DIY Well Drilling... It's a PITA

Let me know if this is something you’ve done and your experiences.

Dude your soils like butter, holy cow I would have found like six baseball-sized rocks and not first little bit you dug

It was very entertaining and informative when you explained things at the end! I appreciate the fact that you were willing to share your true experience and I am glad that you didn’t give up and succeeded in getting it done for you and your family! I wish I could do it but I’m in Virginia and my soil is clay and it needs to be over 150’ to get to the water table. I have a 110’ well that gives me 150 gallons and then takes 3 hours to recover so it makes growing my garden a real challenge. I’m considering getting some ICB totes and putting a pump in them. I could collect rain water and use my well to fill them over time if needed but I’m on a fixed income and don’t have a lot of expendable income. I have more pressing needs and every time I save up for something another thing seems to come up and gobble up my savings. But I am very thankful for what I do have and I am very blessed in many ways! I pray that you and your family will be blessed in every way! ❤

Oh man, this was such a heartwarming video. I love your entire family participation! Thank you for sharing.

You've shown me that I shouldn't try to do this myself after all lol.

Thank you for sharing. The galvanized “bit” that you made really helped your process, even if not cutting through shell rock I would think the steel vs PVC would cut so much better.

Great video Steve. Working on a shallow well using the pressure washer approach. We're about 30' down and progress is now slow....Very encouraging to see others run into problems, work through the process and figure it out in the end. Appreciate you showing failures as well as successes. Keep it up man.

Interesting video, I don't think the process would be quite the same here in our rocky Pennsylvania ground, but it started the wheels turning in my mind. Pretty good story/plot delivery, thanks for taking the time to put the video together!

You had the right idea for the drilling bit, but you needed carbide drill points or anything that was hardened steel to drill through the shale rock easier. But at least you got it done. Now you know what to do for the next one. Good job.

Proud of you. saved thousands of dollars. Unprofessional video but real and original. I like it. You are a hard working man. You needed to buy a batter pump though.

I drill a set of four near Ocoee, Florida about twenty years ago doing the double water hose method. Kicked my ass. We had very fine sand and clay, so output was low (hence the four wells), but the water was excellent. I only used it for irrigation but it tested fine for drinking.

Great job!! I have drilled 3 wells with a Deep Rock one man drill and got plenty of water, but had a problem because I had gravel and the gravel wouldn't flow out of the hole very well, but I finally had success and got plenty of water each time!!!

Nice work. You stuck it out - Congratulations!

This is so inspiring. Thanks

Was going to click away early in the video. Glad I stayed till the end ! Good job you have true grit.

I live down in Hendry county and I want to drill a well on my property. your video was very informative Thank you and your Family.

Good job man. I'm looking to jet a well with a 2" or 3" mud pump along with bentonite clay.

Good Man, Your efforts, paid off, staying on point.

Good job 👍 I plan to do similar.

Good Job. More need to know how to do this. 😀