Hey thanks guys! I hope all is well with you guys! I’m excited for yuh! Just remember that this whole move is an adventure and don’t let the stuff that’s gonna go wrong get you down! It’s all part of your family’s great adventure!!
@@9252LIFE were good. Just trying to finish getting the house ready for sale. So much painting 🥺😭... but gettin there! I can't wait to move! So so close! Thanks for bringin us some inspiration today! Yall kick some major booty! Keep up the great work!
Thank God you are able to do all this stuff, your amazing with all the things that you are willing to attempt to do, your family is very blessed. Love watching all the things that you do. LOL
Thank you! I don’t know how to do a lot of stuff but I will attempt almost anything whether it works out or not. It’s all part of the adventure! Glad that enjoy! Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Found you all through Bushradical and Girl in The Woods. Subscribed. Love how your girls have taken to living off grid. We live on a small farm in central Florida and we are old farts, but still have all the animals and live as off grid as we care to. LOL. But no snow and ice. You all are awesome! Keep it going. God Blessings be with you always.
Oh awesome! Glad you came over to our channel! Don’t mind some of our crazy older videos! 😆 I lived in Leesburg Florida near the Villages many years ago. And Donellon. Definitely warm down there! What farm animals do you have?
I love your channel!! Your family is fantastic and your sense of humor and not sweating the little things is incredibly entertaining. Hang in there, can’t wait to see what comes next.
Oh man. That hurt to watch. I totally feel your pain buddy. You crack me up tho, and that positive attitude is a must! Can’t wait to see if the rescuers can help!!
I feel your pain driving the well... drove 3 myself in central WI. I had the same driver that Dave used. Believe me.. once you get through the hard pan (Clay) you will get great tasting water. keep checking the depth of the water in the pipe each section below 20 ft... also to clear the screen shoot a 22 cal to blow out the point screen.. of course I didn't have a 22 cal at the time ...but did had a 12 ga slug. little bit of over kill ...but it worked, maybe damaged the screen, I don't know that was at 42 ft of well 2 in pipe hand pounded.. another well 32 ft I hit hard Pan so I rented an Air compressor and a jack hammer made 3 driving bits and curled 2 bits before I got through the hard pan and to the water. Cant wait to see you get the water. I wish I was your age again to do the things I love to do. Memories you will keep forever.
Digging up a hole in the kitchen reminded me of Richard Dreyfuss and his obsessing over subliminal images of a mountain-like shape, often making models of it, in the movie, "Close Encounter of the Third Kind".
@@9252LIFE so I'm new and also off grid so my comments are late but if it's so hard yo pound these down than you need to invest in a big tap and die set so you can just re thread the end and you can also cut a small section and thread it on both sides so you can pound away and not break the important pipe still use the cap but have a buffer
Off Grid people never give up. There's really no alternative sometimes but to figure it out just like they had to in the Flintstones' day. If they didn't have the right tool for the job, they invented one.
We drove as well 97' about 12 miles north of Newberry on auger lake coached by a native well driller/driver. One thing he had us do was fill the pipe with water (using the drive cap). The driver was a larger diameter heavy pipe with a hardwood block up inside. When the driver pipe slammed down on the cap (with the whole in it) the wood would seal the whole so the air in the pipe would compress and push the water out at the bottom of the well pipe reducing the friction around the bottom of the pipe allowing the pipe to move downward more easily. The difference is this: We were driving 2" pipe with a drive coupling on the bottom. We were outside with a tripod about 15' high with a pully at the top and a 500 lb driver. We periodically used a sand pump to get the mud out of this inside of the casing as we were driving down. I'm not sure how this would work driving a point but it seems that it should force water out the screen and possibly reduce friction in a similar way. He had a trick for pulling the pipe back too.
That makes total sense. I couldn’t fit my driver over the drive cap. Just the drive coupling. That water in the pipe would definitely help keep the mud out of the screen as well with the pressure. We’re about to try driving it outside by our new cabin build we’re doing. Hopefully we have some good luck . Thank you Scott
I seen on UA-cam a easy way for electricity...using magnets and some wire and copper...not sure if you have to use your generator all the time for electricity...but it was simple and easy that you could have free electric....am sure you could make it work to your advantage...thanks for making theese videos...very interesting to watch...
Planned to do the sand point well inside my structure as well but ide do it before pouring the slab and building the home, No judgement,just been planning many things over a long time
Love the sense of humor. The kitchen... I hear ya. The house... yeah. Same deal, with added bonus of termites. (Still down south.) Water was a long time coming here. Looks like I found y'all the same way everyone else did.
@@9252LIFE A combination of things. Collected rainwater in barrels. Brought in a truck load from our other house in 5 gal jugs. Sometimes got it from work. Sometimes (hate to admit it) even purchased it on a jug exchange. The rain barrels were mainly our sanitation water for washing etc.
Can't wait for part 2 ....your blessed to have such great friends...one helped out with wood,knife, etc then another friend comes to help you with indoor water...Chad you attract great people because after binge watching your channel you have a huge love for your family ,living off grid, your living your DREAM...😁❤🙏🏡🌧💧
I drove one down for an irrigation well. First I dug a hole 3x3 then used a post hole digger to the top of the handles, then slide down PVC, 4” I think, then pounded down a sand point. I had to get drive couplings and went through a couple of drive caps. I hit a thin clay layer probably 8”, wow that was slow going, then it went fast down to 18’ where the next big clay layer is. Lucky for me all the water you want laying on top that 18’ clay layer. Good luck, you might rent one of those gas well driller rigs, looks like a big ice auger.
I remember in the old days (1960’s), my dad built a tripod out of logs, and used a chainfall to pull up the well pipe to change the point! One can appreciate so much more of what our grandparents and great grandparents went through! Perhaps the pipe and threads breaking shows more about the quality of materials we get now! Grrr! Going to be so nice when it’s done though - like having a baby! lol! Now you know how she felt! 🤣😫
My ex mother in law had a cistern that was filled from a canal, she had a hand pump at her kitchen sink to bring water from the cistern. She had a wood cook stove that was also propane, used to scare me whenever she used it. To flush the toilet she filled a 5 gallon bucket from the hand pump and poured it into the toilet bowl. To bathe same thing, either use cool water in the summer or heat it on the stove in the winter.
Waooo!!!! God bless Bushradical and and Girl in the Woods such kind and caring couple. It is because of them that I got to know of your channel and I subscribed the same day! We can not wait to see Dave's magic on that well! Please upload video soonest possible we are all eyes and ears.
Oh my word😂🤣😅 I enjoyed your video so much! I laughed so hard I couldn't stop laughing. I haven't left this hard in years. God bless you! I still can't stop laughing 😅🤣 God bless you and your family 🙏💞
Theres another channel who installs one, I noticed he uses a 12 inch "sacrificial" pipe which he attaches atop his 4 foot sections as he goes. He mentinoed he had to unscrew and replace it 3 times or so I think. But that saved him having to tear up the rest of the pipe. The sacrificial pipe took the brunt of the warping and scraping. The rest was fine. I hope this helps, I have not tried this yet, so if you do go again let me know how you did.
New to your channel, but a bit confused. My first project would have been a well with a deep well hand pump. Hope you got your water sorted. Last summer we purchased a 125 gallon water tank from Tractor Supply, for the back of the pick up truck to water the cattle during the NH drought. A tank might come in handy.
We have water tanks but in the winter it’s hard to keep thawed unless we bury it. We should have a well in soon! I’m confused on the “deep well hand pump” the farthest you can go down with these hand pumps is 25 feet. Are you talking about those bigger ones that you see at state parks? I wondered about those.
Hi Chad- check out Lehmans Hardware. They carry deep well hand pumps. The handles are really long ,but not too challenging to pull down. They also have this cool tube like scoop that you can lower down your well and it fills up like a tube. I'm sure you can call them and have a chat. Good to hear you are getting a well soon. I would have put an empty water tank inside the cabin up high and pump a 2nd tank into it. Would that work?
What are you hitting with that point? Limestone? I know there is a crap ton of it in the ground up there. Think we managed to get our well to 12 or 14 feet last spring. Stinks like sulfer though without an inline filter.
Isaac in his college days all slim and trim he has had a few dog biscuits since then lol. here we are day two of the marathon binge watch in between tank battles lol
I just found your channel. After spending 60 years doing most things wrong the first time. I feel a kindred spirit with you.😂 After my wife died I sold the house because I had no longer had anyone to entertain. With no house and Red Green off the air I went looking for someone to replace him. And I found your channel, you're no Red Green but you will do until something better comes along.😂🤣😂
😂 that’s too funny! Red Green! I still have no idea who or what Red Green is, but my father-in-law was telling me a short while back that I need to do a show similar to theirs! Lol guess I better google em! Well Patrick I’m glad you found our channel! We have some pretty interesting crazy stuff on here but trying to find my serious side in all seriousness.. 😆 Have a great night!
That creek has a really copper color to it and after it’s filtered through black Berkey filters for a week or so the color starts coming through. Not sure about that.
@@9252LIFE Dealing with all the MANure everyone else is. lol Just waiting to see how this ride ends. How are y'all? and you know how much we all love some Issac time.
Way to go for the big guns. I wish I had thought of doing something like that when I had scaffolding in my kitchen for three months (it did make a good place to put stuff when I was cooking, and a great jungle gym for the kids, but still don't recommend it.) Looking forward to part two, thanks for sharing.
(Brand new sub here via Girl In The Woods). Urg!!!! Can't imagine how crazy hard and frustrating that was... BUT you didn't give up!! And somehow through it all you made it humorously entertaining for us to watch!! You really have a knack for UA-cam. Hope you do well and I'll be praying for a solution to your water situation. 🙏☝👍
@@chris-t_8875 oh man that’s awesome! My wife wanted to RV it instead of settling out here but it wasn’t in our play book at the time. Probably a bit warmer out your way!
The hose on my apartment sized washing machine which is hooked up to my tap produces a lot of water due to condensation. I placed a bowl under the hoses (intake & drainage) to collect the water. In a off grid situation, it would be possible to have a water filled hose(s) indoors to collect water from. You could fill up the hose and stopper each end and coil it over a container and watch it fill with water.
Can't wait to see the rest of this... My husband an I live totally off grid in Maine an he has tried 3 times to get a shallow well in for us but gets about 20-30 feet down an gets a clay shelf 😔 We also have a rain water system but in the winter...well you know how that goes lol....
He's pretty well fed up lol ... But we are thinking of paying someone to get past that shelf. You know cause we just got all kinds of money laying around hahaha Not....j/k We just can't figure out how to get through that dang shelf. I wish you all the luck in the world. I'm sure you'll get 'er done 😉
Bro, I subscribed immediately cause I thought you where an old Army buddy of mine. Once I watched your channel for a few minutes I realized your just like me so I am sticking around. 😀
@@9252LIFE I can just relate to the frustration you must have been feeling and I just could not stop laughing. I have had a rough few months and this really perked me up. I don't know why, I'm just weird. Thank you though.
@@terriperry6360 😆 well that’s awesome! Glad you got a kick out of it! 😆 I was actually just a tad frustrated at the time but I tend to just let stuff like that go. Besides it’s all part of the great adventure! Kinda neat if you think about. You have a good one and I hope everything is going good for you!
Why don't people realize if you pour water down the pipe as you driving it and take a pipe wrench and turn the pipe soften the ground up down at the point and it'll go a lot easier just keep pouring water down it and turn the pipe every few Strokes
So we never get to see if the well was finished, or even worked. No part two on the site. No updates on any of the wells , you've worked on , to if they are functional?
@@Janosshalom no problem! Make sure you check out Bushradicals video about it. He give a great breakdown of every you need so you don’t have to run back to the store!
Install indoor plumbing they said. Drive a steel pipe through the planet they said. It'll be easy they said. ....two weeks later... Too be continued... All bc I'm off grid 💪
@@johnplouffe3673 that would be ok but we get snow right after and no more rain for the winter. I believe either this weekend or next we should have this well installed.
There’s a guy out near our property who has a small hunting cabin on a ridge and has a well driven 18 ft. I’m not quite sure how that works but it does in his situation. Yours seems to be a bit bigger if a hill. 😆
@@9252LIFE oh yes very exhausting lol we have been trucking ours in with a tote or 10 gallons milk cans. How often do you and the girls get to shower? I know a personal question but I get it it's hard with no water on our property and all the rain water is gone or frozen. The showering/bathing part is my struggle with the way we live now.
@@Offgridcabinhomestead my wife is a bit spoiled and can’t hardly stand to go a day without a shower. Sometimes she’d sponge bathe on the days the shower didn’t work out for some reason. Now our daughters are what I call off grid... 😂 they’d go a month without showering if you’d let em! 😂 🤢 Myself can handle every other day depending on what I did at work that day. I too had sponge bathed. Standing in a large tote with a pan of warm water and a wash rag and some soap actually works quite well and doesn’t use much water. But we now have a well.. 🤫 it’s a surprise. 😆
I discovered Bushradical and then Girl in the woods some months back. So glad to see you folks all together!
I just got off the phone with Dave(Bushradical) just a few minutes ago. Just short of a three hour conversation. Dudes pretty interesting.
I was looking up how to drill your own water well with hand pump inside house. I found your video. I haven’t laughed so hard.🤣😂 Love it.
Lol thanks! It usually works quite well for most people. Just not me. 😆
I didn't laugh because I know that could be me I'm trying to do this and don't know what I'm doing I guess I better laugh myself😢
Amazed you didn't break the window. Best
Yeah me too! 😆
Coming to you after seeing Girl In The Woods nd Bush Radical visit your homestead, now subscribed to your channel.
Awesome!
Me too!!
@@debchurch4553 awesome! Thank you so much for giving us a chance! We hope you’re having a great week!
We loved this one! Great job. You have so much patience. Very entertaining video! 👊👊👊
Hey thanks guys! I hope all is well with you guys! I’m excited for yuh! Just remember that this whole move is an adventure and don’t let the stuff that’s gonna go wrong get you down! It’s all part of your family’s great adventure!!
@@9252LIFE were good. Just trying to finish getting the house ready for sale. So much painting 🥺😭... but gettin there! I can't wait to move! So so close! Thanks for bringin us some inspiration today! Yall kick some major booty! Keep up the great work!
@@SimpleLifeReclaimed thank you! You too!!
Thank God you are able to do all this stuff, your amazing with all the things that you are willing to attempt to do, your family is very blessed. Love watching all the things that you do. LOL
Thank you! I don’t know how to do a lot of stuff but I will attempt almost anything whether it works out or not. It’s all part of the adventure! Glad that enjoy! Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Found you all through Bushradical and Girl in The Woods. Subscribed. Love how your girls have taken to living off grid. We live on a small farm in central Florida and we are old farts, but still have all the animals and live as off grid as we care to. LOL. But no snow and ice. You all are awesome! Keep it going. God Blessings be with you always.
Oh awesome! Glad you came over to our channel! Don’t mind some of our crazy older videos! 😆 I lived in Leesburg Florida near the Villages many years ago. And Donellon. Definitely warm down there!
What farm animals do you have?
I love your channel!! Your family is fantastic and your sense of humor and not sweating the little things is incredibly entertaining. Hang in there, can’t wait to see what comes next.
Oh thank you! Have a great weekend!
So glad you got Radical!!
Oh man. That hurt to watch.
I totally feel your pain buddy.
You crack me up tho, and that positive attitude is a must!
Can’t wait to see if the rescuers can help!!
Oh man! It hurt my wallet having to purchase all that stuff again! And yeah staying positive is key!
I can’t believe your luck with this, I totally would have given up! You are amazing for the continued effort. Can’t wait for part 2
Thank you! Yeah it’s been quite the adventure that’s for sure! 😆
I feel your pain driving the well... drove 3 myself in central WI. I had the same driver that Dave used. Believe me.. once you get through the hard pan (Clay) you will get great tasting water. keep checking the depth of the water in the pipe each section below 20 ft... also to clear the screen shoot a 22 cal to blow out the point screen.. of course I didn't have a 22 cal at the time ...but did had a 12 ga slug. little bit of over kill ...but it worked, maybe damaged the screen, I don't know that was at 42 ft of well 2 in pipe hand pounded.. another well 32 ft I hit hard Pan so I rented an Air compressor and a jack hammer made 3 driving bits and curled 2 bits before I got through the hard pan and to the water. Cant wait to see you get the water. I wish I was your age again to do the things I love to do. Memories you will keep forever.
Oh man the fun stuff driving those pipes! 😂 💪 Wouldn’t you give yourself lead poisoning drinking that water with all that lead down there? 😆
Amazing you stay positive through it I would have absolutely given up
Giving up means it didn’t work. Not everything works the first time or in my case six times! 😆 We’ll get it!
Began watching you guys since Girl in the Woods/BushRadical video! Your family is Amazing! Kudos to you all! So RESILIENT... Love your dogs too!
Awesome thank you Nancy. Have a great week!
Digging up a hole in the kitchen reminded me of Richard Dreyfuss and his obsessing over subliminal images of a mountain-like shape, often making models of it, in the movie, "Close Encounter of the Third Kind".
Haven’t seen it! 😆
@@9252LIFE so I'm new and also off grid so my comments are late but if it's so hard yo pound these down than you need to invest in a big tap and die set so you can just re thread the end and you can also cut a small section and thread it on both sides so you can pound away and not break the important pipe still use the cap but have a buffer
I'm glad I found your channel. Love it 😁😍
Thank you! Glad to have you!
Issac is adorable in his tie!
Can't wait for part II
Thanks for sharing!!
He’s definitely a ladies man! 😆
Off Grid people never give up. There's really no alternative sometimes but to figure it out just like they had to in the Flintstones' day. If they didn't have the right tool for the job, they invented one.
Exactly!
We drove as well 97' about 12 miles north of Newberry on auger lake coached by a native well driller/driver. One thing he had us do was fill the pipe with water (using the drive cap). The driver was a larger diameter heavy pipe with a hardwood block up inside. When the driver pipe slammed down on the cap (with the whole in it) the wood would seal the whole so the air in the pipe would compress and push the water out at the bottom of the well pipe reducing the friction around the bottom of the pipe allowing the pipe to move downward more easily. The difference is this: We were driving 2" pipe with a drive coupling on the bottom. We were outside with a tripod about 15' high with a pully at the top and a 500 lb driver. We periodically used a sand pump to get the mud out of this inside of the casing as we were driving down. I'm not sure how this would work driving a point but it seems that it should force water out the screen and possibly reduce friction in a similar way. He had a trick for pulling the pipe back too.
That makes total sense. I couldn’t fit my driver over the drive cap. Just the drive coupling. That water in the pipe would definitely help keep the mud out of the screen as well with the pressure. We’re about to try driving it outside by our new cabin build we’re doing. Hopefully we have some good luck . Thank you Scott
I seen on UA-cam a easy way for electricity...using magnets and some wire and copper...not sure if you have to use your generator all the time for electricity...but it was simple and easy that you could have free electric....am sure you could make it work to your advantage...thanks for making theese videos...very interesting to watch...
Thank you
@@9252LIFE your welcome 🙏
Just found your channel a few days ago. Binge watching. Thanks for the laugh!😂😂😂😂
Awesome thank you! Enjoy
Planned to do the sand point well inside my structure as well but ide do it before pouring the slab and building the home,
No judgement,just been planning many things over a long time
Very good idea
Love the sense of humor. The kitchen... I hear ya. The house... yeah. Same deal, with added bonus of termites. (Still down south.) Water was a long time coming here. Looks like I found y'all the same way everyone else did.
Thank you! What did you use for a water source?
@@9252LIFE A combination of things. Collected rainwater in barrels. Brought in a truck load from our other house in 5 gal jugs. Sometimes got it from work. Sometimes (hate to admit it) even purchased it on a jug exchange. The rain barrels were mainly our sanitation water for washing etc.
Now we have a 2" well pipe. (Don't try to hand pound those. They don't drive well by hand. )
@@rwun283 yeah I hear the two inch by hand isn’t no fun!
A handyman jack and chain. Wrap the chain multiple times (tightly) around the pipe and jack it out.
Works on fence posts too.
Can't wait for part 2 ....your blessed to have such great friends...one helped out with wood,knife, etc then another friend comes to help you with indoor water...Chad you attract great people because after binge watching your channel you have a huge love for your family ,living off grid, your living your DREAM...😁❤🙏🏡🌧💧
Awwwee thank you! Yes I have found that there are some great people in this community! I appreciate you watching! Part 2 should be coming soon!
That’s a hell of a project!!! Awesome you seem to have great help 😁👍🏼 Can’t wait for the next one 👍🏼😁👍🏼
It’s definitely quite the “Pipe Dream”! Lol see what I did there? 😂 Next one coming soon!
My first thought was to use a highlift jack to pull out the bad section. But a floor jack?!?!?!? Lol genius!
It’s all I had at the time. Lol
It’s all I had at the time. Lol
I drove one down for an irrigation well. First I dug a hole 3x3 then used a post hole digger to the top of the handles, then slide down PVC, 4” I think, then pounded down a sand point. I had to get drive couplings and went through a couple of drive caps. I hit a thin clay layer probably 8”, wow that was slow going, then it went fast down to 18’ where the next big clay layer is. Lucky for me all the water you want laying on top that 18’ clay layer. Good luck, you might rent one of those gas well driller rigs, looks like a big ice auger.
Sounds like our situation! It drive quite easy with that big driver Dave/Bushradical brought.
Love the dog good luck with everything. God Bless.
Thank you! Isaac is such a show stealer! 😆
Eagerly looking forward to part 2. Stay warm.
Wood stove is working great! Part two should be out soon!
I remember in the old days (1960’s), my dad built a tripod out of logs, and used a chainfall to pull up the well pipe to change the point! One can appreciate so much more of what our grandparents and great grandparents went through! Perhaps the pipe and threads breaking shows more about the quality of materials we get now! Grrr! Going to be so nice when it’s done though - like having a baby! lol! Now you know how she felt! 🤣😫
Exactly 😂 but I’ve been having these horrible contractions for a couple months now! 😆
You were hilarious. I cant imagine how pissed you really were. According to the video you handled it very well!!!! The power of editing lol lol😁👍
I actually handled it pretty much like the video besides maybe a couple naughty words.. 😆
So cool you got such a nice visit, and help too 😉
Definitely!
Chad, i love your videos!!! Issac is so cute.
Oh thank you! Isaac is definitely got me beat in cutenesses that’s for sure! 😆
My ex mother in law had a cistern that was filled from a canal, she had a hand pump at her kitchen sink to bring water from the cistern. She had a wood cook stove that was also propane, used to scare me whenever she used it. To flush the toilet she filled a 5 gallon bucket from the hand pump and poured it into the toilet bowl. To bathe same thing, either use cool water in the summer or heat it on the stove in the winter.
Oh a hand pump in the kitchen! Goals! 😆 We’ll get it!
My favorite Alone couple I was routing for those two to win and her to win her season.
Yeah they are both just awesome people on and off camera!
@@9252LIFE I bet I enjoy all there videos
Waooo!!!! God bless Bushradical and and Girl in the Woods such kind and caring couple. It is because of them that I got to know of your channel and I subscribed the same day! We can not wait to see Dave's magic on that well! Please upload video soonest possible we are all eyes and ears.
They are some very good people for sure! They actually had an influence on us making the move off grid. Keep an eye out for Brookes video.
Your a natural itinerary!,,,Dave and brook will shorten the learning curve
Have fun and stay positive😃
Thank you!
Jack hammer would work well in that situation , I have used one in the dead of winter to put in steel fence posts.
FYI
Yeah our local town don’t have one. I seen another off grid channel use one and man that went down extremely fast!
Oh my word😂🤣😅 I enjoyed your video so much! I laughed so hard I couldn't stop laughing. I haven't left this hard in years. God bless you! I still can't stop laughing 😅🤣 God bless you and your family 🙏💞
Lol thank you! Did you find our channel from Girl In The Woods?
Bet she would love a pantry cupboard!
Yea definitely
Theres another channel who installs one, I noticed he uses a 12 inch "sacrificial" pipe which he attaches atop his 4 foot sections as he goes. He mentinoed he had to unscrew and replace it 3 times or so I think. But that saved him having to tear up the rest of the pipe. The sacrificial pipe took the brunt of the warping and scraping. The rest was fine. I hope this helps, I have not tried this yet, so if you do go again let me know how you did.
New to your channel, but a bit confused. My first project would have been a well with a deep well hand pump.
Hope you got your water sorted.
Last summer we purchased a 125 gallon water tank from Tractor Supply, for the back of the pick up truck to water the cattle during the NH drought. A tank might come in handy.
We have water tanks but in the winter it’s hard to keep thawed unless we bury it. We should have a well in soon! I’m confused on the “deep well hand pump” the farthest you can go down with these hand pumps is 25 feet. Are you talking about those bigger ones that you see at state parks? I wondered about those.
Hi Chad- check out Lehmans Hardware. They carry deep well hand pumps. The handles are really long ,but not too challenging to pull down. They also have this cool tube like scoop that you can lower down your well and it fills up like a tube. I'm sure you can call them and have a chat. Good to hear you are getting a well soon. I would have put an empty water tank inside the cabin up high and pump a 2nd tank into it. Would that work?
i dont cry.. fairplay to you.. you got some patience, i would of broke the house up for firewood..
😂 yeah the thought crossed my mind!
What are you hitting with that point? Limestone? I know there is a crap ton of it in the ground up there. Think we managed to get our well to 12 or 14 feet last spring. Stinks like sulfer though without an inline filter.
It seems to be a very sticky clay substance. There is water but it won’t draw up due to the clay.
@@9252LIFE Ugh!! And I thought rocks were bad.
Isaac in his college days all slim and trim he has had a few dog biscuits since then lol. here we are day two of the marathon binge watch in between tank battles lol
Yeah he is actually trying to bulk up for his winter hibernation. 😂
Cant wait for part 2!
Should be this week!
I just found your channel. After spending 60 years doing most things wrong the first time. I feel a kindred spirit with you.😂 After my wife died I sold the house because I had no longer had anyone to entertain. With no house and Red Green off the air I went looking for someone to replace him. And I found your channel, you're no Red Green but you will do until something better comes along.😂🤣😂
😂 that’s too funny! Red Green! I still have no idea who or what Red Green is, but my father-in-law was telling me a short while back that I need to do a show similar to theirs! Lol guess I better google em!
Well Patrick I’m glad you found our channel! We have some pretty interesting crazy stuff on here but trying to find my serious side in all seriousness.. 😆 Have a great night!
I'd Put In A Hydro Lift Pump From That Little Greek... LOL
That creek has a really copper color to it and after it’s filtered through black Berkey filters for a week or so the color starts coming through. Not sure about that.
Can't wait for part two... Woohoo
Woohoo 😆
Like the Homesteading Northern Michigan shoutout 😁
Ginger Crazy
And another Jason shoutout 🤣
I saw you having this discussion on Facebook hahah
Damn... watched all that and have to wait for a part 2!?!?!?!?
@@lazypondfarm if I would’ve squeezed er all into one you would’ve fell asleep! 😂
I subscribed after the "I'm off grid I don't cry" then proceed to cry moment.
😂 that’s awesome! Thank you! Have a great rest of your weekend!
Can't wait for part 2.
Hey how yuh been?
@@9252LIFE Dealing with all the MANure everyone else is. lol Just waiting to see how this ride ends. How are y'all? and you know how much we all love some Issac time.
@@CynBrown we’re great! Just remember however this ride ends, everything is going to be just fine! Enjoy your day!
@@CynBrown and Isaac is starting to steal my show! 😆
@@9252LIFE You can't be mad at him for being better looking. lol
Good video.👍
Thank you!
You're welcome my friend
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Way to go for the big guns. I wish I had thought of doing something like that when I had scaffolding in my kitchen for three months (it did make a good place to put stuff when I was cooking, and a great jungle gym for the kids, but still don't recommend it.) Looking forward to part two, thanks for sharing.
Oh I bet that jungle gym was the highlight of the kids day! 😆
They laid that block the wrong way. Holes up and fill it. It's week the way it's laying. I'm a 30 yrs mason. When you Jack it up you should change it.
Yeah this little cabin wasn’t too thought out. It’s definitely better than our RV for now! Starting on a new cabin build in the spring.
True!
(Brand new sub here via Girl In The Woods).
Urg!!!! Can't imagine how crazy hard and frustrating that was... BUT you didn't give up!!
And somehow through it all you made it humorously entertaining for us to watch!!
You really have a knack for UA-cam. Hope you do well and I'll be praying for a solution to your water situation. 🙏☝👍
So glad you enjoyed it! Yeah we’ll hit water soon! Where are you from?
@@9252LIFE
Am retired and RV traveling full time. Currently in Southwest Arizona. :)
@@chris-t_8875 oh man that’s awesome! My wife wanted to RV it instead of settling out here but it wasn’t in our play book at the time. Probably a bit warmer out your way!
There's gold in them there hills!!! Know you were digging towards water but gold would have been a nice extra!😁
That would’ve been awesome! 😂 I would love to take my wife and kids gold prospecting somewhere some day!
The hose on my apartment sized washing machine which is hooked up to my tap produces a lot of water due to condensation. I placed a bowl under the hoses (intake & drainage) to collect the water. In a off grid situation, it would be possible to have a water filled hose(s) indoors to collect water from. You could fill up the hose and stopper each end and coil it over a container and watch it fill with water.
Excellent idea!
Ginger crazy!!!😅🤣😂💛✨
Have you watched our “What Happens When You Go Off Grid” video?? 😂
Have a fantastic day!
@@9252LIFE not yet but I will!! 😁
It’s an older video and the mosquitos we’re really driving me nuts! So that was my way of coping.. 😆
Can't wait to see the rest of this... My husband an I live totally off grid in Maine an he has tried 3 times to get a shallow well in for us but gets about 20-30 feet down an gets a clay shelf 😔 We also have a rain water system but in the winter...well you know how that goes lol....
Oh yeah the struggle is real!! 😂 is he gonna try again?
Oh yeah the struggle is real!! 😂 is he gonna try again?
He's pretty well fed up lol ... But we are thinking of paying someone to get past that shelf. You know cause we just got all kinds of money laying around hahaha Not....j/k We just can't figure out how to get through that dang shelf. I wish you all the luck in the world. I'm sure you'll get 'er done 😉
If using a pitcher pump remember it will only draw up to 25 feet! Wish you all luck! We’re about to try again soon.
@@9252LIFE I didn't know that an I'm gonna see if he does.... That sure would explain a lot 😂
Good times at the cabin lol
Lol yeah the best!
Wow, are they coming over to help me drive my well? 😂 LOL
Send them a message! 😆
One of my projects next year at the cabin....
Best wishes hope you get it.
Thank you!
You got this. Just don't look under the floor you never know what you will find. Lmao. You know what I mean. Toyota camery.
😂 🤦♂️
I had the same thing happen,I borrow a pipe threader and rethredded pipe
Watch off grid with Doug and Stacy he shows how to install a rain water system and a lot of other stuff
Bro, I subscribed immediately cause I thought you where an old Army buddy of mine. Once I watched your channel for a few minutes I realized your just like me so I am sticking around. 😀
Awesome! 💪
I have never laughed so hard in my life!
Uhoh what did I do?
@@9252LIFE I can just relate to the frustration you must have been feeling and I just could not stop laughing. I have had a rough few months and this really perked me up. I don't know why, I'm just weird. Thank you though.
@@terriperry6360 😆 well that’s awesome! Glad you got a kick out of it! 😆 I was actually just a tad frustrated at the time but I tend to just let stuff like that go. Besides it’s all part of the great adventure! Kinda neat if you think about. You have a good one and I hope everything is going good for you!
Recently found and subscribed to your channel thanks to Brook W - Girl in the Woods. (she gone)
Hi Caren! Glad you found us ! Brooke is one awesome gal!
I often wondered why folks didn't drill a hand pump well and then build a cabin around it.
😂😂😂 I know it sucks but boy was it a good laugh
Thanks ! Lol
Why don't people realize if you pour water down the pipe as you driving it and take a pipe wrench and turn the pipe soften the ground up down at the point and it'll go a lot easier just keep pouring water down it and turn the pipe every few Strokes
Good luck from our off-grid project to yours! Looks cold....
Hey thank you! Yeah it’s actually much colder today than it has been! I think maybe winter may actually be starting!
@@9252LIFE Our girls would love some snow. Seems like we get less and less each year. Sign of the times unfortunately.
Well at least the wall and window are still intact 👍 will see at the end of part 2 lol 😃
Yeah I only mentioned all that because that’s what truly went through my head! 😂
Came to watch your channel after watching Girl in the Woods. I always dreamed of doing what you are doing, but it didn’t work out.
Thank you for watching! Have you considered trying again?
@@9252LIFE , due to my age, 64 and me recovering from pelvic fractures, I don’t think it is in the cards- at least for a while.
@@sandracimonetti5307 oh wow! Sorry to hear that! Well when you get healed up you can always give it a go!
This would be fun for a weekend or maybe retirement idk with kids though 😂
Brook sent me over ,i subbed
Awesome thank you!
You should cut the threaded section of and rethread it with a pipe threader. Then you wouldn't have to remove so much pipe
I don’t have a pipe threader
So we never get to see if the well was finished, or even worked. No part two on the site. No updates on any of the wells , you've worked on , to if they are functional?
Yes we have plenty of update. Keep watching through all the videos. We’ve been at it over a year trying to get a well.
Nice knife
I haven’t had to sharpen it yet!
Hi , where I can order the pipes and all the necessary stuff , Amazon ? Home Depot ? Thanks 🙏
Menards has everything you need. I did however purchase the pump from our local hardware store.
@@9252LIFE thank you
@@Janosshalom no problem! Make sure you check out Bushradicals video about it. He give a great breakdown of every you need so you don’t have to run back to the store!
now would be the time to put casters on the cabinet. :
Install indoor plumbing they said.
Drive a steel pipe through the planet they said.
It'll be easy they said.
....two weeks later...
Too be continued... All bc I'm off grid 💪
😂 yep
For forty bucks you could have got a manual post driver, but next time maybe 😆
Why would I want that? We’ve got one on our tractor. 😆
We have a manual post driver and the thing is way too light! I thought about duct taping a sledge hammer head on it! 😆
@@9252LIFE well mine was heavy and it worked but do t think the tractor would fit in your cabin
@@bluedogsurvive6501 we thought about cutting a big barn door in the side but decided I’ve cut enough already! 😂
@@9252LIFE lol ya I’ve done foolish crap like that when I first got here
Chad ...So glad you decided to get radical///eh????
Lol yep! 😂 He’s quite the cool character!
Well hello Jack
Lol
Ginger crazy🤣🤣🤣
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Would you consider putting one gallon jugs of salt water in it with a LIDS on the bottles to keep your water from freezing
Never heard of that? Are you talking about the rain barrels?
@@9252LIFE yes I'm talking about your outside barrels
@@johnplouffe3673 that would be ok but we get snow right after and no more rain for the winter. I believe either this weekend or next we should have this well installed.
Isaac "your boy"? Looks just like his daddy-a chip off the old block! Nuts on all the broken pipes, but cool with the help you're gettin;!
😂 Yeah a little help definitely went much easier!! Ish...
Dang it, third!
Slacker
@@9252LIFE if ya ain't first you're last...
I can't put mine in the cabin, as I'd have to go through 70-80' feet of hill just to get to 'ground level'
There’s a guy out near our property who has a small hunting cabin on a ridge and has a well driven 18 ft. I’m not quite sure how that works but it does in his situation. Yours seems to be a bit bigger if a hill. 😆
@@9252LIFE there's a valley behind the cabin, I know there's water there. Just going to drive a well on the food plot
I think you have a little Red Green in your DNA
I’m going to have to look into that red green. 😆
Did you ever get a well drilled?
No
@@9252LIFE we are also off grid and no running water. How do you get water in the winter time?
@@Offgridcabinhomestead we haul it in with 5 gallon buckets with lids.
@@9252LIFE oh yes very exhausting lol we have been trucking ours in with a tote or 10 gallons milk cans. How often do you and the girls get to shower? I know a personal question but I get it it's hard with no water on our property and all the rain water is gone or frozen. The showering/bathing part is my struggle with the way we live now.
@@Offgridcabinhomestead my wife is a bit spoiled and can’t hardly stand to go a day without a shower. Sometimes she’d sponge bathe on the days the shower didn’t work out for some reason. Now our daughters are what I call off grid... 😂 they’d go a month without showering if you’d let em! 😂 🤢 Myself can handle every other day depending on what I did at work that day. I too had sponge bathed. Standing in a large tote with a pan of warm water and a wash rag and some soap actually works quite well and doesn’t use much water. But we now have a well.. 🤫 it’s a surprise. 😆
Why don`t you buy portable well drill rig and you can drill as many wells as you want then sell the rig. That could resolve your water problem..
Honestly we didn’t think it’d be that difficult.
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The pipe has to rotate, or you force water into it constantly. Or both To drive it dry are madness
Oh it’s madness for sure! 😆