yard work, my style. pics of my babies

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Got bored the other day, and decided to play around with my mom's new camera. Just got my truck back from the tranny shop (2600 bucks, oofta) and had her all washed up (twice this weekend, first a good one by the pressure washer, then a really good one by the highschool cheerleading squad it's great to be young ) and lookin good, so I took some pics.

Also got pics on there of my new a-pillar gauge pod, and my new hitch accessory $1500 drill bit, did it myself and with my buddy's welding for $25, bit and paint, and $50 for my buddy to do it. I guess Nabors drilling up here is subcontracting a local machine shop to make them for $600 sent to Wyoming. Mine's welded a lot better, and a lot cheaper. Anyways, time for some of the pics, more on my Photobucket page though, see clicky in my signature.

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And me and my kids

[68 Stepside]

Directional Boring bit huh? Never used one that looked quite like that, I did boring in Florida, we didn't need anything that aggressive to get through the sandy soil.

[Scott68-93-97]

Thats a bit off a drill rig its an air bit I used up my share running an ingersal-rand th60 for a couple years Ive gone 2400 feet with one of those and through solid rock in the mountains, but I dont mis that job at all 20 hour days were a common thing and being out of town away from the family is not fun

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Originally Posted by Scott68-93-97

Thats a bit off a drill rig its an air bit I used up my share running an ingersal-rand th60 for a couple years Ive gone 2400 feet with one of those and through solid rock in the mountains, but I dont mis that job at all 20 hour days were a common thing and being out of town away from the family is not fun

drilling, yeah. uses water pressure to turn. it's the bit that makes the hole for the casing. Can't say we go through solid rock most the time, but up here we go about 2000 feet through mud with the BIIIG drill bits (surface bits, 13 and 3/4", or some 13" and some odd inch ones, I'd love to find one of them to make a receiver with,but they don't wear out very fast) but we dig a lot deeper. 9000 feet is a moderate drill. My best friend, 68350, was on a reentry when he worked a few months at Key, and they did a 10,000 foot vertical into a 10,000 foot horizontal. Of course, we don't have sand to dig though, it's all earth and rock, and deep.

Although I'm not personally in oilfield, believe me, it's big up here, it's a big part of the economy up here, and a big part of life. I think everybody up here knows at least one to ten people who work oilfield. Being at a salvage yard, we see a bit of oilfield stuff come in, mostly tubing, sucker rods, and a bunch of cable from Nabors. And my dad's been in the oilfield since he was just a few years older than I am now, so he's been there over 32 years or so. He knows a LOT about the oil patch, knows a lot of people, and he worked some office job at Halliburton for 25 years, spent about 6 or so as a consultant, and is now a Field Production Coordinator (guy who runs the consultants around), and I have picked up some stuff from him, and friends. Personally, I am thinkin about going into the oilfield, some way or another. Mud pumper, swamper, hot oil truck, up in the derrecks, down on the floor, drilling rig, workover rig, doesn't matter, I just kinda want a good job that pays good, and in the oil patch. North Dakota Gold is black, and flows as liquid paper bills, and I would love a piece of it, not to mention the pride of being in the oilfield up here, doing a good job, and following in my dad's footsteps.

[72armyswbtruck]

Wholly Cow talk about rear bumper protector

[Luvlegs]

LOVE the hitch - used similiar (9" dia.), followed by a stinger rod - to bore through 1200 ft to hit a lower drift. Pulled the drill head off once it came out in the lower drift and drew a 6' dia. reaming head back up. Made a 1200' hole, 6 feet in diameter - almost glass smooth. I had been told our rig was one of 4 in the world, we set some kind of record as the hole was at a 52 degree angle and so long... something like that. We ran a pressurized drilling shaft (water pressure in the middle of the "drill bit") when pressure dropped, we had a crack somewhere so it all had to be pulled out and checked... the rods were 7' long and weighed like 450#s or so. I was also told I'd set a complany record myself one night, I tripped out 100 rods in a 10 hour shift. I'd rather do the above ground work though... I get close enough to hell up here without having to go 4200 feet underground! Cool thread I think.

[70cst]

I think I'm partial to the truck on the left.

[alschevy]

You have some nice trucks


1967 chevy one ton wrecker truck

[Scott68-93-97]

Originally Posted by 69-350

drilling, yeah. uses water pressure to turn. it's the bit that makes the hole for the casing. Can't say we go through solid rock most the time, but up here we go about 2000 feet through mud with the BIIIG drill bits (surface bits, 13 and 3/4", or some 13" and some odd inch ones, I'd love to find one of them to make a receiver with,but they don't wear out very fast) but we dig a lot deeper. 9000 feet is a moderate drill. My best friend, 68350, was on a reentry when he worked a few months at Key, and they did a 10,000 foot vertical into a 10,000 foot horizontal. Of course, we don't have sand to dig though, it's all earth and rock, and deep.

Although I'm not personally in oilfield, believe me, it's big up here, it's a big part of the economy up here, and a big part of life. I think everybody up here knows at least one to ten people who work oilfield. Being at a salvage yard, we see a bit of oilfield stuff come in, mostly tubing, sucker rods, and a bunch of cable from Nabors. And my dad's been in the oilfield since he was just a few years older than I am now, so he's been there over 32 years or so. He knows a LOT about the oil patch, knows a lot of people, and he worked some office job at Halliburton for 25 years, spent about 6 or so as a consultant, and is now a Field Production Coordinator (guy who runs the consultants around), and I have picked up some stuff from him, and friends. Personally, I am thinkin about going into the oilfield, some way or another. Mud pumper, swamper, hot oil truck, up in the derrecks, down on the floor, drilling rig, workover rig, doesn't matter, I just kinda want a good job that pays good, and in the oil patch. North Dakota Gold is black, and flows as liquid paper bills, and I would love a piece of it, not to mention the pride of being in the oilfield up here, doing a good job, and following in my dad's footsteps.

I did a lot of enviromental sampling theres no oil in nor cal if there was they wouldn't let us drill for it. My company did water wells to but not a lot. Theres a lot of money in setting up monitering wells and enviro sampling here, I have also ran auger rigs, core sampling, and mud rotary. But definatly the air rigs like the one I mentioned where we use that bit was definatly my favorite, that thing had a 25 foot derik and tons of power we'd blow through 300 feet a day.

[PanelDeland]

All I can say is"Please don't tell my Momma I work in the oilpatch,she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse!"

[68350]

That's an average size reentry rig bit. Most wells up in this area are approx. 13000 feet, where i have heard of some gas wells in wyoming being up to 30000+ feet!! There is a fair share of gas and oil wells up here. I usually worked on oil, but did work on a few gas. H2S sucks!! espicially when the well blew the halliburton valve on bottom and the previous crew didn't stab a TIW. we had to have CUDD well control fly out of houston to "tame" the well. FUN FUN!! All I can say is that is the only bit I have ever seen used as a receiver hitch, and I KNOW i am not gonna tailgate him anymore.

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Originally Posted by 68350

That's an average size reentry rig bit. Most wells up in this area are approx. 13000 feet, where i have heard of some gas wells in wyoming being up to 30000+ feet!! There is a fair share of gas and oil wells up here. I usually worked on oil, but did work on a few gas. H2S sucks!! espicially when the well blew the halliburton valve on bottom and the previous crew didn't stab a TIW. we had to have CUDD well control fly out of houston to "tame" the well. FUN FUN!! All I can say is that is the only bit I have ever seen used as a receiver hitch, and I KNOW i am not gonna tailgate him anymore.

haha, I don't think anybody will tailgate me. Oh yeah, Lippy had the first in town, which is ironic. He has a 2008 Ford F350 Super Duty, crew cab longbox, big ole truck... with a 4 and 3/4" bit, while on my itt bitty half ton I have an 8 3/4" bit, haha.

Tell ya what, I've always hear trippin pipe is the BEST AND MOST FUNNEST PART OF DRILLIN! ....I'm just kiddin, anybody I talk to says it sucks.

Luvlegs, that sounds like it was fun, trippin 100 joints in ten hours. The other part sounds like it was even more fun. Say, 68350 was just tellin me they on reentry rigs tripped about 4-500 joints per day, 12 hour shifts, and that got me to wonderin, what kinda drillin were you doin down there?

[Scott68-93-97]

30000 thats deep well you definetly got us out here in cali beat, like I said the deepest Ive done is 2400 feet, the crappy part of working on an air rig is sampling, when the geologist wants a sample every five feet and you have to trip out all your depth to get a sample and throw it all back in and drill 5 more, you do more tripping pipe than drillin. I would have been way more proud to say I drilled something that was 30000 feet, well I guess its all the same hard work though most important is"Drillers always hit bottom"

[Luvlegs]

I was in a zinc mine in upstate NY - the rods were about 7' long as I recall, 9" diameter (heavy) - The drill was about the size of a school bus - air powered tracks - once in the drift, it was elevated. I had an overhead winch with a hand control, the operator raised one, I took it out, he raised the next one while I stacked the previous... I also had to clean caps for each threaded end, pretty heavy pipe dope (like throwing tar in December) - Drilled down through rock then drew the big reamer back up... somenights, only made 2' of progress others, 50'... I smoked 2 packs of reds and chewed a bag of redman without stopping.... there was enough down time for me though that I also read the bible from cover to cover twice (in the same 3 month period) - it was a tuff 10 hours under ground... actually went about 3 months on that one without seeing sunlight.... tuff work, tuff conditions, tuff guys...

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Originally Posted by Luvlegs

I was in a zinc mine in upstate NY - the rods were about 7' long as I recall, 9" diameter (heavy) - The drill was about the size of a school bus - air powered tracks - once in the drift, it was elevated. I had an overhead winch with a hand control, the operator raised one, I took it out, he raised the next one while I stacked the previous... I also had to clean caps for each threaded end, pretty heavy pipe dope (like throwing tar in December) - Drilled down through rock then drew the big reamer back up... somenights, only made 2' of progress others, 50'... I smoked 2 packs of reds and chewed a bag of redman without stopping.... there was enough down time for me though that I also read the bible from cover to cover twice (in the same 3 month period) - it was a tuff 10 hours under ground... actually went about 3 months on that one without seeing sunlight.... tuff work, tuff conditions, tuff guys...

at least you chew some real stuff! haha. yeah, pipe dope is some pretty nasty stuff, that'll stain the color right out of your skin or anything.

[GREASEMONKEY72]

deffintly dig the bit hitch, not a bad couple of trucks you got there either

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Originally Posted by GREASEMONKEY72

deffintly dig the bit hitch, not a bad couple of trucks you got there either

haha, I get a lot of questions on the hitch, primarily "what the hell is that" and some compliments. I've gotten a LOT of compliments on my 97, especially when I first got it, and started putting stuff on it. Thanks, by the way.