Love it when Stan and Frankie do projects! Lots of learning ensues!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Live & learn 🙌

Frankie is a book of common- sense knowledge a treasure for sure.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Yep. He stays teaching us all 🙌

The "kids" remind me of friends of my youth--in Hawaii. Frankie is a treasure!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense, that’s where they lived before coming out here

Everybody needs a Frankie in their life and if you’re the Frankie God bless.

Stan, get ahold of Josh ( Stoney Ridge Farmer) He has solar powered pumps for his well. He'll be able to tell you the name of it. I give those kids real credit! They know it's going to be tough, but they're not giving up.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Bashir coincidence Joshua be up to the farm in two weeks

@charleswise5570

Жыл бұрын

@@Dirtmonkey Stan, I'll be looking forward to it! Cool dude!

I grew up using hand pumped well water for drinking. The pump we used had a much longer handle and was easy to pump once you had it primed. We pumped the water into a big white porcelain coated bucket and let it sit for an hour to let all the sand and grit settle out. Best tasting water in the world!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

I need to find one that has a longer handle. This one got it started but long-term I need a better well head

When you were pumping water, it was going back in the well hole. You should ensure no water, either now or when the pump is in use, ever goes back into the hole because it could contaminate the source. It is especially critical that when the green house is in use that no chemicals are EVER near the pump.

@woodyfpv5331

Жыл бұрын

I doubt these people will be using any chemicals in their greenhouse lol

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

They got it covered, no chemicals in use. In fact they’re working on regenerating the land from being sprayed with round up a year prior, that actually resulted in this gnarly invasive species thriving & taking over the prairie.

@Durrttyy

Жыл бұрын

The ground will continuously filter the water and I highly doubt these folks are anything but Organic.

@pcatful

Жыл бұрын

@@woodyfpv5331 True dat. There could be bacterial contamination. That's what check valves are for (AFAIK).

@shaneshonda

Жыл бұрын

@@Dirtmonkey theres no gwtting rid of round up in the soil

Frank, you got that roofer's card covers it all, great work and you are passing it on.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sweet he knew how to do this! Hard to find many people that still know the old school ways

So stan beleive it or not i engineered and made a well drilling rig out of a spining post hole digger 5 ft sections of 3/4 das pipe threaded a vise a hand crank cable winch and pulley and a old workout lifting machine. I made it 38 feet deep headed for 45. I hit water at 33. I sold the house. My neighbor was quoted 25k to pit a well in. I probably spent 200 bucks. Whats crazy was i was talking to a buddy who had a well drilling rig and my whole system was almost identical to there oil derrick system. He was super impressed. I also used the dousing rods. I just made some. Turns out my spot was the same spot my family tried in the 70s. They gave up at 20 feet.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

You got it! That is awesome

I made a fixture for a guy and wasnt sure what it was for! It was a cut off jackhammer bit,and he wanted some 3/8"cold roll plate welded onto it with a 1 1/2" pipe welded onto that! It was for driving a well pipe with an electric jack hammer! It cost him $75 to make including the welding! Pretty slick tool!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty neat 👊

@wirenut003

Жыл бұрын

I do that to set 10 foot ground rods 2 min job

@elliotboyer1041

Жыл бұрын

That’s my plan when I put my sand point in over here in wisconsin

Good work guys! I'm sure that was fun to do. Take care of Franky. He's a hard worker but also not a spring chicken anymore lol 😅

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

I consider Franky family. He will always be taken care of.

Frankie is awesome

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

True that.

You should have asked me I have everything you bought, when I tried to pound a well here in Clarissa ,MN, and it could only be pounded 3 FT and then Rock, solid rock, must have been a quarry here at one time, and they built homes on top of it, back in the day, now it all sits in the corner in the garage,Thats pretty cool him using a divining rod, there's quite a bit of water near your yurt.

Stan I have driven a good many sand point wells. For the last 15 years or so I just used a hydraulic fence post pounder on my skidsteer. Did my daughter's this April and it is 125' deep. I have found that the post pounder hits not only harder but sharper/quicker than you do by hand. I have had less trouble with the pipe and couplings stripping/breaking. Your not wiggling around like you do hand pounding. Stan Heller-Aller Deep Well Pumps are the best ones you can still buy new. They have a 9 inch stroke. They run around $1000 new but will last for decades and pump a lot more water per stroke. They are what all the Amish around here use. Sometimes you can find them used. Also old wind mill pumps can be found cheaper. You can still buy the leathers for them. Look up Amish wind mill/well repair services and you will find parts. There are several around Kolona Iowa. There are also good solar powered pumps for around $2K. I have one of those on a livestock tank that pumps several thousand gallons per day.

Everyone needs a Frankie 😻

thats my town!!!!!! lol good ole ace hardware

This is awesome! I think homesteading is the coolest thing. I hope to be able to do it eventually. Seems relaxing

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Oh it’s definitely hard work too, a good mix

The look I get from the unknowing is priceless when im out witching for water or utilities 😂

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

Hahah sounds about right

Love the videos

Ol franky is a beast power an knowledge wise .

The big sand point looks like an old Clayton Mark sand point. At one point in time they were considered the best in the industry for picture pumps and sand points.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Cool. Good to know. I had no clue what it was called.

Having a series or more information on these two kids would be awesome.

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

I’ve been convincing my daughter to make a channel, and she’s finally working on it. I’ll update you guys with where to find her when she gets her first video out 👍

I can smell the patchouli in this video

@blazinggazelle6957

Жыл бұрын

That's funny. I wonder if dad can smell it.

Older guy knows what’s up

here in greece we use brass rodes to find water

Two welding rods,brass and we used copper pipe as the handles. Found and drilled quite a few wells that produced more water than the houses and in some cases a few houses could ever used. We did find one person they did not work for. Finally someone walked up to him and slapped him on the shoulder and then the rods moved. No idea but we did many tests showing it working. One well they estimated would produce up to 30 gallons a minute.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

And you found all those with dowsing rods?

@glenemory8753

Жыл бұрын

@@Dirtmonkey yes, sir. My father tried to find out why they worked and in the process engaged professors from auburn but after showing the doing field test he never could get any further responses. We know that water and the metal react to magnetic fields but brass is non magnetic in nature. So why? We don’t know. We just know it works.

Thought about driving a well, you may have inspired me lol

We had the one with the large holes up north and the water wasent super clean. When we put in the fine hole screen one with the large point and solved all of our issues. You still can get them just easier to order them.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Nice

Just hand pounded a well point 25ft. Never again. 90* days, got it down, and nice cold water for the lawn.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Good work 🙌 The water is worth it

@viperlocc

11 ай бұрын

@Dirtmonkey definitely worth it.

Whenever we cant find a utility we use the dosing rods made out of anything metal that will bend we can find , never had them let us down yet! I was told by an old timer they work because the pipe in the ground causes a change in the magnetic field and that's what causes the rods to move 🤷‍♂️ idk but it works to find water in the ground and buried utilities!!!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we’ve use the dowsing rods to locate utilities as well. It’s amazing how it works.

I watched another utube video on sand point wells, and he put a ball value just below the pump, and he would close it when he got done pumping, so that the pump wouldn't lose it's prime.

the one coupling looks like its for electrical conduit, the other is a standard galvanized npt fitting.

Not only does that work for locating a well. We used it to find infloor heat pipes prior to drilling the concrete for a car lift installation. 👍

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

So fricken cool!!

@calfeggs

Жыл бұрын

Its a pseudo science, doesn't actually work. In a blind study they were unable to find water with any degree of accuracy using the rods.

@MORGAN2FARMS

Жыл бұрын

They use it in paranormal applications also lol it can be used for a lot more than I thought.

If you take the pitcher pump off and hook an air compressor up and blast air down the well it pushes the fines out into the sand and improves the efficiency of your well (developing it) I've poundsled many wells in Minnesota

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. That’s an awesome tip.

@pushpipe

Жыл бұрын

@Dirtmonkey you're welcome, I have lots more I can share as your project progresses. I will stay tuned

Yeah, dousing is definitely a real thing, a lot of people are convinced (without trying), its impossible, probably because it doesn't work for everyone, and it's not 100% reliable, my father who is now a 91 year old retired carpenter, swore by it, He doused the majority of wells for most of the native reservations in the interior of British Columbia, with an 85-90% accuracy, he used the original method of a willow branch forming a "Y", and could also tell you the depth within +or- 10', pretty good odds for something that for some people is impossible! lol!

You can not go over 25 feet on a shallow drive point well. Sandy soil is the best anything else is hit or miss. I used an electric jack hammer with a drive cap adapter that fits over the pipe and connects with the drive cap. 20 feet in 45mins to an hour. Been doing these for over 20 years. Rub the pipe with some grease and pour a concert slap around it will stop the pipe from moving when you pump it. Black flow preventer is key.

And then there was water. Put a peddle pump handle on it. Or offset sprocket and hook it up to a old bike and paddle it to pump.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Pretty cool ideas right there

Called witching sticks I worked for an old man plumber used to find water and sewer lines with

Interesting that you did this. I am in the process of putting a new one in. My original seems like the point silted in. That point he said you cant get, is $75 at homedepot, I just bought one. Very good point on driver couplings, nothing ive read talked of them. I am going with a single 20ft pipe.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Best of luck on your upcoming projects

Shoot. I just had to move my well because the addition made it too close to the house. It was 428 feet and worked great. I moved it 20' away, they drilled 650' down and still wasn't getting enough flow. Had to bring in the hydro frack truck to add another 3500 bucks onto the ordeal but we are getting 15gpm now so I guess it was worth it. Went from 3.5gpm to 15gpm by fracking.

@user-ix4dl1dy7q

Жыл бұрын

Should have left the well in the addition

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap that’s a deep well. Glad you’re getting good flow out of it.

Regular couplings are cast and will break. When I drove my sand point I broke 2 drive caps which were also cast. I then just drove it down using a drive coupling on the end and that worked just fine.

@petersmart1999

Жыл бұрын

You can just use the thread protectors,they are steel!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we found out the hard way that they’ll break

Some people also use Branch off of a willow tree

Stan take your excavator get a mounted plate tamper and push down wit excavator plate taper vibrating away it works wicked or jet with pressure washer set a casing and push it down as your jetting use 3” casing then put your sand point down inside casing drive a pipe or two You can still buy wind mills to pump all the time pumping into a tank and the pitcher pump she wants is about 700-1000 dollars it’s a complete different animal they also sell a well drill thing that uses a big half or thee quarter drill the slow turning Uber torquey drills and it has a rotary head for pumping water to flushing your hole I bought one and believe it or not I put in a 150 ft well that makes a lot of water

LEHMANS HARDWARE sell new pitcher style pumps designed for hand dug or drilled wells with more pressure

Stan I saw a video once it was a excavator driving pilings in sandy soil the head puonded and put frequency down to sand that liquidfied the sand and basically pushed strait in

I have an antique pitcher pump for decoration in my yard. The handle is about 5 times longer than yours

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

That’s what they need. Pretty sure one pump on one of those is like ten pumps on the smaller size

Come from a long line of well diggers. All hand dug. Never pounded a well in before.

You can use a forked peach limb the best water witch there is

We have 2 but we'll company said the are clogged. Also need 3 phase

Willow tree limbs will pinpoint water in the ground as well

Girl in the woods and bushradical KZread channels have videos of digging wells by hand.

That pump head is no good. Definitely need a longer handle for more leverage.

I need to drill a well but will use a solar pump if I do. Hand pump hmm. Aquatec 4000 more like it

Down here in Texas we call it Witching for water. Just wondering why you didn't use the skid steer to push the pipe down?

@Kf153

7 ай бұрын

I'm in Texas too and my grandfather found many water wells by water witching out on a ranch next to Big Bend back many, many years ago. It's amazing how it works.

I think I would have brought a skid loader with a post pounder on it. 20 minutes and done.

Will there be a part two?

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Friday will be another part

Im looking for a video this guy did awhile ago about some kind motorized lawn machine to help speed up trimming i run maintenance for a campground and the trimming takes almost all week theres got to be a faster way around i just cant remember the name of the machine any help ?

Some people don't believe in water witching but i do for they did my mother in laws well n hit main vein almost sunk the spring that the neighbors used

man put a liner in that bed

How many times did that well have to be pumped before clear water came through, or did that not happen?

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

A decent amount of times, hard to say exactly what. But eventually it happened 👍

hello stanley love the vids

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it!!

Dirt monkey;!!! Stan I think I know where you came up with the name for this KZread channel 🌱🐒🌻

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Dirt heals 😉👍

looks like your putting in a sand point well.

I can smell the weed from here

By the look of them the water was needed for a while.

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

Hence the excitement about water. And for all the city folk wondering about why they are “dirty”, they have been using a spring fed creek to bathe in for half of the summer. This is also how they have been washing their clothes, watering their plants, etc. This has been their reality, until now. Keep in mind not everyone gets the luxury of consuming water on command without having to work for it let alone knowing where it’s coming from. Another thing, didn’t your mamas ever teach you that dirt is good for you? Probably better than what’s in your own tap water even. ☕️

@ozdatman

Жыл бұрын

@@Dirtmonkey No town water here buddy, only spring and rain. I can't stand the taste of city water.

You aren't going to backfill that hole around the pipe? If so, why? Seems like that might be dangerous once that pallet rots out.

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

This is temporary, we are still adding a valve before winter so it works year round. At that point we will backfill / remove the pallets

Saturday night live 80s we here to pump.... uuuu up lol

I'm surprised, that you didn't use a mechanical power to drive the pipe into the earth? Plus, how did you know, how the water was down in the earth? That's a lot of work to use a manual pump. I've been at camp, when I was a teenager, where they had a manual pump. I know how much work it takes.

How do you know if you can do a sand point well and hit water at a certain depth? And not just keep driving pipe and not hit anything?

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

The rods lining up parallel to each other when passed over a water vein in the ground is an ancient technique to find water. And it worked!

A gas post driver would’ve helped with this

Witchcraft 5:16 lol

here to help

Glad we can’t smell thru the phone

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

My daughter would say “dirt doesn’t hurt, but the toxins in your deodorant pretending to be cleansing does” and I can’t argue there 😂👌

hi to matt ace in sandstone lol

@kenactofkindness4017

Жыл бұрын

2 blocks from me

Chicken feed lol.

Haha 5th comment living off grid is great!

@Dirtmonkey

Жыл бұрын

👊

she needs over 1000 watts of soar stop living likea nomad haha kidding

I could almost smell this video. Nasty.

@Dirtmonkey

11 ай бұрын

You have a cowboy hat on in your pic and you’re complaining about someone’s scent through a screen…go figure your priorities out 😂

Could have shown you a much better way to do this