Well Drilling by hand

We drilled a well for the garden at church using the auger style drill rig from Hydromissions. Check out Hydromissions.org

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Well
• Drilling
• by
• hand

[whiteynut]

That's a neat rig. How long are the extention sections?

[engineer775]

@whiteynut 3 feet

[hiyasweets]

Cool video as a city person I never knew you could do this by hand.

[espigadgo1]

nuestro albergue en mezquital, Dgo, Mexico necesita hacer un pozo para sacar agua, animo

[sugerbear520]

nice

[1SixpenceFan]

I think Hydromissions website is .com .org didn't work when I tried it.

[andrewsengineering]

lol, that looks like what I call a mud hole! I just completed a well where I drilled through 130 feet of muddy clay and loose sand and gravel, run 132 feet of 5" steel casing then drilled another 40 feet into the bedrock with a total depth of 170, water comes in at 145 and rises to within 25 feet of the top of the pipe. Was a nasty well to drill...

[donyunger]

IMO every properly in the USA should have a properly constructed water well on it, unless the water is depleted to grow inappropriate lawns, some lawns have some purpose though Not implying WM doesn't do things right but but there is some poor practices promoted on YT. I think a simple derrick would make thing simpler, quicker. tading the T handlefor wrenches that could be attached to square drill stem quickly. Not hard to imagine this system could go to 100' if needed to.

[dramey03]

reported for child labor

lol nah just kidding, awesome youre teaching him so much

[austinsqu11]

this video gives me that great friendly community great living great life kind of feeling wish i could have been there

[FrontCortex]

A Country Boy can Survive! Great job!

[osx5dot1]

I used to do this (not for drilling water) but for an engineering firm to test bearing capacity of soil. We only used a 4 inch hand auger, but that is work -- You had the right idea to have several people there to take a few wacks at it. Nice Job. Love the other videos too.