How to hand dig your own shallow water well - Successfully | Fit Beach Life, How to Homestead!

In this video we successfully dig our own homestead water well with a hand auger. We continue with the How to Homestead series and show you step by step from how to water witch to find where to dig down to drilling the hole by hand with a 6" post hole auger with added extensions. How to case the sell and hook up a jet pump for lots of free water. How to Homestead is a great series that is constantly being added to.

[Stronze]

pro tip: don't put an end cap, beat your pvc pipe done until you have good resistance and then use your jet pump to suck all the sediment out of the pipe and repeat. I'm using an old fashion pitcher pump to do this method over time to get my well the last 8 feet down for a total of 30 feet since I'm using this well as emergency drinking water and daily pumping 15 gallons a day to water the gardens.

once i hit my target depth, ill add a check valve and a filter on of my pipe.
by doing this, i'm slowly getting deeper every day by just using the well.

[cheesebeef]

I dug one like this 35 ft when I was 25 still runs water good. I can’t imagine doing one at 45. You a strong man that’s hard work

[theunssnyman]

You are a true gentleman sir. Congratulations on the well. Kind regards from South Africa.

[chrissyemert]

I love the grumpy hens. Makes this video very relatable.

[davidbires]

I have been driving well points in ....I like your way better thank you for the great video

[wesleyashley]

Those rods are pretty good at detecting a place where a hole is about to be.

[JourneyOfStrength]

Best video I've seen on this yet. Very descriptive. Thank you

[sams]

I put two 25lbs weight plates on the handle, makes digging go a lot faster. I'm in VA and have a lot of red clay.

[mariuslandsberg]

It works with the hangers, you must take it from 3 directions and mark it with your foot with a cross on the ground that why you will get the water underground stream

[puritywatetu]

This is great, I think I'm gonna try this.I like farming soon much and thank you for your idea.

[adrienbastarache]

Oh my your chicken were so happy that you were drilling that well, and your dog sure wanted to get a ride on your tractor so next to part two.

[hardnoxgrad]

Is it still rain’n? I’m still wait’n for part ll . 😊

[sorinankitt]

Well done on lining up your casing holes. Couldn't have gotten them straighter myself 😁.

[robmcewen]

Oh yea, this is how I'm gonna get mine done, thanks

[JustMe-mgvw]

I bought 10’ of black iron 3/4” pipe for $37.00 yesterday. They didn’t even have galvanized in stock. Lowe’s on 5/12/2022.

[sorinankitt]

Looks like the auger is taking control and giving her a ride. "That's a different technique". Lol

[mrbryanbel]

I keep hitting rocks at about 3 to 4 feet and can't seem to move past it. How do I either remove the rocks or avoid them altogether?

[kenjackson]

Wow! I haven’t seen a new pipe wrench in thirty years!

[ipwee]

Pretty cool and thanks for taking the time to make the video. Regretabally, for me, I don't live in an area with sand as the primary soil. About 3 feet down I hit limestone a bit farther it turn into serpentine. Although it's like clay it is much harder to dig through.

[veggies]

the auger is now listed for $367 (CA$).. That is a bit much! Will try to source a better price. Great video. Have done water witching many times and it really does work. Our local water municipal workers use it as well to locate old water lines on properties.