Hey! Why not build up the walls of the well with another row or two of blocks. This will help the prevent the mud from flowing back into the well when you have heavy rains. Maybe even clear back more of the land back away and make a mini patio around it out or blocks, could be from recycle patio blocks.

I loved you guys as a sailing channel, but this business of being homesteading pioneers in the jungle has really got me thinking about cheerfulness, perseverance, and Matt's total devotion to Kristen. Sometimes I need a lot of reminders about what love is, but it's here every dang Sunday! Happy day, y'all!

Hello you guys, this is Nelson & Maureen. We started our home stead in Western Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. Regarding your 💦 well . Our advice is to go to Home Depot get a 300 gallon 300 dollars for tank for drinking water and a water pump from sams Club about 232 dollars, you will need 11/4 pipe . Very important get a 1 1/4 reverse valve , shutting valve additional pipe glue heavy pipe . WhatI truly like about the Sam’s club pump it will give you strong pressure for all you water needs at the same time has an expansion tank . Easy to in stall . You get a 3 stage whole house water filter and a zero water filter for you person drinking water 💦. Good luck if you need further assistance reach out to me , by responding to this message.

Hey Matt and Kristen, here’s my suggestion for pumping water up the hill. Grocery list = 1. Black poly pipe. 2.1-2 HP PUMP 3. hose clamps- stainless. 4. One way pump valve. 5. pressure regulator. 6. UV sterilization system. 7. 12 pack of favorite beer. 8. Two day laborers, other than you and Kristen. 9.Enjoy !

Congratulations on your 200,000 subscribers. We understand the hardship it is for you two to film, produce and edit your weekly shows. Please remember you KZfaq family loves every moment!!! CHEERS

You got me at that septic joke. Cracked me up! 🤣

Set up a huge statue of foghorn leghorn by the coop ! That will scare the hawks away !

Matt ! you need another row of block to keep the mud from sliding down in.

If you want to go uphill with the water without electricity you can make a gravity pump. Another channel (Nomadic Movement) made one going up a mountainside about 100 ft in Panama. Save energy and that way if you ever lose power due to storms/hurricanes your fresh water pump will still work. I'm sure you can look up the parts/plumbing you need online, love the new videos guys keep up the great work!! :)

Y’all are mad!! I love mad!!! Such a cool duo taking on boats and hurricanes… and now rainforests and chicken coops!!! Building a new life and new adventure!!! Awesome!!!

Here in West Virginia what you have is called a "Spring Box". They were once a very common way to gather clean water for a homestead. Your challenge is going to be lifting the water to the top of the hill. The other challenge is going to be voltage drop over the length of electrical wire from the top of the hill. Big pump for the lift means big wire to feed the pump over the distance. If you don't have enough voltage at the pump it will overheat and die. Two ways to reduce voltage drop, either raise the voltage or use bigger wire.

Build extra meshing/ mini yard around chicken coup to make space between outer fence and actual coup- place timber palling from ground up to to six inches, just incase chicks and chooks lie selves against outer fence/ mesh. Cover top of whole chook yard with mesh.. Little dangerous hawk can take on full grown chickens too

Please reveal the Super Chicken fighter you are raising that is so big it has a human chair that it sits on in it’s cage. 💪🥊😂LOL Luv y’all. 🙏🏼✌️

16:08 it’s not Larry Laminado anymore! It’s Matty Machete! 😂 Rocking it, guys! Good luck

I simply love the quality of your video, it looks spectacular! Thanks for letting me have a coffee with you today...peace

Matt - I think you need a cistern (holding tank) at the elevation you will use the water. The pump at the spring will lift the water slowly to fill the cistern. You then have a pump at the cistern that turns on when you open the tap / switch on the washing machine etc. Your RV will have that sort of system. My boat does. Your house, when you build it, will need the same. You can then draw the water at the rate you need it, not at the rate of the pump lifting water 60 feet up. Or, you have a cistern above ground level and gravity delivers your water pressure at the point of use. For the rise, in freedom units, the pump with a 1" pipe, rising 60 feet, will be pushing about 20 lbs of water in the pipe. Or 9kg in metric. Install a wider pipe and the weight of water increases exponentially. A 2" pipe has 111 lbs / 46kg of water to push against. I hope that helps.

Hey Mat, good thing you were joking about the well actually being a septic tank. I was about to start calling you THE DOO DOO MAN. 😂😂😂😂😂

So 'Hank the Hawk' is really 'Hanketta the Hawk.' Who took a trip to acquire a macho reinforcement! Some really nice videography from your drone, as well as other creative shots through the jungle at distant objects.

Hardest working couple on YT. Praying for your success.

What you need is a gas powered 1-inch clear water transfer pump with a check valve right after the pump so it will hold the water in the line. Next i would have a big rain barrel for it to fill up at the top of the hill where you are living for storage, so the gas pump doesn't have to run all the time. Then get a small 12-volt submersible pump with a pressure shut of switch to put in the rain barrel and have it go through a filtration system for drinking, showers and laundry. Hope this info helps you guys, keep up the good work.

Matt look at a submersible pump to put in the well. They can push water hundreds of feet up at significant volume. Pushing is much more efficient than pulling.

Suggestion, add few bricks on top and make it higher than ground level. To stop inflow of mud and leaves during rain.

Wow, what a beautiful recourse, the natural swimming pool would be awesome in those surroundings.❤👍

Idea 💡Double screen with a little space in between to keep the hawk talons away from the chickens

Matt, you need a two stage system. You can lift 100' with a 1.5 hp pump at a sufficient flow rate to fill a storage tank located by the house/trailer. You can install a float switch in the storage tank that will connect to the pump by the natural pool. You will have a separate pump to send water to the house/trailer and I would install a Big Blue 2 stage filter between the Pool and the storage tank. If you buy a 9 stage reverse osmosis system with a UV light, you can have clean drinking water in the house/trailer. If you installed a mini hydro electric generator and had a few batteries with an invertor, you could use that to power the pool pump. You are a working machine....

Now on your water source you need to do this right a concrete box so nothing can contaminate your water it should be about 4 ft High with a cap on it and an access hole so you can stick a pump in it but you want to keep the water Pristine from animals so you have to close it off

Y'all are rocking the homestead. Love the music trac on this video.

Put a stick in your cistern that reaches above the rim so any animal that falls in can climb out.

Matt and Kristen, I have to admit that I Googled this, but I looked up some things that may/will help eliminate the hawk problem. Set up wind chimes and/or wind moguls/windmills. Play your music loud. Get a dog. Add perches in the coop for the larger chickens to roost on. Get a big badass rooster. I hope that some or all of these ideas work. Cheers,! Blue Skies and Fair Weather. Faithfully, James

Dude you totally had me at "it was the old septic" lol

Please don’t hurt the hawk no matter what. They are so very important to your eco system The largest is the female she’s big and so beautiful. the male is much smaller and he is less visible ie.. for stealth not as pretty as the larger female. The male is smaller the ultimate hunter he can provide food when the female is nesting and he provides the food for new borne until they can manage on their own. Ps. Really enjoying your progress and adventure. Thanks ❤

Your skin now is pristine with the mud bath

You guys are doing great. Build a spring house over the spring. If it’s a natural spring the water should be keep a cool temperature all year long. We had a spring house when I was a kid. My grandma would keep her butter and milk stored in the cold water in the spring house.

Water always wins, you got to have water. I suggest buying a big floaty thing with sails put it in the water, problem solved.

Beautiful, can't wait for your new swimming pool installation with a hot tub. You guys ROCK!

Figuring out the “lift” the pump needs is 2.31’ = 1 psig So 60’ would be 26’thd That’s just to get the water up to the elevation. Then you need to add what pressure you want ~50psig = 115.5’ of head. So you need 175~thd without ft of friction from piping. Piping will have specs for fittings and pipe friction loss. To figure the HP needed, you will be on the pump manufacturers specs. that will include the flow rate. All appliances, sprinklers etc will need to be added up to figure out GPM@THD. You will need a pressurized bladder tank to eliminate water hammering. Great video.

if you put a pool lower than it, you could make a overflow that empties into the pool. That way, you keep drinking water separate from a pool. You could even add a plug of sorts to the pool, so that you can easily change the water out.

You guys need to change the name from sailing GB&U to Build GB&U.

Matt, buy a side by side Put a large plastic tank in it Buy a cheap sump pump You’d only have to make water Once or twice a month

killer find. its probably been said but i didnt want to check every comment. i would clean those top blocks really good and then add a few more rows of block and concrete to the top to keep the debris from the hill from falling in during downpours and then do a simple 4 post lean to roof system. .

How about adding a couple of rows of cement blocks with mortar around the top to divert tge mud runoff from above.

A gravity pump would be a cool project for this application. Several good videos on the subject and it requires no electricity or fuel.

Those appear to be Red Tail Hawks generally in the bird world the brightly colored one is the male the one with the subdued plumage is the female. So it's better camouflaged sitting on the nest. You guys rock Love your no fear attitude to take on any new challenge. Great job 👍

dude, that is absolute back breaking work there!

Hey Matt, can you add a couple more rows of cinder blocks, so the rain won't wash all that crap back in?

Matt, when your water well becomes a mosquitoe farm, toss a couple 3 small fish in it. Any fish from the Sunfish family should suffice.

If you are confident that there has been no chemical contamination on you land. Then all you have to do for drinking water is. A) Boil it for 7 minutes, then allow to cool over night in an aluminium pan with a cloth over the top. Let it settle 12hrs. Silt will fallout, then put through a carbon filter . Then bottle and put in the fridge. Chill & drink. Lived in Central Africa for 3 years. Thats how we did it. You must boil drinking water and allow it to settle. You will be ok with that.

Fantastic progress on Hawk Springs Farm 🐥🍌🤟🏽🇵🇷

I think it’s called a stepper pump? It has a one way valve. Perhaps want to pump to another container. So awesome practical and clever work cleaning out that well!

The spring needs to be protected from contamination. Any rain of any substance will flood it with mud. You should add several rows of concrete block, add a stick of appropriate length rebar, fill the cells.

Look into a Ram Pump! Honestly! No power needed….. you guys are great!!

Once you get the water pumped up to where you want I think a poly barrel for storage placed at a higher elevation would produce the gravity water pressure you need thereby eliminating the need for a pressure tank

Have you considered using a ram pump? “The nomadic movement” shows how they made one on their coffee farm in Panama.

Love the septic gag - well played sir!

Hey guys I saw a saying that you might enjoy: Chickens, the pet that poops breakfast. Have a great day!

Use a filter/screen in the well and filter at the top and you’ll save your clothes from turning red😜. 3/4 would be enough. My concern would be keeping the line primed so you’re not constantly backfilling it. I’m not a pump guy though. Thanks for making my Sunday morning again. God Bless to all of you reading this. 1 John 4:8 🙏🏻

Good morning g b u family,yet again another wonderful day started with two of my favorite young people.everybody have a great day.

Tree roots hold back the earth from going into your well ! You chopped down your friend the tree !😮

Too funny on the septic tank! I helped my mom's boyfriend put charcoal into his springbox at his property in Georgia. It worked well 😅 !

Hi Guys, here in Australia we use black poypipe, uv resistant, tough & flexible. no glueing, probably get it in 100 or 200 metre rolls. so easy to install & easy to move if you want to move to a different location.

3/4 hp jet pump will be fine with 3/4 output line. Your jet pump can be 30” or more up the hill from you well. You will save on electric wire. Or like one said in the comments get a holding tank and put it next to the big baller trailer. Keep up the great work you land lovers. 😊

Love the “Twin Peaks”! 😊

You are a very hard worker. Keep up your life's experiences and adventures.

Mattie-Man - think Ram Jet Pump! This marvelous invention requires no electricity yet can raise water from your cistern location up hill to your building site. There are numerous instructional videos on the internet about how they work and how to build one similar to your actual situation. I hope this miraculous application can work for you. I am convinced that your determination and skills will make this happen. Best of luck, Ralph from Chicago

You should add more centerblock to raise the edges to avoid the mud to get in to the well

Love the fresh water pool ideal wow !!!!!!😊

Matt and Kristen, STOP! Take your water to the nearest town or city and get the water checked. In the meantime boil it. I’m sure you had to boil water on your boat. Unless the municipality has power to your gorgeous 8 acres you’re gonna need some power either way do you want a diesel powered generator running 24/7? I like your idea of a small pool for rest and refresh from PR heat.

🙋🏾‍♀️ Excellent job guys. Her and her man 😂😂😂 ❤ 🇧🇸👍🏾 hawks🐓🐓🦅🦅

Wo Who 200k subscribers well done loved the Sailing and now watching you guys building your home ❤,,,,,,,, 🇦🇺

Deep well pump is what you need. The head ( rise ) is high . To figure that out, use the altimeter on your cell phone . Then, get a pump chart and figure out the pipe size and horse power .

Matt, I think you should sharpen your machete every night before going to bed. In the DR they call what you have a colin, and the shorter stubby ones machetes. The swimming pool sounds like a great idea. I would recommend 3/4 inch pipe. That would probably be the size of the opening on the pump.

When I open KZfaq on Sunday with my coffee. It makes me smile seeing a new video from you guys. What’s the story on your boat.

I read "how we are going to abandoned our jungle property and getting back on the water"!! I was so happy and then I read it again 😢

miss seeing Bear ! lol

Hey, Matt maybe you c ould rent a gas engine water pump and have it pump the water out while you are mucking it out. That way you could cement the well in with cement blocks and raise the top rows a couple more levels to keep the mud out of your well. Just saying. It sure would make you a beautiful well. Ask around to see what the local well experts think to make a good clean water well.

I love that you are not afraid to tackle the difficult things you stumble on. Keep it up and you will realize the fruits of all your hard work. Water is the source of Life. I like the idea of clearing back and adding a patio and Well house to help keep the water cleaner.

it's really the septic tank.....🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆that was funny!

I see you cracked the 200k mark. Congratulations!

Looks like you guys have Taro growing on the property too..👌🏼

Jajajaja😂😅My friend when I saw that hole I was thinking this man its inside that we call Letrina.But just be aware.Good videos.God Bless.

I just got back from crewing on a boat in the Suriname river. I spent some time with a young lady who volunteered for a snake organization. One of the many discussions were how chickens on person’s property would bring snakes from the jungle. This was so much so that if a person was to need snake venom, they would go to the veterinarian and not the hospital. The bushmaster was the most poisonous. It will kill you in 20 minutes, but the anaconda just scares the holy Jesus out of me lol

Hydraulic Ram Pump … it uses its on pressure to pump and no power is needed. Never stops and last for years..I’ve seen Amish use it here in the states. It’s slow but once you fill your tanks at the top it will keep it filled. NO POWER AT ALL… look it up and build your own…. bTW I absolutely love you guys!!! Keep up the great work.

a pump and generator would have come in handy. Hiring help would have also been a good idea. Locals are likley use to this kind of work in the jungle

With that high of arise don't forget to put in check valves one-way flow valves otherwise you'll siphon back or burn your pump up.

Engineering the pump: 1) Figure out your power solution as the pump will have to reside next to the well 2) Use your phone to capture the elevation difference in feet 3) Determine your consumption needs in gallons 4) The pump size is based on gallons, psi output, and feet of pump head required 5) The pump head is calculated from the vertical elevation in feet + assume 5 feet in pipe fitting loss 6) Use 1” pipe and then reduce to 3/4” after 100 feet 7) Add in a check valve near the discharge side of the pump 8) Consider adding a water storage tank near the top of the hill and a secondary pump (which you have already). Add a water float level in the tank to trigger the well pump (that contactor can be found at Home Depot in the sprinkler section 9) Alternative to the float level, you could use a sprinkler controller to manage the start/stop of the pump 10) Solve the power issue first

IF there is any water flow near the spring box, ditch it as far away from the box as possible to keep your water source uncontaminated....James

Hi guys. I'd suggest a submersible pump and either 3/4" or 1" poly tube. You can get up to 600' on a reel. We use a submersible 1.5 hp pump in a 100' well and get 16 gallons a minute with 1.25" poly waterline . Hope this helps

I guess this maybe good enough for some things, but to me you need to get a drilled water well, don’t know if you have electricity to run the pump but you can always get a generator to run the pump, either way you need to get the water tested before you start drinking it!

Forgot to mention that you can use a submergeable pump to get the water up. Much love from the Caribbean

I think this may help you. Pump (Brake Horsepower) = (gpm X head (feet of water))/(3960 X Pump Efficiency). Also, Feet of water (head) / 2.31 = minimum pressure psi required. Any good pump place can size you a pump if you can provide the feet of head (verticle distance of rise) and the flow you want. You will want some margin for elbows, Tees and pipe flow resistant.

I love what you guys are doing.

In the raptors - hawks, eagles, falcons, owls, etc. - the male is usually the smaller of a pair of these birds. Birds we call hawks fall into two main types: one type hunts and kills other birds and the other hunt and kill rodents, snakes, and small game like squirrels and rabbits. Famers where I grew up used to shoot "chicken hawks" and those were often Sharp-shinned hawks that would take chicks easily. They are about the size of a crow but don't have a red tail. If you can describe the birds size & color or get a picture that would be a big help in identifying the species. You can also ask the locals about which birds prey on domestic birds like chickens or ducks. There is a species of red-tailed hawk in Puerto Rico, but they are fairly large and usually don't hunt birds. The American kestrel is found in Puerto Rico. They have a beautiful red tail, and are about the size of a blue jay - maybe 9" long. They might go after chicks if they can get to them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_kestrel#/media/File:Male_American_Kestrel.jpg

Exciting progress. Consistent water supply would be clutch.

The water table is high, just hand sink a well up by the residence.

Like the idea of pumping your well water holding tank in an elevated tank tower. Probably recommend a well cover to keep it free or debris. Maybe a float mechanism to turn on the pump when the holding tank is low. . Good luck. !!

Your transition to this new farm was very savy business move. Not to mention, a great long term investment property with immense potential. In ten years, you guys are going to have an amazing place. Hats off to ya...

LOL!! I am a Falconer. The brown one was a juvenile. The one with a Red tail is an adult. The Juveniles actually look bigger as their feathers are at least 1/2 inch longer than the adults. That said, in raptors, the females are about on average 1/3 bigger than the males.

you guys still need to look into getting a Ram Pump to pump water from river up to the house. It will work

Love your channel it’s almost painful waiting till Sunday morning. May I suggest you see DIY solar Power with Will Prowse recent videos testing and tear down’s . He’s also that little nerd we love . Take care with all this weird weather!

Look into a Ram Pump setup👍🏻 gets that water uphill- no power required