The new mount is great. I enjoyed the better view of what you are doing when changing rods. Keep it up! One question: What did you mean by over reaming, just clearing the dirt around the top of the casing for grouting? Really enjoy the content and how well you and your dad work together.
GREAT job! I really like the viewpoint. Keep up the great work! We will be drilling our well here in boulder country in the spring. So glad we subscribed. Very interesting work and now I know what to expect. thanks much for your videos. I enjoy them all.
Love the new viewpoint!! Most people don't realize how much work and details are involved in drilling a well. Thanks for all the hard work, both in the field and the edit bay!
11:03 , you ever pan these gravels to see if there is any Gold or other valuable stuff from the gound in it,? If i had access to a drilling rig! Id be out prodpecting every day could , just drilling fown through bed rock a bit! See what the bed rock is. If there is quartz veims. Or okf river gravel above it finding old riverbeds a million years old can be full of gold! More likely Ruby and safire other gems , the gold is likely close to the coast but not at the coast, its in the piedmont of NC north wnd south of Charlotte and about 30 miles each side of the Charlotte ares in NC and SC possibly VA also!! It took me 45years to learn there is gold mines atound Charlotte, Winston, Duram is about far east ad ther mines go!!
Great seeing the process. Afraid I'd forget a step along the line. I do have some questions. Does the inspector have to watch the overboring and grouting in its entirety? How, exactly, do you know that you have hit water? I've seen a bunch of driven wells being put in and never could figure out how they knew when to stop.
I know that you can have horrible luck drilling and your paying overtime but wouldn't you be better off to just keep drilling maybe tank in extra water between you and your dad just drill 24 hrs straight when you get started the inspection is for the quote concrete he's not there for the whole hole 😂... just to off set the cost of shutting down and warming up and possibly of freezing? Just a thought! I always hate going back to a job and restart something that I could have easier just finished especially in freezing weather... lighting can cover darkness... or do you have County or City ordinance preventing working 24hrs?
I love the new view point. I really enjoy seeing what you all do to drill a well. You and your dad work together like a well oiled machine. your work ethics and attention to detail is great. Keep up the great videos!!!
@H2o Mechanic I love the new POV and here's why. 1. Provides a first-person perspective all the time. 2. Allows you to work while filming simultaneously with a chest or head-mounted camera.
Some new view is good, too much new view and goofs like me can get kinda carsick watching. As always, good video and I learned something--which is my personal criteria for making any video worthwhile.
Can you explain and maybe one of your upcoming videos as to how you determine where a well will be drilled what are the factors that go into it and how do you know you’re going to hit water? Love your videos keep up the good work.
Like it! All of your content is very enjoyable to watch.....I get to see what I cant do anymore. LOL Never drilled wells but lots of construction...thank you!
Long time a go i have been working a kind of rig like this ( Cyclone TH60) in Africa. This video took me back to those days..The site the support truck ..getting stuck etc.. now i am europe drilling for geothermal n geological or geotechinic drilling. I enjoy watching ur video and ecperianced ppls comments. Thanx🙏
They just come to watch the over reaming process to make sure we fully Grout the well. Some companies will dig around the well with a shovel & pour concrete to give the illusion of a well Grout. Others will pour a 4ftx4ft concrete pad & hide the fact they didn't Grout the well. Once inspectors know & see how it's done, they look to make sure the driller follows those guidelines. Typically our company is who they use to teach new inspectors how it's done. (There was a new guy on site at this job, learning about the process) so we explain to him what's being done and why. So he'll know we he goes to other drilling sites. There's a few different methods of Grouting, the permit states which must be done & how deep
I wish we had a drill rig like the one you have, my dad drilled water wells in Montana when I was a kid, ours was a back killer, grabbed drill string from a trailer didn’t have a side shoot or nothing
Question 🙋♂️ have you ever had the glue joint on the casing slip off??an the stick go down the hole?? An I actually like the way you recorded it give the full picture of punching a well down❤ ❤ (edit. An should the casing go down? How do you retrieve it to put it back together again? )
Yes, on the metal piece we sometimes put on the bottom for strength (in my other videos). It's a 7ft piece of 6" casing, it slipped out of its connection & fell. My father thought the hole was lost because it fell 87ft. I had the idea of putting on the 6" bit & going down to 87ft, went inside the fallen piece and then poured a bucket of gravel down the well, the gravel locked up the bit inside the pipe and it came back up with it & we saved the hole.
@@h2omechanic thank you it has been something that I was going to to ask for the last months. A classmate drilled wells with his dad but his dad only did 2” lol now my class mate “son” drills 12” while my classmate stuck with 6”… it is fascinating seeing what comes up a well that no human has ever laid hands on… Thank you for all the time you spend entertaining and educating us all….
Just curious, my water well back early 1980's was drilled with a {Howard} Hughes Drilling Bit , looked like three balls with carbide chunks on it. Just curious why you go with your style of bit's. Cheaper? Faster?
Is the depletion of aquifers/fossil water/groundwater, that is, the naturally stored water in the Earth's crust, part of the reason why certain parts of the Earth's crust are sinking (southern Sweden) and sea levels in certain parts of the world are rising by 1 mm per year (magnetic anomalies) regardless of how the polar ice caps fluctuate, as well as the glaciers on land fluctuating over millennia?
The irony of water well drilling is you need water to drill a well. How do you measure well production when drilling? I know a well is logged after completing using a pump and valve, measuring level decrease
Sell that slurry of granite. figure out something cool to make with it like necklaces or something and sell it. Bigger pieces sell as pieces. Small pieces put in a small container and sell as that. People would buy it. Once you are platformed like this, people will buy it. Congrats on your organic growth. as you know ive been here since about day 1.
Hell yea much love man. Ive been through the well drama before here in western PA. Theres no drillers left in my area. The last one died. We have 3 holes poked on our property and a cistern. Now we have city water. @@h2omechanic
Nice video, the new view will definitely give insight into unthought of angles :) Thanks for helping educate the world :) P.S. Afterthought .... IDK if you have the ability to adjust the field of view on the hat/chest cam but I think a wider view angle night be better IDK????
Phil, I love your videos. I've learned a lot I didn't know about well drilling. You may have addressed this before , but as an old meck-a-neck I was wondering what the drill rig is powered by and if you're going to do some videos on servicing it and the rig.
So what actuates the jack hammer? Is it pneumatically controlled by air pressure going through the rods, or is it on some sort of cam that makes it hit with rotation? Always wondered how the hammer works and is controlled like that
Great job guys... Here's a couple of tips. I've had many wells drilled. Always have the water checked for, toxic, plastics. Dot. Gov, hides this. By forcing biodegradable plastics be used in trash bags. The plastic has broke down like it should. What no one saw coming was this. The micro, plastic particles, are leaking down thru bed rock... hundreds of feet down. They have been leaching in to artesian water deep deep underground. The plastziers chemicals gather on the ceiling of the water in bed rock... When you drill thru the bed rock..the water you pump up will have, biodegradable plastic in it. Note, all wells on the east coast start at the Great lakes. Thin earth crust, great lake water, gos deep, get boiled OFF boiled water is cleaned thru sand stone. Underground rivers, all start at the Great lakes.... Ohio's leaking, deep underground nukler war heads, also, are adding radiation 235, to deep wells.....INJOY..there are charts for deaths, tied to toxic deep wells, from DOD, leaking of 235, into the water table...
