The well. I would just continue to pump it. It might be a lot of organic matter decomposed in there and/or clay that needs to be flushed out, but each particle that comes out is gone from the well. Or build a dam in the creek? If you can get away with lugging drinking water from town for now the requirements are not as hard... Depending on the wife :)
still find it hard to believe how much random shit was on that property, no house but bumper cars! Also that septic system just scares me to think about, might be best just to fill it with dirt and act like it never existed, same with the well.
those rv furnaces are 40% efficient at best and hard on the batteries, try looking into those eibacher or chinese clone diesel heaters. I have one and swear by it. they also make a hot water variant you might be able to split between heat/domestic hot water. Depending on the age of the hot water heater you might be able to get away with just replacing the tank as the mfr of some of those units will sell them separate (not hard to do). If you still have the Rv fridge look around online some places make replacement cooling loops you peel stick onto the back of the old fridge. -some guy kinda like you but ya know poorer
Glad to see the property coming along. Get yourself a carbon monoxide detector for the RV; they're cheap, and the heaters in those things don't have the best reputation. Thanks for the video.
Love love LOVE the camper. The restoration turned out great. Working on our second pop-up renovation so seeing yours was a lot of fun. Would love to see a video of more of the process even if it's just sped up time lapse.
You bought a rodent habitat/hantavirus incubator and managed to make it decent. I could smell it just watching you work on it. Done a few old trailers in my day. The land rocks though. You may be able to use the stream for water if you UV it and filter it
living in cities all my life i have no clue what i'm talking about but: i suppose that the well has been unused for so long that - as others have said - a bunch of organic waste has accumulated. the way i see it the only way to "clean" it would be to completely replace the current muck with fresh new well water, so pump it until it's dry. judging from your previous videos, you seem to be pretty good at that last part. otherwise, dig a new well. the first fix is going to be easier and more cost-effective, and afterwards a new well is still an option.
I’m a few months late to the party, but I’ll weigh in anyways. For a seasonal property it’s hard to beat a surface water intake and a composting toilet. Way less work to winterize! With a
I'll throw my hat into the ring on the well. We are on lake water at our house, and it goes through the following items: 1 micron pleated filter Chlorine pump adds bleach 2 x 120 gallon holding tanks (gives the bleach time to kill everything in the water) Carbon filter to remove bleach and VOCs like Roundup Tannin softener (basically beefed up water softener, only helps with one specific thing in our water part of the year) There is also a UV light after the carbon filter but the ballast is fucked and I haven't felt the urge to shell out replacement money yet. The bleach is necessary to kill giardia I believe, the UV would suffice otherwise. When we moved in, the house already had half this stuff installed from one company, but if you just wanted the bleach treatment setup I'd guess it could be done for ~5 grand if installed by a company specializing in this stuff. I'm assuming you wouldn't go that route and would rather do it yourself, which would probably cost less, but I can't tell you how much. The other issue aside from price is the amount of maintenance you'd have to do. Replace the filter every so often, keep the bleach mix topped up, sump retention tanks every week or so (at lease while you're there), replace the carbon every so many years, replace chlorine pump parts, etc. If this isn't a full time residence it might not be worth it. You'd also want to have a shed or some kind of outbuilding to house all this shit. It takes some space. If you want more details I'd be happy to oblige, but I figure it's not really what you're after for this.
You have no idea how envious I am. I love that northern hemisphere temperate deciduous forest like you have there. We only have forests like this in a few parts of Australia. I'm from Far North Queensland, where we have some of the most dense and ancient rainforest on the planet (most people don't realize that we have rainforest in Australia), but the heat and humidity gets harder to deal with the older I get. So im looking hard for something like you have there. But finding a cheap block with a creek and decent forestation is both remarkably difficult to find, plus our real estate prices in Australia are completely out of control. I'm still gonna do my best to find a block much like you have. I'll be absolutely happy to build myself a couple room humpy out of a shipping container and stone/wood/scrap and enjoy the hermit life.
The well honestly could be a plethora of things. It was opened up to the surface so god knows how much organic crap has fallen into it over the years i.e leaves, bugs, mice that crawled in and died and I don't know a ton about the soil strata of the area but I know from doing a ton of groundwater sampling some times if a well is not installed correctly it may just never fully run clean. You could if you have the water possibly run the pump for a long period i.e good couple of hours and monitor to see if it clears up which is probably worth it considering the cost of getting people out to dig or drill yourself a new well. TBH for the short term it may be worth it to rig up a system of a pump from the creek on the property to the trailer if the test you ran came back as clean. There is obviously always the bacteria worry but you can boil the water for consumption and you would have non potable tap water at least. We have one at our cabin running off some batteries for motorized wheelchairs and it works great and provided your plumbing has no leaks the pump will only run when needed so it wont just kill your batteries.
You can get rid of the mouse problem... Just import lots and lots of snakes. I think you had a few that took up residence under your old riding mower back at your house. I too have a well on my property, it is only 50 feet deep and I lowered a camera down it. It is as dry as the raccoon skeleton at the bottom of it and doesn't look like it had water in it for more than a hundred years. That septic system... yea, just fill that in and pretend it is not there; not worth the effort and even if you put in a new tank the field lines are gone.
About the water well, it is a little common to it get dirty if the submersive pump is too close to the bottom, try lifting it a little and the flow is really good for a semi-well, here we only got half that on the good days and it wound dry up on some months, until we drilled it 20 meters deep, now it constant. Really liking the videos! Good luck with the land!
Thanks! The pump is 30 feet deep and I measured the well with fishing line and a weight at 130 feet. It has plenty of water and never runs dry but running the pump isn’t working.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 It's pretty deep so maybe what is happening, looking on the older videos, is that it was a conventional well, like large mouth, digged by hand kind of well, and it started collapsing, that caused the crater next the tube, and the old owner to not lose the well put the iron tube inside, like a semi-aquifer well, if so you probably is dragging the lose dirt from the walls very slowlly and is just to luck if is gonna get clean or not, either way, the rust might be a problem.
@marcomenon4636 I was very curious about the crater. When I pulled the fishing weight out, it had bright orange sludge on it. Probably rust. I may need to start saving for a new well.
I'm glad i stumbled across your channel. I've really enjoyed each of the videos I've watched. Makes me think i could do a RU-vid channel if I weren't utterly useless and lazy.
Looks so peaceful. I'm stuck in the middle of Oslo paying over $1000 in rent and electricity for a 140 ft² apartment. No car. No driver's license. No real estate. It was too hard for me to accomplish.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 Haha! Careful. I've taken people up on offers like that before, when circumstances have permitted! 😄 I visited the United States about a decade ago and went to Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, really) and North Carolina (Raleigh-Durham area). I had friends in both places.
I have no dependents except my cat (which I'm beginning to think I should put up for adoption because I'm not the best caretaker, and I can't travel without worrying about him), so I'm looking into things like house sitting, seasonal work and couch surfing, since I'm beginning to realise it's possible to live like that if you really want to.
You said only a few people would care about a video about your new property, which may be true, but honestly, this sort of content is what I miss about old RU-vid, before it became commercialised.
I need a Nice 25 Acre lot Here in the Commonwealth, Very Beautiful. I only Have a Tent so 1/2 Acre will do. I’m Somehow a new Subscriber from York County. Not Sure How a Fella got here or Exactly How a Fella was Entertained enough to Subscribe but He Was So there’s that. . I can’t believe it but I got to Cause I’m Looking Right at it. I’ll catch You on the next One. No I won’t, probably going to forget all about this after the Wobble Pop’s for Breakfast
For the tv you could think of getting a raspberry pi or a mini pc. They don’t use much power and atleast in the case of raspberry pi it is easy to expand the storage to store shows or movies or even RU-vid videos. You can just get a case for the raspberry pi and Velcro it to the back.
I think you'd like "the money pit" if you haven't seen it It has the humor of the song you put in If it gets destroyed by rodents or most notably cat /dog mess /body sweat etc you can't get it off/out especially of the foam, use a sealer like scotchbrite i was very deathly ill for a while over our old sealed cloth couch I believe it saved it
I've managed to get my wife invested in your channel enough that she asked the other day about Cousin Lefty and Lazy Acres (you being Cousin Lefty; Uncle Bumble Fu#k on AvE, somehow that works in our head). I'll have to tell her that you have a new video out. So you'll get a couple of views from Whisky Cardinal Wes and She Who Must Be Obeyed!
Just found your channel through your Russian drill video! Subscribed cause I live down the road from ya! How did you find this land in the Poconos? It’s gorgeous!
Random sediment and trash infiltrating your aquifer? It's almost as if someone has been pumping random crap into the surrounding area at thousands of pissies to try and extract dinosaur farts and consequently stirred up a bunch of crap in the groundwater :D
New well, new septic tank. The well likely has something draining into in it, and the septic tank likely has no lid, I dunno. It looked like in a previous video, when you put the camera in there, it looked like it was inside the tank. Fill it with dirt and play dumb.
0:43 - "I do not own a truck" What do you mean? You've got at least two trucks that came with the property! Wait, what do you mean moss doesn't have any horsepower? (this is a joke, btw; it's just funny that you say you do not own a truck as that red one comes into frame, lol)
Hey bro. I love the videos. But I just want to make sure you are ok. In a few videos you joked about pain killers. I had someone close to me die from painkillers and I just want to let you know that you are not alone. If you need to talk bro hit me up.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 you said in the beginning 35 people would be interested. I’m number 36. BTW awesome job. I can’t believe the Hanta virus transformation . Make it a bet and breakfast lol.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 you said in the beginning that 35 people would care about this well I'm number 36. BTW awesome job on the trailer evicting our cheese eating friends.
