welcome to Brad's project number 33 or 133 or something I'm fixing to drill my
own well by hand and the reason I'm doing this is the town I live in charges
more for sewage than they charge for water so if you water your flowers or
wash your car or hose your driveway off they charge you a crazy amount of sewage
even though you're not using the sewage so I've been researching a lot of
methods over the years of getting water shallow well and here's what I've come
up with to be the best way for me to access water this is a fencepost auger
it's 8 inches it adjusts from 6 to 8 inches it's made by a company called
Seymour and I've got 5 4-foot extensions here and the 4-foot that's on there that
should get me down 25 feet when I got some callers there too and if I don't
reach water in 25 feet I don't know what I'm going to do I'm gonna have to move
try another hole somewhere else because the pump the pitcher pump I have will
only pull water up from about 22 feet max so I've already started it here I'm
down about a foot I just wanted to try it out I did that yesterday but today I
got all my extensions and I fix them give a shot this may be a long video
it's a lot of work and I've got to put a casing in and pea gravel and more pipe
and foot valves and I bought a pitcher pump for 20 bucks that needs the
leathers replaced and a rebuild kits about 11 bucks from laymen's so I'll
have to order that so it's probably going to be a maybe a two-part
or 3-part anyway that's that's today's project see you okay I don't want to
jinx myself but uh I'm officially down four feet and uh god it's only taken me
ten minutes to go that far I'm going to add an extension and go
another four feet that's what I get out of here so far I've got plenty of holes
I can use that dirty in God it is he'll be in fact an old all right I put
another extension on it see if I can get another another four foot down there
okay
it's right at eight foot in about 45 minutes it's starting to get really hard
now I put another four foot extension on there keep going I'm a little hesitant
to go dump this dirt because if I don't hit water I'm going to have to have
something to fill this hole in otherwise all my dog will go up missing or a kid
okay I'm gonna take a break and put an extension on and get back to digging all
right I got a my next section on and guess what as I was a I don't know if
you can see there I don't know if you can see the reflection
the last shovelful I took out as water started seeping in so I'm assuming I'm
at the top of the water table which is good it was a eight-foot down I think
I'm going to go down another 8 foot see what happens and if the water replaces
itself quick enough all I just have me a 16 17 foot well oh okay
back to work well I've gone down about another foot and a half and what please
don't drop your phone my god that would be terrible and it's getting harder and
harder to get a full shovel full up this is what I'm pulling out it's a sandy mud
muddy sand and as I'm drawing this thing up the largest portion of it has fallen
back down the hall hole so I don't know what I'm going to do I may have to make
some kind of bucket well I was sitting here kitchen my breath and my wife
yelled out the door that she wanted me to knock off clean up and come take her
to eat Mexican food and of course me being the man of the house
I said I'm right in the middle of something and I'll take you to eat
Mexican food when I'm good and ready so it turns out I'm good and ready so looks
like I'll be Mexican food here in a few minutes anyway
hasta manana man it's another day where do I start
last night we had torrential absolutely torrential rains tornadoes touched down
all around us I don't even know how many inches we had well I had gotten this
hole down to about 11 and a half foot not quite 12 foot
I covered it up with this laid the wheelbarrow over the top of it
and then the rains came and let me show you what's happened here and I don't
know what to do it has completely filled up and washed a huge cavity about two
feet down below the surface of where I am the rainwater has washed a gigantic
cavity out from underneath this initial hole here and I got I'm just scratching
my head wondering out you know I've bailed I've got this bucket here I've
bailed and bailed and bailed and I'm not even making a dent in this it's about
half mud half water and I've called the rental place let's see how much rent in
the trash pump would be that's a hundred and three bucks a day option two is to
button this up and come back in August when it's a driest and try to finish
this in August so if I go ahead and if you see this then I decided not to
continue and just wait till August to dig this out all over again I am at my
the limit I set for how much money I wanted to spend on this and I'm a little
over 200 bucks right now and I rent a trash pump would put me at another
hundred dollars 103 I'm not I'm not sure what I'm going to do I'm going to mess
with this a little bit longer I think what I'm going to do is turn the light
on this iPhone and hold my iPhone down this hole so I can record or at least
get a look and see how big that cavity is down here and I may not even I mean
you know standing on this may not even be a good idea of that cavity is big
enough well I'm going to shut this off and turn the phone the light on the
phone and hold the phone down that hole and God help me if I drop this phone
down there
well I've decided to put this project on hold for a little bit there's not much I
can do unless I rent a trash pump or put this off until the dry season you know
end of July August I've got a bunch of other things I need to get done around
here so I can't afford to waste time on this well when it should be going
quicker I've got to get that any Christ up in the driveway and take some parts
of it see if I can't figure out why I don't have any turbo pressure and I
still got to make a pad for putting my firewood down on behind my workshop sold
my big-screen TV I need to get my wood stove in here or the TV was and hook
that up and get the piper in and got a zillion things I got to get done and I'm
getting a little bit overwhelmed being a truck driver and having a limited amount
of time home it's just you got to get so much done when you are home and then
when you're on the road all you can do is think about the things you didn't get
done oh well one day at a time I'm going to go ahead and put this up if anybody
has any suggestions on this well I sure appreciate whatever input you have
already see you