1 Hour of Water well Drilling - Time Lapsed Video

Hello All,
Its been a while but that's because we've been busy. We've been drilling almost everyday for the past two weeks and it can be kinda grueling sometimes. On one of our recent drill trips I decided to test making a time lapsed video of 1 hour of drilling. It took me a while to get all the software right but here it is. I plan to make a time lapsed video for an entire well from start to finish but I need a few more gadgets to make that go smoothly. For this video I literally sat there taking a picture every 15 sec for 1 hour, and that was horribly tedious. I can't imagine doing it for 8 hours for drilling plus 1 hour to put in the pump. All I need is an intervalometer for a sony dslr, ac adapter for the camera, and 12v car adapter. It will be a while before they get over here and I can get the whole video done.


To explain a bit of the drilling process you can see that our drill rig is quite large. It weighs somewhere around 8-10 tons. The drill is a hydraulic rotary drill that uses 5 ft steel rods and bits of various sizes. The drill forces water down through the drill steel into the end of the bit which is turning and grinding away at the bottom of the hole. Stuff that the bit breaks loose is collected by the water and forced up and out of the hole into the green trough. The engine on the ground to the right pumps the water out of the trough, into the drill and down into the hole. That's why people are shoveling stuff out of the trough because you can imagine how the soil and rock builds up in that trough. As we put additional pieces of steel into the hole we have to add chemicals to the water to help collect the drill cuttings and to keep the wall of the hole in place while we are drilling.

Hope this is interesting,
Caleb

Also let me know if you think pictures seem too fast. This video is at 15fps. When I do a whole day I think it will be between 15-30 fps