Where is everyone #5

Interesting, I can’t remember, are you a week on week off?

 

Belong to my uncle, he is retired now and so is the drill lol. It is a Chicago Pneumatic T-650 rotary. 6V 71 Detroit deck engine.

 

I bet that thing made some racket getting deep!

 

Yep. Haven't touched the truck in a while. Been busy enjoying the summer and travelling a bit.

 

Ill climb out the passenger door, Marten. No worries pal.



Wake at midnight and step to it to Arlington

 

We have been a little over 650 feet in the mines with it, had to hook a booster compressor to it in order to blow the cuttings out of the hole. It has a big V6 650 cfm @ 150 psi piston compressor on deck. Holds 6 25 foot drill rods in the carousel on the Derrick.

 

@BigBob410 drill steel is over 400 lbs per joint, after the first 6 everything is handled by hand to some degree, we’ve walked the edge of a high wall carrying steel and tromped mud for days around it. Use to eat bananas, beenie weenies, and potato chips for a couple days at a time. Take a bath from a open top barrel full of water and keep going...... I have to laugh at some of the tender foots I see today lol.

 

Stopped and seen a Freind today.......

 

Nah man ya go to the Beacon when it's raining. Won't be anybody else there so you get a better wash. And since they tend to not rinse 'em off real well, ya got the rain to finish the job. It ain't called the Streakin' Beacon for nothing.