well since I can't finish digging my well till I find a way to get all that
mud out I've decided to go start putting together the casing and the well pipe
that will attach to the pitcher pump and well the first thing I have to do on the
casing is to cut a bunch of slots in this casing in the bottom part of the
casing for feet to allow the water to come into this
casing inside this casing will be the smaller pipe that picks up the water
that trickles in through here this is four inch pipe what I'll have is an
eight inch hole which will leave two inches around it for me to fill in with
a pea gravel so here's what I've done I started at about six inches from the end
here I cap the bottom started at about six inches and went up four feet and I
drew lines all the way around it three and eight inches apart which leaves
roughly the same amount of space in between each three and eight inch
section right here here's what I've started doing
every 1/2 inch cutting slots using my sawzall with a hacksaw blade in it and
I'm going to do that at all three sections this section this section all
the way down to the six inch mark here all the way around and that will be
where the water seeps in at the very bottom of the well casing and like I
said I'll have gravel I think I'll go up since I started finding water at the 8
foot level I think I'll go up all the way near to the top of this with gravel
and then from there on up to the top of the hole I'll fill in with dirt
so I still have got a good bit of work to do I've actually decided to go rent a
thrash pump tonight and I called a rental place and if I rent it you know
just before they close then I have to have it back just before they close the
next day so that's 24 hours of rental so what I'll do is rent it get it back here
tonight get it all set up and ready to pump in first thing in the morning get
out here and see if I can't pump all that mud out of there
go down another 4-foot sink this casing fill it up with gravel and get as much
as I can done before I go to bring that pump back it's about a hour over there
to where I want to rent it this is the problem with living in the middle of
nowhere you have to go so far to get anything done or rent anything or buy
anything but it's worth it ok that's what I got so far see you ok
I got all the slots cut
I got my bunk mounted and threaded and I got my collar on there the collar is
going to fit down inside this pipe I'm getting there
I've got my foot valves and threaded I don't have this connected to the PVC
pipe yet because I'm not certain what length I'm going to need so I'm just
getting as much done as they possibly can
ahead of time and I've reached the end here so I think I'm fixing to go get my
trash pump trash pump brother that's a foot valve if anybody doesn't know what
that is this is it's actually goes like this it's at the bottom of the pickup
pipe this would be near the near the bottom of the casing near this end here
and it's a one way valve basically it allows water to come up this way that
doesn't allow the water to go back out of it once you get it in there and the
reason you need that is so you don't have to constantly prime this pump here
because without water in there there's not enough suction to pull it whatever
24 22 feet up that pipe without being primed so if you use a foot valve once
you finally get it primed and up to the pump the foot valve doesn't allow water
to drain back out so you can go away and come back a week later and pump that
handle and water will come out within a few strokes because the water will you
know stay up close to the bottom here okay nothing uh nothing new I want to
get that trash pump all I'll start them all
I just couldn't give up on this I've done so much work to get it down as far
as I've got it I decided to rent a trash pump and go ahead
it's working but it's real slow going
all right I am back down to the original 12 foot that I managed to get down to
first this thing it's not easier it's just making it doable it was not doable
before because the water in the hole when I would get a bike with a auger get
auger for the dirt by the time I got it through the water and up out of the hole
there was nothing left in it so I was able to suck all the mud out of the hole
with this I had to really I had to get my garden hose and add water and then I
took this and just kind of stirred it all up and took about an hour and I
finally got down to the bottom of my 12-foot hole and now I'm taking a few
bites with this and then sucking the water out with that and then going back
with the auger it's time consuming now if I get to that top of that handle
that'll be a full 16 foot and I sure do want to go 20 at least 20 foot or maybe
18 or 19 we'll see I mean there's a lot of water in there so we just had a huge
huge rainstorm so that might be you know I I want this to be able to pull water
out of it in the middle of the driest part of the summer so I'm going to go
down as deep as my 51 year old mussels can pull this thing up out of the ground
okay I'm down 16 foot that's as far as I can that's as far as I can go that's
pretty darn far when you're standing it up I got my pipe down in there with a
slits I cut now I'm going to take the gravel pea gravel and dump it around the
casing from the bottom of the well up to about the 8 foot level which is where I
before the rain that is originally where I hit the top of the water table so
theoretically I've got 8 foot of water down there and when I first started
digging this it had been long long time since we had rain and we've been under
drought for quite a long time so I'm pretty confident I'll have water even in
the driest part of the summer so all right I'm gonna start dumping this
gravel down there and I've got some place and and I've got this watery muddy
mixture clay and mud and sand that I've been pulling out so I think I can fill
this cavity that washed out I think I can use this to fill that cavity in so
I'm gonna take a little break drink some water and start pouring that gravel down
there okay I got my casing in they got the gravel in I got the cavity about
halfway filled in and well yonder where I ran my when I pumped this out a whole
bunch of mud came out and at the end of the 50 foot hose is a bunch of more dirt
I think I might be able to scrape that up and fill this in I got my pump ready
and we'll take another break and then slide that pump down in there and my
next video will be of me pulling out muddy looking water what do they say
when they strike oil there it is get you good better oh yeah chocolate water my
plants don't care what color it is I've got a whole lot of pumping to make it
clear but uh well if you could just go ahead and pump up some of that Texas tea
yippee okay like they get the hit