How to hand dig your own shallow water well - PART 2 | How to Homestead! Hand Auger to Sand Point.

Part two of the hand dug well series. After many requests we finally have part 2 up and ready to view. In this second part we switch from Auger to Sand point to show you yet another way to successfully set your own well for agriculture or other use. How to hand dig you own shallow well, going deeper with a sand point.

[jessicaray]

Thank you so much for posting this how to....We have a raw piece of land with no existing well, and no reasonable way to get the amount of water needed to jet pipe it in. We've been waiting months for a well guy to come out and do it but the trails to our property are so rough right now that its not even reasonable for them to get out there...we have been floating the idea of just doing ourselves by hand but weren't really sure where to start. Video was very informative. It will be hard work but we now feel confident we can do this ourselves!

[John-]

Once you hit the water table, when drilling, you stop drilling and put in your casing, and then you use a flapper type bailer to sink the casing deeper. The bailer removes the sand, and this allows for the pipe to sink deeper as you pull the sand out and dump it out and repeat this dropping in and pulling out until the pipe is to the desired depth. Then, put 12 inches of pea gravel into the pipe to keep the sand out.

[hawkeye]

THANKS TO SHOW US HOW TO DO IT. WAITING FOR PART 3. I’M PLANNING TO MAKE WATER WELL ON MY BACKYARD . I LIKE THE WAY YOU DO IT. THANKS AGAIN.

[scotto]

The grinder on the drive cap is brilliant ! Over the top informative, educational ! Thank you for this !

[Cotton]

It was killing me watching you drive that pipe. In Florida, we use water to jet the pipe in. Much easier to do because of the sand. You can use a pressure washer with a clean out tip and it will go in like butter. There are several YouTube videos that show the process. You did give me an idea on my next well. Thank you for taking the time to publish these videos.

[hurdman]

I would try to use the tractor bucket to push down on the well pipe.

[yelyab]

We also use a auger post hole digger for the first 20 to 25 feet until we hit the wet sand then start with the driver. We use very heavy 2 man drivers. They weigh about 80 pounds.

[bobwalton]

Why don't all you people commenting just not say anything and let him show you how he is drilling this well you people are all authorizes on this and have probably never did any work

[shaunhall]

New subscriber. I love your can do attitude. I'm here for the long haul and will celebrate with a beer when you get the water flowing.

[brownsrvlifecampground]

It's definitely hard super work we are doing one ourselves at this present time we uploaded video footage to remind us how much work we had to go through to get water on our land you made a cool video 🙏❤️🙏

[irtiqasalamat]

Nice and hard job, very informative appreciate.

[michaelboykin]

An electric jackhammer attached to a post driver works well. Local rental companies rent them. Not too cheap but time is money so it works out in the long run.

[ZRanger]

Hello...Did you ever finish up installing this well?

[ronsutton]

We have found that if you keep your driving cap tight when driving it won't get ruined threads; Pound fewer pounds and check and tighten the cap between pounds and you won't ruin the threads on the pipe or the driver cap. It takes longer but keeps the parts working like they should work without wrecking them. also it gives the pounder a little rest.

[eduardonieto]

That is cool Sr. My God be with you
when it is done📖🎚🙏.

[gregseggewiss]

You should have used your tractor bucket (full of dirt for best results) as the post pounder. Just be careful to line things up perfect first. You wouldn't have bent your pipe or wrecked the red top smasher piece as you did by pounding at an angle. Trust me when I say, I've done this more than a few times easily with great success.

[ronsutton]

Also always turn the pipe clockwise with a pipe wrench to keep it loosened up every time you cease pounding and tightening the fittings downs below ....CLOCKWISE. if you turn the pipe the other direction it will loosen your joints.

[tomrowe]

Use a strong fishing magnet to retrieve the pipe wrench...

[xdkosman]

My neighbor used his tractor bucket to drive the pipe.

[historygradstu]

You were doing good with the 4 inch pipe, but you needed to run your casing as you drilled....a cable tool type drill and bailer is best for going inside of your casing and a clamp on your casing and add some weights to it like concrete blocks will ease the casing down as you drill with the cable tools...also use a hack saw on the 4 inch pipe to make slots for your filter and use a polyester filter sock over that, those holes you drilled were way to big, your casing was going to clog with sands in no time