Did this as a kid growing up because my parents hand dug a water well and it was an 8x8 hole that we dug to about 125ft. Took dirt out by riggings and rope with 5 gallon buckets. It took several years to get it done,but we did. Lots of fun.

My best friend has built his entire home off grid no power just some battery power tools, so inspiring to see it. Just unbelievable the hard work that goes into this. We have a property next to him we’re building on we hope to make it our permanent home one day. For now it’s a place to go if we can not stay here anymore. My mom will be on a lot right next to ours we have a trailer there but did get electric on one lot no way to get it elsewhere costs would be more then a mansion an defeat the point of building off grid. Thanks for all you do I just had my 17 year old watch a bunch of your videos he has the same thought process on many things and has become more an more like myself. Unable to eat meats unlike many people I know an some I love an sees things a lot differently. We’re going to add the well in a few weeks to the properties down in Tennessee. I’ll send your videos to my friend John who is doing so much I think he would enjoy seeing he isn’t alone in truly doing it yourself

You need to use11/2 inch galvanized pipe and pound down into the ground with a postpounder not a sledge hammer. The Screens on the points are so fine It won't suck in sand and you have to be able to figure out which type of screen to use on the point. I get over 6 gallons per minute on my point and it is 10 years old now. I had my 28 foot point down and running in two days all buy myself.

I love seeing this, it's proof you can work hard and accomplish something yourself without expending $1,000's. This is also a skill that one would never forget, I am tackling a project in the near future that is similar. I appreciate your video.

Be careful when you glue the fittings together because they tend to jack themselves apart. You can see that clearly with the first coupling which jacked itself out almost 1" after it was let go. Put them together dry and run a marker pen around the pipe, then prime and glue up to that mark on the pipe. That way you can see where it needs to be and hold it there until it grips, it also makes for a tidier job. I wish I had water that close to the surface here. We just had the first real rain after 7 months, a 100 year drought in this area of SW Australia. I also wish we had the tools you can buy to put the well down, it's just crap from China here these days. Lots of made in USA on the parts you used which is good to see. Thanks for a great video.

Nicely done good information thanks God bless and stay safe

You bought a 1-1/4" adapter for the stop valve, but you bought 2 inch PVC pipe and couplings.

thank you guys.

You need to seal top from run off. You don't want surface water with ground water so I've been told

Would love to see how you ran the second pump (electric) down he well casing at the same time.

Thank you, well done, yes a pump joke! lol great share

Howdy All! I'm just starting my project on 200+ acres on highland desert in AZ. The soil is perfect for building adobe the tall grass is abundant, but I have zero water. Later this singer, I'll try hand and battery auger drilling up to sixty feet for potable filtered water and I have an ancient water swale on the land. I'm hoping to fill to attract wildlife and create an oasis in the desert. Looking forward to participating in one of the live events with the Doc and Luptopia.

Tnks for video

I’m so glad I found this video! I was watching a bunch of other videos and I just kept saying in my head. Why aren’t they putting a secondary casing around the actual well pipe and putting rocks around the outside of that to keep all the sand and clay out of it. So glad my instincts were on the right path. I love how you are using that tip instead of the well point great idea!

Should cap top for ground for ground water can’t get in well casing

Uni sent me. 👊 This looks interesting.

If you make the casing taller you can put a piece of wood on top of it to make the hand pump more stable.

Good stuff Doc. I am wondering if you are worried about surface water infiltrating the well through the gravel used to backfill the casing? Would a solution be to backfill the last few feet with concrete maybe? I live in the country and have a regular well drilled by a well company that we use here at the house. I built a solar system with a battery bank and inverter large enough to power the well pump in addition to other things but think it would be cool to add a pitcher pump to the well as another failsafe since battery banks don't last forever. . We also have a small seeping spring that I tried to modify so that it flows and I was successful in getting a nice trickle of water out of it but only have about half of the seep captured, I might work on that this summer. Unfortunately though the spring is a bit of a walk to get to.

Hi I saw your video on youtube on digging a hand well. I really found this to be one the best tutorials in detail on the whole process. I also have a simmons pitcher pump can you help me locate extra gaskets im not sure what they look like.

I realize that I am a bit late to the party here, but out of curiosity... Are you breaking rock with that drill? Or are you basically just cutting through layers of small stone? I'm planning to dig a well in WV and I am sure to hit rock so I am trying to gather some helpful info ahead of time.

Im running into the same kind of strata about 100 miles from the coast of SC while doing my well, roughy what area of the country are you in? The reason im wondering is because ive hit that blue/gray layer and trying to figure out how much futher i need to go.

Just so you know amazon sells a valve type thing to your power drill that can prime your well till it clean water

In what why do you use this Merrill MFG FVNL125 1-1/4" No-Lead Brass Foot Valve 710 Series, 1.25" Female Connection

I just bought a house on a acre just out of the city limits and am going to put a well in, had metered water but like you said someday we'll have a grid down situation, I mean Oct 4th there is going to be a test over the phones on a national scale that's for a nuclear event , you gotta wonder why....the government knows something we don't I'm thinking 🤔

do you use any gravity filtration systems like a Berky filter as a pre-treatment for any water you gain?

did you ever get this water to run clear?

doc!!! sharing now!!!

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So many push electric replacements, but ignore that if solar and wind isn't available, fossil fuel is used to produce the electricity. We are heading that way, but are not there yet. I was taking classes on solar design and technology in the early 80's and the professor was a genius, but even he admitted we had decades, or up to half a century till we were ready to convert.

That looks like Greenwood fire tower. They tore the pecan farms tower down.

I see these videos for digging a shallow well, What exactly will you be using this water for. If not for showering and or drinking then what is the water for? Would you use it for plants and animals or not the animals? What is the solution if you cant afford to dig hundreds of feet down but you still must have water on your off grid home.

Well, with slitts that high, you will be getting surface water into your well. 👍

How do you know if there's water shallow enough to do a shallow well?

Have not seen a part 2 with an electric shallow well pump.

If you hook up a 55 gallon drum to it and fill it up and then tap the bottom of the drum the water in the drum will siphon the water up out of the well

And or in cold weather with check valve won’t go down and pipe will freeze and break

UNI SENT ME!!

You should not have rock all way to ground level as contaminants can get in well, the top 5 to 8 feet needs to be filled with bentonite ( sp).

How do you add an electric pump to it?

Uni sent me and I don’t know why….

I see you found where my outhouse used to sit.........

I cut my auger in half and put my chimney sweep on it I got down 32 feet my lunch with my dad

If you are afraid of loosing the bit, tie it to a rope and you will have a way to retrieve it.

Unfortunately, most PVC is not rated for use for drinking water, not due to a high risk of toxicity, but due to the fact that it can degrade with high temperatures, UV light exposure and extremely high pressures. Any degradation can damage the water supply and make it unsafe for drinking water.

it says 43cc gas engine.but is an electric. GFY if you wanted the 43cc gas engine.

The machine looks useless to me..

Building a drilling derrick would have saved your back. Unfortunately using electric is a pain compared to gas as with gas you could use the weight of the motor. Your idea is awesome, but there are other ways to get further faster with gas.

Flies have died of old age watching this video.

Pfft battery powered crap

Battery drill what a joke

Doesn’t seem too smart to cap the bottom. No way to go deeper if needed.

Gas is not reliable, really? You gas unit will work on a cloudy day won’t it?