohave county. Baseball to chest sized rocks all over
@kevinwithrow10 ай бұрын
Me too in manitoba.. rocks right up to boulders.. pain I the ass just trying to get down 1 foot..
@joanneg764610 ай бұрын
This has to be Florida. Here in West GA it's a bitch trying to do this
@Barabbas77989 ай бұрын
I have a trench digger my property so hard for the first 2 feet. It’ll bend the bucket if I’m not watching.
@hawk14817 ай бұрын
@@kevinwithrowm ml❤8
@saiddami58134 ай бұрын
Oh man, this was such a heartwarming video. I love your entire family participation! Thank you for sharing.
@LakshmiMRKaushik Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching 😊
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤
@shk2564 Жыл бұрын
It baffles me that this isn't every man's dream.
@atrain705010 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing. The galvanized “bit” that you made really helped your process, even if not cutting through shell rock I would think the steel vs PVC would cut so much better.
@c50ge5 ай бұрын
Interesting video, I don't think the process would be quite the same here in our rocky Pennsylvania ground, but it started the wheels turning in my mind. Pretty good story/plot delivery, thanks for taking the time to put the video together!
@elliottsconstruction2639 Жыл бұрын
Happy you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
DIY Well Drilling Using a Hand Drill.
@non150311 ай бұрын
You had the right idea for the drilling bit, but you needed carbide drill points or anything that was hardened steel to drill through the shale rock easier. But at least you got it done. Now you know what to do for the next one. Good job.
@roberthamm9304 Жыл бұрын
I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.
@bradwilson6601 Жыл бұрын
USE GALVANISED PIPE VERY EASY
@robertolang9684 Жыл бұрын
Great job!! I have drilled 3 wells with a Deep Rock one man drill and got plenty of water, but had a problem because I had gravel and the gravel wouldn't flow out of the hole very well, but I finally had success and got plenty of water each time!!!
@tooneboone386910 ай бұрын
How did you get the gravel out? Pump water faster and add mud for higher thickness
@matthewtaylor33514 ай бұрын
Great video Steve. Working on a shallow well using the pressure washer approach. We're about 30' down and progress is now slow....Very encouraging to see others run into problems, work through the process and figure it out in the end. Appreciate you showing failures as well as successes. Keep it up man.
@saltwater11678 ай бұрын
Good job man. I'm looking to jet a well with a 2" or 3" mud pump along with bentonite clay.
@familyfungi8 ай бұрын
This is so inspiring. Thanks
@channelm8044 Жыл бұрын
I live down in Hendry county and I want to drill a well on my property. your video was very informative Thank you and your Family.
@Terkinstein Жыл бұрын
Glad you found it helpful. The best method I found was the mud pump attached to the top of the pipe. The only issue with this is adding another piece of pipe. I had to let the glue set for an hour before proceeding again
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
@@SteveDoesEverything well, I can understand the wait for the glue to set, it would be extremely sad to have your pipe fall off in the hole where you cannot reach it.
@Terkinstein Жыл бұрын
@@Terkinstein yes. Happened to me on my first hole attempt
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
You've shown me that I shouldn't try to do this myself after all lol.
@mfenix9115 сағат бұрын
Nice work. You stuck it out - Congratulations!
@daveallen924 Жыл бұрын
Proud of you. saved thousands of dollars. Unprofessional video but real and original. I like it. You are a hard working man. You needed to buy a batter pump though.
@kirtimakati79788 ай бұрын
Thank you for your support
@SteveDoesEverything8 ай бұрын
Good job 👍 I plan to do similar.
@npalmi88 Жыл бұрын
Is it stuck..! That line hooked me perfectly..!
@randalmoroski1184 Жыл бұрын
Makes me even more grateful that I live in West Michigan. I got a jackhammer and beat a well point down 25 feet to good water in an hour. The water is clear and delicious. I don't know why people want to live anywhere else. If you do, try a jackhammer and 3x10-foot sections of galvanized pipe and a jackhammer.
@jeffgorkisch4489 Жыл бұрын
Great idea, thanks. We gotta go down a lot farther for good clean water
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
You definitely have me thinking. We just had to have our well pump replaced $2,500 later. My current well is 220 feet deep with the well pump set at 120 feet. He said I could pump 100GPM which seems like a bunch... The well should always have plenty of water in it if it's that deep I have thought about the steel pointed drill, the one you drive into the ground. But I'm afraid the water might be too deep to reach after hearing how deep our well is. Our soil is very sandy even though we are well inland. Here SE Texas where we are there is sandy clay under the sand. I have not been down much more than a post hole digger, but the dirt all looks the same everywhere I have put a fence post. I think I have a shallow spring just outside of the back yard fence. Our pasture stays wet forever after a rain. Even though it has not rained here for two full months and we have been living with the 100 degree days my grass is still green in the low area that leads to the creek. Most of my grass in that area is still green. I'm just looking for water for my gardens (2) and fruit trees.
@charlesfoster88148 ай бұрын
You can check out the USGS ground water data for your area to get a good idea how far you’ll need to go to hit water
@SteveDoesEverything8 ай бұрын
Nice work congratulations 👏
@sutulumbasi Жыл бұрын
If you are going to hand drill do it in the valley center in a slight sloping ground, take two pieces of 2"×4" join them together with two bolts bore a round hole in the joint so when it is bolted around the pipe its tight enough to turn the pipe, use a belt as a shim if needed
@giles-df9yu4 ай бұрын
You got it, bless you
@ongv2491 Жыл бұрын
👍 this is Amazing . the Skid Steer Drilling attachment is an option ..
@joseph78e4n63 ай бұрын
Are you a great handyman? Thanks for that
@tipsunknow Жыл бұрын
Good Man, Your efforts, paid off, staying on point.
@mygarden36511 ай бұрын
Thanks for the encouragement 😊
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
Been there, done that several years ago. I found it works better if you drill the coupling bit and put a bolt through it so it can't unscrew from the pvc. If you make a paddle board that you can grip on each side and then use steel hose clamps you can tighten it up on the pipe and turn the pipe in either direction and then as needed loosen the clamps and slide the paddle board up to where it works best. I drilled three wells and lost the second one and had to abandon it. I've decided if I ever want to drill another I'll dig a pit to fill with water and bentonite and use a mud pump to flush the mud out of the hole and save all that effort.
@haroldgreen1425Ай бұрын
In central Illinois (shameful state), I used a hand crank auger with extensions to go down about 20 feet (8inch diameter). I did the project in late summer when the water table was the lowest. It was crazy easy and did not take very much time.
@chadsiewert89311 ай бұрын
Shameful how?
@a.m.mcaloon987411 ай бұрын
@@poa2.0surface77 You are full on deluded.
@a.m.mcaloon987411 ай бұрын
I think he means the city of Chicago. @@a.m.mcaloon9874
@MrNoneofthisisreal4 ай бұрын
Was going to click away early in the video. Glad I stayed till the end ! Good job you have true grit.
@callmebigpapaАй бұрын
Well done Steve!
@ivoted71998 ай бұрын
Thank you! 🥹
@SteveDoesEverything8 ай бұрын
Very cool brother 💪
@clarkkentcanfly2765 Жыл бұрын
Mad respect!!
@wib5711 ай бұрын
Would love to see you talk about your finnshed setup. Tank, pump looks like you put a softner/ filter on.
@ourbeeshoneycom Жыл бұрын
I do have a video on that. I just need to finish editing.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Doing one now in Punta Gorda. Shell rock at 20'. Making a separate drill stem from galvanized 3/4 and fitting at the end with teeth. Connecting to post hole digger, to punch a hole through the hardpack. Should be fun.
@DaveTheBigTomato Жыл бұрын
Should be fun. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you. If I did another, I would use the mud pump from the get go and the clay to help cut and line the hole.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Did you use bentonite clay?
@JOHNG104A Жыл бұрын
Nicely done!
@capthappy34511 ай бұрын
Thank you
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
Good Job. More need to know how to do this. 😀
@JohnEnserfud7 ай бұрын
Yeah😂 ,it was entertaining. In my opinion, knowledge is the first step to DIY own well drilling. Learning from the best (on KZhead, even if it's in foren language) will help you to be successful, with lot less of work
@janqs245910 ай бұрын
Good job mate you got there in the end.
@patrickrooney5130 Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Excuse me SIR, you SHOULD be using a N⁰ 3 OR N⁰ 7 16 tap certified water pick axe combo unit with a galvanized steel plate for the first hole pipe. I'm just being a turd burglar, lol, I love how you did this and the fact that you did it YOURSELF, with YOUR OWN TOOLS AND HANDS. BRAVO, kick ass!
@rickb06Ай бұрын
"this was not a task for the faint of heart"..... Is an understatement of the highest magnitude.
@johanncover19883 ай бұрын
Need a well at cottage. Might try this.
@jc-pj3nh10 ай бұрын
I love how one of the key aspects to almost every DIY well vid is a water source, and not one content creator seems to see the irony.
@joebobjenkins7837 Жыл бұрын
Yep. Only other way is to drive. We’ll point down by hand or machine. This is how I got the first water source. But it was very shallow, about 16ft. Water flow was terrible.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
So bring it back to your property 55 gallons at a time in a barrel...
@honuswagner9348 Жыл бұрын
@@honuswagner9348 I'm not saying there's no solutions. But I find the irony and ubiquitous lack of addressing said irony, hilarious.
@joebobjenkins7837 Жыл бұрын
@@joebobjenkins7837 every situation is different, there's no way anyone could make a video to address every single potential roadblock to getting water to drill a well
@honuswagner9348 Жыл бұрын
I just assumed they had a water tank for the supply.
@paulmills1705 Жыл бұрын
Did you plug the 4inch strainer to keep dirt out
@stevewaggoner42444 ай бұрын
Imagine the work involved in ancient times digging wells hundreds of feet -sometimes in rock!
@texasdillo9 ай бұрын
Tell me about it.
@SteveDoesEverything9 ай бұрын
How are you removing the particles you loosen by drilling? Normally a drilling fluid (thickened water) is used to lift up the particles. How deep did your working well go down?
@Sylvan_dB Жыл бұрын
On my second attempt I used the bentonite clay after about 15 feet and that worked really well. “Pun intended” 😊 total depth was 35”
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
You did good , water will clear up in a few days , good luck with it.
@josephstone742911 ай бұрын
Thanks 😊
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
various things... mount the drill on a frame, with enough height to pull each rod... or pair of rods. stops it spinning on you too... get down a few metres and its a nightmare... watch an oil rig setup... on that note, you want the clamps to hold the string when you add/remove rods. doesnt actually have to be much fancier than a decent bit of plate with a hole in it. pivot on the top edge and the hole will grab the rod... either grab some masonry drills, or stump grinder teeth, and weld them on the pilot...
@paradiselost99466 ай бұрын
When you cut off the first piece of pipe leave enough of the pipe past the bell so that if you have to you can use the pipe in the future.
@Bricky-gs3lp Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
It would be nice to know what state you're drilling in
@brunokenney78784 ай бұрын
Damn woman asking reasonably curious questions while I am working on something, secretly winging the whole mess. All calculating and intentional.
@tyleroneal85074 ай бұрын
A high volume pump is what is needed to lift the soil & mud out of the well. If you hit rocks or Shale with this setup you are do e for sure. Rotary drills and carbide bits for most rocks is required at minimum.
@markmatt9174 Жыл бұрын
Yeah If I lived in a rocky area. I would have probably paid to have someone else do it.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
This guy knows what tools to use
@amy-joe57729 ай бұрын
I did 45 feet with just connecting metal pipes and a large auger type end to dig down all manually but around here it's supposed to be 100 feet that was way back in 2000 I might just invest in it because they want $800 dollars to renew contract that's why I am here looking to get ideas I had more energy back then
@albertgarcia4673Ай бұрын
You get an A on perseverance!
@cody481 Жыл бұрын
Yah bless you brother.
@rmzayas Жыл бұрын
What quality of water did it end up being?
@Carl-dl8no6 ай бұрын
Wish we could have seen you do the second well?
@benrobertson2467Ай бұрын
Well done, I was watching your video couple times, as well as others. we're currently driving our own well. We also use same metal bit on a 2'' pipe for drilling, but 2 water hoses from normal water supply. we met small gravels, difficult to get them out. Question - did you smash the gravels and water rushed them out by using jet water? whats your mud pump's driving power or that of power washer pump? Thanks
@helenzhu833111 ай бұрын
Hi, if you connect 2 inch pump hose to end of drill pipe instead of 2 garden hoses, you’ll get way better pressure. Also if you use bentonite clay slurry in you water pump mix it will help bring small stones etc up from the hole.
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
@@SteveDoesEverything I'm thinking to get a high pressure washer to connect my jet hose, preparing to use bentonite...
@helenzhu833111 ай бұрын
Is there any reverse on those things?
@irishguy200007Ай бұрын
Good job!
@randalmoroski1184 Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
So was it worth it? Versus hiring pro? Or using city water on the lese than 1 acre crops? What is the dollar per lbs goal again?
@UnitedPebblesАй бұрын
Good job. What is the name of that machine with two wheels?
@bigboymukundu4418 Жыл бұрын
There is a generator and a pressure washer in the video, both with 2 wheels. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Parabéns amigo
@correndoatras6021 Жыл бұрын
If you are using galvanized fittings of any type you may want to check the lead content
@rickbolduc1635 ай бұрын
It's BRAVE to show the fails & successes. Good on ya
@tooshay7396 Жыл бұрын
Fine video but try it anywhere but in sand like most of us have...the Poconos of P really knows how to grow rocks.
@edwardmmanns7454 Жыл бұрын
I was just up in the Poconos visiting last month. Stayed in Dingmans Ferry. It was beautiful.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
I live in texas and we just use old oil drilling Steel pipe
@hideouseblob95510 ай бұрын
It look's like your in Fl. The "Shell Rock" is called Cashea (I probably slaughtered that lol), they have another way to do it and it's almost like an oil rig but way smaller and you drive 4" at a time. It's ssssoooooo much easier!.
@jackbounder63745 ай бұрын
How much water do you think is the need during the process. Where are you getting thevwater to use in thevpipe
@rasadobe7448 Жыл бұрын
I drove a shallow well point with my skid steer several months prior on the lot next to this one. It only went down 16 feet and the water quality wasn’t great nor did it flow real well. But I used the water from that well to fill the reservoir I made for this well. Overall a constant supply of about 250 gallons should be enough
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
Question: How do you know where and how deep water is underground?
@MaliWari Жыл бұрын
You can check out your local health dept for that info or check out national water table listings for your area
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
I myself will be drilling a well sometime soon
@davidsingh66119 ай бұрын
Wish you good luck sir
@SteveDoesEverything9 ай бұрын
@@SteveDoesEverything I need all the advice I can get I am looking for a good used auger to start with
@davidsingh66118 ай бұрын
@@davidsingh6611 you don’t necessarily need an auger. You can use a post hole digger to go down 2-3 feet. Just takes a little more elbow grease
@SteveDoesEverything8 ай бұрын
👍👍👌👌God bless you and your wonderful family 🤗
@skyfrog111 ай бұрын
We had a neighbor from england when i was young, he had forms to dig down 4 feet per day, mix concrete, fill forms and by the next day he could stand on the cement to dig the next 4 feet. It seemed to work pretty good. Dig as deep as you wanted in the ground in that area at least.
@melsjunk26455 ай бұрын
Is it stuck, what a dump question. That’s basically how I did mine except I didn’t think to use a pressure washer. Mud pump would work better with the large pipe then maybe the pressure washer. I made it 27’ before all the water just disappeared. At 8’ I hit coral. I made a bit using steel electrical conduit as the shaft. I hooked it to my big electric impact. It was about 2’ thick. In the end it took me about 2 weeks also. That was 2013 and it runs perfectly. 1 hp Gould 27 gpm pump. Since you have a skid steer you could of used it to drive down s steel point.
@Imwright720 Жыл бұрын
Nice video, thank you
@msredneck00111 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
Estoy cavando un pozo a martillazos manual he llegado a una profundidad de 12 metros a una capa de lodo al perforar el hacha se pega en el lodo por lo que es dificil sacarla hasta que tenga la ayuda de otra persona para jala el grano ¿Nos puedes ayudar con una solución y el tipo de hacha que se usa en el lodo?
@user-pv6rf3nm5l11 ай бұрын
You need to alternate between high pressure and high flow to have enough flow to lift the solids or you will work all day like this
@bunsdad45309 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tip!
@SteveDoesEverything8 ай бұрын
easy there with the video aditting and cutting off whole sections the the drilling proces
@steelmouth83 Жыл бұрын
Is there some better equipment you could of used to drill the well ?
@llewellynglinton89211 ай бұрын
Yes, hand dig 6 feet, put in 8" or 10" tube of 6 feet. Use the dug up soil to create a small dam around the world area, get some bentonite/clay/cow dung ANY ONE will do. Add water create slurry. Get a 3" steel pipe , attach a union or nipple with its edge ground sharp. Start lifting and dropping. Do it till you hit water. Once water hit, attach larger welded nipple to end with edges sharpened start widening hole. That's how we do in india. Mechanical rotary style costs 1-2 USD per feet.
@nhilistickomrad42594 ай бұрын
you'll always be a better man for busting that ass to support yourself..great job
@nicholaskuhar62327 ай бұрын
Good job
@davidsingh66119 ай бұрын
why not a sand point well ?
@BillyJoeBob-tv6co10 күн бұрын
Excellent video,
@Renatousa177 ай бұрын
Wouldn't you recommend having the water tested for chemicals, bacteria, and spores?
@samuelwassey496811 ай бұрын
Yes, anytime you drill a well you should have the water tested. We did have ours tested also.
@SteveDoesEverything11 ай бұрын
What's the point of the 4" ?
@davidvaughan37716 ай бұрын
went under a tree root. Just turn the digger backwards to twist out from under root... Happened to me twice...
@edgarbledsoe35547 ай бұрын
Where do you get bentonite clay from?
@JOHNG104A Жыл бұрын
My local well drilling company sold it to me.
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
I think your problem was choosing a pressure washer, instead of a large volume gasoline powered water pump. The loosened sand/dirt needs to be removed from the hole by the water coming up. A pressure washer doesn’t pump enough water to do that.
@goatsinker3473 ай бұрын
You should have made an adapter to hook the gas powered auger to your cutting head pipe and saved yourself a lot of running in circles and wrenching back and forth! 😅
@shk2564 Жыл бұрын
Try that here in Aridzona Caliche soil.
@ronwade22065 ай бұрын
Lolol…. After she sees him trying to pull it out and finally shut off the motor….”is it stuck”? Lol
@aaronschultz7510 Жыл бұрын
You should've watched other videos before making this video, I do appreciate your efforts but it really should've been titled Water Well Does and Don's or something like that, achieved the goal and that's a plus. God Bless.
@elvissosa9563 Жыл бұрын
when mine gets stuck... i rev it up and pull up while it is trying to dig down. It always releases.
@grumpa57986 ай бұрын
Just be happy you can do it by hand, where I'm at you don't even hit water until 230+ feet and don't have a viable well until 300 pluss feet most of it is in hard lava rock
@holdenperkes5231 Жыл бұрын
Bud, you really need a face shield with that grinder .
@chuckcassel5417 Жыл бұрын
Your video was VERY AMUSING 👍😂😁😄😆 I was laughing endlessly. Are you serious. All of the great videos made of drilling an off grid home well. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG You should have watched a few. Your poor choices and methods were endless, even to a rooky. I applaud your efforts, and willingness to share. Hitting water or not, it was A GREAT VIDEO 😂😆😄😁👍
@user-mw8ch3jt9x10 ай бұрын
need at least 500 gal. a min. pump to bring the soil to the top
@wolfgangzeisig631310 ай бұрын
Are you in Florida?
@donniehelmly49209 ай бұрын
Yep
@SteveDoesEverything9 ай бұрын
Next time build a wooden handle with hose clamps attached to grab and turn the pipe. Much easier to use than those heavy pipe wrenches.
@mikethedesertrat Жыл бұрын
I ended up doing that on the second we’ll attempt. Worked much better
@SteveDoesEverything Жыл бұрын
How deep it should be ❓ thanks
@magnummesiona727 ай бұрын
Check with your local water management dept for historical water table levels
Let me know if this is something you’ve done and your experiences.
lack of water volume, not pressure makes a huge difference, got a 330 gallon tote and used that with a water pump and drove down 40 feet. (no shell rock) in about 6 hours. first well took three long days because there was not enough water volume to lift the sand and dirt out of the way, But now you independent on water and that is a great thing. bravo for keep punching intill you knocked it down.
What did your total cost add up too?
@@terrafirma9328 I already owned a 2” mud pump and a pressure washer. I bought the pressure washer jetter attachment and extra length of hose for about 40 bucks in Amazon. (Although the jetter and pressure washer method ended up not being a great method) Plus the cost of the PVC sticks,couplers, glue, galvanized coupler, pool filter sand, bentonite clay. So all in about 350-400 bucks, not including my time.
Good jod when DIY any job it can be tasking I find this specially in stuff I have no experience with doing :)
@@paperburn Is correct! A pressure nozzle could help to loosen material at the bottom of the hole but high water flow (volume) is what it will take to flush drill cuttings up and push them out of the bore hole. We sometimes used an air compressor to blow water and muck out of a well too. It takes a big compressor (ours was 185 CFM at 125 PSI) with enough air hose to reach the bottom. This can produce a nice geyser, very dramatic ! 😲
Dude your soils like butter, holy cow I would have found like six baseball-sized rocks and not first little bit you dug
Same problem here in mohave county. Baseball to chest sized rocks all over
Me too in manitoba.. rocks right up to boulders.. pain I the ass just trying to get down 1 foot..
This has to be Florida. Here in West GA it's a bitch trying to do this
I have a trench digger my property so hard for the first 2 feet. It’ll bend the bucket if I’m not watching.
@@kevinwithrowm ml❤8
Oh man, this was such a heartwarming video. I love your entire family participation! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching 😊
It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤
It baffles me that this isn't every man's dream.
Thank you for sharing. The galvanized “bit” that you made really helped your process, even if not cutting through shell rock I would think the steel vs PVC would cut so much better.
Interesting video, I don't think the process would be quite the same here in our rocky Pennsylvania ground, but it started the wheels turning in my mind. Pretty good story/plot delivery, thanks for taking the time to put the video together!
Happy you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
DIY Well Drilling Using a Hand Drill.
You had the right idea for the drilling bit, but you needed carbide drill points or anything that was hardened steel to drill through the shale rock easier. But at least you got it done. Now you know what to do for the next one. Good job.
I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.
USE GALVANISED PIPE VERY EASY
Great job!! I have drilled 3 wells with a Deep Rock one man drill and got plenty of water, but had a problem because I had gravel and the gravel wouldn't flow out of the hole very well, but I finally had success and got plenty of water each time!!!
How did you get the gravel out? Pump water faster and add mud for higher thickness
Great video Steve. Working on a shallow well using the pressure washer approach. We're about 30' down and progress is now slow....Very encouraging to see others run into problems, work through the process and figure it out in the end. Appreciate you showing failures as well as successes. Keep it up man.
Good job man. I'm looking to jet a well with a 2" or 3" mud pump along with bentonite clay.
This is so inspiring. Thanks
I live down in Hendry county and I want to drill a well on my property. your video was very informative Thank you and your Family.
Glad you found it helpful. The best method I found was the mud pump attached to the top of the pipe. The only issue with this is adding another piece of pipe. I had to let the glue set for an hour before proceeding again
@@SteveDoesEverything well, I can understand the wait for the glue to set, it would be extremely sad to have your pipe fall off in the hole where you cannot reach it.
@@Terkinstein yes. Happened to me on my first hole attempt
You've shown me that I shouldn't try to do this myself after all lol.
Nice work. You stuck it out - Congratulations!
Proud of you. saved thousands of dollars. Unprofessional video but real and original. I like it. You are a hard working man. You needed to buy a batter pump though.
Thank you for your support
Good job 👍 I plan to do similar.
Is it stuck..! That line hooked me perfectly..!
Makes me even more grateful that I live in West Michigan. I got a jackhammer and beat a well point down 25 feet to good water in an hour. The water is clear and delicious. I don't know why people want to live anywhere else. If you do, try a jackhammer and 3x10-foot sections of galvanized pipe and a jackhammer.
Great idea, thanks. We gotta go down a lot farther for good clean water
You definitely have me thinking. We just had to have our well pump replaced $2,500 later. My current well is 220 feet deep with the well pump set at 120 feet. He said I could pump 100GPM which seems like a bunch... The well should always have plenty of water in it if it's that deep I have thought about the steel pointed drill, the one you drive into the ground. But I'm afraid the water might be too deep to reach after hearing how deep our well is. Our soil is very sandy even though we are well inland. Here SE Texas where we are there is sandy clay under the sand. I have not been down much more than a post hole digger, but the dirt all looks the same everywhere I have put a fence post. I think I have a shallow spring just outside of the back yard fence. Our pasture stays wet forever after a rain. Even though it has not rained here for two full months and we have been living with the 100 degree days my grass is still green in the low area that leads to the creek. Most of my grass in that area is still green. I'm just looking for water for my gardens (2) and fruit trees.
You can check out the USGS ground water data for your area to get a good idea how far you’ll need to go to hit water
Nice work congratulations 👏
If you are going to hand drill do it in the valley center in a slight sloping ground, take two pieces of 2"×4" join them together with two bolts bore a round hole in the joint so when it is bolted around the pipe its tight enough to turn the pipe, use a belt as a shim if needed
You got it, bless you
👍 this is Amazing . the Skid Steer Drilling attachment is an option ..
Are you a great handyman? Thanks for that
Good Man, Your efforts, paid off, staying on point.
Thanks for the encouragement 😊
Been there, done that several years ago. I found it works better if you drill the coupling bit and put a bolt through it so it can't unscrew from the pvc. If you make a paddle board that you can grip on each side and then use steel hose clamps you can tighten it up on the pipe and turn the pipe in either direction and then as needed loosen the clamps and slide the paddle board up to where it works best. I drilled three wells and lost the second one and had to abandon it. I've decided if I ever want to drill another I'll dig a pit to fill with water and bentonite and use a mud pump to flush the mud out of the hole and save all that effort.
In central Illinois (shameful state), I used a hand crank auger with extensions to go down about 20 feet (8inch diameter). I did the project in late summer when the water table was the lowest. It was crazy easy and did not take very much time.
Shameful how?
@@poa2.0surface77 You are full on deluded.
I think he means the city of Chicago. @@a.m.mcaloon9874
Was going to click away early in the video. Glad I stayed till the end ! Good job you have true grit.
Well done Steve!
Thank you! 🥹
Very cool brother 💪
Mad respect!!
Would love to see you talk about your finnshed setup. Tank, pump looks like you put a softner/ filter on.
I do have a video on that. I just need to finish editing.
Doing one now in Punta Gorda. Shell rock at 20'. Making a separate drill stem from galvanized 3/4 and fitting at the end with teeth. Connecting to post hole digger, to punch a hole through the hardpack. Should be fun.
Should be fun. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you. If I did another, I would use the mud pump from the get go and the clay to help cut and line the hole.
Did you use bentonite clay?
Nicely done!
Thank you
Good Job. More need to know how to do this. 😀
Yeah😂 ,it was entertaining. In my opinion, knowledge is the first step to DIY own well drilling. Learning from the best (on KZhead, even if it's in foren language) will help you to be successful, with lot less of work
Good job mate you got there in the end.
Thank you 😊
Excuse me SIR, you SHOULD be using a N⁰ 3 OR N⁰ 7 16 tap certified water pick axe combo unit with a galvanized steel plate for the first hole pipe. I'm just being a turd burglar, lol, I love how you did this and the fact that you did it YOURSELF, with YOUR OWN TOOLS AND HANDS. BRAVO, kick ass!
"this was not a task for the faint of heart"..... Is an understatement of the highest magnitude.
Need a well at cottage. Might try this.
I love how one of the key aspects to almost every DIY well vid is a water source, and not one content creator seems to see the irony.
Yep. Only other way is to drive. We’ll point down by hand or machine. This is how I got the first water source. But it was very shallow, about 16ft. Water flow was terrible.
So bring it back to your property 55 gallons at a time in a barrel...
@@honuswagner9348 I'm not saying there's no solutions. But I find the irony and ubiquitous lack of addressing said irony, hilarious.
@@joebobjenkins7837 every situation is different, there's no way anyone could make a video to address every single potential roadblock to getting water to drill a well
I just assumed they had a water tank for the supply.
Did you plug the 4inch strainer to keep dirt out
Imagine the work involved in ancient times digging wells hundreds of feet -sometimes in rock!
Tell me about it.
How are you removing the particles you loosen by drilling? Normally a drilling fluid (thickened water) is used to lift up the particles. How deep did your working well go down?
On my second attempt I used the bentonite clay after about 15 feet and that worked really well. “Pun intended” 😊 total depth was 35”
You did good , water will clear up in a few days , good luck with it.
Thanks 😊
various things... mount the drill on a frame, with enough height to pull each rod... or pair of rods. stops it spinning on you too... get down a few metres and its a nightmare... watch an oil rig setup... on that note, you want the clamps to hold the string when you add/remove rods. doesnt actually have to be much fancier than a decent bit of plate with a hole in it. pivot on the top edge and the hole will grab the rod... either grab some masonry drills, or stump grinder teeth, and weld them on the pilot...
When you cut off the first piece of pipe leave enough of the pipe past the bell so that if you have to you can use the pipe in the future.
Thanks for the tip
It would be nice to know what state you're drilling in
Damn woman asking reasonably curious questions while I am working on something, secretly winging the whole mess. All calculating and intentional.
A high volume pump is what is needed to lift the soil & mud out of the well. If you hit rocks or Shale with this setup you are do e for sure. Rotary drills and carbide bits for most rocks is required at minimum.
Yeah If I lived in a rocky area. I would have probably paid to have someone else do it.
This guy knows what tools to use
I did 45 feet with just connecting metal pipes and a large auger type end to dig down all manually but around here it's supposed to be 100 feet that was way back in 2000 I might just invest in it because they want $800 dollars to renew contract that's why I am here looking to get ideas I had more energy back then
You get an A on perseverance!
Yah bless you brother.
What quality of water did it end up being?
Wish we could have seen you do the second well?
Well done, I was watching your video couple times, as well as others. we're currently driving our own well. We also use same metal bit on a 2'' pipe for drilling, but 2 water hoses from normal water supply. we met small gravels, difficult to get them out. Question - did you smash the gravels and water rushed them out by using jet water? whats your mud pump's driving power or that of power washer pump? Thanks
Hi, if you connect 2 inch pump hose to end of drill pipe instead of 2 garden hoses, you’ll get way better pressure. Also if you use bentonite clay slurry in you water pump mix it will help bring small stones etc up from the hole.
@@SteveDoesEverything I'm thinking to get a high pressure washer to connect my jet hose, preparing to use bentonite...
Is there any reverse on those things?
Good job!
Thank you 😊
So was it worth it? Versus hiring pro? Or using city water on the lese than 1 acre crops? What is the dollar per lbs goal again?
Good job. What is the name of that machine with two wheels?
There is a generator and a pressure washer in the video, both with 2 wheels. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching
Parabéns amigo
If you are using galvanized fittings of any type you may want to check the lead content
It's BRAVE to show the fails & successes. Good on ya
Fine video but try it anywhere but in sand like most of us have...the Poconos of P really knows how to grow rocks.
I was just up in the Poconos visiting last month. Stayed in Dingmans Ferry. It was beautiful.
I live in texas and we just use old oil drilling Steel pipe
It look's like your in Fl. The "Shell Rock" is called Cashea (I probably slaughtered that lol), they have another way to do it and it's almost like an oil rig but way smaller and you drive 4" at a time. It's ssssoooooo much easier!.
How much water do you think is the need during the process. Where are you getting thevwater to use in thevpipe
I drove a shallow well point with my skid steer several months prior on the lot next to this one. It only went down 16 feet and the water quality wasn’t great nor did it flow real well. But I used the water from that well to fill the reservoir I made for this well. Overall a constant supply of about 250 gallons should be enough
Question: How do you know where and how deep water is underground?
You can check out your local health dept for that info or check out national water table listings for your area
I myself will be drilling a well sometime soon
Wish you good luck sir
@@SteveDoesEverything I need all the advice I can get I am looking for a good used auger to start with
@@davidsingh6611 you don’t necessarily need an auger. You can use a post hole digger to go down 2-3 feet. Just takes a little more elbow grease
👍👍👌👌God bless you and your wonderful family 🤗
We had a neighbor from england when i was young, he had forms to dig down 4 feet per day, mix concrete, fill forms and by the next day he could stand on the cement to dig the next 4 feet. It seemed to work pretty good. Dig as deep as you wanted in the ground in that area at least.
Is it stuck, what a dump question. That’s basically how I did mine except I didn’t think to use a pressure washer. Mud pump would work better with the large pipe then maybe the pressure washer. I made it 27’ before all the water just disappeared. At 8’ I hit coral. I made a bit using steel electrical conduit as the shaft. I hooked it to my big electric impact. It was about 2’ thick. In the end it took me about 2 weeks also. That was 2013 and it runs perfectly. 1 hp Gould 27 gpm pump. Since you have a skid steer you could of used it to drive down s steel point.
Nice video, thank you
Thanks for watching
Estoy cavando un pozo a martillazos manual he llegado a una profundidad de 12 metros a una capa de lodo al perforar el hacha se pega en el lodo por lo que es dificil sacarla hasta que tenga la ayuda de otra persona para jala el grano ¿Nos puedes ayudar con una solución y el tipo de hacha que se usa en el lodo?
You need to alternate between high pressure and high flow to have enough flow to lift the solids or you will work all day like this
Thanks for the tip!
easy there with the video aditting and cutting off whole sections the the drilling proces
Is there some better equipment you could of used to drill the well ?
Yes, hand dig 6 feet, put in 8" or 10" tube of 6 feet. Use the dug up soil to create a small dam around the world area, get some bentonite/clay/cow dung ANY ONE will do. Add water create slurry. Get a 3" steel pipe , attach a union or nipple with its edge ground sharp. Start lifting and dropping. Do it till you hit water. Once water hit, attach larger welded nipple to end with edges sharpened start widening hole. That's how we do in india. Mechanical rotary style costs 1-2 USD per feet.
you'll always be a better man for busting that ass to support yourself..great job
Good job
why not a sand point well ?
Excellent video,
Wouldn't you recommend having the water tested for chemicals, bacteria, and spores?
Yes, anytime you drill a well you should have the water tested. We did have ours tested also.
What's the point of the 4" ?
went under a tree root. Just turn the digger backwards to twist out from under root... Happened to me twice...
Where do you get bentonite clay from?
My local well drilling company sold it to me.
I think your problem was choosing a pressure washer, instead of a large volume gasoline powered water pump. The loosened sand/dirt needs to be removed from the hole by the water coming up. A pressure washer doesn’t pump enough water to do that.
You should have made an adapter to hook the gas powered auger to your cutting head pipe and saved yourself a lot of running in circles and wrenching back and forth! 😅
Try that here in Aridzona Caliche soil.
Lolol…. After she sees him trying to pull it out and finally shut off the motor….”is it stuck”? Lol
You should've watched other videos before making this video, I do appreciate your efforts but it really should've been titled Water Well Does and Don's or something like that, achieved the goal and that's a plus. God Bless.
when mine gets stuck... i rev it up and pull up while it is trying to dig down. It always releases.
Just be happy you can do it by hand, where I'm at you don't even hit water until 230+ feet and don't have a viable well until 300 pluss feet most of it is in hard lava rock
Bud, you really need a face shield with that grinder .
Your video was VERY AMUSING 👍😂😁😄😆 I was laughing endlessly. Are you serious. All of the great videos made of drilling an off grid home well. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG You should have watched a few. Your poor choices and methods were endless, even to a rooky. I applaud your efforts, and willingness to share. Hitting water or not, it was A GREAT VIDEO 😂😆😄😁👍
need at least 500 gal. a min. pump to bring the soil to the top
Are you in Florida?
Yep
Next time build a wooden handle with hose clamps attached to grab and turn the pipe. Much easier to use than those heavy pipe wrenches.
I ended up doing that on the second we’ll attempt. Worked much better
How deep it should be ❓ thanks
Check with your local water management dept for historical water table levels