Finding Water In The Desert - Airstrip Home Build Part 5
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Drilling for water turned into a much bigger ordeal than we ever could have imagined. Glad its over with!
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I guess I found out how to get you guys worked up!
No I don’t believe in magic or witchcraft, that part was to add to the story. (Yeah, part of my video making is story telling, and to me the dowsing/witching added a good story element).
Numbers just didn’t add up to drilling that far away from the house, that is until we didn’t hit water, then we went to plan B. Sucked but we got through it.
For all who are disappointed because they think I believe in magic because of this video, then you must be one of those people who believe everything they see on the internet? 😳😜
It’s all in good fun guys, back to flying soon 🤘
Hhmmmmmm
Hm, maybe if you delivered it more like you guys were joking around... It looked like you seriously believed it! Also you drilled a huge money pit because of those beliefs so I'm a bit sceptic about this comment here...
sure made for a "he did WHAT?" moment!! good story! glad things are progressing and look 4ward to the upcoming adventures
Thanks for the update, but come on Trent, I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see a detailed build vlog for this house......
Mmm yea not buying it either. You got sucked in man
Good seeing Nick, glad the house & related stuff is going good now. See you soon have missed your videos.
Glad you got it sorted. Construction is a stressful thing. Take care with the wife. Construction stresses relationships.
Wait, a scientist and a witch doctor each told you where to drill... You took the advice of the witch doctor... Good God man, you fly airplanes!
yeah i was waiting for the "just joking guys"
Im just glad hes honest. Id be a easy thing to leave out and have others fall for
Yeah, this made me want to unsubscribe right here. A dowser? For real? Are you a flat earther too, by any chance? Moon landing denier?
I was actually so perplex that I had to google drowsing to confirm to myself that its actually bs. Jeeez i wouldnt have expected that from you :D
The scientist gave him a maybe the witch doctor gave him a garuntee.
I am a hydrogeologist :-) Believe me, finding water has definitely NOTHING to do with withcraft :-) rather than simply with basic hyydraulics, geology Knowledge and prospection, three-dimensional modelling and adequte exploratiion techniques!
That excavator is a hell of an upgrade to Nikk's wheelchair.
Right there with you, brother! Built our house in '07-08. Economy collapsed mid-build, wife lost her executive job at the bank. We freaked out! Then we scrambled, went on "Financial Lockdown" and got our feet back under us & finished the build 2 weeks early and on budget...with two new jobs. Rest assured you two will pull through & it'll all work out in time. True character building exercise it is building house.
I’m glad to see your buddy recovering from the crash
I hadn't seen Nick since the hospital. Jeez he's lookin' good! God bless him.
I wonder how much the drilling company pays the witch doctor? Is it a fixed payment or commission based?
So happy for you! Been watching your channel for sometime now and I’m glad to see everything coming together! Just did my first solo today at KIWA in Mesa, AZ in a Cessna 172! And IT WAS AMAZING, love the aviation community and everything you do👍🏼
Good to see Nick up and around
This was the best non-flying video you have ever made...well...pretty darn interesting! Thanks
I agree....fascinating info.
Great to see you're making progress on your home. Fantastic to see that Nikk is getting out there, too. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride, as always!
Good to hear from you again Trent! Glad to see Ryan too! Home building/buying/anything to do with homes can be super stressful, look forward to seeing you fly again!
Being in the irrigation business for 20 plus years I have seen more dry or low performing wells than good. There are NO guarantee's with wells and it is always a gamble. Be happy you found water, because I know many that were not that fortunate. Good luck with the new home.
As a retired Petroleum and Environmental Geologist i was going nuts during dowsing part of the video but i am happy that so many folks out there also went nuts about it also. It gives me hope, I am sorry Trent you were taken by conman. Also not knowing where your home is but knowing you are in the Basin & Range area faulting will change the subsurface greatly. I once was drilling monitoring wells at a gas station and granite was found at 15' in one well and 110' in another well and they were 100' apart. Looking at airphotos later in the office i could see a fault higher in the hill and trending directly through the station.
Hi Trent,
Really enjoying your channel. I'm a pilot and Civil Engineer (in the UK) so this video is right up my street!
Good luck with the rest of the build - I've done it three times and it really is worth all the effort.
Congratulations! Happy to hear everything worked out. Can't wait to see your house when it's finished.
Okies so here's another piece of advice, which so many are fond of doing from the armchair. Build the hanger first, then the house second. Rationale: One tends to run out of money by the time the house is built so none left over for a hanger. I mean, you gotta get your priorities right Trent.
Yup, the well is the key if your way out. Especially in a desert or dry area. Getting ready to build my self. My lady will be seeing this. Grate nfo and may need some of your peeps. ~ your neighbor
Man alive...I'm exhausted just listening to this description of what you had to go through....can't imagine what you were feeling. So glad you got it sorted out before you went bankrupt!!! LOL
Nikk! Dude, there you are! Finally! Hope you're fine.
Great work, Trent! That is amazing!
Greets :)
Thank you for this! I actually really appreciate you getting into the nitty gritty, it makes it more helpful!
What a nightmare! Glad you got through that & everything worked out! Place is coming along great! CONGRATS!! Can't wait to see it all finished - going to be beautiful, I can tell. 👍
We take water for granted out here in the Northeast - a complete 180° different world from the desert. Just a couple months ago, the water table was literally 6" ABOVE parts of our lawn - not even exaggerating. Now it's down about 5' -6' or so (I know since basement is drying out). Our well is 140' total with the water line at 120' to keep the water clean - it's just as good as spring water, especially after being run through a softener and a couple filters. Lucky for me, it came with the house (built in 1850 or so, but the well is approximately 50-70 years old). Neighbor had to drill 180 feet or so a couple years back, and that was $10-LARGE, so you can imagine how much 800' would be out here!
Just ordered two shirts, much love from an Idahoan currently deployed but love the content and the story!
~keep on keepin on
Thumbs up if you think Trent Palmer is the coolest guy ever!! Great video! Flying or building it’s all great!
Hey Trent. I started watching your Channel about a year ago and I can, without a doubt, say you got me hooked on the idea of flying. I saw Draco compete in my home state of Alaska at the Valdez STOL competition and that was it for me.
I start my first day of flight school tomorrow. Just wanted to say a sincere thank you for inspiring me.
I watched this at work, while my co-worker was on the other computer watching something set to Ennio Morricone's Good Bad Ugly theme song. It was pretty good background music for your hunt for water! GLAD YOU HAVE WATER!!!
As always Trent. Love your vids. Great info. Happy to see things are progressing so well now. Best to you and your wife.
Awesome video Trent , good to see Nick , glad he is doing well , house looking great so far
Trent, was right their with you. I had a similar problem on a house build in North Carolina of all places. So glad you found water.
A build takes time and perseverance. Great job folks.
Yo Trent just wanted to say I love your videos. I'm also working on finally getting my ppl soon!
Drill, baby, drill - I'm glad the water finally made a showing
Trent, I have been folowing you, for a while and over here in Australia I had the opportunity to a ride in a similar plane and the pilot stuffed his landing and we hit the ground hard sheared the landing gear and thanks to God we walked away without a scratch I loved the flight but not so keen on landing, I take a lot of inspiration out of your flying . All the best with your house
You take it for granted just turn on a tap and its there, I'm really pleased that you found water and your now back on track.
Talking to divining rods. Wow. Just wow.
Right lmao
Kick ass! You motivate me to get my business up and going! I wanna fly!
Woah! Super cool. The house is going up, the well is in, runway is running. I am so happy for You, wish You the best through the years ahead. Live well my friend.
Nick's smile is worth millions. Great work Trent!
look on the bright side, DTD fly's again
They say building a house is one of life's most stressful undertakings. If you made it through this, you can do anything!
I've done dowsing and there is a lot more to it than most people know. Bravo that you and your wife managed to find water when the "Professional Dowser" couldn't. by the way, you can do much more with those rods than just look for water, and you can make them with about $5.00 bucks worth of materials from Lowe's. Well done young man.
Northwestern Az, my well is 875ft max depth I know what you went through. I was lucky we hit water in the first try.
It's good to have you all back, the house is coming along and is looking great.
I will be at Reno in September I'm hoping to meet you, take care and please stay safe.
Please say hello to Nick, it was great seeing him smile and enjoying himself. Get better soon sir!!
So glad you are back again! Great video and an even better H²O outcome! 💦
I can witch for water pipe/conduit. I don't know how or why it works, but it does. Really handy when your repairing old irrigation.
Don't ever wait this long again...I was checking every day! I feel like a 13 year old school girl.
Thanks for the update... (it's about time, dude) we built a home that needed a well, so I completely understand the issues you went through. Keep flying....
You run sprinklers in the high desert?! Yikes. I’d think near-zero-scape with native plants and trickle system (at most) would be wiser.
A patch of grass around the house does wonders in the summertime and also serves as a fire break. By law (in Idaho), a domestic well is also permitted for two acres of non-commercial irrigation.
After all that energy and money to get water you better bet I am going to make it rain on some grass in my front yard! 😜
I am so confused that there is no regret in his voice saying he trusted some random witch doctor instead of a professional.
Edit: see Trents pinned comment and the discussion below.
It's worth the risk to not have to lift water so far and so high. Pumping water is very expensive.
I know of three dry holes 1800 feet deep in Idaho. Water is not a guaranteed resource.
@@jackbelk8527 well if you expect there to not be much water below, then you should try the spots where it is most likely. Especially if you can't afford more than two tries.
@@Juhujalp see my pinned comment... overall it was just to give us a little more of an idea of where we could try drilling up by the house to save that ridiculously long power and water run. I had very little confidence in the witching but in my opinion it was worth a shot.
@@TrentonPalmer Just read it. Thanks for clearing that up. You explanation suggested that the failed bore cost you a lot of money and did not sound like a wise move. Given that you planned to at least try it close to the property, I can totally understand that to tried to increase your chances. It just souded like you soley based you decision on the witcher.
Greetings and good luck with your further projects!
Edit: I can't spell :P
How could you even have any regrets about anything with an adorable sweetheart for a wife like he has.
Trent- glad you found water, the key to life. I know exactly what you were feeling- years ago we started a project on our mountain land and drilled down 920 feet and ended up with just 0.5 GPM. We were very disappointed, and ended up halting the project. It just wasn't worth the already massively expanding budget (the road cost was also spiraling out of control). No regrets, we held on to the land for 20 years and now have a contract to sell it. Your project is looking GREAT- moving along at lightning pace. Very good that you are researching EVERYTHING before you do it- well done!
I was real happy to hear from you, I was getting a little worried. Sorry to hear about water issues, but glad you are back on track. I have been on both sides of the water finding thing, it’s a hard decision to make. Hope there are no more bumps in the road, or the air strip :-) for that mater. Great to see Nick! Gary…
Check out Cody's Lab where he talks about the wildfires that hit his parents' ranch. He offers some good tips about how the fires spread and attack the brush. It might well help you save the house.
Am I correct in saying he drilled a well, on the word of a magic man?
About as correct as it gets.
I unsubbed because of this video. I kept watching waiting for the joke reveal, but it never happened. I'll find my flying videos on some other channel.
I saw that as he drilled a hole, on the word of a magic man. The well - that was where the geologist said he should do it.
I live out West (Utah) and water is everything here. And finding water is hard. It's not like you can call up a company to come out and do a survey and you can take that to the bank. There is a lot of hope and guess work.
Trent, you are going to hate this... I live at Rapaura, smack in the middle of the Marlborough (NZ) Wine region, and in the best part of the valley. There are vines as far as you can see till you get to the mountains. When they drilled our well they hit water at 20', and a lot of it. They still had to keep going down to 40' as the water is cleaner and more pure at that depth. The well is shallow enough for a surface pump, and ours is so powerful we almost need a wet suit in the shower. The irrigation is like a fire hose. Near Christchurch the dairy farms have to go down to 300' for their water and need two pumps in series to push the water up that far, and we hear stories of $10,000 per month power bills to run the pumps. In NZ they say that water is the new gold. The more water you have the more pasture and can support more stock.
OOOOO Trent as a custom home builder I know all about the water well problems that can arise, glad you finally hit water Looks like yall are going to have a beautiful home.
You could put that other dowser out of business with that kind of accuracy!
Admit it...you don't love use any more...sniff sniff. (kidding) Life sometimes gets in the way of fun, we all understand. Well....at least some of us understand. Cheers from Canada.
TRENT, I understand everything, BUT THIS IS LIFE!
Remember one thing - you are young and healthy and one life - do not grieve YOURSELF WITH COMING AND LEAVING ...
..... Stay a PILOT of PLEASURE to be on the wing !!!
Love your videos as a pilot myself your videos give a great insight into everything from flying to mechanics to adventure to friendship, etc. I also like the fact that your videos can be nothing about flying, like this one. Growing up in the building industry, I am glad you talk about the little details like wire gauge and pump horsepower.
Love your vids. Was just thinking when your next video was
That be a $41,000 hole
I've pay'd more for a lot shallower hole.
Probably less, I Think that estimation is based on casing too.
Sounds familiar haha
Had a friend that got a dry hole so pulled it up and sold it for post holes!
You could’ve used it for a long drop !
You truly have awesome friends that come and help you the way they do. I think it's fantastic that you are able to build your own house because the pride that you will have for the rest of your life for the next hundred years to leave to your kids and grandchildren. Be safe.
Yeah! It's Nikk!! 👍 And Trent and the missus. ;) Thanks for the update!
Lesson Learned : Drill enough wells and ... you'll eventually strike water. Or not.
To be honest, I wasn't interested in the house build content, I wanted to see you fly planes. But I did find that story quite interesting and don't mind saying so. Well done 📹👍
Great to hear from you again. Glad that the water thing worked out.
Great video amigo.
First let me say this, after being in the utility business for 27 years I can personally tell you that wichin sticks are fairy dust and unicorns.
I have seen dozens of people try and prove them to me on locating utilities and/or water sources and no one have ever been successful in pinpointing anything other than the ground beneath her feet. 😀
Secondly, it sure is expensive to drill a well up there. Runs about nine dollars a foot in East Texas. Just had a 320 footer drilled, four-inch, well tested at 340 gallons a minute. We are fortunate in the eastern part of Texas to have the corizzo sand formation, it’s a sand so it is very porous and produces lots of water
like i said above, I like these types of videos from you. sometimes people forget to post things to let everyone know they’re just the average Joe next-door with everybody else’s problems.
Doswer and dowsing rods? Wow, I don't think I can stay subscribed to this channel anymore,
You wasted money on those dowsing rods from Amazon! Wire coat hangers would have been free. :)
Good seeing Nick is ok again and at work! Hope you're all fine. Great work! Also nice to see the house progress! That is amazing! Missed your videos.
Glad you guys found water. I have plans of setting up rain water reclamation to offset being in a location without guaranteed water.
Love the video, but dude....you are a pilot and you trusted a witch doctor to find water for you? LOL. Ok man. Glad you found water.
When you are in a tight spot, beware of con artists who tell you what you want to hear.
BTW it sounds like you might have grounds for a lawsuit against the dowser, for fraud. Not worth spending a lot of money on, but at least it would expose him.
Expose him to who? How many idiots believe this crap? This is pathetic at a ridiculous level.
Funny how those who think water comes from the facet are belittling the guy hunting water in the desert. I grew up on the back of one of those rigs and have seen dowsing work when all others have failed. The goal was to find water and you did! Great to see Nick back at it.
Enjoyed this part of the journey, Many thanks for the personal tour. Paul F. Cleveland England
Love your videography and editing...as usual, nice job! As to the water dowsing thing, there was a cool experiment performed a few years back. 30 expert dowsers were invited to Kassel, Germany in 1990 to have their abilities tested in a study organized by James Randi. Pipes carrying flowing water were buried underground at known locations and the dowsers were tested as to their ability to determine if water was flowing through the pipes. If interested, you can read about the results here: wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2015/04/15/how-does-water-dowsing-work/
how do people actually buy into that water witcher crap in this day and age. holy crap, wake up.
Had a water diviner out and had a look at a spot. Sunk a bore and hit water so much that its the biggest bore in the area.
Had a mining contractor go over with a chopper doing water magnetism and what......The best spot is exactly where he predicted.
A good diviner will find water.
@@gteea And how many hundreds of times have people withheld from telling their story because their diviner did not find water? It's confirmation bias. I know that when we live a certain way all our lives it's hard to admit we're wrong, but it is utter b/s.
I got so engrossed in watching your video, I forgot I was filling my hot tub. It over flowed for over an hour. Good thing it's on the back deck. :)
My well was 150’ and more than 85 gpm, drilled into an aquifer. My neighbor drilled three wells before he had the minimum to build a house. We were on adjoining 5 acres lots, our wells about 300ft apart. I didn’t believe in water dousers until I met one at my place in Australia, he worked for the water department, he would locate pipes, he also noticed another conduit that appeared filled with water, that was phone service, and the phone company had to come out and drain it. Now I am a believer. We looked at a fly in community near Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, just a little too remote for us. I was flying a Cessna 310 at the time.
Wow, that's a really sad story, Trent! Water dowsing?! And it doesn't hurt?
My brain hurts after watching that.
I'm just glad we're not living on a flat earth that's only 5000 years old and has the sun and the stars spinning around it! 🤦♂️
Are you and your wife going to start
a water witching business
As others have said, building a house is the most stressful thing you can do, until you get to having kids. Good thing flying is therapy. Thanks for the videos.
Missed you and your videos, so anyway good to have you back and sounds like your having some kind of good luck?? Was good to see Nick, back out and around!!! We did the same thing to get water on our ranch in Alturas, my home town, back in 1962. We had really good luck with the water dowsing thing also can't figure out how the hell it works but who cares as long as it dose.
Well ...there's a learning lesson for you.
Don't buy into the "hoopla wizardry" which cost you a Ton of $$$. Stick with common sense and budget for that.
yeah, we are superstitious by nature, even the most cartesiens of us tend to resort to this ..
Dealing with a charlatan will, um, dowse your credibility.
Thanks for the update Trent. Hope everything else goes smooth now. Can’t imagine the stress that goes with building your dream house. I’m sure it will all be worth it.
Great video Trent. Yes very stressful... Don't quit. Very similar experience when we built our house in '88. Serious water issues during a massive drought, running out of money during the build, etc. Just keep moving forward, you will get through it and your family will be grateful.
In other words....Getting well, made you sick.
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You would trust the single most expensive variable of your build on magic? I'm sorry, but you sorta deserved that hit in your pocketbook.
Glad things worked out! You are very blessed to have such good friends and contacts who could help get your house project back on track.
I am SO SO EXCITED for you and haely for building your own place, your water issues are just another learning experience in self building. keep up the pro work bro.
Should just do Solar.
You listened to a water witch Dr?!?! ROFLOL
How exactly would solar solve his problem?
Hello There I was referring to when he was talking about the power cables.
@@Cogzed My bad, I thought you meant to solve his water problem.
Hello There no you're fine bro. I should have separated it. I've changed it now. Thanks.
It has been too long since you posted a video - but it was well worth the wait!!!
Trent as a backup you might want to consider rainwater harvesting. In your area it appears wettest months are from Dec-Feb. Rainwater harvesting from your rooftops could bank you Bonus gallons of water from a separate holding tank for peace of mind water. Just an idea that does work for many.
I grew up on a farm in Namibia.. so I know EXACTLY what you're talking about when it comes to wells (we call them boreholes) and the finance break-even depth.
You're simply doing wishful thinking, no copper rods needed. You might as well use a dice, I prefer D12's.
Wonder if the well driller gets a kickback from the guy you hired who used dowsing rods?
I love pumps! Super interesting! Thanks.