In North America when we dig a well we always backfill the the well crocks with clear stone to assist the seams of water to be able to get to the crocks…if you backfill with the same material you dug out then you clog off the seams…plus the clear stone expands the capacity of the well so that you aren’t just drawing from what ever the crocks can hold…those 8-10 ton machines can do a lot of work but it was definitely a bit small for this job…in any case you got through it and the clients now have water!!
IN Canada - we had a concrete casing well installed , we have only about 15 feet of sandy soil , than you hit about 75 feet of clay ( in our area is perched water table ) the top half of the concrete ring were sealed with bentonite clay , and the a well tag was placed and the well was registered . it was done all done by a boring drilling rig
Last well that I had anything to do with, was hand dug down to about 30 ft, had a shallow well pump on it and pumping as fast as it would go, that's as deep as we could get keeping up with the water! The top about 8 ft was encased with concrete and a concrete top put on it.
he could have used the same stones(culverts) by laying it horizontally. That would have helped increased his well capacity. Or just fill that massive hole with the same material with one vertical culverts. All these would have increased the well capacity.
This is common practice in these ground conditions. Textile filter and gravel on top. If you put gravel first, water flow and mud underneath will make it shift and collapse over time. This is a very stable construction in soft ground.
Ancient Romans would have filled the entire pit with crushed stone as well, and seal the shaft except for holes at the bottom. That way only water from the bottom of the pit enters the shaft, which is clean and safe to drink from spending so much time percolating down underground in an anaerobic environment.
@@BenCos2018 lol and you would be right, this is a tad on the cowboy side of gettin her done! i've had trenches and pits collapse on me in the past...similar situation
Sketchy can mean many different things and has no direct translation. You have to use a synonym with less meanings for the current situation, like risky, and translate that: "riskabelt". Or maybe "prekärt" (precarious), or "våghalsigt" (daring).
how about "all of the above"? It will be interesting to see if the weight of the stacked concrete caissons will slowly sink into the sand causing the well to get deeper over time. The density of the concrete versus that of the saturated sand is a calculated variable. The number of concrete sections above the surrounding water table height times the weight per section will approximate the amount of force. Without a "floor" in the first concrete tube to prevent sand from extruding into the caisson internal volume there is a possibility you might have to add one or some additional pilings later on should the lower sections "drift" out of place due to uneven settling. The weight of the cement castings seemed to be preferentially heavier towards the flattened side? @@madmodders
Die Jungs hatten Glück, sowohl beim Graben des Lochs für die Schachtringe als auch beim verlegen der Leitung im Graben dass sie nicht verschüttet worden sind. Bei dem Sandboden, pures Glück gewesen.
Absolutely love how you put these videos together, the choice of music is fantastic and your timelapse segments are trimmed short enough that it's not boring, but long enough to get a good look at what's going on. The more videos I watch the more I want to visit Sweden, it looks like such a beautiful part of the world. Hope you gave your machine a good wash when you got home!
I like your style Mattias, getting the job done with the equipment you have and not giving up when things get difficult. You are right about people commenting on the risks sounding like all the safety warnings at the front of a manual! Keep up the great work.
I've never seen a trailer like this before that delivered the shovel. I've used and hauled a lot of heavy equipment in my life ,but that's the slickest trailer I've ever seen. Just goes to show you that you can learn something every day.
First, your videos are always interesting and informative. Your content is unique. The scenery where you live is beautiful. And of course, I thought you were going to slide down into that hole a few times. Keep it up. Hello from Ohio, USA.
@mikekemsley1531 it would help if small stones or rocks came loose though, in the uk, we normally use trench shoreing on any excavations more than 5' deep.
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
Great video! Had me on the edge of my seat a few times wondering if you and the excavator were going to be eaten by the hole. Thanks for the explainer at the end, I think most folks here in the states would have just redrilled the existing drill hole deeper.
You took a very big chance of being buried alive in that narrow unsupported deep sandy trench, it could easily have collapsed on top of you. I drove a jcb 3 for several years and would have sloped the top half of both sides to reduce the chances of a collapse. I wouldn’t dig a trench like that if someone had to get into it!😮😢
If you get a chance to do an operator apprenticeship absolutely jump at the chance . I did it at 19 and have been at it 15 years now I love my job and running machines
I did this literally over the past 3 days. Except it wasn't a well, it was for a 10' by 6' sewer lift station. Had to use a tiny cat 305 because the rental company misunderstood how deep of a dig depth I needed lol. Super sketch being at a 40 degree angle 5' deep into a ramp you just dug yourself and is falling in. Respect mate.
low producing drilled well are often saved in my parts because they often cost $15-25k to drill. A small pump is placed in the well with special limit switches and timers so the pump does run dry and doesn't start and stop too often. then this water is pumped into storage tanks to have a buffer.
What a wonderful project, that you took us on! A time or two, I really thought you were going to be swallowed up by that sand! The explanation at the end was a nice touch as well as the demonstration of the water! Another excellent video….. sure wish you made more of them! ❤
If you want to go even deeper with it you can rent a trash pump and start storing some water. Once you have a good amount of water stored up you stack a couple more concrete casings on top of what’s already there and maybe even some weights. Then you start stirring up the mud slurry and you then pump it out. Do this a few times and the casing will slowly start to drop into the ground. It doesn’t work on a older established well. But one you have just loosely dug like this and hasn’t had the chance to really set up like concrete around the casings. It will work. There are companies that sink pilings the same way. Unfortunately I’m seeing now that you didn’t stack them all in line. So there’s no way it would work. Oh well. Lol.
I was working on a well with my brother the same way like you. But we had a big advantage of having very stable soil and dig into the hill and then down. I regret , that we did not made an video about it . Last 1,5 meters digged it out manually with jackhammer and shovel. We put a concrete rings down with bobcat and chain hoist.
looks like an excellent well. If you have several thousand litres of water then you do not have a problem. THe other aspect of this is that likely you will not have frost stop water. Excellent work. My Grandfather was a farmer and like all farmers they know were the water is best. So when the government wantedf to mine gravel for roads he let them do so in the location of the freshwater spring on his farm. This ended up being huge and when it exceeded the capacity of the pumps it made the farm drought proof. The dam is still their and is visible on google earth easily. lol. people have water skied in it.
@@EthanPDobbins Very typical of Farmers. Especially old farmers who never wanted the government having anything to do with their farm in the first place. I am fairly sure it was 3 million cubic metres of gravel removed. Dam is 80 ft deep in places when at full after cyclones come through etc. Has Barramundi over 80cm long in it as well.
Fantastic video. Very interesting and really well done. The amount of work you and your team did to provide reliable source of water is commendable. At one point it looked like the excavator was going to be swallowed up as the side of the hole was caving in. Always interesting to watch true professionals at work.
Where in the world are you? Btw i’d dig a waterwell for some 20 yrs ago. About 8 meters deep. I used a tractor backhoe. The last two meters i had a Atlas 12 tonner to dig out. I used 1 meter wide concrete rings. It works PERFECT. GOOD JOB of you guys. Always a pleasure see working men now this days when everything is pure madness.
Thank you for the video, it's always nice to see how our western neighbours get things done. I'm not overly enthusiastic about formal safety regulations, I trust more in using common sense. This time I must say that the collapsing pit with the liquified sand got a bit scary. I guess you know how your ground behaves though. Overall I'm just mightily jealous of your sandy soil. The sticky clay here in south of Finland really sucks. Unless it's bone-dry in the middle of summer it sticks everywhere (including buckets) and makes a horrible mess. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
at least they can rest assured that there was no alcohol involved in sinking the well. that is quite a difference to many other countries, I see people drinking and working on building every few weeks at building sites in Switzerland..
It was slopped back and for the most part noone was working in the bottom. You would be behind and miss your payments and payroll within 6 months if you ran this business.
Holy shit, I thought this would end up being a digger recovery video, you must have big balls man, that’s all I can say because if you weren’t shitting yourself installing those drain pipes I certainly was and I’m in Australia on my lounge chair. I guess you have to make the most of a bad situation when you live in a remote place. Well done to all involved in getting the bore in.
Coincidence. I dug a well at my house 45 years ago using stacked cement pipes - approximately 36 inches across and about 9 feet deep, using a John Deere 350 backhoe. The only problem - for about 2 to 3 weeks in September the well went almost dry. I have since discovered a low cost workaround for that. Using a sump pump ( assuming less than 30 feet depth) have the pump slowly add a few gallons an hour - or about 72 gallons a day to fill a couple of 300 gallon large plastic storage tanks, placed in the basement, which are relatively low cost. Then attach a standard 50 psi pump to the outlet of the water tanks for supplying the building. Also i would recommend placing crushed stone around the exterior of the pipe, while using weed control vinyl clothe around the interior walls of the dug hole so as to minimize sand getting into the well. Otherwise i applaud a job well done and having put many hours on a back hoe i know what it feels like when the backhoe starts to slide towards the hole you're digging.
Greetings from Estonia! Yeah, it's scary to watch that excavator hanging on the edge. The landslide is easy to come there and there is no turn back. Big risk, but seems that you have your balls.😀 Cheers!
I love that trailering! Wish I still had the health to do stuff like that! I think I would offer it for people in need! I don't need the money really. Seems a shame that people like me have the time but not the strength , and the people with the strength don't have the time!
Looks pretty fun the only thing that appeared not good to me is I didn't see the guy going into the well carrying a gas monitor, it's a quick way to die without knowing why.
Stunning video, BZ Buddy ('Bootneck' jargon for Bloody Good Effort). The drone shot looking down through light cloud was magnificent. Plus some real edge of the seat action. Keep 'em coming!!
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!.... Nicely done. I enjoy watching videos that show the whole project start to finish, with a summary at the end
I loved this video. The shot at the end was great, the only way to improve it is to have someone else fly it and have you waving instead. Could you have gone any deeper? I can't help but think if you extended the runway further you might have been able to dig it deeper and thus the hole deeper but it looked like it was getting pretty soupy.
I built a pretty nice pond using the same sized excavator. Luckily the water table was only about 5' deep in the driest part of the year. Worked it similarly making "shelves" to dig from, slowly expanding it out Had a nice ramp coming down in and turning so I could land the spoils on part of the shelf with a Bobcat coming in to remove it from the ever expanding hole. Took quite a while and at the last stage in the dry season. my working shelf was about 18" above the water table. The ground was pretty squishy at that point and the excavator would try to sink in. So about every hour or so, I had to build back the shelf. I would then move over a bit and work another area. The next day the shelves had firmed back up and just kept working it down. The bottom of the pond is about 10' below ground level so when the water table is up, it's about 6' deep. Still working on the banks a bit. It can get a bit sketchy and when you are pulling water and mud out the the hole, you always have to be careful not to undermine the shelf too much. Several times I got t stuck and had to work hard to pull myself back up. A couple times I had to throw some tines down to get enough traction. I had a good plan and worked it pretty much as I had figured, but it is easy to to sometimes get a little greedy and try to dig more than you should. The soil was much the same. Sandy, easy digging. It can support a lot of weight until it gets saturated and then it tries to slip into the hole. Always need to stay aware because it is easy to get a bit distracted trying to clean out the hole when you can't see underwater. It is fun work and you can really take your mind off other things and just stay focused on digging, Didn't take long for the wildlife to discover and use the pond.
Another Andrew Camarata -ish channel, I am here for it :-) Kult å se noen scandinaver også, blir litt mye amerikanere.. edit; this is dangerous for the man in that hole.
During Covid our well collapsed and I could not get anyone to come and dig or drill me a new one so I rented an excavator and dug my own. I was able to dig down to approximately 9 meters but really wanted to go down to 10. The incoming water would not allow me to go any deeper. Once I placed in the 1m diameter well casing the water came up to about 3m from the top of the well. I have not had any water issues since and have not been able to pump it dry.
Tak, masz rację. Powinni podkopywać kręgi, aby siadały coraz niżej. ranty uszczelnić glinką itd itd. Ale mimo wszystko fajnie się ogląda. Daj im Boże zdrowie. I taka malutka prośba. Bez wulgaryzmów. Język powinniśmy czynić szlachetnym a te wulgaryzmy sprowadzają go do rynsztoka. Dziękuję. @@TylerDurden0331
great video - if you've got enough water in the old well you could set it up for fire protection that way they have a fighting chance of saving the properties if anything was to happen.
The last guy I saw use these as well casings pumped the water away while he was digging and leveled the bottom well. In that case you could have layed the fabric and set the casing on top, hindsight 20/20
Well hell if you were super rich you could have bought the biggest excavator and dug the well in 2 scoops. Lol. Thank you for your videos. I do enjoy watching them.
You definitely need to make more content , your living in a wonderful place and with enough video’s combing out your channel will pay for itself eventually, it’s great content, keep it up, regards Andy Perth Australia.
I was a bit surprised when you just just started digging again in the open hole after it filled with water for two days. I would have thought that you might have pumped most of the water out with a sump pump before digging more. But it seems you were racing against time with the equipment to move the rings on it's way.
Great videos. Was wondering if putting some rock in the bottom of each concrete tub would help pushing more water up up and help filter it as well. There's probably a simple answer but just a thought
Awesome vid! I never seen anyone digging a well that way and it's wesome ;) Thanks for taking us with you - me and my 3y old son were watching you and enjoying the full vid! I am glad you make it 1h long and not like 15mins or something like that.
10 minutes ago!! Edit: I really love your videos, the pacing is great, they demonstrate interesting things as a scale beyond the "I've got some land and some tools" type videos (which are also great!), and it's always such a relief to see someone wearing PPE and taking their health seriously
Is there anything that Mattias can not do, he’s a bit unorthodox in places but still a mean feat achieved, yes ok he’s mad But I’ve been trying to figure it out and I reckon he can do most things, a very resourceful chap who just gets it done no matter what. Wish I had mates like this so I could help them out and see mad stuff like this
Excavator jobs are always like this, to a varying level: The deeper it gets, the more intense it gets. Then you put in the deepest element which is always a fight, and from there it very quickly gets easier and easier.
You should do an Equipment, Truck type Video as I’m not familiar with that Rotator attachment and the Trucks are Unique as well. So many variables from Country to Country just as it does State by State, here in the United States of America.
تحياتى لكم من مصر ...اشاهدة طوال الوقت ولايذال غير كاف بالنسبة لى اعتقد اننا جميعا نريد المذيد من الاهتمام بمثل هذة الفبديوهات للمتعة فعلا احسنتم ❤❤❤❤❤ 0:44
This video should be titled "OSHA Inspector's Wet Dream" for the U.S. audience :)
i dont understood context, but yes , i agree
OSHA inspector would run out of paper for his citations🤣🤣🤣
@@juriiboyoka5557 USA health and safety - these boys broke all the rules 🤣🤣
Wow, that was scary, seeing the walls sliding down and the mud building up...
Great job, great video!
👍👍👍
In North America when we dig a well we always backfill the the well crocks with clear stone to assist the seams of water to be able to get to the crocks…if you backfill with the same material you dug out then you clog off the seams…plus the clear stone expands the capacity of the well so that you aren’t just drawing from what ever the crocks can hold…those 8-10 ton machines can do a lot of work but it was definitely a bit small for this job…in any case you got through it and the clients now have water!!
IN Canada - we had a concrete casing well installed , we have only about 15 feet of sandy soil , than you hit about 75 feet of clay ( in our area is perched water table ) the top half of the concrete ring were sealed with bentonite clay , and the a well tag was placed and the well was registered . it was done all done by a boring drilling rig
Last well that I had anything to do with, was hand dug down to about 30 ft, had a shallow well pump on it and pumping as fast as it would go, that's as deep as we could get keeping up with the water! The top about 8 ft was encased with concrete and a concrete top put on it.
he could have used the same stones(culverts) by laying it horizontally. That would have helped increased his well capacity. Or just fill that massive hole with the same material with one vertical culverts. All these would have increased the well capacity.
This is common practice in these ground conditions. Textile filter and gravel on top.
If you put gravel first, water flow and mud underneath will make it shift and collapse over time.
This is a very stable construction in soft ground.
Ancient Romans would have filled the entire pit with crushed stone as well, and seal the shaft except for holes at the bottom. That way only water from the bottom of the pit enters the shaft, which is clean and safe to drink from spending so much time percolating down underground in an anaerobic environment.
Excavator operators are a special kind of mad. I like my working surfaces to be within about 10 degrees of level and pretty incredibly stable.
same here
I'd never be able to get into a hole like that
excavator operators live on the edge brother, its our happy place
@@BenCos2018 lol and you would be right, this is a tad on the cowboy side of gettin her done! i've had trenches and pits collapse on me in the past...similar situation
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@@madkatt2201 yep haha
You my friend are living VERY dangerously.
Damn, the excavator hanging on the edge of this crumbling sandy hole looks pretty intense. As does people working in that narrow trench.
How does one say "sketchy" in Swedish?
Sketchy can mean many different things and has no direct translation. You have to use a synonym with less meanings for the current situation, like risky, and translate that: "riskabelt". Or maybe "prekärt" (precarious), or "våghalsigt" (daring).
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Modigt = Brave
Riskabelt = Sketchy
Viking = Calculated risk 😂
how about "all of the above"? It will be interesting to see if the weight of the stacked concrete caissons will slowly sink into the sand causing the well to get deeper over time. The density of the concrete versus that of the saturated sand is a calculated variable. The number of concrete sections above the surrounding water table height times the weight per section will approximate the amount of force. Without a "floor" in the first concrete tube to prevent sand from extruding into the caisson internal volume there is a possibility you might have to add one or some additional pilings later on should the lower sections "drift" out of place due to uneven settling. The weight of the cement castings seemed to be preferentially heavier towards the flattened side? @@madmodders
Die Jungs hatten Glück, sowohl beim Graben des Lochs für die Schachtringe als auch beim verlegen der Leitung im Graben dass sie nicht verschüttet worden sind.
Bei dem Sandboden, pures Glück gewesen.
Absolutely love how you put these videos together, the choice of music is fantastic and your timelapse segments are trimmed short enough that it's not boring, but long enough to get a good look at what's going on. The more videos I watch the more I want to visit Sweden, it looks like such a beautiful part of the world. Hope you gave your machine a good wash when you got home!
I like your style Mattias, getting the job done with the equipment you have and not giving up when things get difficult. You are right about people commenting on the risks sounding like all the safety warnings at the front of a manual! Keep up the great work.
I've never seen a trailer like this before that delivered the shovel. I've used and hauled a lot of heavy equipment in my life ,but that's the slickest trailer I've ever seen. Just goes to show you that you can learn something every day.
Extremely common in Sweden with this hook load management system.
It can manage flat beds, tanks, containers, etc.
Very quick to load/unload stuff 👍🏻
First, your videos are always interesting and informative. Your content is unique. The scenery where you live is beautiful. And of course, I thought you were going to slide down into that hole a few times. Keep it up. Hello from Ohio, USA.
Wow, it's dangerous to be down in an unreinforced 2 meter ditch in such unstable sandy soil. Made my skin crawl.
They don't have trench collapses in Sweden.
I was more worried that no one was wearing a hard hat.
@@paulf2529 Hard hat won't make that much difference when you're under 5 feet of dirt and rocks.
@mikekemsley1531 it would help if small stones or rocks came loose though, in the uk, we normally use trench shoreing on any excavations more than 5' deep.
@@paulf2529 We us them here in the States too. trench collapse is no laughing matter.
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
That shot at the end was terrific, btw. 🤩
Great video! Had me on the edge of my seat a few times wondering if you and the excavator were going to be eaten by the hole. Thanks for the explainer at the end, I think most folks here in the states would have just redrilled the existing drill hole deeper.
Or dropped an explosive charge down it to free up the flow.
You took a very big chance of being buried alive in that narrow unsupported deep sandy trench, it could easily have collapsed on top of you. I drove a jcb 3 for several years and would have sloped the top half of both sides to reduce the chances of a collapse. I wouldn’t dig a trench like that if someone had to get into it!😮😢
You are living the life i dreamed of, my friend. I would like to be your apprentice.
@@iridium8341did you just tell this man that he doesn’t know what life he would like to live and that he wouldn’t want to be this man’s apprentice….
If you get a chance to do an operator apprenticeship absolutely jump at the chance . I did it at 19 and have been at it 15 years now I love my job and running machines
Yes all those lovely logs available to put on the fire in winter.
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I did this literally over the past 3 days. Except it wasn't a well, it was for a 10' by 6' sewer lift station. Had to use a tiny cat 305 because the rental company misunderstood how deep of a dig depth I needed lol. Super sketch being at a 40 degree angle 5' deep into a ramp you just dug yourself and is falling in. Respect mate.
low producing drilled well are often saved in my parts because they often cost $15-25k to drill. A small pump is placed in the well with special limit switches and timers so the pump does run dry and doesn't start and stop too often. then this water is pumped into storage tanks to have a buffer.
What a wonderful project, that you took us on!
A time or two, I really thought you were going to be swallowed up by that sand!
The explanation at the end was a nice touch as well as the demonstration of the water!
Another excellent video….. sure wish you made more of them!
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I love that the dishwashing liquid at the sink says "YES" after a job well done to Mattias. Yes!
It’s wonderful to watch such a brilliant young man do his work in such a efficient manner and good cheer. Thank you for your content. God bless you.
If you want to go even deeper with it you can rent a trash pump and start storing some water. Once you have a good amount of water stored up you stack a couple more concrete casings on top of what’s already there and maybe even some weights. Then you start stirring up the mud slurry and you then pump it out. Do this a few times and the casing will slowly start to drop into the ground. It doesn’t work on a older established well. But one you have just loosely dug like this and hasn’t had the chance to really set up like concrete around the casings. It will work. There are companies that sink pilings the same way. Unfortunately I’m seeing now that you didn’t stack them all in line. So there’s no way it would work. Oh well. Lol.
I was working on a well with my brother the same way like you. But we had a big advantage of having very stable soil and dig into the hill and then down. I regret , that we did not made an video about it . Last 1,5 meters digged it out manually with jackhammer and shovel. We put a concrete rings down with bobcat and chain hoist.
Different types of soil makes a heck of a difference
Osha would be all over this project lol
"Imagine putting your fingers here when it shuts" I'm sure we all had that thought :D
looks like an excellent well. If you have several thousand litres of water then you do not have a problem. THe other aspect of this is that likely you will not have frost stop water. Excellent work.
My Grandfather was a farmer and like all farmers they know were the water is best. So when the government wantedf to mine gravel for roads he let them do so in the location of the freshwater spring on his farm. This ended up being huge and when it exceeded the capacity of the pumps it made the farm drought proof. The dam is still their and is visible on google earth easily. lol. people have water skied in it.
Scamming the government for free labor, your grandpa sounds like an absolute genius.
@@EthanPDobbins Very typical of Farmers. Especially old farmers who never wanted the government having anything to do with their farm in the first place. I am fairly sure it was 3 million cubic metres of gravel removed. Dam is 80 ft deep in places when at full after cyclones come through etc. Has Barramundi over 80cm long in it as well.
This is why we respect the wise old man.
Such an underrated channel, great content.
Fantastic video. Very interesting and really well done. The amount of work you and your team did to provide reliable source of water is commendable. At one point it looked like the excavator was going to be swallowed up as the side of the hole was caving in. Always interesting to watch true professionals at work.
Sweden is fascinating. I spent a lot of time in our High Sierra mountains, skiing, and love mountains.
Where in the world are you?
Btw i’d dig a waterwell for some 20 yrs ago. About 8 meters deep. I used a tractor backhoe. The last two meters i had a Atlas 12 tonner to dig out. I used 1 meter wide concrete rings. It works PERFECT.
GOOD JOB of you guys. Always a pleasure see working men now this days when everything is pure madness.
This is in the north of Sweden.
Again i APPLAUD YOU for both your hard work and almost perfect American English. God bless you.
Hi Matthias....not long till you blast through the 50 k subscribers....always great videos....Keep up the great work...🏴
Thank you for the video, it's always nice to see how our western neighbours get things done. I'm not overly enthusiastic about formal safety regulations, I trust more in using common sense. This time I must say that the collapsing pit with the liquified sand got a bit scary. I guess you know how your ground behaves though.
Overall I'm just mightily jealous of your sandy soil. The sticky clay here in south of Finland really sucks. Unless it's bone-dry in the middle of summer it sticks everywhere (including buckets) and makes a horrible mess. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
Man, really enjoying the job, video editing in parallel with the soundtrack. Pleasure to watch
Lots of water, the sidewalls did not give you a break with calving off either. Nicely done!
I wonder how many safety inspectors have had an aneurism after viewing this?
at least they can rest assured that there was no alcohol involved in sinking the well.
that is quite a difference to many other countries, I see people drinking and working on building every few weeks at building sites in Switzerland..
I can't see drinking that water out of
That nasty dirty pipe, looks like it came out of a sewage plant inside.
At least sand blast the crud off it.
Yeah - that was a sketchy excavation. Worked out though.
It was slopped back and for the most part noone was working in the bottom. You would be behind and miss your payments and payroll within 6 months if you ran this business.
@@RDEnduro we'd still be alive though, so there's that.
Holy shit, I thought this would end up being a digger recovery video, you must have big balls man, that’s all I can say because if you weren’t shitting yourself installing those drain pipes I certainly was and I’m in Australia on my lounge chair. I guess you have to make the most of a bad situation when you live in a remote place. Well done to all involved in getting the bore in.
Coincidence. I dug a well at my house 45 years ago using stacked cement pipes - approximately 36 inches across and about 9 feet deep, using a John Deere 350 backhoe. The only problem - for about 2 to 3 weeks in September the well went almost dry. I have since discovered a low cost workaround for that. Using a sump pump ( assuming less than 30 feet depth) have the pump slowly add a few gallons an hour - or about 72 gallons a day to fill a couple of 300 gallon large plastic storage tanks, placed in the basement, which are relatively low cost. Then attach a standard 50 psi pump to the outlet of the water tanks for supplying the building. Also i would recommend placing crushed stone around the exterior of the pipe, while using weed control vinyl clothe around the interior walls of the dug hole so as to minimize sand getting into the well. Otherwise i applaud a job well done and having put many hours on a back hoe i know what it feels like when the backhoe starts to slide towards the hole you're digging.
Greetings from Estonia! Yeah, it's scary to watch that excavator hanging on the edge. The landslide is easy to come there and there is no turn back. Big risk, but seems that you have your balls.😀 Cheers!
Love your modded container truck setup for the mini excavator. Genious
It's not actually modded it's called lastväxlare and are very common in Sweden
those two little machines were total badass, great project.
I love that trailering! Wish I still had the health to do stuff like that! I think I would offer it for people in need! I don't need the money really. Seems a shame that people like me have the time but not the strength , and the people with the strength don't have the time!
A fireplace shop that needed water.
Oh how life can be balanced!!
Dry sandy soil must be great to work with! The clay we have here would make you cry.
54:44 So the plants are starting to make their roots look like cables to deter excavators... evolution at work.
You need some very large Swedish meatballs to put such an expensive excavator into a collapsing hole.
Congrats Guy's on getting the water wall done and finished. great job..
Wow, that was out of my comfort zone. I was thinking you were close to ending up in the excavation.
Looks pretty fun the only thing that appeared not good to me is I didn't see the guy going into the well carrying a gas monitor, it's a quick way to die without knowing why.
Great watching you plan and get projects done. The scenery is amazing.
Awesome project. Thought excavator was gone a couple times. Great job. Water should clear and be good water!
Stunning video, BZ Buddy ('Bootneck' jargon for Bloody Good Effort). The drone shot looking down through light cloud was magnificent. Plus some real edge of the seat action. Keep 'em coming!!
I love the production quality of your videos. Those drone shots and music choices and the way you keep the sound while the time lapses. I like it. Keep up the good work and stay safe!....
Nicely done. I enjoy watching videos that show the whole project start to finish, with a summary at the end
You copy and paste a comment for likes...?
Well well, have to say i enjoyed watching you digging down a well, well done!
well thanks!
I loved this video. The shot at the end was great, the only way to improve it is to have someone else fly it and have you waving instead. Could you have gone any deeper? I can't help but think if you extended the runway further you might have been able to dig it deeper and thus the hole deeper but it looked like it was getting pretty soupy.
I built a pretty nice pond using the same sized excavator. Luckily the water table was only about 5' deep in the driest part of the year. Worked it similarly making "shelves" to dig from,
slowly expanding it out Had a nice ramp coming down in and turning so I could land the spoils on part of the shelf with a Bobcat coming in to remove it from the ever expanding hole. Took quite a while and at the last stage in the dry season. my working shelf was about 18" above the water table.
The ground was pretty squishy at that point and the excavator would try to sink in. So about every hour or so, I had to build back the shelf. I would then move over a bit and work another area. The next day the shelves had firmed back up and just kept working it down.
The bottom of the pond is about 10' below ground level so when the water table is up, it's about 6' deep. Still working on the banks a bit. It can get a bit sketchy and when you are pulling water and mud out the the hole, you always have to be careful not to undermine the shelf too much. Several times I got t stuck and had to work hard to pull myself back up. A couple times I had to throw some tines down to get enough traction.
I had a good plan and worked it pretty much as I had figured, but it is easy to to sometimes get a little greedy and try to dig more than you should. The soil was much the same. Sandy, easy digging. It can support a lot of weight until it gets saturated and then it tries to slip into the hole. Always need to stay aware because it is easy to get a bit distracted trying to clean out the hole when you can't see underwater. It is fun work and you can really take your mind off other things and just stay focused on digging,
Didn't take long for the wildlife to discover and use the pond.
I know nothing about this yet I watched every second. Very interesting. Might be the best time lapse I’ve seen.
Another Andrew Camarata -ish channel, I am here for it :-) Kult å se noen scandinaver også, blir litt mye amerikanere.. edit; this is dangerous for the man in that hole.
Andrew Camarata 🙌🏻😎
This is the first video of yours that I've watched and I found it very informative and entertaining.
Fantastic video,,from Florida thank you 😊😊
During Covid our well collapsed and I could not get anyone to come and dig or drill me a new one so I rented an excavator and dug my own. I was able to dig down to approximately 9 meters but really wanted to go down to 10. The incoming water would not allow me to go any deeper. Once I placed in the 1m diameter well casing the water came up to about 3m from the top of the well. I have not had any water issues since and have not been able to pump it dry.
Pozdrowienia z Polski. Oglądam na bieżąco i ciągle mi mało. Myślę że wszyscy chcemy więcej filmów. Dobra robota
Tak, masz rację. Powinni podkopywać kręgi, aby siadały coraz niżej. ranty uszczelnić glinką itd itd. Ale mimo wszystko fajnie się ogląda. Daj im Boże zdrowie. I taka malutka prośba. Bez wulgaryzmów. Język powinniśmy czynić szlachetnym a te wulgaryzmy sprowadzają go do rynsztoka. Dziękuję. @@TylerDurden0331
great video - if you've got enough water in the old well you could set it up for fire protection that way they have a fighting chance of saving the properties if anything was to happen.
I would have put down and compressed some gravel below the first ring to give it a bit stability and as a filter for the water
Man oh man you are turning out some top grade videos. Better and better , thank you.
The last guy I saw use these as well casings pumped the water away while he was digging and leveled the bottom well. In that case you could have layed the fabric and set the casing on top, hindsight 20/20
Nicely done. I enjoy watching videos that show the whole project start to finish, with a summary at the end. Like an andrew camarata video 👍
My favourite channel
i found your content a week ago and since then i have been binge watching
The beauty of where you live is staggering. I love seeing your videos and all of the beauty of your country. Your a great heavy equipment operator.
literally digging up Viking ground damn good work
This drone footage is incredible
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MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼………………………………………………………………….. I thought a couple times YOU were going in the well!!! LOL!
That was a bit like watching a suspense movie. I kept thinking you were going to slide in and the walls cave down on top!
nice little Takeuchi excavator ,,didnt know they made one,,,,they sure make a nice skid steer as well.
that truck that hauls the mini excavator is neat I've never seen one that the whole bed drops
That load management system is very common in Sweden, very quick and easy 👍🏻
@@petter5721 yeah me and my son are starting to ride motorcycles together that would make transporting them so much easier
Well hell if you were super rich you could have bought the biggest excavator and dug the well in 2 scoops. Lol. Thank you for your videos. I do enjoy watching them.
Another amazing video, your are one of the few that I watch from start to finish, keep up the great work from Scotland
Nice work, only thing i would worry is at 54:40 when you are in the trench without proper formwork...
You definitely need to make more content , your living in a wonderful place and with enough video’s combing out your channel will pay for itself eventually, it’s great content, keep it up, regards Andy Perth Australia.
I was a bit surprised when you just just started digging again in the open hole after it filled with water for two days. I would have thought that you might have pumped most of the water out with a sump pump before digging more. But it seems you were racing against time with the equipment to move the rings on it's way.
Great videos. Was wondering if putting some rock in the bottom of each concrete tub would help pushing more water up up and help filter it as well. There's probably a simple answer but just a thought
That's what the fabric and gravel is for. Did you miss that part?
Greetings from Ireland! That was a great video, well presented and brilliantly edited. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
You have a beutyful truck! I’ve been driven the FH4 540 for one year, a tanker. I have a 1992 Scania R113 as an hobby project.
Awesome vid! I never seen anyone digging a well that way and it's wesome ;) Thanks for taking us with you - me and my 3y old son were watching you and enjoying the full vid! I am glad you make it 1h long and not like 15mins or something like that.
You may want to double your life/equipment insurance policy.
10 minutes ago!!
Edit: I really love your videos, the pacing is great, they demonstrate interesting things as a scale beyond the "I've got some land and some tools" type videos (which are also great!), and it's always such a relief to see someone wearing PPE and taking their health seriously
Which is a funny contrast wiith Andrew Camarate, who is often named as Matthews US counterpart
Can’t wait to see what you have planned next! Your videos are so much fun to watch
Is there anything that Mattias can not do, he’s a bit unorthodox in places but still a mean feat achieved, yes ok he’s mad
But I’ve been trying to figure it out and I reckon he can do most things, a very resourceful chap who just gets it done no matter what. Wish I had mates like this so I could help them out and see mad stuff like this
Great video! Love the content, production, drone shots and music! You're basically the Andrew Camarata of Sweden.
Excavator jobs are always like this, to a varying level: The deeper it gets, the more intense it gets. Then you put in the deepest element which is always a fight, and from there it very quickly gets easier and easier.
You should do an Equipment, Truck type Video as I’m not familiar with that Rotator attachment and the Trucks are Unique as well. So many variables from Country to Country just as it does State by State, here in the United States of America.
تحياتى لكم من مصر ...اشاهدة طوال الوقت ولايذال غير كاف بالنسبة لى اعتقد اننا جميعا نريد المذيد من الاهتمام بمثل هذة الفبديوهات للمتعة فعلا احسنتم ❤❤❤❤❤ 0:44
Makes the guys that hand dig 7 rings a day on the other side of Finlands boarder look like pros.
Pretty high pucker factor on this one.
The stump and roots should be removed they degrade and cause tannins.
The anxiety of wondering if I'm about to watch a workplace death is keeping me riveted to this video!
Haha, både fantastiska och hemska markförhållanden där!! Älskar hur ni gav upp på den där ringen och bara grävde ner den som att inget hänt! 😅❤
Den fick bli fyllning, vi hade några i reserv
I'd describe your work as sketchy but it works
You guys have big balls working in loose dirt