Imagine Drilling 3 Deep Wells and They're All DRY!!! 2 Hydro-Fracks in 1 Day!
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In this video we perform a procedure called Hydro-Fracing. This helps to flush out the Water Veins of natural occurring sediment and allow them to flow water at a faster, less restrictive rate. Hydrolic Fracking is Highly Successful! This Job has been on my mind for weeks hoping that we can fix the issue for this Customer (who's also a subscriber to the channel). 4 Wells in this video total to 4,105ft of bore. At $20 per ft , you can do the math on what's been invested already. Even as a driller myself, dry wells sour my stomach. Thankfully we have Fracking, let's hope we can save the day here!
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Frack Results Here* "1200ft Well"
After 3 weeks of normal usage, the owner can not draw the water level past 90 feet. This means that with a 5 Gpm pump in the well, it balances out at 90ft. So, at the very least, the Well Produces More than 5 Gallons Per Minute! That's what I call a Successful Frack!!
Hello, we drilled new well couple weeks ago and there is about half a gallon of water. They offered us to fracture the well. I don't know any body who did this. None of my friends or neighbors never did anything like that. I'm trying to figure out if I should do it, if this is actually work.
A friend’s father had a well drilled on his cabin property. It had very poor flow, so he decided to get help from his dynamite expert to blast some cracks in the well. Since this was in the 1960s, before all the safety regulations were established, there was some alcohol involved when the blasting was set to take place. The plan was to use one stick of dynamite, but they ended up using three sticks. The blast went off and a 100 meter high water jet shot out of the well. All the cabins within a 500 meter radius were covered with a gray layer of lime. He didn’t win any popularity contests, but the flow in the well improved so much that the municipality used it to fill up fire trucks during forest fires.
The term "Hold my beer." was used, guarantee it.
You remind me, my dad had a long list of stories about the military vets trained to drill wells in the post-war cleanup of Europe etc. Those homegrown guys came back with amazing skills. First phase was drilling hundreds of small windmill holes even though there were already a lot of those in this prairie region. They had bigger aspirations.
By 1948 they were drilling 6", 8", on up to 12" wells down to around 375 feet deep, across the central TX Panhandle and north through E CO, W KS, NB etc.
Those drillers were a wild partying bunch of guys. There were four brothers who played live for a community dance twice a week. These were usually held in some neighbor's barn. They even had a sound system.
Most all that big group of 50 couples went to the movies twice a week. At least once a week they g2g to play cards and dominoes. Saturdays there were late afternoon ice-cream socials where every family brought 1 1/2 gal bucket of their favorite frozen delight. Add in church activities and I have no idea how they lived through it.
I guess the war had taught them to savor every minute of life. They were some unique characters. From the richest to the poorest were treated equal.
It all fell apart in 1963, with the death of a US President in Dallas, TX.
At least they had enough water to wash the cabins back off. lol. If it hadnt increased the flow rate his neighbors would probably STILL be mad at him for it.
Damn !!!!!! LMFAO !!!!
sounds like some shit i would be involved in
I had my well drilled to 131 feet in 1981 stopping just below 18" of hardpan clay. It was artesian free-flowing at 160 gpm out the top of six inch well pipe. 43 years later the pressure at the surface has not changed a single pound and there are now six other wells using the formation. Almost zero hardness and the sweetest water you have ever tasted. My gas Hot water heater is also 43 years old and still performing as new along with the boiler. Life is good in Alaska!
We're just off of the Adirondacks and when we had our well drilled, we went 140' into bedrock but were only getting around 1.5 gal/min flow, so we decided rather than go deeper, we'd frack at that depth and see what happened. The pressure never rose much so we assumed (correctly) that the obstruction had cleared almost immediately. After the frack, it has been making 15 to 20 gal/min and at times has gotten higher. The water level is pretty consistently 15' below the well head, but at times it comes to the top. So we're getting crystal clear water from snow melt high up in the Adirondacks that stays at 42 degrees year round. A neighbor had a well dug that hit a vein about 10 years ago that shot water 60 feet into the air and still does to this day (although they eventually piped it off). We have 4 small videos of the well drilling on our channel if you care to see it in action...
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
The chicken on the truck reminded me of a job I was on replacing a jet pump. I walked back out to the truck and there were two goats on my truck.
There would be two dead goats and a bill for my time.
I worked for dish network and one of the guys brought back a stowaway chicken one day. The bosses knew I had chickens so they waited on my to get back that day to catch it and take it home
It's amazing how simple but technical this is done man you're customer has got to be happy as hell not toting water no more
This video I needed to see. A close friend bought a property here in New Mexico with a 420 well. Invested $10k to get the old pipe pulled, unfortunately the pump is still there in the well. This well sat for years unused and I think its blocked. He gets about a cup of water a day. Seeing the process of clearing certainly helps to understand the process.
I love that your water pump rig is an old GM 2.5L Iron Duke engine. Likely from an old S10 pickup I would bet. It sounds exactly like they all do, even fully rebuilt ones. They ALL sound like marbles rattling around inside of a metal trash can. Parts are still super easy to find for that engine too.
Stories about dry wells always makes me nervous because I’m in a hit and miss area for water.
how much water would you need per month/year from that well?
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦. 2 years ago my nephew was frustrated that he barely had any water pressure and would run out of water regularly. So I did what my father taught me and switched for water near the well that was already existing. The main vain of water was missed by ten feet. I said drill of frack to this vein and marked it. He got it fracked and now has 25g/m.
I’ve been watching your videos lately and it helped me do my well that was 40 foot deep. We are located in South Florida in West Palm Beach County. I just added a video. It blew my mind how they do it in other parts of the world. Compared to how you and your dad do Wells. Put a whole new meaning on how to drill with the proper machinery.
customer seems like a cool dude
The Iron Duke actually started out as a GM stationary industrial engine, before it wound up in some vehicles. Source: a GM engineer of my acquaintance(I lived.in Pontiac, MI.and the woods were full of GM engineers).
Inline six cylinder is perfect for that application. More than enough torque. Smooth balanced operation. Single exhaust to deal with. Be tempted to back it up with an automatic transmission. Then a person could set all the controls down on the deck if they wanted to.
Sure wish you all were closer to me in Texas !!! My well produces 7 gallons every 2 hours !!! That is when we have a wet year !!! Lol... Keep your videos coming !!! I have learned alot from your work...
Heard from an old timer well driller here that their version of fracking was a lit stick of dynamite to shock the well into happiness. Your truck isn't as pretty as the Halliburton ones but it gets the job done!!
There's a difference between pretty and functional, his truck is badass. And to be fair, the Halliburtion rigs are pushing 10,000 psi.
@@jmazoso A bit more than a 4 cyl iron duke, passed one on the highway looked to be 16 or 24 cylinders, darned pretty looking
Dog is like, I just wanna help also. Lol
That's a mean viscous pit bull he has there!
That dog, is the inspector.
@@rob55h Owner probably killed him with kindness.
Looks like you might have the boreholes to use for a geothermal system as well, heating and cooling.....
Phillip: Just watched one of your videos. Please don't talk about barter on your channel. Believe it or not, IRS agents watch media and trust me, you don't want to end up in a massive audit of several years. I have been an Tax Accountant for 35 years, so please take my word for it!
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@RobertCooley-y3m I understand that, but I knew from day 1 that being public on this scale ment I had to be on point as far as taxes & licenses are concerned. Now I pay quarterly. If they ever audited me, they'll probably see I pay more than what I owe. Either way my Accountant & lawyer cover any of those issues.
cut them new slip on terminals off and get you the weather proof ones with dielectric grease
I am new to your youtube channel . A few ideas for some videos , with your knowledge that would benefit viewers.1- 115 volt vs a 220 volt pump, 2- what should a new "potential " land owner do before buying a country property with an existing well, 3- different type of well filters and what each one will do , 4- Well System Sediment screen Filters , how to size them , benefits , etc, 5- how to wire an outlet to run a well off a generator in a power outage, ( this relates to #1 video suggestion topic of the 115 pump) . 6- what to do when the well pump internal check valve fails, without buying a pump. thanks for your teams hard work .
Your video was very helpful. Who else likes this like me?
I like that you use food grade oil for potable water and spills on the ground! When i was at a supermarket, they had a backup generator. It had a ford v-8 block with a massive radiator and fan run off natural gas. I have seen videos of farmers using v-8's for irrigation for pivots. Maybee also think what oil filter it has, new or metal can and position of same for your set up. Straight six or v-8, but make sure the block you buy, that you can get parts.
If that is a pontiac sunfire engine, it was built for excitment. With that long of a depth he would have to use larger pipe and pump. Or only go so deep with with the pump. Love to see the follow up.
That smart decision about the weight on the axel with the water load is good advice
We stumbled on your channel about a week ago for this exact reason! The property we just bought has 2 wells with VERY low yield, and records of a third being attempted at the same time as the second in '96 but we aren't too sure on that one.
Thanks to your channel we felt comfortable enough to attempt fracking on the better looking well, and so far 4 days in it's looking good so fingers crossed!
Thank you for taking the time to go into detail and explain everything, it helped me (and especially my wife) feel way more comfortable with the whole process.
Can you update us on how your well is doing now? What was the cost to frack vs. drilling another well?
@@arthurbcccwright8726 We're doing great! We tested a few weeks later and produced 1.5-2gal/minute, which is way up from the
The contractor that built the house I grew up in had built a house that drilled two dry holes. My grandfather got a stick and commenced dousing. He told them where to drill. They found good water.
I did resistivity array work years ago. I gave the farmer 3 locations the diviner gave him one as "the only place on the entire 200 acres". They drilled the diviners hole four times the depth and got half the flow. BUT sure divining works...
bet your grandma rolled her eyes when he told the story
haha that is so cool its a mini version of the oilfield fracs. I love it.
Would love to see some follow-up on these wells. Oops, three seconds later you said you would.
I thought the same thing but was answered before I had it typed
I like how you explain things.
Makes me really appreciate our 4” artesian flow well on “the farm” …. 20+ GPM ….
Yup, I to live on a well, I don't waste water on anything, dishwater gets recycled to flush the toilets, just to save about 700 gallons a year, waste not, want not, about 7 gallons a minute when I moved in 30 years ago, replaced the pump and tank, once, other than that no problems. People that do not live on a well don't get it.
Where is this artesian water?
Chicken on the water truck sounds like a line in a country song
H2O.....man your living the dream.......doing something you love and working with your dad. You sure have learned the business from your dad. I'm sure there are long, hard days, but when I watch your content, you just seem so relaxed in doing your task. I don't know if you've ever have given us your history as far as when you started tagging along with your dad. Are there any old pictures of you on the job with your dad?
@scottmeredith8409 when I was 16 I had to start spending summer break going to work on the rig, been here ever since. Almost 18 years later!
Hi. I've been watching your channel for some time and your story is very similar to mine. My father founded a well company in Poland almost 40 years ago. I helped him for the first time during the holidays when I was 15, now I'm almost 40 and we still work together.
@h2omechanic Thanks, brother in Christ, know your busy, but surprise us with some old pics of you if you have any on the rig or at the shop.....I know things are different with our phones/ cameras. God bless you and all your family and employees.
I really liked that ( we follow all the rules unless there is a good reason to break them )
Lol
I just got done watching this video and went and got the mail and of all things to come in today’s delivery was my water bill 😂
Great video man. I bet you loved explaining all that stuff to him because that’s what you like to do. Hope everything’s OK and things are running good. Dad looks like he’s losing some weight. Much love.
My uncle’s water well was dug by a backhoe. The water table was at 20’. He lived near Lake Erie, Conneaut Ohio.
Cratering the well was one method of old timers form of fracking, they called it shooting the well.
Happy y'all could help your customers.
I have a140 ft. drilled well with a 6 inch steel casing. It makes 40 gallons a minute. The static level is 17 feet and has not changed since it was drilled. The 1/2 hp pump is set at 45 feet. Other than a couple pressure switches over the years It has been running problem free for 20 years. I guess I am lucky.
What is fracking? It's a nice channel, I have no idea how well works
Born to Frack!
You look like your doing good now hopefully all that Covid is out of your system, hope you have a great weekend and thanks for the video
that is so cool to watch. fracking is really interesting engineering. I love it.
Great video Phillip. Enjoy watching all of your videos !
Need an update on these please
Found your chanel yesterday, and instantly subbed. Absolutely love watching your vids. I don't have any well issues ( knock on wood ) but just enjoy watching you and your skill in your trade. Where are y'all at ? Region wise, we don't have deep wells in NC where I'm at. Most are really shallow.
I'm sure you've heard this before, but I'd sure like to see you cover that PTO joint and belts with some more metal. It could be any gauge and it would only take a minute to bend it and run some screws.
Feel for the guy with the 3 dry wells. That is expensive and frustrating especially after seeing all the lush woods and tall trees, you’d think their would be plenty of water. Being VA, I wonder if an old mine is nearby draining out the water somewhere else.
I was actually wondering why you guys didnt change that engine
it seemed to have just enough power but kept overheating.
but i guess most road going engines with stock cooling will overheat when stationary.
Hope to see a video about putting a new one in there I6 would be amazing for smooth running and V8 of course is classic american power and sound to impress ur customers.
Two videos so far.
Subbed on the first one, looking for the third, and my wife is "reminding" me that it's 3:00 in the morning!
It's a real joy to watch someone who both has a clue, works hard and has fun doing it, and also doesn't have his head stuck up his @$$!
3:30 Turbo charged 4BT Cummins would do an awesome job! Could run off the same tank as the truck 😎
Please explain how fracking, blows the dirt out of the vains and makes more water. Do you push the dirt in to someones well?
Would it ever make sense to buy a water truck or some tow behind water hauler? I am not sure how much they hold or anything like that. I guess size varies. Love the videos. I have learned so much about wells and hydro fracking from you.
20:00 - see dogs know a good person when they see one.
Have you ever panned any of that grit and sediment, I can't help thinking you might find a little bit or a lot of gold in some of those wells...not that you want to do anything about it, more just for interests sake.
800psi water jet would cut you in half quite effectively so I am not surprised your always a little nervous of fracking dry wells
5gpm is a great result its a result , thats two average buckets plus so probably more flow than he will ever use...
good one thanks for sharing
I would put a industrial ford inline 6 it's the engine of choice in wood chippers very reliable
6:14- Assume you've never met a one legged man who had one of his legs mechanically separated from his body after getting his jeans caught in a rotating PTO shaft??
His PTO shaft is shielded, if you look carefully.
@@paulmaxwell8851 There's a open ended cover over the end, which does not prevent loose clothing from getting snagged ripping off his leg at the ankle.
@@paulmaxwell8851 21:55- if his boot lace would come untied, it'd easily drift into that spinning drive shaft with potential catastrophic results.
Good catch. Put hard over PTO.
Hi Philip! Don’t know if you’ll see this, but we need help with our well, we’re in Oklahoma, and would much appreciate any help ya can give.
My uncle had the experience of an inadequate well on their farm, would go dry during the late summer and into fall. He finally decided to drill deeper. After some hundreds of feet of nothing but sandstone, he gave up and went back to supplementing their water supply during those months. This was decades ago; perhaps with today’s methods he might have had better luck.
Have you ever found gold or anything cool . when you’re drilling through the granite?
Fantastic
Dig a large pond next to the well.
This is really cool.
Gosh, I haven’t seen one of those cyclone separators for a while. I used one like that about 30 years ago on a high-volume water system to get rid of a lot of suspended solids prior to a big filtration system and it worked great. What’s the name of that separator?
A jeep 4.0 i6 would be fantastic for this work. Stupid simple, easy to work on with gobs of torque
Quick question. We have had our well for over 5 years at our cabin. It's a great well with great flow and crystal clear water and tastes great. I just flush it out good every spring opening and run it. 265 depth 6 inch well static is at 180 ish. Question is do I need to disinfect ? I haven't really had a problem yet.
On my Dad’s well it depended on what got into the well. It was fine for a while then tested positive for ecoli and arsenic at 5 times the level allowed. Testing is relatively cheap.
Question about something you mentioned in another video. You mentioned you use peanut oil in your operation, it was in a fracking video. If so, if this oil does or can leak from the equipment into the well, and potentially get injected into the surrounding material, wouldn't that present a problem for people with peanut allergies until that oil was 100% purged from the well (which might take years)? To avoid this are there alternatives that could be used? If someone buys the house with the nutty well, no one is going to think of the water source as the problem for their allergy issues.
I'd think that residual pressure (250psi at the top plus the other 500psi from the water column) would drop to zero at the surface by draining/escaping back into the water table. I'm trying to understand why it seems to be stable?
Does that kind of pressure shatter the PVC below the packer?
Well what do you think about to much water around me with super Wet Summer we had where rainfall is 20 times higher then normal as Summer long that the Finger lakes went up 5 inches deeper!
If you're going to replace the engine on the frack pump, a little 4 cylinder diesel would be your best bet. Then you would have the torque you need to push that pump without a problem.
You got to feel for that mans family. I can’t imagine how much it’s costing him.
How much does a well cost to drill?
@@alexsystems2001 well 1400 at 25 bucks a foot on cheap end is 35k.
Pre Covid the cost of a 300ft was around 12-15 thousand $. During and after Covid the cost doubled.
Don't think it has come down.
cousin just paid 10k for 400ft for the hole no pump, said it was about 350ft of granite
Where's this week located at,, great price
@@klev2008
Whats with that Fracking dog??
:p
Is good dogo.
Fracker pump definitely needs a V8 with demo derby style headers 😀
Be careful of the vegetable oil it has a high oxidation level it will gum up if not changed or any additives are used to keep the oxidation down...
When you replace that engine, go for the classic workhorse of a 6 cylinder engine; the much vaunted Chrysler Slanted In-line SIX! Lots of low-end torque, perfect for your situation.
My neighbor had a car crusher with a slant six running the hydraulics it worked great for many years
225 will always be alive.
That drive guard looks a bit suspect as it could still allow trouser bottoms to get caught needs elongation i think but im looking from the UK it needs one of those tractor final drive flex covers. Be safe.
he built it him self
We here in America like to fu around and find out its so much more entertaining and educational than always be the safety nerd we do understand that your world has always been safety on top of safety and when you grow up that way it's your way of life so I love to give it back to Europe 😂
Excellent channel , Very interesting and informative ! Subed
Considering a small diesel engine to drive a hydro pump could be beneficial due to the high torque output and operational efficiency of diesel engines. Such engines are likely to provide the robust power needed for an effective hydro pump system. Have you ever looked into one as a replacement for the 4cyl? I'd imagine you could even pipe the engine to the trucks fuel tanks,....
Great video, thank you for wealth of information. Loved the chicken!
Hpw about some stuff about wells and pumps for windmills, for us old-timers..?
did yall see the ole iron duke engine at 21:49!!!! the best
All the animals are so happy that they have water again its like they know 😂😂😂😂
20:58 sonic wave form pressure reverberation, back at ya.
Any update on these wells? Final flow?
The amazing thing was? it was 10' from my log cabin. the house was about built over it ...What you look for is pure fine white sand like beach sand
first video i watched here. Just asking so i understand better. You where worried it may blow out into one of the other wells. In theory if that happened, could it actually help both wells or just blow sediment into the other clogging it worse?
It would allow the high pressure water to loose its pressure filling the other well. That would be the end of fracking because he couldn’t build up pressure again to open other seams in the rock.
@@arthurbcccwright8726 that makes sense
Do a new LS1 with a 4L60E and you can tune it to be a perfect motor for your hydro packing. Basically de-tune it under various conditions. Setup push buttons to change gears. A push button for a "Step 1" and it revs the engine automatically to a point and holds it and you can even set it up automated. Where the pressure is fed back in and under conditions have it then switch to a second step to a higher gear and after xx time and pressure, then shift to a third gear/pressure. And then a 4th of needed. You could automate the whole thing and use it as an app/webpage you use from your phone or direct buttons/screen to monitor on an instrument panel. No longer have to go up and sit there and run the engine.
Around here we sit on top of salt, then coal, so the local water company has its wells miles west of us and pipes it to us. Ive also been one place where the oil shale layer was so shallow it breaks surface in places. I'd love to know how do you guys know where you can and can't drill?
That looks dangerous theres alot that could happen unexpectedly and i pray that you make it home safe every time u use this equipment
Curious that if it did blow into the other wells what issue that would be? I could see it could mean they are all using the same vein or pocket now and all three might not be producing water, or if it did clear the blockage and also connected that the other 2 could be diverting some of the flow from this well to not make as much.
I have a property with an old well and no pump. I'm thinking of putting it back in service. What tape do you use to measure? How do I test the quality? Anything else I should know?
One shoelace catching that transmission and you're you're losing a leg friend, i'd put some sort of additional barrier there especially since it's in the proximity of your controls
And he should wear a hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, high visibility vest, a ladder to climb onto the bed of the truck, fall protection while on the truck…😂😂😂😂 let men work and women worry.
Watch video 2 years back ;) We have some protection now ;) It was nothing before that.
Have you ever hit a pocket of natural gas when drilling for h20? If so what is the procedure? Are there any regulatory notifications? Perhaps if there is alot of info you could do a video on it?
Would an oil filled presumptive gauge help the needle form bouncing around so much?
Ever use some acid? acetic or maybe citric? To help clean the fractures?
About to swap a pump in a well that has slight dirty filter changes weekly, a plumber told me to slip panty hose over the new pump before dropping it. Good or bad idea?
And this story shows the advantages of Divining Rods.
2nd customer went all in on that property. 😢😢😢
I'm surprised you can let your well cuttings and bentonite run out onto the ground and not trap it with a dike setup. When our city in southern Minnesota drilled a new well about 15 years ago, the driller said they had to contain the cuttings and remove them when the job is completed. He stated they weren't allowed to let them flow out and around the well site without containing them.
Why not use fracking water to run though engine to cool it like 2nd radiator