Fastest Way To Get Water - NEW METHOD - How to Jet Drill a Well using a Mud Pump and Pressure Washer

hey good morning chuck here with apple drains we are going to put in a new well for the tiny house i've been really working hard you know when i have the time um to complete the tiny house the shower toilet all of those things and we're getting really close i'd like to put that up on an airbnb you know we are here right by the st johns river and it is the fishing the bass capital fishing of the world and i saw some reports that bass pro shops are actually building a resort here and what that means is that it will put this city on the map and there's very few hotels here so the airbnb just might work here the the tiny house is so far from the main well that the pressure i've got water back there but the pressure is just not enough so i need to get a little closer um i'm i'm going to put another well we're going to start by just you know clearing the area you see there's a lot of pine straw here just want to get this out of here get it a little bit cleaner we'll pick this up and haul it away and now i just want to see how many tree roots are right here because we need to start with a shovel and then go to the post hole digger afterwards so let's just see yeah you can you can feel it hit it right away there are a lot of roots down here it could be from the palmettos it could be from the pines but once we get through those roots we'll be able to start jetting the well with the pressure washer and we're using a mini jet nozzle and we should be able to drill this well in about an hour so we want to dig as far as we can with just a regular shovel now we'll try the post hole diggers if you look closely you can see that there's still there's still tree roots even down you know 20 inches but post hole diggers will take them out always try to use your hand tools as best you can get as deep as possible before you start to drill so take a look you can see i'm down there about three feet i already hit ground water but that's all good notice this is peat moss mixed with sand and a little bit of clay you can see the difference in the soils this here is halfway from that and here's the top you can see a big difference in the soil types peat moss and clay and you can see it's full of water so nearly positive that we're going to get down 35 40 feet and be into a big pocket of water so the first thing we need to do is we need to make a drill bit we're going to make some teeth so we're just going to cut some little notches in here the guide shaft does a couple of things one it gets us down there about 10 feet is wide open but more than that as we start to run water down through the next pipe it gives a place for those cuttings to come back up to the surface they need to drain away from the area so we're making some teeth into this it's like a little drill bit so we can just turn this back and forth so you can kind of see how that looks we've just got a bunch of teeth that we cut and then when we dig this down in the ground we can twist it and this will help force it down into the ground we're going to do the same thing on the two inch pvc uh so can you see that we've just got a bunch of teeth clean off those burrs and we're ready to drill okay with those teeth i'm going to sink this 10 foot section down as far as i've dug by hand with the post hole diggers remember always dig by hand as much as you can before you start to drill get as deep as you can shovel post hole diggers they work really good but there does come a point that you can't go any deeper so let's put this 10 foot section of 4 inch down into the trench and i mean you can see i can just twist it and it kind of sinks on its own and again i could twist this and make it go down you know ever so slightly but when we add the water from the water jet from the pressure washer it'll push that sand out of the way and a lot of water will come up through the hole but it'll also come up through the pipe so now we need the derrick we need the ladder because we need to get up on the top of that so that we can actually work and push this pipe down so you can see why we need the derrick the ladder we're setting it up just like you would a you know an oil rig but we need to get up on the top up here so that we can put that jetter nozzle in and at the same time we'll be able to twist this back and forth we might need a big pipe wrench um and i've got that where we can just you know twist that pipe wrench so that it digs down and as it sinks down it'll go lower and lower and lower hopefully we can get this entire 10-foot section down into the ground so let's get started [Music] the mini jet is extremely powerful as you can see if i let go of that hose it would just fly up in the air like a jet so we're going to send this all the way down to the bottom of the pipe and then we'll kick on the pressure washer and i'm going to speed the video up here a little bit because it's just kind of boring to watch all this and you'll see this pipe goes straight down into the ground the total time to jet this was probably about i don't know maybe 15 minutes 20 minutes at the most and this pipe just sinks down through there like butter the secret is to continue to push that jetter let it get down to the bottom of your pipe and then pull it back out don't let it get stuck because it can get stuck that's an important thing to think about you can see how far we got down in just a few minutes okay i think we're ready to sink our two inch shaft down through there and we want to try to get down 30 40 feet and we know we're going to hit water because it's coming up already but we need to get that two inch shaft down there and then we send the one inch pipe which is actually the suction up to the sump to the pump and so we've got to sink two shafts first is the two inch and we'll put 10 feet in glue the coupling another 10 feet and just keep jetting until we get clear down as deep as we can get hopefully we can get down there like i said 30 40 feet we should definitely hit water some probably around 20 feet but let's get down deeper and then i'll put all that together and show you how well this actually works so there's one more thing that we need to do each time we use this mini jet we need to take a little straight pen and clean it out it's about the only thing that really fits fits down in there and because there is sand that you know each time you turn it off you get some sand down in these things and if you can see it it's really hard to show you because it's so small but there's jets back here and you can take this straight pin and just poke a hole through that sand if there's any sand in there can you see that we just want to clean each one of them out okay now it's time to go ahead and glue the next 10-foot section on so let's do that we've got our two-inch coupling just hold it for a few seconds because you know that glue is still wet it just takes a few seconds for it to bond and you can see can you see the whole thing twisting now and it's actually i can still sink it now so that's all good we're ready to put the jetter back in you know it is so hot here in the early morning so you're going to see me change shirts several times because you just get drenched and there's mosquitoes especially in the morning so that's why i have on the long sleeve shirt so now we're adding the third section that makes us 30 feet down once this gets in the ground okay so i've gotten stuck three times now and what's happening is that that jetter gets down below the bottom of the pipe and it goes sideways and then the sand of course is pulling the sand back out it's filling around that nozzle and it's really hard to pull out if you saw me pulling out um so you we're going to keep on going don't give up if you believe you can do something i guarantee you i've got plan b already set up but let's see if we can twist this back and forth and cut that down into that clay get through that layer of clay i don't know how thick it will be it's probably a couple of feet thick but once we get past that we should get down into that soft sand again and that's where all that big pocket of water is yeah it's going down slow so we're digging down pretty good so can you see down in here i don't know but there's no water rising and there's no water coming out coming up so i know that i'm down into a big pocket of water and all the water that i'm giving it from the pressure washer is now going into the ground into that pocket [Music] [Music] [Applause] take a look at this can you see this look at this this is almost like a rubber and that's what's down there at the bottom of this well right now and it's pretty thick it's pretty hard you can see it kind of hardened off underneath of that you can see we've got really nice white sand so we're close to that water pocket but this stuff i mean it's just look at that it's like a clay in fact i'll bet you that i'll take that back this is a clay we have hit clay down there and it's pretty hard so i haven't tried to let me pull this off i haven't tried to put the pipe wrench on here yet so i'm putting the pipe rinse on i haven't really tried to use the teeth i'm going to try to take this pipe wrench and twist and push this thing down as deep as we can go see if we can cut a little bit okay i'm going to try to leave that two inch shaft down into the ground and had so many comments about why don't you leave the two inch shaft down there and then sink down the well point so i thought i would give this a try we're going to go ahead and push down this pipe this is a 20 foot section of one inch pipe and it already has the foot valve on it so i will go ahead and try that we'll push this 20 foot piece of pipe all the way down and see what happens way up there get it started hopefully it'll sink all the way down i hear the water hear it and what i want to do is put my safeties on here [Music] so it doesn't drop down any further unfortunately this pipe got stuck totally stuck in the sand so where we left off yesterday man it's hot out here is this got stuck this didn't go down all the way we're gonna have to try again so i'm gonna pull this out i don't know if you can hear that it's got lots of water there's our check valve and here's our well point perfect and what we're going to do is a new idea we're actually going to see if we can't use the mud pump and push this pipe a one inch pipe down there and just blow all that sand out because i'm pretty sure that it just filled up inside of that two inch shaft and as soon as we get down there 30 40 feet we'll go ahead and reinstall the new well point down in and we should be good to go okay we're gonna go ahead and glue up two 20-foot pieces get some glue in the air get some primer on this guy and some glue on this guy and we're going to glue these two pieces together sorry i need two hands perfect so now we've got 20 feet and 20 more feet that's 40 feet of one inch pipe we're going to hook that up we're going to adapt that to the discharge of a 2-inch mud pump so even though i'm not too worried about this thing leaking i put some teflon tape on here this is a bushing that goes from two inch to one inch and we're just going to thread this guy right in here and then we'll glue sorry we'll glue this guy on here and of course he's threading into the two-inch adapter so let me put that together real quick okay we've got this all glued up and set up you can see we've got a two inch it's a threaded female that goes on to the discharge hose of the mud pump so the water from the mud pump is coming down through here and it's all going to get really tight down through here and get some build up lots of pressure down in this one inch pipe remember that pipe is now 40 feet long goes all the way down there and what we're gonna do is glue this last section up we're almost ready to set this up okay before i start let's go over this real quick so we've got this well point that's going to go down the very bottom of the well and can you see all the little slits inside of here this is how the water is collected so the water is in the ground you know all around this pipe you can see we've got quite a bit of that well point on there it comes all the way up to here so about eight feet of it then we have a check valve we need the check valve so that the pump stays primed and if you look closely can you see the arrow that tells me the direction of that check valve so in other words water can only go this way and so i put together 10 feet of it maybe 12 feet there uh plus the 8 feet so nearly 20 feet we'll start with and then we'll glue the rest of it after we get it down in so this is the one inch pipe and i went ahead and cut a few teeth in the bottom probably don't need to but just just in case we get stuck or something i can twist it but you can see this is the 40 foot one and it's going all the way back you can kind of see it it's going all the way back to here and we've got the discharge pipe coming from the mud pump this is the discharge pipe coming from that mud pump right over there and the trash can is our water supply to bring the water into the pump i've also added the garden hoses that's from the new well by the way the one we put in about a year ago it still works great and now that's where the water comes from but so anyways we've got inlet pipe adapting down to one inch so we can create a lot of pressure and as that mud pump pushes it out it should be able to blow all the sand that's at the bottom of that shaft out of the way and sink this 40 foot pipe down in then we're going to quickly pull that out and go ahead and reinsert the well point so the first thing i'm going to do is prime this pump it won't take a lot it does have to kind of fill up this hose a little bit [Music] things like that so i know it works pretty good okay let's go ahead and put our cap back on there go over the starting procedures and we're ready to go so the first thing we need to do is turn the fuel on you can see it little diagram turn the fuel on we've got a choke we're going to set that to start set the choke and i'm going to leave this thing at full throttle to start it right there now we're ready to turn on the power then you turn on the power so that it'll continue to run and we are ready to fire this thing up okay okay we're gonna go ahead and bend this pipe this is one inch pipe and make hoop houses out of this stuff so you can see how easily it bends and there is a two inch shaft down here i'm gonna get it in there there we go i'm not worried about it breaking anything like that let's just push it down as far as it'll go and you can see there's 20 feet that's 20 feet right there so now we're going to fire up that mud pump and really push this water out of the way get this down another 20 feet then we'll insert that well the well point down inside that shaft so once we sink this one inch pipe all the way down another 20 feet so that's 40 feet down then we'll insert then we'll insert the well point if you can see the end of it the well point will go into this shaft pull this pipe out quickly insert this before it caves in and continue to plumb it up i like to be down there about 30 35 feet so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so okay let's go ahead and put a pump on here and hey i have a great a really cool thing i found it on the side of the road i don't know if it will work but check this out so check this out it was just on the side of the road they were throwing it away so i don't know if it works but this is a utilitak half horsepower shallow well pump tank system that means it has the air pressure tank already attached they already have it wired and they've got it going to inch and a quarter pipe excuse me so i'll have to cut this off and adapt it to our one inch and let's see does it have any pressure in that tank no so you know we're going to try it if it works wow great we're going to save like 400 bucks so let's go ahead and plumb this up and see what we got so i think what i'm going to do is just cut off right here at this coupling [Music] and we will plumb you know an inch one inch pipe over with the 90 and tie it into this well pipe and yeah it's full of water we're looking good so i certainly hope that that well works after all this work and a free pump well you know you just can't beat that right okay i'm going to use some all-in-one cement means it has the primer built into it and probably going to re-plumb it anyway so just want to see if it works put that on and i've got an old already glued up 90. so i'm going to put that on here should be good now we just need to make this measurement and i've got a coupling for that go ahead and put the bottom coupling on there i'm excited i mean is it going to work do we have water and does the pump work i just can't wait to find out maybe you can't either hopefully i cut that a little bit long so i can push it down onto the well pipe in just a few more seconds we're going to plug this in and see what it does oh it's a perfect fit okay are you ready are you ready we need to prime this guy first so let me do that and the way i'm going to prime it is i'm just going to put the garden hose right in here and let it run back and fill up that section of the pump okay the way i'm going to prime it is just i opened up this valve that they already had there and i'm just going to tilt it up and fill up this thing with water i already brought the power out so i'm going to plug it in we'll see if we get any pressure or if it even works it kicked right on we got 20 pounds of pressure right away let's see if it'll build up enough pressure to shut off or it could be that regulator that's bad and they threw it away for whatever reason but it's building up we're up to 25 it's bouncing almost up to 30. ah 25 it's holding give it a second 30 pounds 35 pounds oh and it shut off so we are full we have good pressure it's holding in the tank at 30 pounds of pressure let me bring that gopro over here so you can see we're at 30 pounds of pressure and it actually did shut off so the regulator is working this tank's holding pressure now the question is are we down deep enough to be in the water are you ready okay here goes oh it's dragon pretty muddy pretty muddy let's see if it cleans it up ah we lost all the pressure see all the pressure's gone still pulling water but it's really muddy really muddy let that run see if it cleans up a little bit oh that sounds like that pump's dying pumps running down that's probably why they threw it away okay let's go ahead and let it build up some more pressure and uh see if we can't pump this out well let's let it run let's let's let it run let's turn it off and let's see if that pressure will build back up yep it's building back up we'll get it to where it shuts off and we'll kick it back on again [Music] okay so we got a lot of pressure in here let's kick it back on again we need that water to clear up can you see it so you can see our pressure gauge it's slowly losing the pressure that's here in the tank which is pulling that water up even without the pump on you can see it it's coming out pretty nice let's go ahead and open it up a little bit more there we go pressure should kick on somewhere around 20 but you can see it's an old pump it was free you guys it kicked on at 18 pounds and the pressure it's looking good we got water and a free pump you can't beat that so we've got really good pressure coming out you can see it just shooting all the way out here looking really really good not bad for a free pump that was on the side of the road pretty rusty but you know i'll build a little cover over top of it and keep it protected but you know what this was the fastest i've ever drilled a well and that is using that mud pump and reducing from two inch to one inch and just you saw how fast that just dug right down through there no problem at all if this was clay i think it would be the same thing um i put the teeth on the bottom of that pipe or is that way over there but it worked really good shuts off about 32 pounds and that's assuming that gauge is correct remember this is a used pump i found it on the side of the road can't beat that but let's kick this on look at that such beautiful water now this is clean now no sulfur smell we're down there what 34 35 feet found a nice pocket of water we have water our pressure's dropping pretty quick you hear the pump kicking on you can see it picking up we got water eureka eureka we have water this is something you guys can do yourselves i promise you it's not that hard it is a great diy project if you want free water this is the way to do it so if you're looking for the fastest way to get water that by far is the easiest way hook up that mud pump reduce that two inch line down to one inch and let it just push all that dirt up and out of your shaft i mean that took me all of like 10 minutes truly 10 minutes and we were ready to put down the well point that was that quick and now we're ready to go ahead and hook up our airbnb our tiny house this is the shower house we're going to be putting in the toilet the septic all of those things it's all going to go right down through here and the leech bed the drain fill is going to be out pretty far away from here that well is about 80 feet 90 feet from where we're standing so we're fine with that as being distance from any portion of sewage it's all going to be great i can't wait to finish this and show you what we've got going on maybe you'll come down and rent the airbnb for a weekend hey this is chuck with apple drains reminding you that if you believe you can do something i guarantee you to do it have a great day [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 39min 38sec (2378 seconds)

Published: Sat May 21 2022