How To Drill A Shallow Well And Never Be Without Water

you go here, you go, it's not spinning, Madison, maybe I need to get on your shoulders, wondering maybe how I got in this position, let me take you back a little bit, there's poop in the

water

chamber, say real good, boy, hey Are you crazy? There is poop. in the

water

I saw a notice,

well

, first of both cefas, that was my chocolate milk and we are in

well

water, idiot, well, I have learned two important things from this first: I will be waiting for my Oscar nomination in the mail the second . The thing is, I

never

want to be without a well.

We currently have a deep well. I know you can't see it here, but trust me, it's here at our old house, even though we had public water and you would get them from time to time. boil water notices and it was really amazing when you saw it three days late it's just wonderful so anyway I'm going to dig a

shallow

well as an emergency well and that way we'll have it because I can feed this in case of emergency. This happens for maybe a few days, but after that, who knows, so I'll start dwelling in villages, I'll start digging my

shallow

well, and if I'm lucky, I'll find that chocolate milk aquifer over there and we'll see how. . that's the first thing is I'm going to find the perfect spot here on the other side of the garden to start digging.

I dug as much as I could with the post hole diggers and then it was time to move on to this. it's a hand auger and basically what it is is two shovels at the end and this will dig a six inch wide hole and it has a three inch, excuse me, three quarter inch long pipe attached with a handle on the top and once it goes down As far as I'm already hitting the water once you go down as far as you can go with your auger because this is a three quarter inch pipe. I have taken the liberty of going to the hardware store and buying some accessories that will help me lengthen. that is, three-quarter inch tubing and fittings.

I picked up several of these three quarter inch couplers and then I'm going to start with a four inch length of three quarter inch pipe. You can see where that connection is, where all three are. -A quarter inch pipe goes in, let's see if I can turn this manually because it's painted there, oh, go, go, come on, let's go okay, just screw them on and unscrew this tube, push down, push down as you go , did you know? you're doing it here, okay, now you have to pick it up as fast as you can, can you, you've got it, come on, pull, pull, come on, come on, let's get it, take it again, you get it there, go, look at that good work , look at all that.

You got out of there, okay, I'll throw it for you, here we go, my wrist hurts, oh, old computer injury my wrist hurts, there's a little mud, that's what I was trying to avoid, okay, Come here, girl, what did you eat? this morning turns that no, no, you go, right, tight, right, tight, left handed, loose, okay, go right, tight, there you go, you got it, you got it, keep going girl, yeah, it I see spinning, you got it, you're doing well, we were in The water is about five feet deep, but I don't want it to be that shallow.

We want it to go in well, so we are going to continue going down. Now there's a much easier way to make a shallow well and that's with a sand spike and basically what you do is it's the pipe and it has a spike on the front and you just hit it with a hammer basically, but my neighbors They have been very understanding with all the hits we have done. here between the front fence and the back fence like I've been robbed, I felt like I needed to show them some mercy, so I thought being the generous person that I am, I'll just put the burden on myself and dig this hole instead. to make those loud sounds but this is more work, you know, depending on what you consider work.

Fortunately for me, our water table is not that deep. I think maybe I was just making things easy, right? Bring me, oh, it's fresh ice cream, you want the fresh ice cream, turn and grab this, grab this, grab this, put that and then you have to come over here and grab this with that and then twist it, you're ready, oh there, go, watch your head here. pull it right, let me show you what's happening now, other than it's very hard to turn it before you pull it out, notice where this is in relation to my chin, okay, I have that space here, this is what's happening and this is what The last few digs have happened oh my gosh turn it when it comes out there we go oh lord it's okay I mean that auger is full of mud okay remember where it hit under my chin let's see what happens when I put it back down , so it's collapsing, I was up to here and I lost a foot, so at this point I've been digging and digging, it's kind of useless, I think that's as far as I'm going to go, I'm going to get this out. and let's move on, are we ready to use some power tools?

I have two

drill

s, one for each of you. Well, come here. What we're going to do is

drill

holes here and this is for the water below. well, and it's going to go into this big pipe because it's a four inch pipe that we're going to put in and inside the four inch pipe we're going to put in a one inch and a quarter inch pipe, let's start drilling some holes in this four inch pipe. tube, okay, just roll them up randomly like this, right here, you can go anywhere, okay, and just go like this, you're done, just keep your hands away from it, yeah, oh, at the bottom of the inch and a quarter pipe which is where the water will rise.

I'm going to place one of these. This is a foot valve and what this will help do is keep the pump primed and basically it will also give me a filter down there, but most importantly. It's going to hold the four inch pipe first, okay, watch out for the camera lady and then we'll put this in now, as far as the pump goes, it's got leather valves and it's like you want to get them wet to help. they settle nice and everything so one of the tips I saw was to just put it in a five gallon bucket of water and let it sit there for a while so that's what I did at the bottom of this it's so full of water okay it has a one and a quarter inch threaded end and what I have here is again a two thread slip coupler and I'm not going to make this permanent right now I just want to try this and see if it works so I'm going to put that like this and then I'm going to put that there, okay, there's another little trick, let me try this, some water, oh yeah, check it out, okay, Madison Chewie, if we try this well water. oh yeah, yeah, actually, that's good, that's good, it really sticks to your ribs, we're going to clean up our backyard, we're tearing out all the stones, so I went back there and took these stones off our walkway, so Anyway this is actually cheap and free, so that's what we're going to put around it.

Did you put it here? Set it here. Now you can see with this other glass of water that I chose not to drink this one. I wanted to use this one. For illustrative purposes you can see how the soil has settled, you know the sediment has settled on the bottom and the top is getting lighter and it will get lighter as it settles and that's what will happen within the well. Keep the streak going. live people oh oh oh anyway this morning I ran to the hardware store bought some quick creep and made this two by four shape and then I have this 3 8 inch rebar running down and into the bottom here and above and I've seen this done a few different ways, very similar to this, but I thought I'd put my own spin on it because it turns out I had some 2x12s left over from a project and I had some of the boards left over from when we made that fence, uh, no a long time ago, so I thought, hey, why doesn't he like you a little?

Oh, it's heavy and it's heavy. I mixed a little bit more of this Quick Creek fast setting cement and I love working with this stuff because it's not like that. Nobody has time to wait for cement to dry. Now I don't have a cement scoop or a dog food scoop, but what I do have is Kim's chicken feed scoop and I don't think she cares if you're working alone like I did today, this is a no brainer. joke when it says fast set it's fast set if you have to make a lot of batches you have to be careful not to let the first batch set before the second batch gets on top and you have that separation there I'm alone today because imagine this my daughters They would rather go to Girl Scouts than help Dad pour the concrete for the well today.

Heartbreaking, how was she? girl scouts, okay, how are you, okay, are you ready to help me, uh, take off the mold here, there you go, okay, it's hot anyway, there you go, good job, everyone will be warm, oh, He looks sweet yet charming, lovely, wait, that's a tough one, I'll tell you right now oh no, that's not good, what happened, can you run, bring me a hammer, thank you, beautiful, it's okay, it was pretty easy , I think this shallow wheel turned out amazing, as you can see in the corners? the aggregate is exposed and that's because when I made the form I didn't seal it because I just didn't care.

Kim actually loves this look, so the bubbles that are here don't take out all the air and are exposed. the addition is perfect for the look kim wants now we have a shallow emergency well and kim has an additional well to bring water to this side of the garden for the plants and I mean I think it's very refreshing oh I'll see. next time, oh where is my fatam scooter?