In Oregon you can obtain the well report on line from the state. It reports depth, static water level, GPM, and soil types, as well as screens, holes, casing depth, etc.

Amazing abilities to distinguish sound of whistling unrolling tape , weight hitting wire guards, weight splashing at the bottom at 200', and of course the ambient sounds especially when car goes by, etc. I ENVY THIS GUY ALOT ! 😂

I have about 40' of water above my pump. Static water level is about eighty feet below the top of the case. Environmental supply retailers have bailers used for sampling monitoring wells. They're basically a plastic tube with a check ball at the bottom. Common size is one quart. Attach some cord and you can bail five gallons by hand in pretty quick order if power is out or due to a pump malfunction.

Very informative, thank you. Will be using one or possibly two of the methods shown on my well. Preparing to replace the pump, water line and electrical. Have a blessed day 🪶✨ Georgia USA 🪶✨

A fourth way to measure the depth of a well, at least to the surface of the water, is to use your two hands to "bop" the open top end of the casing. You will hear a series of Bop, bop, bops coming back. That is the sound wave going down the pipe, bouncing off the surface of the water and coming back up to the top where it bounces off the top of the casing and goes back down again. I recorded the bop, bop, bop with my laptop, displayed it graphically and determined the travel time precisely. That and the speed of sound led me to the depth of the well, or at least the dept to the surface of the water. I like your tip of measuring to the bottom of the drilled hole as mine might be filling with mud from the bottom up. I gotta check for that. Thanks.

You forgot to yell down the pipe and count how long it takes for your voice to return…

I'd be careful dropping any heavy object on a tape measure to make sure it doesn't get caught on anything or damage something on the way down. I am no expert but I think on many wells there is a torque arrester midway down that for one might block anything dropping past it but more troubling the ones that I have seen absolutely look like they could grab something like that dropped down into them and not let it go that easily. I'd be awfully careful as to what I dropped down a well casing. One guy further down the comments was talking about using a cell phone and holding it over the casing and using the distance measuring app...oh good lord... imagine dropping a cell phone with all its toxic parts into a well and aquifer.

The tape measure method seems to be the most accurate, but I wonder did you take into account the time it took for the splash to reach you together with your reaction time, as you did with the previous method. 🙂

When you say bottom of your well do you mean like a bottom or like the earth bottom? Thank you for sharing

Great video bro !!! Thanks

How about a laser measuring device

Or just read the label on the side

You said you had a video on different hand pumps for well but I can’t find it

I liked the video, exccept that you were contaminating the well by touching everything and putting things on the grass. Hopefully you decontaminated the well afterwards.

Is there anyone that can help dispute A price gouging,we built A home ,unfortunately the contractor didn’t line up A well digger ,so my wife hired someone with A awful reputation j thinking we would get in faster , they charged twice as much saying they had to go 500 ft, in November 2022 ,we want to hire someone to check it, Thanks for your Video. ❤

Awesome!

Maybe I'm a simple man, but why not use a fishing rod, you know, lead weight and big floater?

Where can i get the machine that detects the depth of water

Please spare me the info on how to take off the cap....jfc!!!!

Or..... You can just get an app found in most smart phones that is a distance measurer. Then, put your phone camera facing into the water well hole and ALSO have a high powered source of light like a high beam flashlight facing into the hole at the same time and aim your camera as centered as possible into the hole and you will see on the phone screen how deep your well is once it has established the bottom part of the well. Your welcome.

Everything you need he says at Eleven minutes into the video. Other wise ho hum !

Lol I can't take of my cap it's holding the well pipe from falling.

Tells you nothing about well depth, only static water level. If you really want the depth of your well, go to your state database for wells. Every state has one and all wells are listed in there. Often you can search by location or map and it lists all of the data for your well. States are required to keep track of all of this information. This video itself is fairly useless.