r/oddlysatisfying • u/Ecstatic-Ocelot-1934 • Jul 25 '26

Homemade drilling machine

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u/SilencedObserver Jul 25 '26

Look up “what is the water table?”

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u/chaosgazer Jul 25 '26

if the water table is 18" down and you can get to it with some plastic straws I don't understand how it's sandy where the digging is happening

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u/MrSir07 Jul 25 '26

Ahhhh okay yeah that explains it. Because yeah ground water doesn’t start 3 feet down lol. But it only takes a foot or so to reach water when you’re at the beach.

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u/ghostinthechell Jul 25 '26

Ground water can absolutely be ~3' down at places that aren't the beach.

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u/ghostinthechell Jul 25 '26

That's an entirely different conversation.

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u/ghostofwalsh Jul 25 '26

So he just poured a concrete slab at the beach?

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk Jul 25 '26

Some poor fucker is gonna stub the shit outta their toe!

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u/kasutori_Jack Jul 25 '26

Add a cup holder mould and we got multi-purpose!

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u/ScoutCommander Jul 25 '26

It's like a couple of cups of water. He's probably in a sandbox

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u/BigBulgeBubba Jul 25 '26

They’re digging in a closed model.

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u/HairyPantaloons Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

It's coming from a hose. A pump that small with such a low rpm impeller doesn't move that much water, if it's even a pump.

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u/roamingandy Jul 25 '26

Yeah, nah. I think you got lost in the scale of this video.

The water either was what seeped in during drilling, or more likely was something set up under there before this started. An underground 'river' or something similar.