Driving a hand pump well at a remote off grid Wilderness Camp 

We just did a sand point well at our cabin. It was an all day project using a fence post driver! We just got our water test back yesterday and it's 100% safe potable water! Total game changer for us!

I've watched a plethora of hand pump well construction and hands down this is the best one I've watched. Thank you!

That was really amazing. We have become so out of touch with our heritage and old ways that it's great to see people getting back to basics and showing us that we don't need to be so reliant on industry to enjoy life. Well done, thanks for sharing.

Awesome job, guys!!! I believe a hand pump to be the most essential necessity in these days. Thank you for sharing!!! Yah Bless!!!

Best husband and wife duo hands down! Happy belated Father's Day Dave!

These are actually useful videos for anyone who likes it and everyone who wants to live it 👍

Another great project successfully completed. All hands were on deck, Brooke brought her guns and that division of labor was great to watch! Seeing the components go together was a blast. And seeing the water coming out of the pump was great. Thanks to Scott for his expertise and to you Dave and Brooke for sharing another great project off the grid!

This is so cool. I always want to do. Water and energy , that’s what we need the most. 👍

Outstanding! Even though I got a blister watching...

You just saved 10 to 15 grand. Gotta love that !

Stumbled upon Brooke and your channels a couple of days ago. You two have great chemistry and make awesome videos. I have learned a lot. Thank you!

Awesome! Great video; and really like how you two (husband & wife) work together. God bless

Good job Dave and Brooke. Damn! Brooke got some guns there, she is no slouch when it comes to getting the job done. Gotta good woman there Dave.

Reminds me when we drove the well for my uncle's camp in the the Upper Peninsula. We drove the well then built the cabin around it.

everyone needs a scott

Thank you for all your videos especially this one it's really Gold for some of us.

I've noticed how Brook always pitches in and works just like you do. She doesn't let it stop her and she seems to enjoy working with you. You got a good one there Dave!!

You're an inspiration Bud keep living your best life. Thanks for the hard work put into the videos

Thanks for the video! Hopefully we will be doing this near our cattle pasture sometime soon. Finally started watching season 4 of Alone...I think y'all are on day 38. Very impressed with how well you two have done so far in the show. Y'all are definitely blessed, focused and have your priorities where they belong. God speed.

Not sure why but they did put smile on my face when I saw water. Wow amazing I hope you guys will enjoy that for many many years to come

How exciting that you have water on your property! Love Brooke's smile at the end!

That was really cool. Glad it went smoothly.

Another awesome and very informative video. I really like the attitude you have where you can do anything you need to do yourself with a bit of hard work and some ingenuity. Brooke is a badass too! Thanks!

That's incredible! Reall enjoyed that one. Thanks Jack

Just want to say - your instructions and tips on this are super clear, easy to understand and follow. Same with your recent camp build. Well done, dude. I will def be checking out all your vids.

Brook is a beast!! My hero!! I love seeing y’all work together, thanks for sharing!

It’s nice to have a strong mountain woman to help.

I just wanted to say thank you for all your work and information. I've learned a lot didn't even know the drive well existed we bought a small place in east Texas not being off grid but definitely want a back up would be a great addition in hurricane season and also the snow ice we get every few years. Keep it up its awesome.

That brings back memories from when I was a kid. In the 70s I think every well in the neighborhood was put in that way. I got to participate in several and there was always one of the senior residents bringing over the tools and giving the planning advice. Always a good idea to have a water test done just to make sure you didn't hit a pocket of something not so good for you. Nice video and thanks for sharing the experience.

Love your channel brother, I have watched all your stuff! Having successfully completed this task myself in Manitowish Waters, WI I will share some of my lessons learned. 1.) I had water at 5 feet but I still used 4x 5' sections plus the point. The water flows great and is very clean. 2.) We rented an electric jackhammer with a 3" cup attachment. It was only $80 for the day and made this job so easy. 3.) Used 18" cheater bars on the 18" pipe wrenches to get the couplers extremely tight. 4.) stay away from the last thread on the pipe with the dope otherwise you will taste it I'm told. Also, clean out the inside of the point and pipes with dish soap before you drive them. I used a 1.25" pipe brush on a section of 1" pvc pipe as my scrubber. 5.) I used 12" section of pipe to drive on; it had a nice mushroom top by the time we were done. I had a drive cap on it at first but that quickly broke the threads on my 12" section. I didn't have enough couplers to sacrifice one. 6.) We cut a hole in the cabin floor and ran the pipe right down below the utility room. It will be boxed out in the crawl space and heated to prevent freezing.

Thank you, Dave, for teaching me something that I just learned, that's very interesting!!! Be safe and God bless you and your wife, much peace, love and respect to you and you're better half.

Excellent video. A straight forward explanation. Fresh water, new outhouse, you won't know yourselves.

I have to say you and brook are such a inspiration I love you guys in this world of stupidness. Wish everyone would be more like you guys. Just simple

I’ve never seen this done. Really interesting video. Thanks, guys.

Wow, great team!! Thank you so much for you wealth of knowledge.. greatly appreciated 🙏

Great video !!! Amazed at how many videos I've seen of what has become a proven old school technology that most know nothing about!!

Great video. I didn't know that you could do it this way. Where I live I bet that I would hit a big river rock every 6" . Thankfully we where able to have a well drilled years ago.

This brought back memories. I helped my father pound a well just like this almost 50 years ago. The only difference was the "pounder from hell" was over the pipe instead of inside it. We went down 66 feet and every inch was hell. Thanks!

I lived in the UP near Marquette during the early eighties. Such beautiful country. Enjoy and keep on keeping on

This video has more information on how to drive a sandpoint well than most videos specific to well driving. Your friend Scott knows his stuff. Great video!

"Are you hitting it yet or you are just warming up" priceless... 9:39

When I was growing up in the late 50's early 60's, until we moved when I was six or so, we had a very similar hand pump next to our kitchen sink. It was our only source of water on the property. Outhouse of course, and bathing was done with water heated on the stove and poured into a galvanized tub. If you are in the right geography, a sandpoint is a great way to get a constant water supply, however keep it away from outhouses and sewer leach lines for safety. We always used a step ladder and sledge hammer to drive the pipe. I like the driver that your friend Scott had made. A very purpose built tool and worked well. Never dug a hole ahead of time to start a sandpoint though I understand why you needed to. You both have fun up there, its looking very good... Joe

I really appreciated seeing this process! You both rock!!!

I love you guys, your videos are so empowering

We lived in the highland and the old way was digging a well the diameter is 1 meter. Our well was 25 meters deep. It gave me nightmare just look down into it, so deep. But the water was so fresh and cold. My father made a metal screen with an opening big enough for the bucket, that helped preventing us from fall into it. During the dry season we have to wind the 4 gallon bucket to retrieve the water and it was hard work. It took two persons to do it because we were young and because the long distance from the bottom. It took an hour to get a 55 gallon drum to be filled. And after 10 buckets it felt like eternity and you are out of breath half way. Few years later my friend and his brother digging their own well and i had a chance to go down to the bottom. It was about 12 meters and they had a long way to reach water. It was a very scary feeling when you down there by yourself, the earth smell, the darkness, the cold black earth wrapping your whole being.

I'm so happy you scored water so quickly !!! the look on Brooke's face ....PRICELESS 💪👏❤

Great video, I have not seen many that take on this issue and found this fascinating. Great work.

My grandparents had the same well pump at their cabin in Northern Michigan. Best water I ever tasted.

That was so cool to watch. A lot of insight on how to do your own well.

Just amazing 🤓. Never knew with a few pipes and some sweat equity, this was possible. Always seen folk doing this with a boring truck 👍🏼

Thanks so much for all your tutorials, Guys! Gotta give kudos and props to Brooke for doing a man's backbreaking job. It seems she has no stops at trying and succeeding at whatever comes her way. Impressive, and a huge inspiration to me!!!

I just put in a well here in SC 4 months ago by myself. I wish I had a big driver like yours. I used a fence driver and it took 25 licks per inch for most of the depth. It took several days. I went down 20ft plus the point.The result was worth it. I just got the test report back and it is very good pure water. Thanks for the video.

I’ve driven many a well with my dad when I was younger, then when we first moved to Mecosta County, I was at work, and my wife and dad hand pounded a well. I was so proud of them both. Came home to fresh spring water. Our camping all summer was something we will never forget. Thanks for the memories Dave and Brooke.

What a awesome team and from Michigan to boot!! Happy father's day Sir! and blessings to you and your family 👼🇺🇸 stay safe!

OMGosh, watching her lay that pipe was incredible...... that's a full time job.

For almost every job, you need a guy like Scott who knows exactly what he is doing.

This made me so happy during the pandemic!

Thanks for this video, was very helpful and nice to see you two working hard together

Wow....lucky girl Mrs. Whipple. Thank y'all for all the help. Well wishes to the Mrs.

How cool is that! I bet some backs could use a good night's rest 😉

Just watched Brooke hit 100k on her YT channel -- so....... I’m spreading the love and subscribing to your channel as well.

Love the videos Dave and Brooke!

Thanks so much for showing us this! I have been looking for ways we ourselves could put in a small hand pump. I have seen many videos, but this was absolutely the best for simplicity and time!

This video is amazing!! My hubby and I just bought our off grid property across the lake from the UP in MN! Lol we've been reading and learning about how to put in our own well at the property, and this video has been an amazing visual to what we've been reading! ❤ You and Brooke are an inspiration to us.

Dave, I can not explain how much I love you for what you are doing. I know it should be your wife I'm oogling, but I don't need trouble from the likes of you...I hope you see humor in this. I am so glad to know of you.

I loved this vlog. I remember using that technique to drive in fence posts

Love it! Awesome to see two perspectives & styles of the same event. Brook is right. You'll hit the big 💯 pretty quick. ✌️👍

Thanks for the tutorial. We just built our off grid cabin and was thinking about putting in a hand drive well. We're a lot older so I'm looking at ways to drive the well pipe.

That seemed to go quite easily. Seems to be a soil that is well suited for sandpoint use. Awesome

Love the way you explain things for people like me who need visual to understand. Keep up the great work!

Out of all of the yt channels I am subscribed to, this one has the most reasons to be subscribed to. Very useful knowledge. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Good job. I would recommend anyone doing this use some pulleys or snatch block to lessen the labor

I just imagine walking in a store and asking where the dope is for the pipe...lol

Another awesome video.. I think I was as excited and as happy as you were when I saw the water running:)

Thanks for another great video

I also live in Michigan. And my father did some wells like that when I was small. He was originally from Missouri. And my relatives in Missouri hand dug wells into the 1960's. At least that was the last time we were down there.

Never knew that was how it was done. Interesting.

Be great to see a follow up on how you finish this out. Thank you. Really enjoyed watching how this is done. Love the inegnuity!

My grandfather and great grandfather used this exact method according to my father 66 years ago on the family farm near Thomastown Ireland 🇮🇪 and to this day pulls water with all original equipment. Well done!

1966 prime pump boil water for bathing life with 10 siblings miss the hand pump as i do my siblings

No rocks, no roots, I think I want to move.

This is the first video I've seen using a pipe driver... very cool!!! Looks like a grounding rod/fence poll driver that was modified- very good IDEA!!!

Tremendously satisfying video. Thank you. I learned a lot.

Wow just sand and hit no roots ?! Try that where I live you’ll hit rock easily about a foot down! Town I live in is all river bed!!

Every time he says "pipe dope", I'm like....hmmmm :D

I want to do that on my land in Crivitz this summer. Thanks for the video neighbor!

super job, simple needs and no greed. A perfect way to live in balance, good luck.

Great video, again. Dave, any ideals on driving a well in a rock ( I mean rock) area? Take care and God bless.

Now you have water, so you just need to find a current bush for power.

That is awesome. Your smiles said it all. 👍😎🇺🇸

This video is without doubt the most interesting I have seen in a long time thank you for sharing

HERES A GREAT TIP PEOPLE. I used a harbor freight post hole digger and kept adding sections of 1 inch pipe. Got down 20 feet deep with a 6 inch hole in about an hour. You can do it.

Hi! I just discovered your channel and am really enjoying your content and all I can learn here. I’m wondering a couple things about your well: Can this be used in winter? Will the pipe freeze and split?

That stuff you put on the end of the pipe is DOPE!

I'm excited u guys may get a well yeah. I really am happy for u and Brooke and your new property and build. Sure hope u get a well yes.

'Round here our pipe dope is a little more green. ;)

"Last week we put in an outhouse, this week we are putting in a well." 🤔 I like to keep those two things a lot further apart! 😁

Hats off to that girl, she stands 1 on 1 with you. Well done. Thanks for the video, that beater is a good idea, I was hammering with a big hammer, it is not fun when you get tired and miss

That was fascinating! Thanks for showing how it is done!💧

When I was a real little kid, we had a hand pump just outside the door of our four-room tarpaper shack ... quite convenient.