tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post6232827349813105926..comments2024-03-09T08:06:26.066-08:00Comments on Looking For Detachment: Things You Find in the Field: Old Drill RigSilver Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03131032620978696727noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-43185561131953690602019-11-23T05:52:27.820-08:002019-11-23T05:52:27.820-08:00Might still be there...
:-)Might still be there...<br /><br />:-)Silver Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03131032620978696727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-30780206763311882492019-11-22T22:30:17.736-08:002019-11-22T22:30:17.736-08:00Definitely a rotary rig . Weird how it was abandon...Definitely a rotary rig . Weird how it was abandoned. Maybe the owner died or was abruptly taken away! This would be a dream find for me. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851873698628787660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-79274637449275169442010-12-08T20:27:16.817-08:002010-12-08T20:27:16.817-08:00Howard, thanks for the ID. I should have taken mor...Howard, thanks for the ID. I should have taken more photos!<br /><br />A friend of mine said that in Honduras many of the rigs used looked a lot like this one, a little worse for wear, but still running. Not sure that this one still has all the parts, though.<br /><br />Sometimes it seems as though people have just up and left after something happened - like after not finding water? - and this may no longer be private land, either.Silver Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03131032620978696727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-3761657073129971532010-12-08T10:04:25.361-08:002010-12-08T10:04:25.361-08:00From what I can see, I'd say it's a conven...From what I can see, I'd say it's a conventional rotary rig. The straight black pipe leaning against the derrick at an angle (far left of your second photo) appears to be a kelly bar (which drives the drillpipe via a rotary table & bushings), attached to a circulating hose (kelly hose), that can be seen hanging in a loop in the top left corner. Unfortunately, photo 2 is cut off at the top, so you can't see a swivel which would connect the kelly and the kelly hose, though that might be a small swivel visible in photo 1 just to the left of the highline boom (white) sticking out halfway up the right side of the derrick. The dark blob above the highline boom is probably the travelling block, slumped over against the derrick. Also in photo 2, the big hose lying on the ground and apparently attached to the derrick at the lower end of a standpipe, is a circulating hose, which you probably wouldn't see on a cable-tool rig. The other end of the circulating hose (hidden behind a shrub, below the truck cab) would be attached to a pumping unit.<br /><br />Strange (to me) how stuff is just abandoned in the middle of nowhere.<br /><br />--HowardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-77243964635956828202010-12-08T09:33:08.628-08:002010-12-08T09:33:08.628-08:00Somebody's dream.Somebody's dream.Gaelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784162697113288888noreply@blogger.com