Customer Forced to Fill Water Well in with Concrete. Reverse Trimmy Method. Well Abandonment 

As an English person, I love the way you say SEEment.

I love the way you clean up behind yourself. Very professional!.

I'm really impressed with the way you clean up the job site, and leave it in the condition you found it. It's a darn shame the knuckle head concrete delivery man wasn't on the same page.

I didn't ask the question on how to abandon a well. You learn something everyday. Worth a subscribe

I really love your attention to the customer's property. Thanks for sharing your work and expertise.

This is why I love the internet. I enjoyed learning something interesting that I never even knew I wanted to know about. 👍

I totally dug watching this video. Well oiled machine on how that works. Thanks for sharing 😊

imo being an old Oil Well Guy, it might be worth digging a cellar around the well, 4 feet below grade, before abandoning the well. That keeps your work below ground level and wont be noticed on surface by lawn mowers and such. Great job. I learned a bunch.

I learn more from youtube than anywhere else anymore. I'm definitely using this trick from here on out. We've used old hammer drills to shake the pipe. Sawzalls with wood attached tona blade then a concrete vibrator from harbor freight, and it always takes forever to get the concrete to drop. Some pvc pipe and problem solved 👌🏽 too damn easy to not have thought of it before! We use the same blue barrels, though. We usually cut them down when the concrete dries. Thanks. Have a good one 👍🏽

Nicely done. Regulations are different in different states. In Wisconsin, this method is not allowed. We can do this with different grout and use a tremie to pump the grout through the pipe instead of flowing it into the well like this. Also the tremie has to be removed. It cannot remain in the well. For most residential wells we are using bentonite chips to fill the well and put a cement plug at the top.

Great video I learned something new today. The well digger; another unsung hero of modern times.

Love the red, white and blue buckets.

I had a shallow well that went dry. Part of the job for the new deep well was to fill in the old shallow one. My well driller couldn't find the old well. He followed the water line as far as he could, but it disappeared somewhere underground, and he didn't want to tear up the yard looking for it. I eventually found it, it was right underneath a hand pump in the front yard. We thought it was decorative, but it was the real thing. Later on I found a bunch of half inch holes scattered over the front yard that were all old wells. The neighbor came over and told me the former owner would routinely pull up the point and sink it in another area of the yard, often only going down 10-15 feet. As the area got developed, all the shallow wells eventually went dry. My well driller never came back to fill in any if the holes.

I have no idea why this was recommended for me but it was very interesting.

Very good video. love how you explain things to us that don't work in your industry.

Never seen this procedure. Thanks

Have you ever tried on of the "bigfoot" sono tube bases as a funnel? We use them on the top of sono tubes all the time to shoot the concrete in. Doesn't leave the extra that you have in the bottom of the barrel. Love watching your videos, great balance of explaining everything and showing the process.

8:50 Catch all the heavy stuff in the bucket ? Sounds like a Gold Miner 😂😂

dang that is close to the house, very cool seeing how old infrastructure is properly abandoned., you hear stories where someone is injured by an abandoned well,

Love your channel. Found it about a month ago when I wanted to learn more about my well system. A lot of what you do is different than what they do up here in Wisconsin, but it's still fun to watch and learn. As for the last bit of your video, family first of course!

I have no idea how I found your channel but it's so interesting. Just watched the drill truck video and it's an amazing machine!

That was very interesting. In my 40 years in this field, I have never heard of reverse trimmy. I have always pumped grout into the trimmy. Great idea and defiantly a time saver. But I don't think Florida Water Management would go for that.

Thanks, very informative. FYI the term, although pronounced trimmy, is spelled tremie. In major concrete projects like footings the use of the pipe is reversed. A large pipe is set in the hole and the concrete is poured inside of it. That pipe however is slowly raised as the concrete is placed rather than being left in place.

Same thing happened to my mother. When the inspectors for the county inspected her new well they said it was too close to the house, by less than a foot. Had perfect water, 8 gpm., moved over and drilled again, got half as much water, and it gets muddy. The only thing I enjoyed, as the co. man leaned over to look down the well, his new Ray Ban aviator sunglasses fell out of his pocket and down with the concrete they went.

Great

Hi Philip, I’m enjoying watching your well content. But I now have a bone to pick with you. As a concrete driver, the biggest term I hear constantly being misused is the term ‘cement’. Cement is the limestone powder that is mixed with sand, aggregate and water, and others to make concrete. The words concrete and cement are not interchangeable! That would be the equivalent of calling cake/pancake batter as flour!

Never seen this done before… cool

That's one of the darndest thing I've ever seen. Kool beans.

I learn something new ! Thank you

I appreciate your hard work and taking the time to explain the operation. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great to learn something new. My local township is coming through with public water and I was curious what I should do with the current drilled well

Now you just have to find a cement company that has the same care and professionalism that ya'll have.

That was cool. this was a new one on me, after 35 years of driving a mixer. thank you.

Nice video. Good work. It’s a concrete truck and you are filling the well with concrete. Cement is one of the ingredients in concrete. The others are sand, stone, water and air.

I never knew there was such a process let alone what it's called; Now I do. Thank you for the education.

Love it when I learn something new thank you.😎

You're lucky to be able to do this, most states require by law that it is pumped from bottom to top and that costs a small fortune... almost as much as drilling the well to begin with

Dude thats a hell of a pad. Even got a fucking moat to walk over. Loved seeing the abandonment method. When we abandoned our 2 wells they just cut them off and buried them. No cement no nothing. And as you know they did the same with the cistrine. lol. We have also had 2 people rip us off on septic in the last 5 years. 2 bad systems.

I worked in the well service 30 years ago. In Nebraska the abandoned well can be filled with gravel and the top 20’ must be sealed bentinite. Or concrete Most old wells are a tube well 2” that have a air motor and pump rod cylinder and leather cups or neoprene

Well, just for the record, we love the content, and at the same time, we know you have a "day job" . Great topic. I really did not know there was a specific system to abandon a well....

I do not drill wells but have plugged old ones with bentonite clay which is recommended by the health department. I like this method better. On average the wells here are 100' to 120 and since I sit above an a larger aquafer my home well is only 48' deep. NW Ohio. Always learn something new and a Big Thumbs up.

Good explanation! It is actually a Tremie pipe rather then a Trimmy pipe.

On the west coast we pull out the casing before back filling the well.

Seems to me the house owner is missing a trick here... They have a perfectly usable shaft whixh could be used for a ground source heat pump, and yet you're filling it it with concrete.

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Thank you for the great info. Also thank you for the parts I ordered from you! I haven't been able to drop the pump in yet but thank you so much for the awesome service! 🤘

In the 1970s and 80s I worked as Petroleum Geologist an the switched to Environmental Geologist in the early 90s and was surprised how poorly water wells were regulated. The completion design was poor and abandonment was worse, leaving lots areas for contamination into the well bore. It is nice to see how much better it has become since I left the industry in the mid. 90s. I do have question about the logic in using the gravel. In the oil fields and water wells, neat cement was used for cementing in casing and well abandonment. I cannot think of an advantage of the gravel other than saving cost on cement. Oh back then some water well folks would mix bentonite with the cement thinking that it would help with the seal. I would not let them because in the oil fields bentonite would be mix into cement that was to be drilled out later because it weakened the cement. Oh very nice work and clean jobsite.

I abandoned two wells inside of a old missile Silo from the 60s each well took 22 cement trucks full of neet cement pressure pumped from bottom up.They did allow the trim pipe to stay in well.

Sorry, Cement is the powder glue you add to sand and gravel to make Concrete

in Highway construction they have a product called select flowable fill. If it was allowed it would flow done the pipe anc could bet topped off with Sakrete.

Good work ethic for your clean up on jobs.

Way professional. Awesome work

Interesting. Good quality work

Wish i had known about this, when i filled the well on ym old property. Old well was hand dug, and when they put the septic in, they put the leach field less than 20 feet from the well.

I didn't know there was a process for getting rid of old wells. Reverse trimming does make sense, though.

That has got to suck paying to get that drilled only to have to pay to fill it with cement and repeat the process all over again lol.

I was really waiting for the truck

Great job sir! Like it.

In Maine wee use steal casing an black tubing on pump and we put a metal cap on we don't cement them

Thanks!

That was interesting, and I had no idea of such a process. Clever. Thank you for showing this.

Interesting, so when we abandon Wells we actually use a pump truck or a drill rig. We still send the PVC down sc40 with coupler then we use a grout pump to sent cement to the bottom. Pump a batch then pull 40-60 ft at a time rinse as you go and you can use that grout pipe 20-30 times easy. Some applications you can get away with a lay flat hose also.

In the oil and gas industry we call it U-tubing, the cement is heaver then fresh water so basically the cement is pushing the water out. The yield of the cement is probably between 15 and 20 pounds per gallon and fresh water is around 8.3ppg so if you do the math with 300 feet of cement pushing down on fresh water you can actually get some dangerous psi.

Awesome thanks for the video

Great video. Lots of useful information for folks as well.

Where I live it is done differently. I do not remember the specifics numbers but we would be required to dig a certain depth into the ground around the well casing and then cut it off, push a plug a certain depth into the casing, put two or more pieces of reinforcement bar through the casing that stuck out a couple of feet out the side, and then fill the casing with concrete and then fill the hole we dug with a foot of concrete to create a pad on top of the well to prevent anything from being able to flow down the outside of the casing. Then the dirt you dug up has to be put back in. That way the well casing is plugged inside and outside, the casing can not ever sink any further into the ground, and it is below the maximum depth that the average trencher can dig if you need to run any sort of water, sewer, or gas plumbing as well as electrical lines.

I learn a lot from your videos. I hope to see more from you soon. Thanks for all you do ❤

I think the Trimmy pipe got plugged but the gravel that was bigger than ordered but enough went in there, it's all good!

Great job

Great work brother!

We had 5 wells on our farm that the state made us fill with concrete.

Great video.

Put a U-bent rebar into the buckets of concrete to make an anchor for small tents and sunshades.

Now that's pretty cool

I've seen Haliburton Co.. do this with a pumper truck and a support truck and about five guys. They got to the well about 10 AM and were leaving before 11.

Interesting, I would have kept the well and used it for irrigation.

Great Job, Thanx

Thanks

Very educational vid , keep up yhe good work 👍🇺🇸

Cool. Great idea.

That’s pretty amazing. Somebody taught you that years ago. I’m sure any Joe Schuck would just try to keep filling that hole all day. Long bubbling up air pockets that’s just the cats ass with that 1 inch pipe going right down just above the waterline.

If it were my well, I'd have had you put the last 20ft or more as galvanized steal pipe and then use the concrete pad for a flag pole base. If it were further from the house, I'd use it for a small wind generator.

Here in Aridzona they put a minimal poured pad with rusty hardware or, just stuff a rock in it and walk away; we got a lot of rocks! 🤠

Interesting action for a well being to close to the septic system. I understand why. Poor planning suspect.

Pretty neat!! Did you think about using pipe with bell ends? Might have been better than couplings

interesting, my well driller used bentonite to close up my old well.

I enjoy your work and learn a lot of cool stuff!!!!

We found a well dug out by hand about 300 ft deep and 6 foot in diameter it was a very old well but what the contractor who was tearing down the house did and it was what the codes said had to be done was fill it with sand just sand. It took about 2 or 3 large long dump trucks of river sand to fill it. Nice thing about sand is it filters out anything going down to the ground water, and in that area everyone was on city water anyway. And that system was so old the main lines had to be replaced. Were talking a well that was dug out about 1865 the city water went in in the 1920s or so the street main was closed about 75% by that time. With the sand you didn't need a purge pipe to bleed off the air. Gravel would work also. But cement go ahead and put in a flag pole that sucker is never going to move.

Beautiful !

Felton bros really had their head up their arse driving the cement truck all over the lawn without coordinating

Man realing that tape measure I'd have hooked an electric drill on it 😂

Why would you need to fill it in? Most modern wells are not large enough for even a child to fall into and as long as they are capped I don't see a problem with them as is. If you did need to concrete them in why not just wedge something say ten feet down and stick some rebar through the casing walls to prevent the concrete from slipping down then fill the rest with concrete, I see no real reason to fill the entire well in with concrete. What am I missing?

This is a lot quicker than how we used to do it...

This reminds me of a house back in the 1940's. The kitchen sink had a hand pump which we used to get our water. I assume the kitchen was directly over the well or a cistern that was filled by a spring. We've come a long way baby. Water is necessary for life but we (the general public) give it too little attention.

Love seeing the videos and love the professionalism as well as helping people such as DIY people. Keep up the good work.

What are the benefits of filling the well vs just abandoning it and drilling a new one?

Good vid ! very good info. Now I’m a Pro ! 😂.

That doesn't contaminate the aquifer? I would have run the septic towards the shop building, away from the house and well. Enjoying your videos! Yrs ago went down my 3 ft diameter farm well that had not been used for many yrs to clean it out. Interesting experience! Gotta have someone you Really Trust up topside. Produced good water for many yrs.

I am a lifelong resident of Texas on the coast. I have owned property and water wells, I do not understand why you have to do anything to the old well. Cap it, leave it be. Water table decides our water wells depth. We have to have the sand blown out at the foot valve at the screen at the bottom, but never heard of doing the cement deal

Great work ethics