We DRILLED A WELL & You'll Never Believe What Happened
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I don't want to rain on your parade Jessy, but you are not able to celebrate until you test quality of water? You do not have a well in my experience (a 50 year veteran driller) until the first dry spell or you test!
The cisterns (and alternate municipal water source) largely eliminate both concerns.
I had a well dug in Eastern WA IN 2006. I PAID 28 GRAND FOR 340 FEET. Ended up with 4 gallons a minute. The finance company for the guy buying the property wanted 5 gallons a minute before they would finance it. My dear neighbor gave me 5 gallons a minute from his well so I could sell the property. Cherish thy neighbor!
Don't understand why you put all that money in a cistern & then drill a well? Why not just drill the well first?
.......and Bugaboo slept through the whole process. Ya gotta luv that cat!🐯
Bugaboo has the right idea. :)
That price was not bad at ALL....and that company let you videotape them and put them on your channel so double bonus! Seemed like a good company.
I have a 330' well in North Carolina it cost me $5500.00 for the drilling and another $1000.00 for well pump and wiring so a total of $6500.00.
Fyi get a rubber bladder pressure tank and a 40-60 psi pressure switch and skip the red jacket pump and go straight to the Goulds brand with water at 60 feet you could get by with only a half horse pump which will save some cost and electricity usage. I worked at a plumbing heating and electrical contractor for many years and have put 100's if not 1000's of goulds pumps in and only remember 1 or 2 that did not run flawlessly! It's so nice to see someone put in a well and not have to go to some crazy depth. I have put pumps down around the 600 foot mark and frankly they suck. Oh and btw the technical term for using a weight and string to determine the height of the water is plunking!!! woohoo as if you care LOL. Anyway your videos rock as always really enjoy them, even though I grew up in the trades and sometimes wonder why you would do some things a certain way cuz there are easier ways in some instances. As you try to bring out in your vids its all about the journey and learning as you go! Kudos to you both for tenacity! God bless!
We DRILLED A WELL & You'll Never Believe What Happened
Let me guess before I watch it. You found water
Spoiler alert, they find oil.
Yeah I had the same thought.
Hah! Is it time to re-assess your land? Expect more tax.
Our second well, was almost 1,000 foot deep, during drought seasons, we had problems, also large pump was used. Our plumber convinced us to bury a 1,000 gallon tank in our yard, added an additional smaller pump in the house to draw from the tank. After calling a water company to fill the tank, we never had to worry about “burning out” the larger pump, and never had water problems again. If we were to lose water during a drought, we could always call the water company to fill our tank. PS ten years later, we created a neighborhood water district, and hooked up to a permanent source of water. To live in fear of losing water, sucks! We improved our home values, water is life!
A well and cistern is a good combination. That is what I have. A bonus is when the cistern is high enough to provide gravity flow water to home when power to cistern pump stops, ie power outage. Wife can still flush toilet. That is important. Now need to set pump and water lines. enjoy
So Happy for you both. Now you have the access to decent water flow and hopefully it will eliminate the need to haul water in the future. In time you may wish to consider installing a water treatment system including a Reverse Osmosis filtration system for drinking water and for the ice maker. I can’t tell you how much difference that has made in the life of our appliances (e.g. the ice maker and coffee machines) but the water doesn’t taste like chemicals and the piece-of-mind that were’ drinking chemical free water is a major relief too.
By far one of the most exciting videos since the announcement of baby! You guys, this is super awesome news. We have 1/2 gallon a min, feeding into cistern and get plenty to live on! Congratulations to you!
I love you guys😇 it's about dam time a video dropped I was so used to the schedule you guys had. I would stay up till 2:00 a.m to watch your videos
was really getting vid withdrawal, need to see bugaboo lol
Nice update. My well in North West Wyoming required bentonite seal as well. I think it is a Wyoming state law. The well was drilled a year and half ago at $35 a foot with steel casing. The well is 71 ft with static water at 50 ft. and flow of 25 gallon per minutes estimated. The driller just watched the water being blown out of the well by the drill to give that estimate.
AWESOME!....grace happens....consider a Bison hand pump addition to your well head...great backup and does not interfere with your electric pumping system...always have water available whether or not electric is up and running...easy to install and to use...ck them out
Just a hop skip and a jump over in Montana, my family had the same experience as you guys. We hit water at 60'! Congrats on this major milestone!
We once drilled at a location my husband thought convenient . It went 500 feet and got 1/2 cup per minute. We capped it. $5,000 down a hole. We then did a geophysics study where they used satellite and equipment to read the minerals in the ground. They told us where to drill. The next well was 60 gpm at 300 feet. It cost $12,000 (about 25 years ago) but we got water in dry ole So. California.
Mar B, I guess that's the new standard for water witching? Quite interesting.
SPOILER: they hit water
5526.00 is an amazing deal for what they were able to do there.
You rolled 7-5 and you hit water at what depth?...nice luck
Congratulations on the new well. Been watching sense the beginning. Look forward every day to your next video. Love you guys, your fan, Etta.
This should have been done in the beginning.
You can never tell with well drilling. My parents didn't drill for water for 40 years and relied on shallow hand dug wells that ran out for months every year because their neighbor had drilled 3 1,000' attempts to get 2 gallons a minute of extremely hard water with sulfur taste. Finally my sisters and I paid to have a well drilled for them so that in their golden years they would not need to suffer, and they reached 15 gallons a minute at 100' of nice soft water. On my own house, all my neighbors had 300' to 500' deep wells, while I hit minimum of 20 gallons a minute at 30' of soft water! Job complete in less than half a day! Pure luck!
I'm a well drilling contractor in Michigan you did good very lucky
Bugaboo is clearly ecstatic about the new well.
Ah, when things go way better than expected and you feel skeptical, you have achieved wisdom. ;)
CONGRATULATIONS! Question: how does this amazing fortune affect your property value, and annual taxes?
Where I am building we went 500ft and placed the pump at 400ft it is cheaper per foot here. Around 12k for everything.
You struck oil :O
Water is more than oil
Keep repeating that and US Marines are gonna pay them a visit...
When my parents had our well drilled just over 31 years ago, if I remember correctly we hit water at around between 25 and 50 feet deep. But we continued down to around I think 120 or 125 feet. We had 20 to 25 Gallons per minute flow! The Well driller said that was unusual for around where we live! Most of the wells drilled in our area were over 200 feet, some were even deeper than 300 feet. I think one good thing for us is we only live a little over 100 yards from the Delaware River, but we live up on a hill. Fortunately we only had to pay for 80 feet of casing. So far our well has not run dry, even when several wells in the area have gone dry and people had to drill deeper wells, during dry spells. I remember one person who lives less than a 1/2 mile up the road and lives a little closer to the river than we do, they had a slightly shallower well than we do, it went dry the one year and they had to drill a deeper well.
One thing I would do, if it is legal in your state, is add a rain catchment system and add another water storage tank. You can use the Rain water for watering the garden, you can add filters and use the water for drinking water, cooking, washing clothes, and even bathing. You do not have to do that now or have a Big system now. You can add small rain Barrels and use that for watering the garden. Then later you can expand it and make it bigger.
Got to love Bugaboo, He sleeps right through the Well drilling!! lol THen after it is done and you walk in to pet him he looks at you as if to say: "Can't you let me sleep a little longer? I am so comfortable, I just want to sleep ALL Day!" ROTF LMAO
I would have used the screen anyway, gravel only filters so much. Nice bit of luck on hitting water!
You two totally lucked out. Easy easy drilling and so shallow. Around here solid granite starts 18" down and you drill till you find a fissure with flow. Don't skimp on the pump. There is a lot of head to the cisterns. Pulling a pump can cost a lot especially in the winter.
Cool, that worked out great, and less $ than you expected
we drilled our well in 1971 and hit a artesian well best water we ever had. then in 1987 the city dug a big well and killed ours. broke our hearts
Having your own clean chemical free water supply is a huge deal. I'm happy that you can raise a family without having to worry about lead and fluoride poisoning.
You need a Grundfos bore hole solar power pump they are ultra reliable and I have sold / installed over 3,000 across Australia, with almost no recall on them and most are working in very remote locations fully unattended. They can also if need be powered by just plugging them in if the solar is down, Are you going to pump into a settlement tank first before using the water?
Use a larger size tank then you have water for crops and fire fighting, thinking ahead.
on our farm (320 acrs /2 quarters end to end ) when my dad had the well drilled (30 yrs ago) we drilled 3 wells - first on the n quarter near an old house site with a dug well(where i put my home eventially) got about 5 gpm . 2nd at the half mile line again 5 to 10 gpm . went to the s end of the farm about 100yds from the road an old windmill with a sandpoint(screen poreifferated pipe driven down on the end of the steel pipe) the driller went down the old hole! we were verry happy when he told us we could irrigate with it some where around 500 gpm . is some of the best water around even tho we had to lay over a mile of pipe to get it to all the places we needed it for the cattle (and the house site) . we are blessed !! my folks are on rural water system and the old dug well there is so gippy it killed the fruit tree mom planted when they moved to that farm. good luck with your well
Another cause for high cost wells are Artesian wells, my parents hit water at 145 feet, only problem was it was Artesian and flowed 95 gal per minute, so it had to be diverted with pipe to a pond 1/4 mile away, this was in the early 1960s and it is still flowing today.
Ha ha Bugaboo does not care about your well.
now run the well pump on solar system to fill the cisterns since you already have the equipment but change to a better batteries
you guys are doing a lot of things that I would have done to start with. like grid power and a well. could have saved a lot of money by not putting that plastic tank on the hill. just saying. still love you guys though.
@14:38 Soooo, are you gonna start making pottery? ;)
Yup to cover up the 7k dollars 🤣😂
I hope all goes well for you guys..we're having a bunch of snow and ice here in Indiana
I am right in the middle of it, in Fishers (north side of Indy) and the rain is now turning to sleet/ice/snow/rain. Then -7° temps tonight...yeah, if we don't lose power, it will be a minor miracle. Hope you are safe.
In central Indiana. Nothing here yet.
107 Feet...That's what it took us a few years ago..we hit a artesian well..no pump needed, ice cold water year around.. :))
I drilled oil wells in the North Sea about 18,000 feet so this was interesting
Wow! This was a surprise. I thought your well was further down your to-do list. Well I guess that is one less trip to town, no pun intended.
Water Water every where.....great news my 30 foot well cast us 4K.
It was interesting to see how drillers in different parts of the country do some things differently. A driller that charges by the foot but then advises you to stop drilling rather than going deeper is exceptionally an honest guy. BTW, there are 1,440 minutes in a 24 hour day. So 10 gallons a minute is 14,400 gallons per day. That might be enough! :)
unless it's just a 1000' gallon water pocket in between the clay layer above and the blue clay below which wont fill up quickly ;)
Good price. In Rural WA we would pay more by maybe 50% or worse.
Great !!! Now a 120 volt submergible pump , 2 solar panels, 2 batterys, a ball float in the water tank , 3000 watt inverter, , and gravity feed the house. all set. This is what I have and it works great.
very interesting video , I love it.. I wonder why the drilling guys did not flush the well. are they going to comeback and flush it? however you guys are lucky to hit water at 60' feet. I'm sure you will take a water sample to the lab to see how good the water is.. like to hear about the quality of the water ..
Grundfoss pump on 3 solar panels... slow pumping into your cistern all day long and never worry about water.
I thought you guys had a watr systems us the hill. You spent so much time. Is that scrapped?
Pump water from the well to the cisterns, then gravity feed the house. I’ve installed a few systems like that. It works really well in areas where you can get stuck with good water, but a slow producing well.
It sounds like they will use the well to fill the cisterns so they don't have to go to town for water.
We have three adults living on 1.5 gallons a minute and never run out with just a 300 gallon tank. As a matter of fact the well runs just a few hours a day.
curious, wouldnt the water level be higher because the snow&rain, so there a chance it be lower in summer?
Yes, water levels won't always be the same but that's why the point they drilled to is deeper than the present top of the water level.
While their cistern system means the water flow rate can drop to 3 gallons and they'll still be fine and they can stand a period of drought if they need to for worse case but this exceeded their expectations so they should fine year round...
Probably. Though there are other factors. There is a farm across the road. If they irrigate, the water table could be *higher* in the summer.
Your dice roll was 7 and 5 or 75 you hit gravel at 60 ft and stopped at 83ft . I think God was telling you 75 ft was perfect :D. God Bless you both.
WAAAAHOOO!!!
CONGRATULATIONS......At least you didn't have to dig it by hand.
The Well that sits on our families cabin was dug by my Grandfather, my father and his brother.....80 ft....By Hand
We know have "city" water for the cabin....the well is used for all the plants.
Even though I've followed you two from day one....I don't have ANY Questions towards your water system.
Why ? Watching how you've prepped for this moment..pre-planned for the "Down the Road" Goals....that you have it all laid out.
I'm 1000% confident that you two have a plan....I'm going to just enjoy watching you two do what you do and learn.
$5526 isn't bad at all, I'll be drilling here in the Winnemucca, NV area this spring and the lowest estimate I've gotten is over $10k.
Is this an episode of Dirty Jobs?
BAD ASS!! Plz tell me your going to use Solar Direct water pumping from your well..
I don't know why Alyssa was talking about lots of questions arising about this upload ,they don't answer any questions lol,exciting video anyway.
WELL NOW (LOL) Looks like yall have "Turned" the corner to easier days. So happy for you guys on the quick easy peezy water provision. I must also tell you since the well is less than 100', you'll never know how could a well digger's butt is beyond 100' LOL, I kill myself! Good Job yall!
Congrats on the well. Here in the mountains of AZ my neighbor has a 850’ deep well. Another is at 1400’. I hauled water for a while but now buy it from my neighbor using 900’ of irrigation hose to my 2000 gal holding tank. Keep your cistern with a couple of float switches to keep a good water level. You never know when a pump fails and you need to have it hauled.
5500 +$ !!! You have a home run on that one, Congratulations.🌊👀👍😃🎁🥇
Congrats on the well, only 75 feet deep. Our well at Cocolalla Lake, ID ended up at 500 feet with only 2 gallons per minute. I recommend getting a pitless adapter and locate the pump controller and iron filter in the garage out of the weather. We had a pump house initially near the well, it had to be heated and became a thing we constantly had to check in the winter. A warm pump house attracts mice and yellow jackets. Terminating the well in the garage will give you the option to filter the water and directly feed the house.
So happy for you! When we drilled our well on the farm here in Kentucky, our neighbor witched the well. He found two streams of water and followed them out, driving stakes every few feet. The stakes from one drew a line in the direction of his house, and he had a good well. The stakes from the other pointed at another neighbor's house, and they had a good well also. He found where the two streams crossed, and told us to drill there. The drill hit one stream of water at 30 feet, which was sweet, but not very strong. They hit the second at, you guessed it, 87 feet, which was one of the strongest wells they'd ever hit, but sulfur. I don't know if it is still the practice now, but back then they'd bring in big pumps and pump the well dry, to get all the sediment from drilling out of the well. They brought in their biggest pumps and could not pump that well dry. Even during a really bad drought when all our neighbors had dry wells, we had water. It just stank to high heaven.
As we have had many bores drilled on our property , we found the water flow you have is great , but its all about the quality . Most important to get a full analysis done on the minerals (major and trace elements) as it may appear ok but it will kill plants with to much sodium etc
You did well having such a short distance to drill. My own well was about 180 feet deep to penetrate into the aquifer. Once the drillers got into that they installed a screen and were able to move 15 gpm with the water table inside the casing only 50 feet below the surface. With drilling, pump and screen my total bill was not much more than yours even though my casing extends another 100 feet deeper. Local drilling costs must be considerably higher where you are.
Very interesting and informative video. I have a private well that is drilled to 450 feet. Water comes up to 360 feet and pump is set at 375 feet. Why not deeper? The previous owner had a new pump installed and it and some of the galvanized pipe attached to it snapped off and fell down the hole. Owner went the rounds with the well driller and they decided to just put in a another new pump as far down as the could go (375 feet). I had to replace the pump after a lighting strike and didn't know about this. So I have a low flow well because of only 15 feet of drawdown. I have 3 pressure tanks so I do have some reserve but not much. Been hoping for another lightning strike and I'll get the insurance company involved and then try to pull out the new/old pump and pipe so I can have more reserve. Neighbors have wells drilled at anywhere from 60 feet to 550 feet with various water quality. One neighbor has an artisan well that has to have a 6' high casing to keep the water from spewing out the top. I'd be worried about farm chemical run-off with that well. My water quality is pretty good. Some white iron and some organic debris (decayed pine needles from a millennium ago) that leaves strange shapes in the toilet tanks. Some neighbors have severe red iron and hydrogen sulfide smell (rotten to the core eggs)and have all kinds of treatment systems on line. Good luck with your own water supply! I'd keep using the cistern system and just fill it up with your own water. Just my .02
I guess cats don't get very excited about water. :-)
I hang out on a form where people build their own homes and I always say it is so much easier if you buy a run down place that has the septic, water and electricity already on the property.. even if you have to upgrade everything at least you can be sure. This is your choice to do it this way but if you were 10 years older .. nope i couldn't see you going through all this.. you guys are going to look back at everything and be amazed at what you did.. especially that roof :o)
6:43? Wow! You guys like to sleep in!
This explains all the river rock you dug up when excavating for your foundation. Hope you don't encounter a mudslide in the future.
Great news! That is a terrific well! Congratulations to a great couple!
Such great luck, Congrats! I grew up on well water, and it was definitely the best drinking water I've had
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Next video. We failed our well inspection
lol
Well location had to be away from your septic system. or public-city sewer lines. Plan ahead.
I’m happy for y’all....! After all y’all have been through, it’s good to see some good things happening for you.
Those well drillers couldn't get out there fast enough.
Good to see professionals on the job. With a good water supply like that, there will be lots of new neighbours soon! (Cat (Bugger-lugs) : A new well? so what.)
Why a well now instead of 2 years ago? You have a lot of expense in the cisterns and 2 years of haulage that I would bet exceed the 5.5 K that you just spent. Pardon me if I missed this discussion, I cannot claim to have watched every video.
That and the electricity would just have made Life too easy.
Could have had an electric wood mizer too.
Could have had heating in the caravan. Could have been cooking on electric. But then what would we watch.
n1r0l anynonmouse
2 years ago they were in a much different position financially and weren’t expecting a child either.
Over the last two years they have discussed making changes as their needs and ability changed, I’d assume the well is just like many other changes, they felt it was necessary or ideal in some way to make the change.
Our situation is similar in that every well in the area is at a different depth and with varying flow rates. We are at 5600 ft. Water was hit at 240' at 3 GPM. Drilling was continues for another 100 feet where we were still at 3 GPM. We decided to stop there. We don't have a cistern but our well has a static level of 50'. With the depth of the well and that static, we have around 400 gallons retained in the well. I did a test with a garden hose. According to tables I found on the web, 100' of 5/8" hose should flow 1000 GPH at 50 PSI. It took well over an hour to dry the well. Since then, we've never run out of water. I should mention that our well was drilled in solid granite. The cost was significantly higher than your well, $16,000.
What about rainwater collection and filtering it? I would imagine there is at least 1m of rainfall a year in that area.
I just found this We live in Arkansas and just had two wells dug on our property. They were 135 feet, they actually still here through red rock and red clay till they get to what is called "water sand". Our is cased with pvc and has a layer of bentonite clay around it and a special sand they use to put around the pvc. We are getting 38 gallons minute which is insane. Our was a base price of 5,000 for the first 100 feet and 15 a foot afterwards. So our well was around 5,500$
Glad for the update! So long between videos and I started to wonder of something awful had happened.
You need to report on the Health and Well Being of the Unborn and Expectant Mother.. Inquiring Minds Need To Know.. OoHh.. Nice Well..
Glad to hear you guys got a well now, been following you for a while! That's some tough drilling up there, especially if you go deep. The price was pretty comparable to down here for a PVC well at about half the cost. Make sure you get the water tested, for different minerals and such that could exist in your area. I would expect that water to be fairly good from an ancient gravel river bed, probably a little iron for sure. That is a great flow rate also it should provide enough for any of your future needs, and could improve over time as well comes in. Take a look into the Franklin Fhoton Pumps they are great and work with both solar and grid-tied systems.
Thanks for the Video and Take Care!
Casey with Clear Water
Now you can grow Idaho potatoes. Used to be offsider on drill rig back in the 80,s we had one well at 760 feet but it had under its own pressure a 3 foot head of water above ground level. At flow rate of over 150 litres per minute. Great Artesian basin North west Queensland. You did well. Excuse the pun. Aussie Jeff
Glad I live in Scotland no such hassle since it rains all the time 😂
here in Canada my drilling company charges 120feet minumum even if you only drilling to 90 feet at 75 dollars a cased foot we use uv resistant pvc plastic deeper holes tend to have soft water where as shallow wells tend to have hard water 3 gallons of water per minute is enough for a small family we start with a eight and three quarter inch bit when we find water we reduce bit size to six and a halve inch set a well seal above perforations and grout outside of well casing down to seal to prevent ground water from getting into aqaufir then we do a 4 hour pump test to get rid of drilling mud and to retrieve h2o samples on well replenish time 90 percent is good from last draw down measurement lots of areas are hit and miss you might get a dry hole or hit 500gallons a minute drilling reports of neighbors well help but no gaurentees we once had a neighbors well report at 20 gallons perminute we hit 150gallons perminute a feed lot would have loved that well he was a single man with no pets probably could have got by with bare minamum 500feet is are max depth or you need a blow out preventer in case of gas and that has happened before drilling for h2o and hitting gas
Great going! I built a pump house and poured a concrete floor. My pump house is kept warm (40 degrees in winter at 20 degrees outside temp.) with a 60watt light bulb (incandescent Lightbulb). Cannot wait to see what you do for a pump system. One piece of advice I would have for you is to install a good filter system.
Don't forget to send the water off to the county agent for testing.
In 1984 I dug 840 ft will home drinking water 2" pipe that flowed with a 2hp submersible pipe set at 20 gpm, and first irrigation well at 180ft 8" pipe 60 hp 3 phase motor 3000 gpm all for less than 5 thousand. Times they change.
WHAHOO WATER! Man that is only 10 ft deeper then our FL well. I’m guessing you guys had pizza that night
Okay so now you have a well! Now you need to put in a pitless adapter and run that underground and up into the garage level. Inside you should have a small setup to filter the water to make it nice and clean before going to the cistern. If the water need an iron or maganese treatment, do it! Or the inside of those tanks will get Naaaaaaaaaaasty!! Congrats on a nice short well!
pitless adapter would that have a spool in it? lol
Niiiice... y'all lucked out on getting that depth!
You found Oil!
I had the theme song of the Beverly Hillbillies going through my head when they were drilling 😂🤣😂🤣
I'm think you are just getting the soak away from the huge yard over the hill.
But fingers crossed that you are just lucky. I suppose you have to get a sample tested for quality to be sure.