A Tough Job We'll Never Forget! First Day Drilling with a Newly Updated Machine! Schramm 450WS 

I watch many "Trade" related videos because it presents the picture of what makes America great! Your channel reinforces that picture! I look forward to viewing your gift to America every week. I'm convinced that producing a great video is an Art Form ... some have it and some don't ... Rock On!

Cicadas are crazy loud !

Never fails when you take time off, you always get the worst job when you come back. Y’all handled it well. Be Safe!

You guys should look into communication gear like sonetics. I got them for our crew and it's so much nicer for communicating.

Ha! It’s great that well drilling became a family outing with the cool doggo. 👍🏻

I know of a guy that pulled a no start, commercial vehicle out of the road with a set of jumper cables 😂 it was a pinch situation ofcourse, but it worked somehow!

I lost water coming from my pitless well. Your videos helped me with everything. My pump was dated 1992! After replacing it and no water still, I found out it was a bad underground wire from the house to the well casing. Anyways, thank you for the videos. It helped tremendously

Well, you guys do good work. Up here in MI, we had several years ago, a driller while on a job, blow the truck engine. They had to bring in a crane to pull the engine. The rig was stuck there for 2 weeks. Front bumper 5 foot in the air.

YOU are Pumped UP, and you got the crew all excited to be back doing what you love !!! Good to see ! You inspire young men to get a trade that is needed by their community, Then the rewards will come. Providing a needed service better than others will do is an extremely fine thing that gets a real man all pumped up and makes you want to strut a bit !! You deserve it, Strut !!

Couldn't see the drop until you stepped in it. That was deep. Nice job.

thanks phillip, great video. greetings from uk 👍

Wish I could have had those quartz rocks, would be nice to cut and polish them

Awsome job! First time I've seen rotary drilling. I'd love to meet you someday!

I grew up in the PNW on a late 70's Ingersol Rand TH60 with a steel casing hammer mounted on an International Loadstar 5000. It is interesting to see different practices from another part of the country.😊

Thank you for all the great information can tell you how much it helps me and the rest of my family

Good info on the real world of putting wells in!!

Its nice to see the rig doing so well.

Good feeling when hitting big water Thanks

Always wondered about well digging. Thanks for posting. Enjoyed the divining I saw on another post even though I've seen it done, never saw results like posted. Thanks again.

I have alot of respect for what you do. be safe brother

Geweldig gedaan het is echt een top job 👍Groetjes van uit Holland 👋🏼🇳🇱

Everything is soooo different with that rig to what i used here in Sweden, when i was working for a drill company. 👍 We used a Nemek drill rig, on tracks, that is able to raise and tilt the mast in any direction. And with a 20 bar (290 psi) air compressor, powered with a CAT C13, just screaming wide open! (To be honest, that air compressor was too small.) But it makes me happy to see someone being proud of what they are doing! Good work, fellas!

Man they did an amazing job with the refurb on the smeal!

I knew the color of your rig. used your rig to adjust the new t.v color

great show thanks

I like the way you look into the camera lens. Why? Because when you look into the lens...it like you are talking directly to your viewers. Good job!

Nice job guys

Great job,cant wait to next video

Good job man. I enjoy your videos.

Good job and wow on the 50GPM

I started working for a 3rd generation well driller who still had a couple cable machines, talked of a rope machine where you had to turn the rope every 3rd hit. And it was the farmers responsibility with his team of horses to move the rig to next job. A long way from the State of the art Chicago Pneumatic well drills we used. His brother used Ingersol rand drills. The CPs in my opinion were superior

Good job man

Wow I love wach your videos

Very cool

Looks like a good day to break in new clothes! 😁 Never know what you'll find under the ground...

We use steel casing up here in New England and don't have that issue when we hit a lot of water! FYI

@H2O Mechanic My suggestion is you guys invest in some pig mats to place under the hydraulic valves for the next six months at each drilling site until you find all the leaks. It'll help you find leaks faster while under load/working conditions.

You got bugs making a racket in the background? I've read they got a cicada hatching event .

try the "Yankem" Ropes if you ever have problems, nice job!

Cool 😎

We don't expect you to film when it is dangerous. No apologynecessary.

Look into midland radio’s. We absolutely love them

I am subbed to you already.

Hey dude u wanna put window screen over that 1/4 inch mesh or you will have more hornets building under the cabin ...but looking awesome

Look at Yankum ropes for some great tow straps.

Can you come to Hedgesville WV? Really enjoy your videos.

We used 6 5/8 steel casing, welded

i drilled for several years a nd when i saw the video of that new bean 4 cyl pump running, i thought to myself he's pumping way to much water for drilling the overburden, he's going to washout

Tough job handled well by professional people. Love the content. Long time viewer. Got a question from Manahawkin NJ. I have a well. Township ran city water but were able to keep our wells for laws etc. Went to have mine serviced because it wasn't working. Repair company said that because of a casing leak sand was washed into the well and is keeping the pump from being pulled up. How else can this be pulled out and restarted? Thanks so much JT

Need water? Call Hensley. Were fast and friendly.

I'm also not a big Pex fan in certain applications. All I hear is how good pex is until it breaks and decouples.

Yankum ropes can help with the pulling straps

That will teach you to wear new cloths on a shake down drilling. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Only wish I was closer to test out Virginia drilling. It's much different up here in the Sandhills of Nebraska. lol Ever think about going with business band radio instead of CB?

Love these H2O Mechanic videos! I wonder how he can estimate the flow rates just by looking..

Just wondering if you guys have heard about Radon in houses being a bigger issue when the well is drilled near the foundation of the house? Up here in Canada, the government is saying so.

you can really hear the cicadas in the background sounds like an spaceship

I have a well being redone, new pump, another 6 foot added on the casing in order to bring it above ground level and replace the water pipe coming into our house. My house is built on a steep hill with flat 15 foot backyard which the well is located. My problem is water is running out of the well casing unless I am using water. Is there anything I can do to stop the water. I would like to add a dry patio.

You need some Yankum ropes and soft shackles.

I can’t wait for the cicadas to go back underground. They are diving me insane.

Great video! I have a question, how do you know how many gallons per minute flow when you do hit water! Is it by eye or is there a gauge of some sort?

Is there a video showing how you know the gpm the well is producing. Found this site a few months ago the water well process is quite interesting.

When you finish that job how much did I would like to know what the total cost is total job cost thank you even if you put the pump in and everything

want to push 4" PVC using water pressure down 100' for a well in Florida. question can this be done??

Sounds like the roar of cicadas in the background. They are deafening in North West Georgia.

Let's go people................ smash that 'like button' and 'subscribe button'.

Need to go with gmrs handheld and mobiles for everybody you can get a license from FCC for $35 no written test fill out the paperwork online and get your license and you can operate several radios off of one license . I have my Amateur ham license and my GMRS license also.

I'm just curious, Have you ever encounter with the deep water blow out(artesian well)

How do you "level" the rig or "plumb" the "Tower"?

Would coral of pipe release the stress on the pipe?

Are work over crane is mounted on a 1 1/2 ton truck and that’s all that truck does is always busy doing pulling wells and doing service work

I hope you had a safety rope when you went into the hole!

They make 1 in pex and it been being used since the 60s it doesn't fail unlike pvc

what was in the aqua clean container? you showed a clear tube with beads flowing through it. what is it and its purpose?

You ever pan the tailings for gold?

Hey Buddy If you don't mind can you tell me the average drilling feet per hour with this machinery

Great video . U allways have a hiccup or two with anything but everything turned out good .

Can you tell us why hitting a spring is bad? Being as you drilling for water, the uninformed would think that was good. Glad to see you hit great water.

Chinesium brass fittings, avoid them. Made is USA fittings are still available.

41:10 in video. Your rig is missing something,, a piece of 14 inch or 20 inch schedule 80 pipe about 4 ft long.. normally gets pressed into the ground around the top of where you're drilling so that when you start your hole it doesn't blow out a 3 ft cavity.. I've seen well drilling videos and probably 22 different countries.. you're the first rig that doesn't use one of those. To direct the material coming out of your hole.. another thing that I would ask about. Most of the wells that you're drilling are in North Carolina.. but your main shop is 1 mile north on the North Carolina border, in Virginia on interstate 15,, the only reason I question that is because I live in Wisconsin. If a well driller would come over here from Minnesota. Or Michigan or Illinois.. the point that I am getting to is that if the well driller here in Wisconsin wants to come and drill a well depending on where it is they only needs like one permit.. a driller coming from a different state. Has to jump through a lot more hoops so that they know the ins and outs of what you can and can't do in this state.. so being that you're out of Virginia and you're doing jobs in North Carolina doesn't complicate the paperwork..

Damn sink holes

Thanks for the long videos too. You could go to an hour and id't be ok by me.

You ever strike gold?

I have a rule in life. If 3 things go wrong I turn around and go back the way I came.

Spent 40 years in the offshore oil drill business. The last 20 years in deep and ultra deep water. Think about running 250' of 350#/ft 30" surface casing and not tagging the seabed until you run about 4500' for drillpipe. Other than that not much difference.

I have a question for anybody that could answer. Out of all the videos I’ve watched related to removing a well pump I don’t believe I’ve seen a pit less adapter with a seal. That appears to be what I’m dealing with and I’ve got the seal loose and can get the system to lift up about a foot and then it appears the seal is catching on the casing. Now this seal is 4ft down the casing. All the videos I’ve seen with a pit less adapter it’s about 4ft down the well with a well cap on top but no seal. Am I just missing something? Lol

Hydrolic? What is that

you don't want trees within 50 feet of a well, is that while drilling ? is it ok to have trees within that 50 feet after well is drilled ? will the roots damage my casing ? my casing is steel with a pitless adapter

was that the same picky homeowner where you found multiple power line breaks from when they made that covered patio and he DIDN'T want a junction box on the post of the patio but you had to replace the entire power line to the well anyways ? "Well Pump Troubleshooting" from 3 weeks ago

Turn the cicadas off😮

How long have you been in the business?

Cicadas?

Let me guess, someone said “this will be easy” before you left the shop.

Beware pressurized hydraulic fluid. A "hydraulic injection injury" can be disfiguring or cost you a limb.

Regarding the water leak job....people sometimes forget tgeres only so much the customer is willing to pay for. We van recommend whats right, but that doesnt mean the client will approve it

You gold mining or well drilling

About the copper adapter that broke, you put it back the same way as the first time. You're going to be back out there in another 18 months. Think real hard on this. You are the expert, you know there is going to be stress on this adapter and it's going to break again. Ask yourself why did I put that back together the same way next time. You could have put a couple unions in, or at least reinforced the connection. Sorry, that was not a good repair.

Who decides where to locate the well?

Boy, Don't you ever go in a hole like that without a rope around you and two men ready to pull your skinny ass out !!! That rig can slide back when it caves in and burry you !! After hurricane Katrina (Waveland MS), working in wet sand, it happened ! Be Safe !!

My goodness you 5 weeks off seem like a distant memory now. Well done excuse the pun.