Where is everyone #5

Sure did, there used to be a restaurant there east of the freeway on the south side of the road called the cow country kitchen, it was pretty good eaten and there was a little redhead waitress the favored me.

 

If y'all wanna say a prayer for me I'd sure appreciate it. We got 3/4 the way to the lake and figured out we don't have the keys.

Well she's driving ... cause I'm not legal....and we took her hot rod. The keys are in her Jeep.

 

....yeah its always weird driving through towns that have smaller populations than my high school.

 

My Dad was in the drilling and blasting and owned a T4 with 25' steel 4" diameter weighing 1000 lbs but we only drilled a 6 1/4" hole, How big of a hole would you drill with tat big of drill steel?

 

That's awesome!

I seen that also. The last couple days have been great. Let's keep up the good work.

Prayers sent.

 

We drilled elevator holes.... for the hydraulic cylinder to shove the elevator up and down. Most were 14" up to 36" depending on if it was a passenger or freight elevator. Top head drive rotary, turn table, electric rotary, and cable tool ( spudder ) was what we used, depending on the building.

 

Thems some large diameter holes!

 

As a boy I cut my teeth on a Bucyrus Erie 21W mounted on a 1960 IH B170. Rig was powered by a Hercules Power, when the engine wore out we pulled the LeRoi off the Gristmill and mounted on it. We also had a 20W on a 1959 IH B180, and a 22W on a 68 F600, Rig powered by a Buda engine. Last drill uncle Lester owned was a 55 Speedstar.

Done a lot of water wells, drilling in the mines for Elog... yes Elog lol!!
Drilled vent shafts down into the mine shafts, geothermal, piling just about everything other than oil and gas. My great uncle that raised me drilled Gas wells in his earlier years, this is one of his pay stubs from Standard Dilling out of Somerset, KY. He was born in 1918... and folks wonder why I tilt towards the older ways , that's how I was taught .

 

I stopped at the Love's there about 0400 this morning for gas.