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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. I Decided to Perform a Pump test on the Well Before & After the Fracking process to see how much the flow of water improved.
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That well needs a pump with less GPM, like a Grundfos, with low water cutoff to save keep the pump from burning up. Also needs more (or less) bladder tank capacity. They installed a pump based on what they wanted and not what the well could produce. Another good video-Thank You.
Glad I happened across your channel. I live out in the country in central Ohio (Granville Ohio). Hilly terrain. 60 acre ranch. Due to winter, and the age of this setup (around 1969 I think), there is a 7' x 10' concrete pit 10' deep, with the well head and three large expansion tanks down there. pipes run from there to the house, pool, up the hill to stables (1500', 80' lift). We have a 125' 6" well with a 2HP pump. I run the switch at 70/90 due to the need for the lift to the stables. The only reason our well is that deep is the upper aquifer has a lot of iron and the deeper one is cleaner. When we have a dry spring and might be running sprinklers, or filling a pool we run 30 GPM without over drawing the well. The static water level ranges from 10' to running artesian, overflowing up to 30 GPM or more. So there is a large drain down there, running further down the hill. So, during serious drought I know the well can produce 20 to 30 GPM, and in a wet spring more like 40 - 50 (we can have multiple hoses wide open, drawing say 20 GPM and well still overflowing 20+. First few videos of yours I watched I was stunned. 400' wells? happy with 6 GPM? Damn, those must be expensive wells...
I would still have the fire company come and fill the swimming pool to get them started. Great job Phillip.
@howardtravels
Жыл бұрын
Most Fire Departments will not do that anymore. The equipment cost, wear tear and puts firefighters and equipment out of service also..
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@howardtravels The water will also quite green, if they're bringing city water, and needs lots of shock and filtering before it gets nice and clear. You can add lots of potassium permanganate and backflush the sand filter often to help clear things up.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
A fire truck might have 1500 gallons, a tanker truck can bring more depending on how many axles etc, but an average 20x40' pool with one deep end holds 20,000 gallons. That's a lot of trips with water. Even a 5 axle semi truck with a day cab could maybe bring 8000 per load, without going over 80,000 gross weight limit. The tankers can deliver 9000 gallons of gasoline, but water is heavier.
@4sl648
16 күн бұрын
We used to do the filling in my fire dept maybe 30 years ago, usually 1000 or 2000 gal only to let the pool compant set the liner. Pumpers ran steel tanks and often the water was rusty, esp in a quiet dept. Owners were not happy.
I wish you could help me with mine. After watching you I would sure trust you fix my well. Not sure where yall are at.
Hey, another great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your work. I know that orange you guys must attend State auctions that's the same color. Our equipment is for our State equipment that we can buy at auction day. Thank you for sharing.
Love the details in the numbers. Thanks for showing the process!
I actually cited some of your videos on a college paper on well water systems. You are such a wealth information! TYSM!!
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
That's Awesome!
My daddy one time had a well that was shallow well you know it was like 150 ft I think you're 200 now they've been 200 but what he done he took his 30-06 and fired it in that well three times and it started producing more water I guess the shock of it must have cleared it out
Exciting video..., Replace that wore out "Iron Duke" with a hp Small block V8 or Big Block "Goin thru" the gears should Blow the veins clean out in a min or 2.....
@marshfield01
17 күн бұрын
v8 sounds great till you turn your packer into a 1500psi water rocket or start blowing lines. Iron duke is idiot proof and easier on equipment, more reliable too.
i can hear it!
New subscriber I've been in construction my whole life and this is absolutely the new best content creator
Where I live in Ohio, we have trucks that will haul pool water to your swimming pool. Don't know the cost of that though. Our well of 80 feet does about 8 gallons a minute, but if we draw too much, the water will turn grey. It happened a couple of times over 30 + years. You really know your business very well. No pun intended
After filling that swimming pool, the well veins will be cleaned out even more, and have even more capacity? I believe wells increase the output the older they get? Great video!
I always like your informative videos and your presentation and wish you were closer to this area Thanks
So much Smart & efficient technology & Experienced execution here !! ....Pressure Hydro-Frac gets Results to make everyone Happy....
So, do I understand that your fracking method forces water from an above ground tank into the well and its feeder veins, thus opening the veins for better water flow into the well? If so, that would be similar to a medical procedure for removing plaque from arteries so a heart can work more efficiently? Great video
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
I guess that's the same thing on a different scale.
@johnkanaly1242
18 күн бұрын
👍😊
I had this done to my well, and i am happy that i did.
Having a large addition put on and the well was too close to the addition for the county so they told me I had to move it. So driller comes out, drills 650', snaps 3 carbide bits (lots of granite) and only getting 5 gpm. I need more than that because I have already been through this with my other well for irrigation purposes. Need 7 gpm minimum. Driller said the best bet is to get it fracked. uggg. My old well was only 428' deep, puts out around 15gpm and its literally 20' away from the new well but the new well is also about 15' higher on the top of the hill. The driller is a customer of mine, good people and they have been in the business for a long time so I trust them. Just hope it works, this has gotten to be one expensive well! He is charging me $3500 to frack it now. Would be a whole lot more to do it later apparently.
Thank you for posting your video and testing! I will be doing this for seeing if we can recover a high mountain deep well (220' deep).
Great job, I think the filling of the swimming pool will be a great test for that well. A well is a nonlinear function. Meaning 1 inch above head there is zero water flow. And 1 inch above the bottom of the well, the flow rate could be three times the flow rate that was given. ❤ your channel. Outstanding job of explaining what you were doing.
Very interesting! And good job with the narration and camera work and editing the result. Glad I found this channel!
I love your fracking videos. I wish I could find someone around me that can frack a well. I've called numerous companies and none of them do it or know someone that does. I have 2 wells paired together, 1 produces 1/10th gallon per minute, the other is 2/10ths. Combined, my wells produce half of what that well produced before fracking...
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
It's a 250k setup that we use a dozen times a year. Hard to justify that cost wise. But for me, as a driller, it's a tool that necessary for 1 in 50 wells. It saves the day & cheaper than 2-3 other wells. Most commercial Fracking companies will travel 5-8 hours but charge alot more . With a 97% success rate and you having 2 wells, id research Fracking companies that offer traveling from far away. May cost you 10k, but worth it in the end.
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
If your well has rock crevises that tight , you could probably frack it with a pressure washer pump. Just need a way to seal the casing in an area that is securely grouted in a way you can pump through , and in a way that will contain the pressure. Im pretty sure he doesn't have a low enough gear to even begin to track your wells.
This was supper cool to see!
i would be in the $1800 range up to the excavator. Crane would take it up to $2500. nice work man!
Wow at 864 per day isn't too much for a large house. My boat has two (for redundancy for ocean crossings) 1800 gallons per day watermakers (75/hr or 1.25/min) on it with 900 gallon fresh water tank. It does draw just under 3KW when running power wise, so we do have to keep a generator running during the production. Great job on adding capacity to the well! 🤠👍
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
Not too much? I'm on city water at my house (even though out in the county, there's some exteneded lines). The monthly bill is usually 3000 gallons. Once a year maybe 4000 if washing a lot of stuff like bedding. That's 2 people on average 100 gallons a day. I did have one bill that was 9000 gallons a few years ago, that was from one toilet flapper valve that had a slow leak. A 'normal' house shouldn't need 30,000 gallons a month unless you're doing a lot of irrigation, or have farm animals etc. That can easily consume 10x what just the inside house stuff uses. Just one horse on a warm day can need a minimum of 40 gallons a day just for drinking water. Then you have to add in the evaporative losses from whatever water trough you use for animals to drink from, spillage etc.
@Chris_In_Texas
9 ай бұрын
@@brnmcc01 We do run about 25K-30K at the house, but are irrigating with the 110F days during the summer. However during the winter 3K or so is our normal as well. I was just mentioning that I can produce 1800 gallons per day on my boat of fresh water from seawater, and have a 900 gallon fresh water tank in the boat. As an example my pressure washer is 4GPM when running, now I don't run it for hours on end, but will go an hour or so at a time. Not sure how much reserve is in that well before it start to run dry.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@Chris_In_Texas Yup, 10x is what I figured for a ballpark guesstimate for summer irrigation, things like that. I was pretty close for a SWAG! (scientific wild assed guess) :)
@Chris_In_Texas
9 ай бұрын
@@brnmcc01 when we were on city sewer we always used minimum water during February as that is the month they used to figure sewage price for the year. Now we have aerobic septic system now so it doesn’t matter much. 👍
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@Chris_In_Texas Here they take the average of all the winter months for the summer sewer usage. I guess that's fair but can't cheat the system a bit by using as little water as possible for 28(29 in leap year) days 👍
I’d like to see the bottom of a well with your camera please!
Thats a Win Win!
You fellas Rock = SOUTH AUSTRALIA
One problem with hydrofracking is the possibility of breaking into a natural gas pocket of an area of bad water that could cause some major problems with the well and the surrounding area. That has been shown in the past when fracking had been performed in other areas. Depending on the area and what is down there the risk can be not there or if there problems could result.
@h2omechanic
10 ай бұрын
Your 100% correct. Just not in my area.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@h2omechanic In West Virginia there's a lot of brine formations, in fact in Nitro, WV there was a lot of chemical companies that set up shop in that area and also south of Wheeling, because of the good brine wells. They used the brine to produce sodium hydroxide, which is the base chemical used for many other industrial processes. In the old days, they would actually get pissed off if they hit natural gas or oil, they would cap that well, and start another drill, because they were interested in the brine. Which leads to my question, have you ever had a well after fracking that suddenly turned salty? Or maybe your area is far enough away from the Brine formations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Awesome job !
Wow! how cool!
Love y’all got the preferred pump hats on!!!
Im currently getting 40gpm on my well and the static level hasn't dropped since 1960 when it was drilled, this is in Arizona!
@scottmeek920
10 ай бұрын
You are lucky we are in New River Az. And our static water level has dropped 80 ft and is now at the bottom of the pump. Can't find anyone to extend the depth just want to drill a whole new well at 45.00 a ft plus pipe casing and pump. Now having to haul water
@billveek9518
10 ай бұрын
@@scottmeek920 crazy but I own land just north of you off Table Mesa Road, my well that I was referring to is in Young AZ
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@scottmeek920 How deep is the well? It's pretty hard to drill an existing well deeper, have to know exactly what type and size of drill bit was used, was it a used bit or a new bit. The problem with trying to drill thru an existing hole is the bit can jam and break off the drill string. Also it's difficult to get the drill precisely lined up with the existing hole. It can actually be less total work to just drill a new hole. 400' would only be roughly $27,000 that's not too bad. Figure I pay roughly $65 a month for city water at 3000 gallons per month average. Yes that 27000 would be 34 years worth of water for me, but, that's very minimal water use, since I don't need to irrigate anything living on a large lot in the midwest. In Arizona whatever you don't irrigate will be dead. And in a hot climate you'll be taking more showers and drinking more water, so 3000 gallons a month might be enough for only a single person. I can make do with 3000 gallon a month here with 2 people in the house, it's just me and the wife here. If you were at like 9000 gallons a month then the payback period would be only 11.5 years, and city water in Arizona even if you could get it I'm sure is much more than the rates here.
Crazy how people have hardly any water. Apparently I’m lucky where I live. 11 feet down is water table with course gravel and another 30 feet to bedrock. Put in a 2 inch sandpoint 25 feet down and a 1 horse sprinkler pump. 60 gallons a minute. It ran for 5 days straight because I forgot I turned it off once. Still was at 60 gpm. And yea I had a mud hole!
I moved into a house by myself and the well was 227 feet and produced 1 gallon of water an HOUR. 24 gallons a day. They built the house over the well. I lived like this for about 15 years before I drilled and fracked another well. I live in an area that has problems with water.
@crabmansteve6844
Жыл бұрын
I live rural myself, but luckily in Central Georgia, US, we can drill 45-60ft and have bountiful clear water here almost anywhere.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
Ouch! 24 gallons a day, thats not enough for even a single person. I use 20 gallons a day just myself to take one shower a day, and flush a toilet a couple times. One load of laundry is over 20 gallons easy. That well was only enough for cooking, washing dishes, and drinking water. Forget washing your car with a 24 gallon a day well, that's not happening.
Curious as to who built the packer you are using. I ram down hole tools for Baker Hughes for 10 years and it looks very similar to ones that I ran while we were fracking deep wells. Also curious as to how you are inflating it as we used to just drop a ball down the tubing and pressure up the packer to inflate it. Well designed frac truck I must say. The design is essentially what most major stimulation companies have been using since the end of WW2. My dad stated in the patch with BJ Services, which later became Eskimo and then Dresser Titan. He was a frac crew supervisor for years back then. They used to use Merlin engines on frac trucks when they first built them as they has thousands of them left as surplus after the war. Great video.
@SOU6900
8 ай бұрын
From what I've seen in his videos they use hydraulic oil to inflate it.
17:45 that is not just a trickle sir😂😂
You're doing well fracking. It's very interesting work. You do a great job explaining what's going on in the process. * Are you actually fracturing rock to allow for better water flow? * Or are you basically back-flushing (at high pressure), the seams and cracks that already exist?
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
Flushing out the Water seams that already exist. You can't truly fracture rock.
@nonofyourbusiness7631
9 ай бұрын
Not with 1000psi lol we frac at over 10000psi up to 14000 to break formation when fracking oil and gas
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@h2omechanic For oil well, yes you can they set special high explosive charges at the exact depths and the supersonic shock waves fracture the rock. Works best in soft brittle rock like shale formations. What the oil companies refer to as "tight formations". The Marcellus shale formation is great for fracking, and produces lots of natural gas as well as oil.
Love your content. Currently live in house with municipal water. Building a second home in Vermont which will need a well. Learning a lot about wells through your channel. 2 questions how long usually does a successful franking last before gpm might drop. Does the weight of the water keep the well from just over filling and pour out of the well head ? I didn't have a clue about wells before I found your channel. Thanks
@earlestes8649
3 ай бұрын
We have some wells in our county that runs out the top of the casing, called artesian wells. It’s a problem when that happens
Your videos makes you money because we THINK as well owners we can do what U do,,,,,,,,, nope we can't and make our problems worse. But we love to learn.
Brilliant
Nice job buddy
Why did the bladder tank empty if no one was in the house? A check valve is between the well and house. Is the water being released coming back from the house?
Good information man thanks
Well done brother well done. How can we open up some veins without using heavy machinery? And does it open up naturally if like earthquake occurs or old age of well?
Great Video, Looking for a company in Oklahoma that can do the same thing.
Good job!
❤❤❤ REALLY NEED HELP! Have well / point up at cabin brand new. Pump will pump up water get some pressure but never reach shut off level. And water from nearest sink doesn't have pressure behind it. What do you believe is wrong?? Everything is new!
@johnjake9496
Жыл бұрын
Thank you in advance anything will help at this point. Brand new piping going down new jet backer new pump new tank. Everything. Be headed up tomorrow to work on it. Thank you for any ideas.
Would you name the equipments you are suing please
Awesome
What’s the point of a frost free hydrant right next to a well elbow that exits above ground without using a pit less adapter… must not freeze in that area…?
Does fracking ruin the aquifer for people having wells around it
Question: Do you put a check valve on the bottom end of your casing? Is the screen that's on the end of the casing set in a Rock or Sand Formation? When you Frack (pressurizing below your Packer), are you fracking the screen area or the check valve end area?
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
Fracking will only work on a creviced rock formation. Wells with casing big enough for submersible pumps do not have check valves on the casing, Only perferations or screen in the casing.
Excellent videos and content, kudos for your work ethic and attention to detail. Very informative! Question: when hydro fracing, how do you determine the depth to set your packer? What influences the depth determination? Thanks & keep up the good work. 😊
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
We use a camera to inspect the bore hole. Need to find a smooth area. Also we look for possible veins to frack (above & below) the more we know about the wells construction, the safer we can be while Fracking
Drop your packer below 137’ and really open that puppy up
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.
I had a 1/2 gallon per minute well before I had mine fracked. We had to schedule showers (boat showers, no standing their enjoying the water running over you), laundry, even doing the dishes. Yes, you can live with it, but it really sucks.
@clintoncrawford6231
17 күн бұрын
How much did it produce after fracking?
@steveo7006
17 күн бұрын
@@clintoncrawford6231 8 GPM. Like in the video, it sounded like a waterfall pouring into the well. All the cracking was above 100 feet in a 300 foot well.
Question, what happens when the home owner is not home for a long time. What happens to the well with the flow of water into the well. Does the PSI of the water volume keep the water from filling the well to the point it will over flow out the well bore? Ore does the water volume PSI keep the vain from filling the well past a certain level? This was very informative. ✌👍
@crabmansteve6844
Жыл бұрын
It reaches equilibrium static pressure and stops rising.
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
If it's a full artisian we'll it will flow out. Pretty rare
Cool.
Are you driving a right hand drive vehicle?
Have you guys hired Eric from the Matts offroad recovery crew? 😅😂
Are all your vehicles right hand drive ? Of is it your camera that inverts the picture ????
is this a single packer or a double pack frack
Really interesting. For comparison, my mains water supply in England does about 50 litres/min which is about 11.1 Imperial gal/min which is about 13.9 US gal/min. And my supply is exceptionally high pressure at 7 bar (sorry, can't do a psi in my head on that). Seems like, in comparison, getting 2.7 gal/min out of a personal well seems pretty good. But I assume people on wells have storage tanks in the house to even out flow for baths and stuff? Or does the well have enough buffer to carry short periods of very high demand?
@kevinroberts781
Жыл бұрын
No tanks. The well itself will hold enough for high demand times.
@tjwatts100
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinroberts781 Thank you 👍
@houseman2414
Жыл бұрын
We all have tanks (compressing air to store energy for pressure), but it's about duty cycle on the well. A very large tank might only move 40 gallons or so. The commercial equivalent is a water tower. Without the pressure tank, a typical well (runs at only one speed) would constantly click on and off and quickly burn up. If we run a bunch of hoses full tilt or something, the well is going to spend about half the time running. It's not a large buffer like a rainwater capture system.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
7 bar is 102 psi. That's too high for residential use, unless you have a pressure regulator. Standard here is roughly 75 psi for fire sprinkler systems, or 50 psi for bath and sink fixtures. That works out to a little over 5 bar pressure which is more reasonable.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
@@houseman2414 Yup, water towers around where I live (not very high density) typically have about 3 pumps. One 5 gallon per minute pump which is built for very long duty cycles. A 10-15 gpm medium duty pump. And an 'emergency' 50 gallon per minute pump. During the day if needed only the small 5 gpm pump runs almost continously. At night, depending on the days water usage, the larger pump will kick on when the electricity rates are lower. During emergencies like if there was a water main break or a large fire somewhere, the 50 gpm pump will be started remotely. Yes that 50 gpm pump will run the well dry eventually, but it's turned off as soon as possible, then the later at night when the wells have recovered and the off peak electricity rates, they will refill the water tower back to full at that time slowly overnight. The key is matching the demand to the right size of pump, and only running the larger pumps at night when electricity is the cheapest.
13:21 are you talking in the third person?
What kind of equipment using for pump test
My neighbor fracked his 160’ well that blew the bottom out of the other neighbors well and dirtied and dried up my well in six months.
@owendodman3037
9 ай бұрын
It has its time and place, generally not for groups of wells. I wonder what would happen if you fracked all 3 wells, but I think it would be hard to keep all 3 full and pressurized
Interesting. I'm thinking that if one set the packer at 90ft down like you did and did what you did and then moved the packer down some amount and repeated this 2, 3, or so times you may have been able to open it up more at other depths. It would be informative to know the success rate and how often it is not successful.
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.
Have you considered just wearing a cam or putting the cam on the equipment and just post life of well drilling and well fracking or pump installing videos?
youre the goat
How long does fracking usually last before it needs to be done again,, estimated?
Is it safe to say a well will produce X amount of water over a 24 hour time period when performing the testing method you used which only accounts for the amount that well produced in a 1/2 hour time period? My guess is you know this due to past experiences. Please elaborate when time allows. Thanks
I’m doing good if I get 6 gal per hour. That’s why everyone has a large galvanized water tank
Is this an open hole completion in a limestone formation? Do you ever use any propent? Have you every used an acid frack on limestone?
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
My region is all granite.
Nice work, sir! I'm just wondering if they'd be better off by putting in another well anyway since they seem to have a large consumption of water in that household with a swimming pool and all?
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
That's the next step if this well can't keep up. But we had to frack this first, before introducing another hole. 2 wells & youll risk fracking 1 into the other. I think they be fine for now.
@billmonroe8826
Жыл бұрын
@@h2omechanic How far apart would they have to be to prevent fracking 1 into the other?
1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, 100 feet. :)
As Always a very informative and educational video! Get rid of that "Made in China" pressure gauge LOL
Do you add franking sand to keep the formation open??
@joeycad
5 ай бұрын
He's not applying enough pressure to create new fractures by actually compressing the rock. He's just widening crevises near the well to increase short term flow.
Why don't you use #screen #Casing
is your steering wheel on the right side?
@iconoclad
Жыл бұрын
Mirror image from phone front camera.
What would the cost difference be between a new well and fracking it
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
A new well is 4 to 5 times more
Where did you purchase your well camera/ cable reel system from??
HAHA I have that same Premier hat
Hydro Fracking has been "COMPLETELY BANNED" in Oklahoma. The Oil Industry was literally creating Earthquakes with their Fracking. So our state government, banned all forms of Hydro Fracking.
@dsddownsouthdiggers1323
6 ай бұрын
No! It hasn’t been banned! Water well and oil wells are separate! And You’re thinking of acid fracking. But even in the oil industry acid fracking hasn’t been completely banned. They have shut disposal wells.
@JeffreyStrader
6 ай бұрын
No, the state banned the fracking used by Oil Well Drillers. It was proven they were the cause of all the earth quakes we were having here. The largest earthquake known to be induced by hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma was a M3.6 earthquakes in 2019.
@JeffreyStrader
6 ай бұрын
For quake-prone parts of Oklahoma, the state ordered what is essentially a 40 percent reduction in injection of the saltwater that scientists generally blame for the massive increase in earthquakes. This year, before the new rules went into effect on May 28, Oklahoma averaged 2.3 quakes a day. Since then the average dropped to 1.3 a day, based on AP’s analysis of U.S. Geological Survey data of earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or larger. But some of those fewer post-regulatory quakes have been large and damaging.
How do you rectify this?
Man, I thought my well was weak at 14 gpm. .6 is less than a piss stream. If I had that little flow I think I'd get a cistern and a pump that flows less than .6 gpm and let it run longer duty cycles. I talked to an old timer who ssid they used to drop dynamite down the well to frack them.
@brnmcc01
9 ай бұрын
Yup, but now oil companies used special shaped charges that have a high brisance (higher shock velocity, lower power) to shatter the rock. The key is getting a good fit between the explosive and the rock formation. Sort of like how a shaped charge used to cut a steel beam during controlled demolition needs a precise standoff distance. Perhaps a standard stick of dynamite is the right diameter for a 3" well, or was close enough to work.
Sounds like a toilet filling up!
Wonder if a well 75 ft deep is worth fracking?
@h2omechanic
11 ай бұрын
No. I only frack wells over 250ft
Had our well hydrofracked. After the well yield test our water from the tap is cloudy with tiny air bubbles. It clears up right away. This didn’t happen right after the fracking. What could have caused this?It’s been three days now since the test and water still has them. The fracking was successful. Went from 1.5 gpm to 4.
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
Sediment plugs up the veins & fracking blows out all that Sediment. Give it a few weeks of normal use and the water will become clear eventually. You may want to look into a bigger Sediment filter. Google Big Blue Inline water filter,20"x4" & you can buy 1micron or 5 micron string woven elements to help control your Sediment issues The bigger filter will allow more water flow/Pressure than a small residential filter. Just don't use a carbon element. But it'll clear up in time.
@Kathleen-wf1jr
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! The cloudiness starts at bottom of glass floats to top and is gone in about 10 sec then the H20 is crystal clear with no sediment settled at bottom. Will wait awhile and see.
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
@Kathleen-wf1jr they might have had air in the lines when they fracked it, it'll return to normal in time.
What are of the country do you work.
Where are you located ild like to have this done to mine. Or get a referral if you are not local if you have one
Your well pipe pulling to design send me i am also bore work
What is your location :)
Did you not call dad and the crew on what colors to wear 💁♂️🤣 gray it looks and you look red/maroon😉😂
is that pvc pipe? how many gpm do you get in 3rd gear???? i'm used to 26 bpm at 4500 psi lol
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
We estimate 3rd gear can flow 30-35 gpm by how fast it can draw down the 550gal tank. But that's relitive to the pressure we see during the process & how open the veins become
Black Widow spiders. yuck
What is the flow rate during Fracking?
How long is this racking good for?
@h2omechanic
Жыл бұрын
About 15 years
I don't understand why you wouldn't show up with a service truck. $125 per hour? 8 hour minimum?
What state is he in?
@OuryLN
22 күн бұрын
Confusion?
@jimw7ry
12 күн бұрын
The Yuutube creator is in Virginia. NE part of the US. Did you not see his license plate?
Your not in ny are you ?
@h2omechanic
11 ай бұрын
Unfortunately no. 8 hours south
@durock0011
11 ай бұрын
@@h2omechanic damn I’ve had a day from hell today my 300ft well has pretty much slowed to nothing. It’s an old well I think but i think im going to try having it hydrofracked
@durock0011
11 ай бұрын
@@h2omechanic how often does it not work
@durock0011
11 ай бұрын
Also a round about avg cost
@durock0011
11 ай бұрын
Great videos a lot of info and thank you for your time