Completely Destroyed! Ran over Customers Water Well with a Excavator! 

I love how people in the mid west and eastern states still trade work like men, I always remember being at my grandfathers farm and he had a ton of hay but didn’t have a good bailer so his neighbor who had lass land for hay but had a nice working bailer would bail all his hay for some extra for his farm… good people helping good people and making it work that’s how it should be

Great video. It's good to see people working together.

Barter is always the best option when it’s possible. As an old man, and doing both of those, fixing a well and putting in lateral lines for a septic system. I think it was a good barter.

A great job as always. It is so good to see how you guys could barter your trades and work out a deal that would satisfy one another's needs. Keep up the great work!!!

One Hand Washes the Other. Excellent Video. . 🤜🌟🤛

Quick easy trick to stop getting your knees wet . Is a old rubber car mat. Just put a little hole in it , so it can hang to dry.😉

After hand pulling our 780' pump twice, I'm jealous.

Hopefully we get to see the video of your grey line repair. Great video as always

Saturday night watching well repair, love it, thanks.

Quite the machine :-). I’m a retired plumber. I pulled a pump (200/50’) by hand “only once” LOL. Love it!.

12:25 I’m surprised you don’t twist when gluing… that insures it’s sealed well. Plus you should hold the pipe together so it doesn’t separate when curing for those few seconds.

You make it look so easy and very good at explaining

get an old pillow to stuff in the casing so you can keep the saw filings out of the well

Great video, great job. A win win situation for everyone. 👍👍

Dang... you do some really nice work. Thanks for sharing

quick suggestion: When you were digging out the ends of the pipes I noticed that especially for the small 1 inch water pipe your shovel was kind of too big and the garden shovel was small and both were straight which makes it harder to dig down into a small round hole. I suggest getting one of those small military style folding pocket shovels. The shovel blades can be straight to dig down or angled at 90 degrees to the handle to make a perfect scoop for getting down into narrow holes and around pipes. Some of those shovels have a blade on one side and a spike on the other which is great for ripping into gravel mixed with dirt. I have been using one of those shovels for years digging around sprinkler pipes and pop up risers and I bet you, once you try it you will like it. P.S. if you get one, I suggest one with a straight pipe handle, not a triangle handle design and a smaller blade size, maybe 5 x 7 inches or so.

This was a walk in the park compared to that last one with the police chase. Lol.looked good as new!

Little nitpicky tip: when You rev the genny hard give it some time at idle (maybe 5mins) to get away the heat, then turn it off. That combined with very frequent oil changes and maybe a 15w40 mineral based (no synthetics, You want the dirt to settle in the pan) the little diddy will live a looooong time (I hope). Have a nice day

20 tons is about $150. You treated him fair. He minimized cash out of pocket and his customer is happy.

Bartering is one thing I missed when I left mechanic work on motorcycles & cars. Seemed like anything I needed to do around the house... I knew a guy. Barter good for everyone involved!

guards rails/cement bollards or some kind of sturdy above ground protection to stop the well from being damaged. Seems like a smart, logical thing to do !! As they say, an ounce of prevention beats a ton of cure..

I’m pretty sure you’re going to make out on the deal, he’ll have close to three hundred if not a little more just in fuel between the the trucking and skid steer obviously depending on the distance between everyplace. I think it’s a good deal for both. I like to see that people still trying to help one another out by bartering. I try and barter when ever the opportunity presents itself.

Some people figure what their cost was and the gravel hauler figures what it costs him and at the end of the year after bartering for the year they settle up. Or they just do like you did and everyone is happy. With two guys on the job for two hours I'd say you probably will come out ahead but the gravel hauler is relieved that you got it done so win win!

20:50 I didn't know it until I read the directions but the glue direction says to apply the the glue before the primer dries.

Your (plural) way out or the way you handled the "cost" of repairs makes a lot of sense in that both of you don't have any accounting (paperwork) to do. That is a whole lot simpler than exchanging money if the arrangement is satisfactory to both parties.

i have two properties with wells on each and i just learned a lot. keep these videos coming.

The tools and know how is priceless great video 2 men 2hrs ❤

20 tons of 57s up here in the Charlottesville area will run you about $500.00 with delivery. Your friend's dump truck doesn't look like it will carry 20 tons so he's doing 2 trips for you. It depends on how far he has to drive for his loads and then to your house to know what his actual cost will be. I think you might have the better end of this deal; depends on what you charge per hour, what you charge for travel time and the fact that it was an emergency call, and what you pay your helper. Barter is the way to go when you can swing it.

No pitless adapter to stay below the freeze line? Not a northern N.Y. install.

Ima plumber in upstate NY it's interesting to see the difference in geography that dictates what and how well lines are done as a side note I use a product by Hercules called unpurple its a clear primer that shows up purple under uv light and it makes the job cleaner and more professional looking than the standard purple primer

Cool video!

Love the Barter system, i have used it a number of times. Works well

A great video, well drillers never get away from the Mud! When you barter, it only matters that you think its a good deal. If you,re happy and the other person is happy. That is all that is important..

That lovely microplastic aftertaste

Great video ... great machine for getting the pump out ...me and a mate almost ruptured ourselves getting his out and putting it back in ..boy it gets heavy and try's to run away ... well it ran away alright

I work for norther tool, im the mechanic for them, those powerhorse generatora are awesome we sell a lot of them

Gravel is about $40 a ton here delivered. I imagine he can do it cheaper than that. Still you saved a big bag of money making that deal.

Good job.!! Great video!!

That barter is a great win win. He's saving money and so are you.

Did many repair jobs on irrigation systems and water lines in 40+ yrs of grounds work and installations, used a 3/4 x 12" dowel tp get a bit of slack when gluing some joints on vertical pipes.

Interesting video. I have a well so it sparked my interest in how things are done! Good job!

Great video!

Greetings from Maine! Great video, I'm a new subscriber, thanks for sharing.

thxs for sharing...

A tip I saw the other day for keeping PVC glue from drying up in the can prematurely is to seal the can in a seal a meal bag. If you use a larger one a person can get two or more uses out of the bag. Perhaps sealing your chlorine in a seal a meal bag would keep it from corroding things in your truck.

Great video

Win - win for everyone. Good men!

You need to get yourself a better internal pipe cutter, wheeler makes excellent pipe hogs and pipe cutters. The wheeler rex internal pipe cutter works great and you get perfectly straight clean cuts. I have another internal pipe cutter but I can't remember what brand it is. It looks like an engine hone and it's spring loaded and it has guide rollers that spin inside the pipe making nice square cuts and it will cut from 4" to 8" pipe.

Your company is honest and fair, that's to be commended! You realize that this was an honest mistake, and are fixing the problem at your expense. We'll done!

That's why the trades a more valuable. Used to work with a great well driller, I was younger then, but always making deals.

Good repair job

Did well pump work for 20 years in Piedmont NC. Johnson's pump and plumbing service.

Teamwork makes the dream work

Well I think he is going to make out ok AN your going to make out good in the end ! I do that all the time when I can when I need some work done ❤

As a psychologist I see it this way. You're just a good caring guy.

Nice repair I don’t do well work but I think it should be a pretty even deal that you guys made.😊

Great job never seen it. Well pulled out like that. Anytime, that was pretty interesting.

Gotta love it when bartering works out.

Man, I really like that red dump truck. That thing is Sweeeet

This may be a stupid question, but why don't you use one of those inflatable test plugs to keep more stuff from falling down the well until ready to put the pump back in?

This was a educational video. Thanks Bro. 20 ton delv.400 skid steer 2 hr 400. But if he's loyal priceless. I think he's going to be available for you.

A couple of pipe bollards can protect the wellhead in the future. Or if decorative is needed, possibly some landscaping bushes.

Just off the top of my head $1,000.00 min. These days that mite barely cover expenses. Good to see you are able to barder with the driver to cover the costs. I agree it's good.

Nice job

That shows theres still some decent people in the world trades helping trades. Awesome way of working things out payment wise. Instead of all this sueing each other crap.

Enjoy your videos. How do deal with different freeze depths like in Alaska it's 4 feet so most depths for water stuff is around 6 feet? You right about finding good help!!

There but for the grace go I. I've bumped one of the wells in our orange grove a time or two with the brush hog coming around the corner too hot.

good job

That is a cool tool used to pull the pump!

nice job

Hey from up here in new england we use metal well casing pit list, adapters, and heat shrinks on the wire just saying but nice video

I never knew how you could do it? The purple primmer drys so fast. Although on the instructions on purple primer says glue before dry 🙄.

@H2o Mechanic Might I suggest a glove configuration different than what you currently use. 1. Use Ice Fishing gloves that go directly on your hands. They will keep you warm and dry. 2. Use oversized leather gloves over the Ice Fishing gloves, this will protect the ice fishing gloves from getting damaged and add another barrier between your skin and the elements too. I'm from Wisconsin and use this when I do snow-blowing in the winter.

Do you ever use the "anti-twist" rubber thing on the lower or on the pump?

That sounds like a good deal .

Question 1) You often speak of the many fail-safes built into the Grundfos SQ Series pump. I agree with you and was wondering if they have a 4" Series pump with the same features like soft start and run dry protection that the SQ Series has which is only 3" models?

Noticed while you were pulling pump out there were no shock arrester on the motor and no stand off for the wire as you put the well back together is that standard for your area.

There is a secret lock on your drill for smooth drill bits. Lock your chuck as normal then click the chuck back one click. Then it won’t come undone or slip 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Sounds like a fair exchange

This is very cool, and speaking of cool, seems like you guys are in a cold weather for what i see, Good job... I had few wells in my life and I love them...

Oh friends helping friend! That’s what makes the world go round! 6:31

My question is it appears that your in a Northern state, what is to keep that line from freezing at the shutoff, or is line empty until the valve is opened

I love the barter

Wow.......they located close to road......and no cement cap .........no markers.......cheers

Check out chambers for your leach field. They work much better than gavel. I recently got my septic installers license here in Central NC and we use the heck out of them. NC also gives you a reduced leach field when using chambers because they are so much more efficient. Basically the idea is a piece of gravel smashed into the soil renders that surface area unavailable to accept water. Chambers leave the entire trench bottom as bare soil to accept water.

Maybe a bit of a odd ball question. What area of the country are you in that there is no need to bury the pipe coming out of the well casing? Here in PA it's a good idea to get below frost with the well tap.

That well... if it was my place... I'd have some reflectors near it, and some reflective tape on the rock... hopefully to not have it hit again.

You have fancy equipment. I had to pull line by hand at about 200 ft of white cvpc and a tusted foot valve.

I noticed when you cut the pipe, you did not put a chamfer on the outside edge. You showed that in a previous video and is something I do on all my pipe.🤔

I would love to see the video for the gravel trenches. I am a little south of you and experience the same issue.

Well I live here in Indiana and I put well pumps in just like you can we put in septic tanks now here in this state you have to put what they call a perimeter drain around the finger system all the groundwater don't run back to your tank

When I was having shop building added several years ago, it was going to be about 30 feet from my well. I did not think anyone would hit it, but just to be real sure I pounded a few tee posts around it and tied an orange flag tape to them to make it stand out as much as possible.

Good job Kids.

Snatch that power cord man lol

I love your videos man!!! But i think you should put those electrical joints upwards. Over time water will drip in them and it's dangerous. In rest flawless work as usual expected on this channel :D

fair trade off considering parts and labor for yours and material and use of equipment from him yah fair

Honestly Id have a big marker over the punp something that is a supper bright color and reflective to help keep it from getting it ran over again.

Growing up, we hated when the lights went out because it meant crawling into the well house and opening it up. Then, we used buckets to fill up with pool water to prime the pump. Living where we lived, in hurricane prone areas, meant at least once a year we had to do this. The city water finally came out to our house, and mom signed us up for city water. That was the nastiest water compared to what we had. We had to get a filter for the house. That was when we thought maybe working a little bit was better than drinking city water.

Great job. Why did you put sawdust with the soil to seal the faux rock cover on the pump?

Interesting.... plastic well casings are not allowed up here. LOVE the bartering....best way to do business and a handshake agreement is the way to do it! Aint no school like the old school!!!!