
This week we finally tackled a major summer job, cleaning the old abandoned well on the extra piece of land we bought last winter. Maarten made a tri-pod with a pulley, which made the whole job much easier than last time.
0:00 Introduction
1:22 Day 1
8:32 Progress report day 1
9:38 Day 2
10:05 Day 3
12:37 Day 4
15:37 Finding the spring?
22:00 Conclusion
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New here? My name is Lea and I live with my partner Maarten, our toddler Puck and baby Bo on our land in Central Portugal. We left the rat race in the Netherlands in 2018 and moved south in our old campervan. Two years ago we bought land in Portugal that had been abandoned for several decades. After lots of hard work we now live in a beautiful yurt and keep ourselves busy growing our own vegetables as well as producing olive oil, wine and honey on a small scale. This channel documents all the different jobs we have to do, and sometimes some nice footage of this beautiful country we now call home.
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Omgekeerde Hansje Brinkers 😀👍
Glad to see you wear the proper safety footware.. and protective clothing..
We have a gusher!
Make a simple windlass to lift the bucket. It makes lifting it easier, and less chance of it falling back down and hitting the digger in the head.
That tool head that was found was a type of claw fork probably lost the last time someone tried to clean out the well. If you can keep the head secured to the handle, that is an excellent tool for that job.
jesus, can somebody get this guyu a sandbox and legos, and let the adults go to the work day?
Use a Tool Fool is first order american labor. fucking around with your fingers means someone else should be doing your job, and you should be paying them to do it. but go ahead and stretch your time horizon onto one bucket=the amount of time you play with fingers and sticks. im so disgusted I cant watch. get your shit together.
If there is water.. the Dutch will find it 😉
Hi, 😂 if it’s so good for the skin Leah are you going in next? 😂😂
Shame to see all that water and excellent soil wasted after all that work.
Thanks for posting and sharing. Glad that you have the potential water source.
A power washer and pump would clean that completely 😀
I think a big silicone spatula would scrape that sludge off cleanly.
Maybe TWO buckets would be faster ? And if they had holes it would be like sieving and even faster getting out all the roots and twigs.
What a job! But great that there still comes a bit of water.
You are game!! All the sludge you remove you can put it in your compost to use later on your gardens. Also buy a pair of gum boots to your waste. We call them waiders. Love to you both. From Brisbane Australia ❤️❤️
Have you tried vaccumcleaning car.
They fix that in 1h.
Great job you doing on that beautiful Land 😍 thanks for sharing.
Good work brother……have a great well…..😂😂😂😂😂
The mud you are throwing there is going to wash right back in if you don’t have a plan to stop it. Needs a small short wall around the top to keep debris out.
So,I’m thinking you haven’t done much physical labor in your life from watching you. But you ARE putting your back into this project. I hope you don’t plan on using any collected water on anything put plants. Amazing to think people in the past probably drank water from this pit. It would be great if you could wash it all out with a lot of clean water and a powerful pump to suck out mix of mud, dirt etc.
Maybe for the future net the top of the well to stop leaves etc falling in?
Poor system. Why have the digger have to pull the bucket to the surface when there are spare helpers above ground?
A better pulley system could have one person lifting the spoil, while the other one grabs it to direct the spreading of the refuse.
Admire your hard work but you do realise all the fines in the material you pulling out are just getting washed back into the well
wheel barrel ,now you need to load it all back up and remove it away from the well or it will wash back in there
Why doesn't the man at the top haul the bucket as well as tipping it – to give the digger/filler a few seconds break?
Keep it up guys . You inspire me 🌎🌸
Congratulations, you two! All that hard work was certainly worth it. 👏 I can't help wondering about the original owners who put in all that stonework … what an amazing job! Love from Australia 💞
That bucket method worked…….slowly, next time get a water truck with high pressure hose to liquify the dirt and a mud pump to pump out the muck…just an idea, lol
Scoop with the bucket 😆
Backbreaking but amazing work. Once you're done add a bit of bokashi liquid/em1. It will get rid of any stagnant smells and dissolve the residual sludge.
Use 2X to speed it up.