I dug a 40 foot well in my backyard 

I bought a house that has a well and I didn’t even know it. It’s in a suburb. One day my uncle told me it’s a well so I hired a guy to pull it all out and change out everything. My other neighbor told me the previous owner digged it himself about 35 yrs ago. The well is only 18 ft deep so I just use to water plants.

When I did mine I wanted 45 ft. That’s what the city does for all their sprinkler systems. Once I got to 27’ everything I sent down just disappeared. I tried bentonite but it didn’t help. I did gravel around the head and it’s been pumping beautiful since 2013. I guess I did it right. It runs 3-4 hours a week and even after a drought that lasted over a month never have I been short of water. If I had to do it again I would use galvanized pipe and just use a jack hammer with a home built fitting. That’s actually how the guys that do it for a living here do it. Except they have a 100lb sled that slams it down. My first pump was a cheap Lowe’s pump. It lasted 10 years. I now have a Gould which pulls way more more. I only use it for watering not my house water.

Awesome job young man. Love this & love that no one has to know about it but you.

What an awesome video. I'll be doing this on our ten acre partial me and my wife recently purchased.

Excellent video, thank you!

Good job man

Great job!!

I like it!! May have to give it a try.

Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Good back up well to operate commodes and get a purifier to be able to use water for emergency baths and cooking if main deep well goes out!

Good job!

🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge

Great work. Really enjoyed your video

That was most cool. tHanks for the video. (I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)

I would recommend not doing that so close to your house … kinda creating a pretty shallow cavity underground right next to your foundation.. besides that this is how you put in a shallow well. If you lived I. Florida or South Georgia this is a good way to do it haven’t ever done it anywhere else personally but I’m sure this is a very geographically dependent method haha…

If you use some plywood with some old inner tube around the pipe will help you alot ,,I did this 50 years ago junky pump & old pipe ,,all that was available!!

Damnnn thats some rust free well water

We live in Florida here you dig a hole 6 ft and sure will find water

Well to get water where I am you have to go 400 ft and 390 of that is solid rock

Great video job well done the horse next to well good idea what is the electrical voltage on your pump?

how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!

Would it be possible to cycle or reuse the old water

The horse head water source tell me how and when installed it to well casing

Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!

Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.

dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.

What I see running back down the hole you're drilling could've been taken care of with a 4" to 2 " reducer and you wouldn't need to cement it...just from what I'm seeing...but great job...anytime I see anyone trying to figure out on there own is inspiring

How does this work in mountainous regions with clay and stone?

I'm in Ohio next to a creek I don't think I'd make it 5 feet - was enjoyable to watch though.

I would be so paranoid about having it so close to my foundation, 🤷🏻 but like dude said above, how the hell didn’t you hit bedrock 😂 over here in lower Pa by West Virginia it’s like all rock. Out my way if your a home owner and don’t own a mini or a bobcat you would be considered under prepared haha. Nice job dude lol funny video. And that blue pump you have lasted me about 2 years befor the seal went. Just a little fyi, I had that same exact one. I get my water from a natural aquifer. Oh yea. And I’ll sub buddy 😇

I nearly fell down a well, because i could not see that well.

There's a 33-foot limit to using suction to draw water upwards, so you're at the max without going submersible. (Suction above 33' will cold-boil the water)

Cone?? You mean step bits? Either way you got some pretty good ideas

I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?

Did you use a blader tank?

I'd like to see you add a filter to this to make it potable.

How you secure the jet nozzle at the end of the pvc? When you add another 10 ft piece do you simply pull out the nozzle and feed it back again? What keeps the nozzle at the bottom and not float/kickbacking back out?

how is that pump working at 40 feet? i didn’t see an injector go down the pipe. Is water table less than 25 ft down? Shallow well pumps typically don’t work past 25 and jet pumps require an injector (i think).

How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?

Did you have water tests done to see if it was drinkable?

Why did you assemble the entire 40’ well point section prior? Couldn’t you have assembled it as you were lowering it? I understand you don’t want to lose it, but it seems really hard to feed the 40’ into the hole

i did not see setting up the shut off

in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.

Where did you find the 50’ hose and jetting nozzle for the pressure washer?

In some states and/localities, it is illegal to drill such a well. Or there is a depth limit, 18 feet is typical.

What is the wand that you sent down the well pipe? Do you have a link to it?

How much water do you estimate you used with jetting and other water you used? I would like to do this in an area without water, but wondering if its worth trucking in that much water. Thank you

If that is a one pipe pump,

Are there no rocks down there?

I've wondered about doing something similar. CA wants to control that however. They don't want you using anything without getting a taste of it themselves. Have you had the water tested? Wondering about what may have leached into a water table that shallow...

Isn’t this how Beverly hillbillies starts?😆

I need to go about 300ft will this work?

Right beside your old house.

come to my place and try to dig a well.

Where did you buy the well point in europe?

I would have actually laid the PVC on the roof and stood higher on the ladder to get more vertical pressure but well done all in all

dude.... climb up the freakin ladder.... over here wrestling with the pipe from the 2nd step..... Just go up your ladder bro... hahaha

Paying for water is the biggest scam human society has ever seen I think. It’s in the fucking ground for free haha

Become ungovernable

8:59 At close to 40 ft. you're just cork-screwing the entire length of PVC at this point, not turning it at the bottom (or turning at a coupling, since you didn't use primer). FYI, at only 40ft, don't ever drink this water. I wouldn't even put my hands in it, because its going to be full of pesticides and herbicides. A good future project would be switching to steel pipe and see if you can get to a potable-safe depth. This would probably require a gas-powered machine. Nice job.