Jetting a shallow well DIY

well I did want to make a video of my shallow well drilling but it started raining when I was out here doing it getting prepped so I just had to do it and couldn't set up the camera anywhere that wouldn't get wet so what I did was I have a three-inch pipe casing and that casing is 14 feet into the ground there's still a foot above grade and that piece of pipe was 15 feet long and the way I'd done that was I made me a cutting head of galvanized coupling and I screwed it to a male 2 inch male adapter and then you'll notice right here I put a set screw in it so it could not unscrew and come off I glued the white 2-inch pipe on to that male adapter and if you notice the other day I did have that pipe about 4 feet in the ground and that's the two sections of pipe right there that's one piece was about 8 feet and then the other piece is about 6 feet long 7 7 feet long and what I did was I took this pipe here and hooked this head that you can either you can make these or you can buy them I'm blocked in and you just take that you don't glue this on you just push that on your two-inch pipe which I did right here on this piece section first and then you drill it and put your hose on each side of it and then turn the hose on the water will start gushing up out of this 3-inch pipe and as you turn this back and forth by hand just by hanging on to it it cuts itself right into that sand quite easily and it blows it up out of that three-inch pipe and as soon as that piece got a little long I took the head off added some more 2-inch pipe and put the head back on it you can see I did it here I did it right here and then right there that's 15 feet long and I washed that all the way down I would stop every so often and pull it out and then take a big sledge this one right here 20-pound sledge and just tap on the top of that 3-inch pipe just until it would quit going and then drop the two-inch back down in there turn it back on and keep washing it down until I got down to almost 15 feet deep and tap that pipe in as far as I wanted it to go then I added the rest of this pipe which is another 8 feet on the end of that and I washed that down inside that three inch pipe until it was all the way to the bottom so this well is about twenty-two feet deep and I actually hit rock that that was not going any farther I hit lime rock down there at 22 feet I'll let it run for a while until it cleaned out a lot of the sand and my Sun came out and helped me get that one out because once you get it in there that long well you got a-you got 22 foot piece of pipe we had to stand up out of the ground take hoses off of it and start pulling it out pulled it all the way out screwed our inch and a quarter pipe this inch and a quarter galvanized which I put on the bottom it has this right here foot valve inch and a quarter foot valve that helps you keep your prime and kind of filters that stuff out keeps rocks from getting up into your pump it lets the sand through though put that on there with some pipe dope dropped it all the way down in there until it's actually this thing is actually touching the rock right now the bottom of that foot valve is I put a tee in here with a cap I'm gonna put a electric pump on there and then I screwed my pitcher pump on the top of it and make sure everything is sealed up good and tight we got water no more hook that electric pump up to it and let it pump and pump clean all this water out it's not cleaned up here it's gonna take a lot of pumping any water just didn't do that for your arm hurts as long as you leave this pump handle down it'll keep it to prime which I don't think it'll lose its prime anyway well yeah there it is it's still loose inside you can still turn it and that pipe is 22 feet in the ground almost way on down there alright guys sorry I didn't get to show you the process it was fun it was wet sandy dirty but got it done next step will be get the pump on here get it running get some water going out of this thing clean it out and see how clean this water is see if you can drink it ain't drinking none yet no way I don't know what's down there alright guys see you next time thanks for watching bye alright guys lookie here went and got the pump plumbed in like I said I was going to wear that keys that check that out [Applause] [Applause] all the water you need that's it get out it's been pumping for almost 45 minutes now fills that gap I gallon bucket up in about 40 seconds I think I'll shut it off now it's run long enough little pom-pom lows that was it was just over $200 fellow funk yeah thank you're good talk to you later [Applause] well there's the garden look at that kale growing man that is growing some fat let's start eating some kale squash we're getting huge some Tomatoes look at him think all these made some lettuce onions got some beets going on in there yeah today's all the way down this fence row here I think about 35 in total all different varieties did finish off the well put the cap on top of it that way it's sealed up around nothing can fall in get around the edge of the suction pipe there yeah does everything I want and I did check with the county you need to before you drill a well of any type whether it's jetted in hammered in rotary drilled ten feet deep or 500 feet deep you need to check with your County Building Department and see if you need a permit which I did and the health department is what handles this area but no got that taken care of and got it all done my water it's going to be a whole lot cheaper and a lot better for my plants than city water county water snap visa you

Channel: Loaderman Jacks Life

Views: 66,892

Keywords: well drilling, well jetting, diy, well installation, shallow well, well, irrigation well, how to drill a well, garden watering, garden, picture pump, pump, drill head, jetting a well

Id: 1fKjkmSySaE

Length: 8min 40sec (520 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 13 2019