Wow, I keep watching more and more of your content. Your father and mother are to be complimented on raising a fine young man. You have learned so many virtures from them both, and I dont even know them. I'm an old man, and I'd like to drill wells after watching you. Your work ethic, compassion, honesty, and humility are a direct correlation of your parents. "A mans wealth is not in what one has saved, but in what one has given." You are a very wealthy young man. God bless you, your family, and all your employees. Safe travels.
As a do it yourself electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, welder, heavy equipment operator I love this channel. I have friends in the well drilling business and yet never understood the complexities involved. I could watch fail army or girls dancing to be entertained. Here I am learning as being entertained. Thanks for sharing knowledge.
I never realized how important clean threads are for drilling operations. Watching you protect and clean them at every step just adds another layer of challenge to drilling a well!
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Love watching you two working together and anticipating each other and what needs to be done without asking. Growing up working with your dads is something not too many young men get to do. Or want to do. 😏
It was his dream to build a business and pass it down, so I respected that vision and have been behind the machine with him for over 15 years. Family sticks together always
I looked at your video twice...not a single mistake. Not one. This could be a training video on how to dig a well and make sure there are no injuries. Especially liked the flipping of the strap
This is quite satisfying to watch, I studied Petroleum Engineering, this is similar to how Crude Oil and Gas wells are drilled, the trip in, out and setting casing rings a bell. Thanks for sharing.
I'm here because Jason from Sow The Land mentioned your channel. We have a well that's been capped since 1971, and we're hoping to get it up and going again.
@@SeedSowerMichele Interesting. Well, you could pull everything out, and have it flushed, and then flow tested. If it has good GPM, and the water quality test is good, then go buy a pump etc for it. But don't spend the money on pump, pipe, wire, cap etc until you know you have a good hole, and good casing.
Worked on rigs for about 10 years, singles to triples, and your drilling, connections and trips are very similar in practice, just on a different scale. Main difference beside that being top drive as all that I was on were rotary table style. And ... I love the pipe tong, that was the icing on the cake 🙂 PS. Many thanx for your hard work, not only for the drilling ... and correcting other's mistakes, but the time taken to make these excellent videos. One thing I was wondering about is how you determine the flow rate on penetration before the pump is installed ?
Opps - forgot the power line. I agree - cleaning prevents problems. Thank you for the video - hope the crew / family and you have a great Thanksgiving. Take care - be safe.
What was that section of metal tube that was placed over the PVC casing right at the end of the video, looked to be about 20' long? I'm guessing it's an added protection from tree roots damaging the PVC... ? BTW, I'm really glad I ran across your channel. I'm not in the business but for whatever reason I'm finding all this drilling stuff so way cool. Thanks for effort!
wonder if they could get a concrete saw out there cut out a channel from the room to the edge of the slab big enough to run a conduit in and resetting over the top...
Your power supply for the well pump was right there. That yellow extension cord will work fine. That will be a lot of work to do for not installing about $20 worth of conduit. Joe
Thank you, very informative video. If only I could come and watch you live. You're a great source of very good information. Back in Uganda, I came across a cracked borehole whilst drilling. The water is draining away somewhere when drilling using mud water pump. The crack seems to be around 5M from the top. This seems so because the water table is stable at that point when water is poured into the borehole. No casing is installed yet. So far we are at a depth of around 20M with enough water at that depth. Whats' the solution, abandon this borehole or do you think the casing will cover the cracked area when installed.
Love that hard-hat. God bless you for all that you do. How tall are you, ref standing under the drill truck front bumper. That truck was up there. Thanks for sharing.
An awesome video, very well done and explained/narrated. I've learned a lot watching your videos, you have the makings of a great instructor. What's the average lifetime of a drill rig before repairs make it not cost effective to keep it? Somebody made a major f...ahh screwup with no wire to the pump. I can see it happening tho, just not thinking it thru.
Do your self a favor and get a set of casing elevators much safer than a strap, just my opinion from another well guy in NC they make a world of difference!
Really learn a lot about drilling rigs and everything that goes with it. You are a great teacher. We will be drilling a well here in boulder country. Lots of ledge rock. Question for you...... do you ever or do you believe in water witching?? Some swear by it some laugh at it. Just curious. So glad we subscribed. No two days are the same for you. LOL!
What's the best way to remove iron? I really freaking hope you respond. I had a well relocated 25' away from old well because of an addition we built, that required a 200' deeper well than the original (which was perfect quality) had to have the new well fracked because we couldnt get much flow. Now we have plenty of flow but the iron is off the charts. Please help!!!!!
I was a water well driller 27 years of it, and yes Iron can be a big problem.. Filters can be used but costly and don't always work that well.. I HAVE seen a very good way to work around the Problem.. If you see this, comment and I will explain.. Cheers..
The architect or builder should need to eat that mistake. They could put up a couple of masts and go overhead or drill underground into the garage. Can you stand your drill rig on end and drill horizontally from the well to the garage or all the way to the mechanical room? We all would love to see that one! Maybe they can put in a wind turbine and solar panels! Please share with us their solution. I too love your videos! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
@14:30 how you know that you reached the water? does the flowing water in this particular time of the video is water coming from your water tank through your drill pipe?
I mess around with RC boats at home, I actually thought of using a pump motor in a big RC boat if I could power it off lipos 🔋 🔋 🔋 . I actually started another channel fooling with my hobby to separate the content it's H2oMechanic2.0
2 questions: 1) Why was it required to lift the front of your rig in the air? 2) Since you hit water at 225' why not just put your pump in the "mechanical room" and pump from that location?
Meter box wrong place it goes on the side where the water pipe coming out the ground to avoid things like this..... Utility wall as they call it phone cable etc.....
@H2oMechanic - When cleaning up the "drilling muck" from my recently drilled well, I never saw the first bit of rock chips in the mix. Should I be concerned?
Awesome video. Why is there so much pressure when you’re drilling the well that the water shoots out of the top but once you pull your drill bits out, it calms down?
I wish you'd make a video going through the details of how you drill a well from start to finish. NOT actually drilling a well, unless you think you could do so in a timely way, but talking us through the drill. What I'm having problems understanding is what diameter drills/casings you use and when? Initial drill is with an 8 or 10 inch drill, followed by setting a 8 inch casing, followed by drilling a 6 inch hole down through/to bedrock until you hit good H2O?? Please make that video!! 🙂
Should be easy enough to run standard building wire through the house be it 10-2, 10-3, 12-2 or 12-3 depending on the horsepower and pump type. You seem to use mostly 2 wire pumps. Then go out through that garage wall with a flush mount box on the inside and an LB on the outside. Then conduit to the wellhead and make it all nice with a pitless adapter and a proper Boshart aluminum well head cap that has a threaded adapter for conduit.
I know the power her presents a big problem. Would something like a simple pump system with the ability to run it on multiple configurations such as solar, electric or a handpump be a good option? The way I understood those they could run it as solar with a battery backup and possibly not need electricity ran to the well shed.
With the shading from the trees, there's not a ton of solar available, especially with the leaves on, and when they trench the water lines in, running electrical is mostly just cost of wire at that point, as even if you put them in different trenches, you already have the equipment on site to dig the trench.
@jt3178 also one is soft the other is Hard. One is welded together, the other is glued.. At 27 years drilling experience I can give YOU this Knowledge..
When I was in this type of work. So we poured cement into the water hole before I started drilling into the rock. Then the above water cannot creep into the well and give the water a bad taste. Edit: I used Google translate.
Lack of a conduit for the well wire is the least of his problems. I will bet every trade that comes in just shakes their head and quotes at "if he is crazy enough to pay this much I will do it"
Christchurch, New Zealand here, I did 27years drilling and Yes drilled Artesian wells.. Different areas, Different Depths, but some were 6 inch diameter, flowing At 200 gallons per minute.. 10 foot Head.. Great fun to work on, and drilled useing Cable tool Rig.. One of the rigs I used was a Keystone, very old style but the hardest hitting rig , for driving caseing.. .cheers.
Great channel! I've watched many of your videos since subbing a month ago What is your take on Cycle Stop Valves , any mention of them on your channel?
I don't like them. It keeps the pump under 80% load at all times while it's running. They have a purpose, that's typically for irrigation, where specific pressure is necessary but not for regular residential use. We do use them on big 5+hp systems but those are commercial setups.
It's called a Over Reamer. Think of it as putting a straw in a thick milkshake and blowing thru the straw, it blows the cuttings away from around the casing to allow for Grout.
Yes, in a formation call Triassic basin area. It's million year old volcanic ash that filled in valleys. Bedrock is 700-1200ft. Your lucky if you find water there.
Your drilling rig is an impressive piece of machinery. I watched the construction design flaws. THOSE could have been easily avoided if the designer/architect had a checklist. I designed buildings myself, often for machinery and some of the design standards were incredibly bad.
Why do English people love wooden houses so much? Here in Africa people living in those are poor people. We build houses with bricks here,its much stronger and it doesnt burn down completely. lol. Are they poor over there?
