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Hand-Dug Well Using Primitive Tools? - Frontier Well - Townsends Wilderness Homestead

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The comment section on youtube can  be an amazing place and a lot of  

people were concerned about the safety of this  project so we decided to take this video down  

and put this warning up front you can't see the  safety things that we did behind the scenes to  

make sure that we were safe working on this  project so please do not try to replicate  

this or dig any deep hole in the ground by  hand it can be very dangerous the ground can  

shift very bad things can happen so please do  not try this at home we want you to be safe.

Finally it's the first day of the well dig here  on the homestead and it's still cool this morning  

so we're working hard uh early on instead of  when it gets really really hot this afternoon  

and we're gonna be digging a well we're  about I don't know a hundred feet outside  

the front door of the cabin uh we do have water  that's semi-close here we got a pond but it's  

nasty brackish water we wanna we wanna  get a water source a little closer to us.

Oh look at that water they build their cabin  semi-close to water but not too close you don't  

want to get washed away and then dig a well a  little bit closer to their cabin so that's what  

we're doing now uh this well's gonna be oh uh  three or four feet in diameter and anywhere from  

you know 10 to 12 feet deep depending on exactly  where we're going to find water we're going to  

line this with some some old kegs we'll talk  about that later when we get to that part  

of the digging right now it's just the  hard work of getting into that soil.

take the fellows

all right there you go

Okay we're down five feet maybe a little bit  deeper we're starting to really see what I've  

been wanting to see and that is this is really  dense clay right here but down about five feet and  


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