Highly entertained that this video starts with "Well." You are the height of comedy, sir.

@mattyb7736

7 ай бұрын

He could have said "well, well well..." which would be 3 holes in the ground 😂

Nice to see a tradesman take pride in his work .👍😎

**QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP** in every detail this man does. Cleans the sidewalk. It's freezing cold, but yet takes the time to do this very thoughtful job for the homeowner. God bless this man & crew. Hello to his dad, it's a testament to the GREAT JOB DAD did in rising & teaching him.

@smash7777-

6 ай бұрын

What! Did you see the place with that red shit everywhere? Lmao! 😂

Gonna have you boys come work up North where it really gets cold 😂

get electric heated socks for those cold feet. Add 25 cents per foot (no pun) It's enough to make an old plumber cry......:)

That red mud reminds me of what we got here in Mississippi.Sticky, Nasty gunk... We famous for our mud.

My feet are always cold in winter. Until I bought Baffin boots. Even ice fishing in slushy ice/water. These boots are amazing!

This sounds like a win-win situation. Yes, I do remember the video.

Wool socks are a mans best friend in the winter time and in extreme cold weather try Baffen Boots. But I don’t think you need something like that in your neck of the woods as that is what I wear in Wyoming in the winter time.

Get you some battery heated socks my brother loved hi Now days they have rechargeable batteries

Here's a man who enjoys his job...kudos to you!!!

Wyo-Ben, Wyoming bentonite! I live in Casper Wyo, home of 4 bentonite plants. Bentonite is a strange creature in the wild, slippery mud like you cannot imagine.

Wool socks, trust me. Cotton socks are the worst thing to wear in cold weather. They keep the moisture next to your skin and thus increase evaporative cooling. Thin wool sock inside a thick wool sock is the best combination ever for warmth and preventing blisters.

You think its cold where you are at, try doing it in Conn. Mass. or Rhode Island in the winter then you'll know cold when drilling a well. Dave D.

Get yourself a pair of heated socks, there brilliant, had them a few winters myself

I’ve learned so much watching your videos. I’m now dangerous. 😂

Disposable toe warmers from the hardware store are one of the best things I’ve ever discovered for cold toes in these northern Minnesota winters. They last for several hours and just throw them away when you’re done. Love your videos!

From michigan and I wear alpaca socks in the cold makes a world of difference on keeping feet warm

That’s a great idea to keep the old well as a emergency backup and for garden hose stuff thanks for sharing

That looks like Tennessee mud. The kind that stains clothes 😂

I agree, time for electric sox? Nice and warm.

You're right about drinking water in the winter...I know I drink a lot less when it's cooler. I also double up my socks if I know it's gonna be a cold one. Can't work with cold feet!

I just rememised after seeing your well drilling pipe and how many times we'd break a pipe and have to fish it out. This was oil drilling. Omg i remember we called klinkers, that grabbed the pipe to keep from. I don't know how many times we had to fish drilling pipe out. Oh let alone loosing the drill bit.

I enjoy the detailed explanations of what you are doing. Makes for an interesting view. Nice watching something I know nothing about. Usually searching videos for a solution. Could be a car, a Harley or changing my furnace. Today it was fixing kids noisy pc fan.

This video (IMO) is one of the most informative videos you've made! Appreciate how you explained when and why you put the 7 ft. metal pipe as the first piece of casing. Also appreciate you explaining the need and process for blowing 40 ft. of mud out of the casing before you start drilling. I'm surprised they don't make larger size containers of PVC primer and glue. Although maybe the smaller cans are best. You can just throw any partial can out at the end of a job, cause its's likely gunked up anyway.

Looks warm to me, I don’t even see snow. -40 was the coldest I have drilled in.

Amen about drinking water in the winter. I never thought of it that way !!!

4:06 it is really really windy. The trees must be frozen solid they are not moving at all, from the wind.

I have 2 wells on my property the front is above 90 feet and the back is 220’. My land is all flat and the wells are 500 feet apart even the driller did not understand the difference as neither of them followed what was normal for my area. But hey they are both great wells they just need new pumps as they are both over 30 years old. But they hardly get used any more as I’ve got city water now.

Come to my area you want winter and we are mud circulation drillers, unconsolidated wells thru clays wells made in sands/gravels. I have never ran a hammer we set screens, shale packers even open bottom screens if we drill into our rock. Deepest ever been 300' average here probably less than 150' and 4-5'' well will give 40-100gpm have flowing wells here 30 gpm 3' above ground from a screened 5''

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Good job boys

Talking about cold feet, have you tried to muck boots they are good to -120 ....see how you like them.

It is so strange seeing other states well regulations the part of Missouri i live in it is illegal to sale a well that is under i believe 100ft of death or is cast less than 80ft i don't keep up on regs but when I had my well drove the minimum for a new well was 250ft of death and cast to a minimum of 200ft.

You make good videos, interesting 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

I have known several men who swore by wearing nylons in the winter. Claimed it kept their feet and legs warm. Never tried it. Maybe I should have.

@firefly2472

7 ай бұрын

It helps, thick leggings are realy nice to.

It says something about a contractor when you try everything I know to do to save a well and in the end you drill a new well and the customer wants you to keep at it. You are a professional and it shows.

Great entertaining video

what do you do about all the crap in the yard after your done drilling???

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Did ya ever try oem power steering fluid in the rig? Most people sont know ya slop the glue on before the primer dries according to the directions

Can you install a radiator at the foot of the operator's station and tie it into the drill's coolant loop? A machine that big has to have some foot warming capability.

From a northerner. Cold feet? Wear a hat.

It is amazing how the drilling conditions can change in a few feet. We set up to drill a new well after we checked the neighbors well's. They were in the 70 - 90' range, easy day we thought. we drilled two locations on the lot down to 280', found nothing but sand. Had to pull off because we had no more rod. 2 day's of work for free.

Artic boots are rubber and supper thick liner,you can be in sub freezing weather all day and feet never get cold. Kinda expensive but will last a winter and they are steel toe. They are used in the oilfield up north,they will boost your winter productivity.

I am confused, do you put washed gravel around your perferations below your grout? Here they use frac sand or washed pea gravel then bentonite pellets to the top.

I have to laugh at you freezing in such warm temperatures! Lmao!! Let me guess, you’re wearing cheaper work boots with a steel toe and sole(shank). Pony up for some composite toe/shank. Instant warmer feet. Now if you came up to Toronto and work in 0*F temps, you can also try wearing plastic shopping bags over or between sock layers for even more warmth. Hope this helps!

I really enjoy your channel, very informative and you're a standup guy....

Did they use the old well inside house? Is well drilling common skill?

Wow, that looks like it was a lot of work. What happens with all that red mud on the yard? Do you have a contractor that the home owners can call to scrape it up?

I am still amazed that the casing makes such a good seal against the rock just by itself with no flexible stuff like packer...

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

There's alot of vertical weight pushing down on a 6" ring. The well water isn't under pressure, nor is outside surface water. Once the well fills they cancel each other out unless you drain the well down hard. But the rock chips and sediment help to form a nice plug seal around the base. If 300psi rig air doesn't blow out the seal, natural water pressure definitely won't. But it is amazing to me that it works.

Make a video when yal go back

Figure the old well didn’t make it to bedrock and the casing was just left in that mud at 80’?

Hi: Just use some rubber exhaust hose. They sell it in many sizes, from truck exhaust to glue pipe with a tarp around it. 20 to 40 below here at times to big deal and get better steel toe boots. Redwing is what we wear.

If you use blue glue it sets faster and set in the presence of WaTer. I have used it for years and love it. Hope this helps

put up with it for 15 years 2 water purity systems finally the country water got here. Ga red clay uses the water garden and animal's just saying

Did you start the business or was it a family business! Just curious on history of it I have been interested in getting into it just trying to figure out where to start. I have owned my own business for while very interested in well drilling

Happy New Year and great work as usual.

Great video. Much love. That piece of burl you stroked, thats an expensive piece of burl. Wood workers would kill for that.

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I said! I figured it would fetch a pretty penny

@Keith_Mikell

7 ай бұрын

@@h2omechanic that was a nice untouched piece.

Insulated pull on red wings that boot you can buy

Would love to learn more about the permit side of well drilling, do you always need a permit? If it’s just for irrigation or livestock?

I absolutely LOVE your videos especially being a well owner. Does all the red mud/clay settle into the ground and you can seed over it or does it need to be removed? And if so, who’s responsible for removal?

Hi just startd watchng since sevral homes we lookd to buy had wells and we wernt familiar with wells. That red mud is clay, right? How does the drill get power, thru the engine/hydrolic?

Must have a sand layer that was feeding the old well. Doubt you could video cam it due to mud. But I would bet the well has eroded

Philip, how do you keep the grout from going into the water down below at the bottom of the well and diluting with the water?

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

The casing blocks it from entering the well. But let's assume you mean the water around the outside of the casing. The ground hear soaked up all the water around the outer bore. In 15 minutes it went from full of water to around 80ft to water. The soil soaked it up. In other situations we would use the tremmy pipe. Only 20ft of Grout needed here, but they got over 80ft of Grout.

You're too much like me dude.

Thanks for the video. Could you keep the pvc glue/primer warm in the winter time? Also, how about battery powered heat Sox to keep your feet warm?

Love ya content brother, yes he sure could use some grass in that yard. I know in PA our composition is different but that sure is some sandy/clay kinda of soil. Sure don't think that's good for growing a garden. LOL

Was the original well an outlaw well? I've seen that in my area with wells that weren't constructed to the legal standards (insufficient casing length, casing not set in competent rock, etc...). Also we see old agricultural wells which are now being used for potable water service (agricultural wells do not require a permit here, but if you convert one it requires a permit and inspection)

You need to show others what you do when you get to the garage. You need to clean all the equipment you used and etc.

The connection between the bottom most casing and the bore hole can't be a perfectly water tight connection. How does the grout not flow by that connection and flow down into the uncased bore hole??

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

Exactly why drillers don't like Grout! We let rock chips and sediment to plug that area & Grout above it. The state requires Grout bc they believe it seals it, but we know it doesn't. The drill cuttings do the best job. Any driller will tell you this.

@markb.1259

7 ай бұрын

@h2omechanic Thank You!!!

heated socks?

I was watching one of your videos where you replaced a well and system for a vlogger and I was wondering why most of if not all of the well tanks and systems are outside. Up here they are inside the house. Is that because it is warmer down there or is that code?

Red water is iron?

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Have you ever found gold or silver in your drilling material? This video you are drilling through quartz

@crisprtalk6963

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, I would love to pan this stuff!!

Eek. Fracking in that mud would probably be horrific. Would you try? Or only if lined well below that soil type?

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

Fracking can only be done in solid rock formations. Unless you have double packers & zone fracking

Have you ever tried to drill a well through a coal mine?

A house built from Brick, is that unusual in Texas? P.S. The best Bentonite comes from Wyoming.

Hey Philip. Is that just copper based anti seize that is brushed on the pipe threads?

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

Basically yes

How much do you charge to replace the entire system? I POSSIBLY WANT TO get a mobile homes well redone.

@h2omechanic

7 ай бұрын

3-4k

12:45 Ain't that the truth. My old house was built in the 50's or 60's and there is a dug well on the property (in addition to a proper drilled well) that was piped into the house on 1" copper pipe with the pump in the basement. I've lifted the DIY cover (a square made from 4x4s and deck boards) off the well and it's basically an open pit lined with rocks. The water looks disgusting and I can only imagine how many animals must have fallen in and died over the years. It literally looks like someone was building one of those "crank wells" like you see in cartoons but stopped just as it met the surface. I would like to turn it into an actual crank well when I have some spare time, and a lot of rocks. I would never drink out of it though, given that it's less than 50' from the septic leach field.

Government is expencive.

You are cold, get wool.

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