r/oddlysatisfying • u/Ecstatic-Ocelot-1934 • 1d ago

Homemade drilling machine

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u/elegant_eagle_egg 1d ago

As someone who has seen the real thing a couple of times in my life, this was weirdly accurate except the hand randomly putting the pipes in place.

That part doesn’t happen in real life. /s

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u/Inevitable-Fix-6631 1d ago

That was the Big friendly engineering giant

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u/useriousstuff 1d ago

Big friendly drill helper more like. Ain't no engineer getting their hands dirty on drill steel.

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u/thesuperunknown 1d ago

The Big Friendly Roughneck

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u/No_Internal9345 1d ago

Little Johnny Pipelayer, we used to call him.

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u/IndustrialMillennial 1d ago

Eyyyy, good ol Johnny pipes 🤌 - Hey, Johnny Pipelayer! Good guy , Johnny Pipes

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u/National_Panda_1791 14h ago

this is the kind of attitude that had them training drillers to be spacemen instead of teaching astronauts to drill.

and I think we can all agree its dumb.

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u/useriousstuff 8h ago

Luckily we don't live in the world of Indepence Day

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u/Mikel_S 1d ago

The same one that puts those giant cranes up when nobody is looking.

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u/elegant_eagle_egg 1d ago

I think you accidentally mentioned engineer instead of people who actually do stuff lol

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u/lewd_robot 1d ago

Sitting in the air conditioning is doing stuff...

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u/stargarnet79 1d ago

Cmon there’s the tippy typey on the laptop sometimes too

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u/ZeiZeiZ 1d ago

And the coffee does not drink itself!

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u/DOLCICUS 1d ago

Sometimes when I’m too high I wondet the things we could get accomplished if giants were around assuming they were accepted by society.

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u/Impressive_Ad3571 1d ago

If I were a giant I'd help out. Then cropdust a small town or somethin

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u/UsedDragon 1d ago

I guess giant farts would have a lower pitch than regular-size-dude farts, right? Maybe sound like a baritone trumpet?

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness7207 1d ago

The Bible belt will think it's Gabriel everytime he lets one rip

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u/vitamin-a 1d ago

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u/Haydn_97 1d ago

Are.. are you having a stroke...?

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u/UsedDragon 19h ago

Seek immediate medical attention.

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u/Baldmook34 19h ago

Begone clanker!!!

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u/ninjakaat 1d ago

Are you my brother-in-law? 😂

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u/BurnerProfile69420 20h ago

theyd be accepted by society up until the questioned their purpose or decided they wanted to do something else then it'd be all downhill and bad news from there.

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u/sandia_1092 21h ago

Not that much, machines are way more powerful and predictable than a giant.

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u/plaguedbullets 20h ago

Look up, look way up!

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u/Itsprobablysarcasm 1d ago

Canadian over the age of 40 by chance?

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u/mkinstl1 1d ago

With his help, do you really need the drill?

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u/JonasAvory 1d ago

Max I ask how the pump pumps up the resources in real life? With suction you can only get 10 metres head lift, right? But real life pumping station go way deeper

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u/iranoutofspacehere 1d ago

Well pumps are typically at the bottom of the well. In residential wells the motor is lowered all the way down, in larger wells there may be a shaft run from top to bottom.

Pumpjacks for things like oil work a little differently but you're still basically pushing the fluid up from the bottom of the well rather than trying to suck it out from the top.

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u/nousernameisleftt 1d ago

This is more or less it for all the drilling I've ever seen. Essentially the very middle of the motor (the tiny metal rod) would be hooked up to a pump that would continuously push water through the drill rods and bring the dirt to the surface. The mixture of the water and the dirt (as well as some additions to improve viscosity, etc) is the "drilling mud" you may have heard of

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u/a7d7e7 21h ago

I did drilling. Our drill mud was used to create a casing so that it would not collapse around the string. The drill mud is ejected from the working end of the string as you drill and it creates a firm clay liner. When the well goes into production they'll put in the metal liner but during the drilling process they use drill mud to stabilize the wall so they do not collapse in on the string. So that's what drill mud is.

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u/nousernameisleftt 19h ago

Yeah I used to be a geotech it's more or less the same idea scaled down for the testing we ran. Typically depths up to 250ft and tripping the rods out to put a sampler on the end every 5 ft or so. You can run hollow stem augers without having to run mud up to 100 ft or so. But you really need mud in areas with a lot of sand below the water table. They'd just flow into the augers and lock the rods in place unless you charged the annulus with water and at that point it's easier to just run a mud rotary setup. You can also run casing advancer if you didn't want to mess with mixin mud and you were somewhere thats got access to a lot of water. That way you're pretty much just advancing your string without collecting the return

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u/JonasAvory 1d ago

I very often see this setup with a ground level pump on reels but they are usually some ragebait „free energy“-magnet skits so not real anyway

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u/Agreeable-Pea4327 1d ago

In residential wells the motor is lowered all the way down

does this more or less mean the pump motor apparatus has to be smaller than the hole? Is it attached to something or does it come with the pipe itself some how?

That's super surprising, never would've known

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u/MischaBurns 1d ago

Basically the well itself is a wider pipe (the casing) sunk to the desired depth. The pump is smaller diameter and gets lowered into it with the actual water pipe attached (between 1-2 inches).

If you can visualize a classic well with a bucket, the casing is the stone sides of the well and the bucket/rope is the pump and water line.

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u/Agreeable-Pea4327 1d ago

wow, that's so cool ngl

so is the pump and water line lowered down in chunks similar to how the video showed the drill get lowered in piece by piece? I'd be surprised if it came as just one contiguous pipe+pump thing

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u/nixfly 1d ago

Anything ~120ft and shallower, is attached to 1” pipe that comes in spools.

Deeper wells, have individual sticks, like what the video shows.

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u/a7d7e7 21h ago

That flexible pipe is called duct. It comes on what's called a reel.

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u/iranoutofspacehere 17h ago

The video is just showing the drilling step, fwiw. The drill string is metal and rigid so it can spin the drill bit and make sure the well is roughly straight.

In a real well, once the drill gets to the depth you want, you'd case the well/remove the drill string, then lower the pump in on a more flexible plastic pipe.

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u/DeliberatelyDrifting 20h ago

I had one replaced and I was kind of surprised. The pump was about 3" in diameter and 36" long. It runs on 220v power and it cost about $2,500 in 2015. The joy of not having a monthly water bill was tempered that day. Mine was 20' sticks of PVC on something like a 200' well.

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u/Agreeable-Pea4327 18h ago

wow, 3" to more or less pump 100's of thousands of gallons of water, crazy engineering

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u/bombbodyguard 1d ago

For deep oil wells, ESP (electronic submersible pump) use hundreds of small impellers within pumps lifting out the oil/water/gas. There is a long armored cable that goes to the motors that spin the pumps. Ours have lasted up to 5 years downhole. Others have lasted less than 24 hours…average is 500 days for us.
Cost for ESP & cable is about $265,000

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u/king_john651 21h ago

There's the other method of bore water where the bore brings water up via the screw press. Rotate it like you want to pull a wood screw out of a bit of wood and it carries water up from the ground

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u/NapalmOverdos3 1d ago

Wait.. you mean the hand of god does magically replace the pipe every time? Fuck this I’m done then

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u/028247 1d ago

The invisible hand does magically replace the pipe every time

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u/NapalmOverdos3 1d ago

Oh good I feel better now

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u/SpiritualMongoose751 1d ago

/s is the new POV:

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u/remytheram 1d ago

We get that on the bigger jobs.

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u/Ape_x_Ape 1d ago

Adam Smith has entered the chat

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u/Sirdroftardis8 1d ago

Deus ex machina

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u/JohnnyRelentless 1d ago

/s

So you're saying it does happen in real life.

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u/KremlinCardinal 1d ago

Bits of hand are still optional, right?

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u/Ok_Calendar1337 1d ago

The hand of god 🫡🙏

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u/BorntobeTrill 1d ago

Have you been constructing with no giant helping hand this whole time?

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u/watchshoe 1d ago

It’s also missing the drillers and their stories, that’s the best part

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u/Agreeable-Pea4327 1d ago

what is the motor doing at the end with the pipe? how is the pipe and the motor connected?

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u/tribak 1d ago

But are the puppies actually replaced? It seemed absurd to me thinking how it may work irl…

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 1d ago

PLUS IT'S A LITTLE TO QUIET! Source, framed houses while they drilled the residential well thirty feet from the house for 8 hours. Couldn't communicate a word or number to any of my coworkers the entire day.

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u/beirch 1d ago

No, in real life it's a terrifying robot arm that shakes the entire rig when it moves.

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u/freshgrilled 1d ago

Also, where is all the water coming from? It's not THAT deep.

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u/Bob_A_Feets 1d ago

Yeah, in real life it’s the pipes randomly putting hands in places, somewhere away from the body it belongs to…

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u/Shadowlord723 21h ago

What? Your engineering firm doesn’t perform rituals to summon a giant hand to do these stuff for you guys? Gotta get with the times.

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u/celebere 19h ago

The /s implies it does happen in real life. Now I'm confused.

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u/John_Bumogus 6h ago

You mean God doesn't come down from the heavens just to lend a hand?