DIY Well Drilling... It's a PITA

Let me know if this is something you’ve done and your experiences.

Dude your soils like butter, holy cow I would have found like six baseball-sized rocks and not first little bit you dug

It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤

Oh man, if I got paid to replace every well a homeowner thought they could do on their own, I could make a lot of money. Oh wait, that's what I do!

What country are you in that allows you to drill your own water well ? That’s illegal in California and at least $30,000 - $250,000 And that’s if the city grants you a permit

Is there any reverse on those things?

I love how one of the key aspects to almost every DIY well vid is a water source, and not one content creator seems to see the irony.

You definitely have me thinking. We just had to have our well pump replaced $2,500 later. My current well is 220 feet deep with the well pump set at 120 feet. He said I could pump 100GPM which seems like a bunch... The well should always have plenty of water in it if it's that deep I have thought about the steel pointed drill, the one you drive into the ground. But I'm afraid the water might be too deep to reach after hearing how deep our well is. Our soil is very sandy even though we are well inland. Here SE Texas where we are there is sandy clay under the sand. I have not been down much more than a post hole digger, but the dirt all looks the same everywhere I have put a fence post. I think I have a shallow spring just outside of the back yard fence. Our pasture stays wet forever after a rain. Even though it has not rained here for two full months and we have been living with the 100 degree days my grass is still green in the low area that leads to the creek. Most of my grass in that area is still green. I'm just looking for water for my gardens (2) and fruit trees.

why not a sand point well ?

Is it stuck, what a dump question. That’s basically how I did mine except I didn’t think to use a pressure washer. Mud pump would work better with the large pipe then maybe the pressure washer. I made it 27’ before all the water just disappeared. At 8’ I hit coral. I made a bit using steel electrical conduit as the shaft. I hooked it to my big electric impact. It was about 2’ thick. In the end it took me about 2 weeks also. That was 2013 and it runs perfectly. 1 hp Gould 27 gpm pump. Since you have a skid steer you could of used it to drive down s steel point.

the water comes out black,why?

I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.

Did you plug the 4inch strainer to keep dirt out

Probably would have been easier and safer to have pulled the plastic 4" dia pipe out of the ground and cut the bell end off???

What's the point of the 4" ?

Oh man, this was such a heartwarming video. I love your entire family participation! Thank you for sharing.

If you are going to hand drill do it in the valley center in a slight sloping ground, take two pieces of 2"×4" join them together with two bolts bore a round hole in the joint so when it is bolted around the pipe its tight enough to turn the pipe, use a belt as a shim if needed

In central Illinois (shameful state), I used a hand crank auger with extensions to go down about 20 feet (8inch diameter). I did the project in late summer when the water table was the lowest. It was crazy easy and did not take very much time.

So was it worth it? Versus hiring pro? Or using city water on the lese than 1 acre crops? What is the dollar per lbs goal again?

You do know that we saw that the auger was stuck even though you refused to acknowledge it or say anything right!?! 😂