Do It Yourself Well Jetting Part 3 Well Point Installed

[NoTraceSurvival]

How do you replace the leathers?

[SustenanceNCovering]

@NoTraceSurvival That is covered in part 4. I think that the video is called shallow well pumps.

[johnny102marvin]

"If you don't want to survive...don't listen to me." Unfortunately, 99 percent of the population is not listening to you. They are dependent upon the system.

[jeffgail99]

@johnny102marvin He has the greatest closer of all time!!!

[SustenanceNCovering]

@johnny102marvin One day the networks will announce that there has been a glitch in societies infrastructure, but that the new democraticly elected emporer of the New World Order has a team of experts who assure us that everything will be taken care of. The next day people will wake up to a world of no food, no fuel, no water, and no nothing. Maybe that will be a good time to wake up and start listening.

[Sheila6325]

Turns out my "pump" is a pitcher pump and is 1 1/4 inch! Lowes does have everything, so this is the way I'm going. I hope to get an electric pump too, because I do have a generator for emergencies, however I can't decide on that yet. I hope to go to Lowes this coming weekend for the parts, so I guess this is my next project. Shoot, all my labor is on vacation or other jobs, so everything seems to be on hold for a couple weeks. At least I'll have all the parts when it's time though!

[SustenanceNCovering]

@Sheila6325 The first thing that I would do is get a 20 foot piece of 3/4 inch and a simple a way as possible to connect a hose to it. With that you can find out if there is a layer of sand within your reach without spending much money. The water is probably there, but without sand you won't be able to pump it.

[Sheila6325]

@SustenanceNCovering I'm close to the water, and other than a few spots of clay, I have plenty of sand to work with. The water table is high here, so I think that my issues may actually turn out to be, that I would like to go down a bit lower than 10 ft. to get water. I'm in a low spot surrounded by farms, kinda like sitting in a bowl. Using the 20' x 3/4" is a great idea, and it will make it a lot easier to test the area first too! Thank you!

[SustenanceNCovering]

@Sheila6325 When I was little my grandfather put down a piece of 10ft iron pipe and hooked an electric pump on it. He watered his garden with that pump until the day that he died. I don't even know if he had a well point on the end of it. I stopped this well at 13' 6' below grade. I would have kept going if I had more sand but I hit clay. If you hit clay that is where you stop,.

[Sheila6325]

@SustenanceNCovering Oh Wow! then I may be able to keep it at a shorter distance than I thought. I must have missed the part where you said 5' is safe. I had read a lot about runoff of fertiliers lately, but I don't think there is much of that here anyway, but it had me worried for a while, looking at my area, we have a lot of unused land around us. They were old farms with empty fields. Now if I dig & water keeps coming up, then we have a problem. LOLOL no worry, boat renal is close. LOLOL

[SustenanceNCovering]

@Sheila6325 75% of humanity drinks water from ditches, rivers streams ponds and wells that are less than 5 feet deep. Nearly all health problems associated with these water sources are civilization related. Toxic waste is one. Humans using streams and ponds as toilets is another. There are parasite problems associated with specific areas on the globe. None of them are in North America. The problem is that when SHTF people head for the nearest water source when they need to poop.

[Sheila6325]

@SustenanceNCovering Yep, I know there are people here that use a stream that runs out the side of a hill but it's super clean, There are wells all over the place here, almost no central water at all. so it's got to be pretty good if no one is sick. Most are over 500' here, but that's the business end of things, before that, they were only 25' If it was good back in the 1950's it's got to still be good today! My sons are going to help me with this one, so I'm off to gey parts. Love you guys!

[poormanprepper]

can i cast around the well pipe in concrete to keep it from breaking?

[SustenanceNCovering]

@poormanprepper That's what I plan on doing. One of my subscribers sent me a video a couple of days ago where he poured his. I'll go back in my email and try to find the video for you.

[jmmurdy]

nice

[CalJennings]

I have you going out on my network of blogs. Keep up the great work!

[SustenanceNCovering]

@CalJennings Fame Here I Come. I will probably get another pump tomorrow. I'll make a vid once I'm pumpin' water.

[wrathmaster]

kool

[GreenEggsAndHamster]

Awesome! Are you going to show the pump installed in a future video? I'd love to see it. You make this all look so easy, I look forward to seeing the completed system. Thank you so much!

[SustenanceNCovering]

@GreenEggsAndHamster My pump came in from ebay, but when I tried to change out the leathers, the cage assembly broke, so I may just put another pump on the well tomorrow. I'll video it.

[btigtime2]

Here in Louisiana the water table is 7ft... but I have been told that there are lots of chemicals in that including Arsenic... but I have drilled wells like that for cows, and they never fell-over dead.

[SustenanceNCovering]

@btigtime2 When I was in Jr High, I saw a science book where they were pouring polluted water in one end of a trough filled with sand that was 12 feet long and had a spigot at the other end where the book said that the water would be completely purified. I don't know if that is true or not, but this water under my property is in a 12 foot thick layer of sand and there isn't any industry anywhere near here. The only testing that I plan on doing is a taste test.

[greatwf]

BTW this is excellent info and technique, we used to have to drive wells with a special big wood hammer or a thing like a post driver. You don't want to do that, it's is a killer hard job. So this is a super good way to get a well.

[SustenanceNCovering]

@greatwf Been There Done that. Never again.  At least not as long as I have access to a pressurized water system to jet a well in.

[greatwf]

for those that don't know, some places you can get water at 3 feet or less, some places much deeper, check your area's or states, water tables. Or ask some old timers. At least that's what we had to do back in the day.

[SustenanceNCovering]

@greatwf When I moved here I went around the neighborhood asking how deep the water table was and everybody said 800 feet. People don't know anything for themselves anymore.

[liabatud67]

Good info & Well said.