DIY Water Well Drilling - 6 Ways To Drill Your Own Well in 2018

Are you a homesteader or prepper looking for a way to be off- grid? Drilling a water well is a great place to start. In this video we review the 6 ways you can drill your own water well. We’ll be weighing the pros and cons and costs of each option. We discuss hand-dug wells, driven well points, jetting a well with water, having a well dug for you by a professional, deep-rock and hydra-drill machines.

We compare these systems to our own unique innovative method of well drilling which has many advantages over the traditional methods and makes for a great DIY weekend project!

Having a well frees you from expensive city water bills and bad quality water. No matter what your situation one of these methods will allow you to get your own water well and supply water to your house, garden, sprinklers, geothermal heating and air conditioning systems – all using virtually free water supplied by nature!

The method shown in the links below is called “jetting” or “washing” a well. This is a great method if you only need a shallow well but tends to be limited to only 40 feet, and can’t drill through hard soils like our drill can. But if you have an easy well to drill you should totally check these out!

Has complete instructions on how to jet a well, and these next videos are either by him, or probably learned how to do it from him.

And the following are more videos of our method of water well drilling:

[ealdfeond]

I used this guys well drilling kit to drill down 8 meters through limestone and clay, in the UK. I used a 3inch casing, a loads more pea gravel, it works good.

[whatsmname]

Wow this is so cool . My name is michelle i bought property in alturas california last year and didnt realize how big of a project i have in front of me to actually make our property liveable ( no well or septic) . Im so excited about finding this video. As soon as i have the money im going to buy this kit, i really have a good feeling about it. You seem like a really honest guy . I cant wait to try it God bless

[rafterh]

I have used this drill and it works. It can be hard to keep the hole straight but it's not a huge issue. If you don't have to drill deep, in rock or need a big hole, this is a good option. I have also used his mud pump design to clean out old wells and my son used it to pump out his septic to make a repair. The is a ton of good info on his web site and you can learn alot about drilling and setting up wells. He is also very helpful and wants you to succeed. The bottom on all this is if you have more time than money he can help you get a well dug.

[PaganShagger]

Great video, I learned a lot. Thanks for the alternative methods to well digging. I'll check out your product, it sounds good. I'd rather be self sufficient than pay people to do it. Gotta learn sometime.

[michaelvolentine]

Good vid. I look at a lot of well drilling videos on utube. My father and his brother drilled many wells in southwest Arkansas and northwest Louisiana in the late 1940 and early 1950. That built there own rotary drilling rig on an old school bus chassis. Charged $1.00 a foot plus the cost of the pipes and pump.

[MarkLawsonYK]

Wow, clear concise and states his bias right up front.... thank you for this presentation.  I need help finding out what is below my land.   Peace

[mattyrsofar]

I have an artesian water system that was in place when we bought the house 6 years ago, it was touted as being a great way to get clean water and for free. Problem is, it dries up 6 months out of the year, and I’ve had to haul my own water from a pump 3 miles away, every day. In the beginning, I was filling up 20 x 5 gallon buckets, driving back and forth, filling them up and then dumping them in our above ground artesian water tank. I did this until my friend came up with the idea of buying 125 gallon tank($450) to put in the back of our Honda Element. Using that instead of buckets, coupled with a small pump to get the water into out artesian water tank(used to have 2 1200 gallon tanks, one imploded in the winter)has saved us from the labor intensive part of it, though it’s hard on our Element, hauling all that weight up a hill daily. It sounds like a lot just to have water, huh? I’ve actually gotten used to it. It reminds me of being a pioneer, lol.

Well(ha), the problem is my mom is getting older, and I’m trying to sell so I can move closer to her, put her up in a “mother-in-law suite” type situation, and no one is going to buy this house without a reliable water source. Plus time is of the essence as we our precariously still in a seller’s market, and who knows for how long.

Well, here’s the real kicker; We paid 18 grand to have a drilling company drill 320 ft, and to no avail, because we didn’t find sufficient water, only about 1/2 gallon per minute, and that’s a maybe. We couldn’t afford to keep drilling. I believe they charger $60/ft, and then $45/ft once we reached a certain depth. The capped and soldered the hole shut, I believe the next step would be to get a pump company to test it, and then hook it up to the house via our artesian water tank. But we have no more money, that was over a years worth of savings. Our realtor told us we can’t sell until we have at least 1-2 gallons/minute.

We’re a bit disappointed, but I’m really trying to see it as progress, since we can continue drilling from 320 ft down. I am a little shocked by how much they charged though. One geologist we know suggested we might have to drill down to sea level to find water. We’re at an elevation of 750ft. That’s really just so much more than I ever imagined it would cost. I’m really thinking of trying your tool and method in a different spot on our land, I think we might get lucky. Our neighbor went down a mere 15 ft, said he just prayed, and there it was. It sounds strange but I have a spot that I feel God is pointing me to where I’d like to drill using your tool. It’s where I wanted the drilling company to drill, but they suggested a point closer to the road, I guess because it was more accessible, the spot I had was under a tree line. I don’t see a link though, would you be able to direct me to where to go to learn more and possibly purchase? Thank you. Matt

[MichaelSmith-lbwl]

I can tell you that I used this system and have had a well for the last six years now. I works great and I even had to drill through shale. The well needs to be flushed now and I'll probably use the same tool to do that too.

[Rustaholic]

My well is 54 feet deep and it is sitting in a seven foot deep well pit. It was hand driven by two men in the 1960s.  It is a 2 inch pipe and it has a 1 1/4 inch drop pipe inside it hooked to a Deep Well Jet pump.  We were in this house I built here in 1977 one year when one of those men pulled in the yard and gave me the original book for the pump and written on the back of that book is all of the info on who did it, how deep it is and how long it took them to do it.  They made a scaled up 120 pound driver like a T-Post driver and the top pipe was always their driven pipe.  Both of these men were cement block layers and were used to lifting 40 to 50 pound blocks all day.

[SKID]

Good video i really like this tool, me and my dad have been using hydro drill for about 2 years now and its great but this thing looks awesome for certain applications.

[dustinshort]

I've done 3 shallow (garden) wells with a post hole auger one for my mom at our house. I realized how simple it is, it just takes a lot of time and energy. people saw the one I did and asked if I would do one for them. I made $400 off of each person.

[pnp]

I just went to his web site and bought the "how to video". Seem like a freaking awesome gadget being use around the world.

[cleatrampler]

Trouble is getting a compressor that big. My method uses a homemade drill derrick attached to my skid steer. It works well but you do need the settling pond as you mentioned. The pump is also essential to keep the bit from clogging. Where we have coral rock it was not uncommon to make a tripod and use a string to drop a weight on a steel pipe and go down 20 feet or so.

[cohutta_pines]

I live in the Chattahoochee Natl Forest in NW Georgia...lots of tree roots...lots of softer rocks, red clay....I'd like to drill a few wells on my property for my guest cabin, maybe a little tiny creek? Where is your link?

[zoobot]

Could I use this to dig a hole for diy closed loop vertical u tube geothermal cooling?

[SpiritualWarfare]

I noticed you said to look at your website yet you never gave the website. I need a well dug soon and need help. Dont have a lot of money either. How do i get this drill.

[gewgulkansuhckitt]

Regarding the first method (digging an old-fashioned well with a shovel): The safest way I know of to do that involves putting stacked concrete culvert sections in the hole and digging out from under the edge of the lowest section, allowing the entire stack of culvert pieces to slowly sink into the earth. This greatly reduces the chances of a cave-in, assuming you dig evenly a little bit at a time, keeping the bottom culvert section level at all times. A winch and pulley and someone up top to operate it would greatly reduce the work load vs trying to dig such a well solo. I would not even attempt to dig this type of well without something like this system to prevent a cave-in. I'm not sure what the maximum safe depth of this system is. I seem to recall hearing of one guy digging a well a little over 80 feet deep with this method.

[panchovilla]

Thanks for the video. I've never drilled a well and have never had one drilled. I inherently understand I'm drilling a hole in the ground, but what about what to do after I hit water, etc. etc. does the dvd set tackle that part?

[johnsenerwa]

Am actually impressed by what you are doing, i come from Africa and i think your deluxe unit may be of a great benefit to the community in this part of the world. could you please let me know how i can acquire one of these gadget ?

[dickGiles-dg]

Where can I buy this tool?? I want to tbuy and try however nothing is said about how or where to buy this product