I worked for oil company that had a,Frank's rig mounted on a 1948 Ford truck. They bought it new. It had a,little turntable and a mud pump. It had 2 Buda motors powering the rig. It was only a single. A gentleman delivered it to Kemmerer Wyoming from Tulsa Oklahoma. That rigs top speed was about 40 mph. Rumor has it he crawled out of the rig and ran to the train station. He had enough of that rig on rough dirt roads.
I think the very first video of yours I ever watched was Franks rig, I subbed after that. Good ole Jeff. Love that guy. I can't even remember how many years ago it was, I sent him a scale model of a Cat 245, I figured he would make more use out of it then me. Love seeing it on his shelf when he is sitting there talking with them behind him. As far as the rig goes, I do believe if anyone is going to get it running it will be you. Great channel Zack.
I like your drilling rig idea. I broke out on a Cabot 900, built in Pampa, very similar to what you are thinking. It was an overgrown well service rig on a Crane Carrier, and a separate skidded sub with rotary table that we backed up to. Two 12v71's with Allison Automatics, we drilled to 10,500' with 4-1/2 dp. Also, Walker-Neer built combo spudder/rotary rigs like you are thinking.
Zach, as an amateur electrical nut ( who also watches Carlson's Lab ) making a lightening suppression rods around my well rigs would become a priority to me. Seems like you could come up with a homemade system sorta like what space x and nasa has on their launch pads to draw lightening strikes away from their rocket ships. This could be a great project for ya'll tubers! Just saying!
8:45 Um...thanks? 😋 Had to turn captions back on to be sure I heard right. Didn't know I was a machinist...never got the chance start learning any of it though do have the lathes. I can weld well enough to make things stick together but that's about it.
My father was a petroleum geologist and I kicked around seismic crews for 15 years. I saw a lot of shot hole drilling rigs and work over rigs, but I never saw a combination work over/drilling rig. There must be a reason because original ideas are as rare as hens teeth and someone is bound to have had this thought before you.
My first year running a rig in East Texas I run a double triple three-legged Frank’s. That was like 15 years ago and was one of my favorite rigs along the way.
Man, I'm tickled to hear that you're gonna resurrect that ole rig! I have an affinity for bringing old abandoned stuff like that back from the edge, and your project makes it sound even better by giving the thing not one, but TWO new leases on life! Thanks for the update, Zach!
Hell yeah! I'm self admittedly nostalgic and sentimental. I'm all for bringing old iron back to life. Nothing more rewarding than seeing her eat again. I look forward to the video of that machine operating. No doubt she'll get right down and haul the mail.
I keep finding I bump into the same people, or linked people all the time. It is actually a big world out there, but there are a lot of small circles within it.
Not so shocking when you consider it's only a small world for competent people who can do really good things,,, that's why I want you I enjoy seeing bright young men who can think for themselves,
Look forward to seeing this project shape up. I have a Schramm rig been spending money on for some time now. Planning a trip across Oklahoma and Texas panhandle next month and look forward to seeing oil country again.
I worked on a cardwell 250 that had a drilling substructure that tied into the drivetrain on the rig. Simply backed into the sub. Worked great. Didn't need a ramp.
Ditto. I've worked on Cardwells like that, and helped build an Ideco rig like that in WV back around 1978,. We built about an 8' substructure, chain drive rotary table that hooked up to a shaft on the rig. Part of the substructure base was a large beam that mated with the base of the derrick. No ramps necessary
I love the drill rig... even if it didn't make the most sense from an Oil Man's perspective, that crusty old thing is RUclips Gold. That and dipping your arm in PCB transformer oil, lol.
Hey Zach, so glad to hear that you are going to get your rig going. I can't wait to see your video series on this project! You've got some great ideas for it for sure. It will certainly be a nice workover rig for your leases, you will be saving a lot of money that way. If your looking for a vacation idea, how about taking your RV out to Midland, TX to the Permian Basin Oil Field Museum. It would be a great setting for your RV. I have been out to this museum several times and never tire of it. Of course, you may want a vacation away from the oil fields, just an idea. Enjoy your vacation.
use a old flat bed of some sort as the platform, , back the rig up onto the flat bed structure, add a hydrolic ramp to level the rig truck, and clamps to fix the structure to the rigs frame. looks like a solid plan.
Glad you are saving it i would. A nice hydraulic drive will make good for the table. I put all the components together for a fellow a few years ago with the same idea.
Feller locally here had 4 or 5 Bucyrus-Erie water well drilling rigs that set up on the ground like you were describing. He retired from that business and sold the rigs several years ago. AL B.
might be a substructure and dog house from days gone by was for doing reentrys with a well servicing rig guy who owns it has sold rigs and is getting out located in perryton tx I'll chk tomorrow see if its still there
Stroll on Zach, that sounds good, what a project. Try to keep all your work in-house, we used to do everything in house but about 15 year ago we got rid of half our men and subbed the work out. Now we have had enough of cowboys and the like and are now bring the work back in-house. I look forward to the rig videos. All the best.
So look!!! On the main supports to the wrig, and even the frame... Do, density / material thickness, ultrasonic. meter is used in welding and it gives you metric material thicknesses in welding inspecting. Inspect the main supports and cross members, go from there, or cut out carefully and replace parts by welding and done, lol 😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When Zach (literally) drag that rig out of the field it was rotting on, I instantly thought there was no way he would cut it for scrap. I'm glad I was right. This big old stuff asked to go back to work when it came back to life years ago.
Now could you use two low bed trailers side by side with sub structure to 36" . So you'll have a 16' x 40' ish platform for rig,turn table , rigging. Set up would be easier if the turn table with motor was mounted one while the other can hold tanks, rigging, and more.
There's lots of double triples coming up for sale I'd buy one of those, you can convert yours to a single pole rig and make it very handy and use a rig that has plenty of pulling power 70t+ instead of a 50t rig.
Oh man... you aint put any turn buckles on the H base? I hope you aint pulling much weight? And you gotta make sure therig is straight or youll twist the derrick. Atleast thats how tripple doubles work. As far as the sandline drum. The way ive rigged up/down, on franks as well. Theres no "handle" at the swab stand (swab stick) it should be a ratchet type handle with a release that lets you release the brakes/engage them. You just set the handle to the middle so the derrick can scope/come up and the hydraulics will release some sand line but the brakes will slightly grab so it doesnt free spool. Rigging down you select the highest gear clutch in the sandline and set the brake to that middle spot where the brakes are grabbing but the gearing is so high that it wont rip the derrick down/over. Ive never had to have 2 people on the carrier rigging up/down other than when im ready to break the derrick over. When you rig her up and down enough times you know exactly where you need to put your blocks to make sure the blocks dont rip stuff up and the sandline does what you want/need it to do. When i broke out on a franks we use to "hang" the blocks there was a place in the derrick where there was a chain and hook that wed loop into the top of the blocks then let the let some drill line out to the half moods on the back of the derrick then lay the derrick over. I went to another company and ive never done it since cant remember if that was a franks thing or a the company i worked at thing but if you have a thin piece of metal in the back of the derrick so the blocks can slide up the derrick as you lay the derrick over you shouldnt have to touch the handle again. It makes rig up/rig down way faster and easier. Im not an engineer by any means but i do know rigs in and out, atleast trip doubles and your old girl looks the same just smaller, ive worked around a lot of really good user friendly set up rigs and rigs that were horrible to work with, ive worked on a service king sk1000 8 line 118' tripple double, a falcon 8 line trip dub that was either 118 or 112' derrick. Ive worked on frank with 98' derricks where you damn near crown out every time you pull a hang. I also know some old timers that love to shoot the sheet and have built rigs from the ground up. Engineering side i most likely wont be able to help you but set up side, man feel free to let me know ill shoot ya an email and give you my number and i can help with anything and if i dont know i know people who will know. I aint looking for handouts or shoutouts just one fellow oilfield trash hand to another. One thing ive learned about the oilfield is the more people you know the more information you can get, and sometimes a phone call can save a ton of money, especially working on rigs
Do you plan on having BOP‘s underneath your rotary? Or at minimum an annular. And as far as the rotary goes, I would personally go with hydraulic over diesel, similar to the style that you would find on a standalone snubbing unit. You will be able to adjust torque and RPM’s precisely.
But in all actuality, it would probably be cheaper and more efficient in the long run to get a top drive power swivel for it. it would eliminate some of the issues that you will run into having a bottom drive rotary with the blocks.
Why not run a xk 90 power swivel we drill out plugs outta laterals then your not dealing with a bunch more moving parts kinda a hybrid top drive rig for shallow wells
That sounds like a great idea to make a combination rig . would the table and structure be on wheels ? airbag them up or pin in your axles and move it? Or is it a slide off big trailer type item?
Hi Zach, We also watch Jay! I will enjoy watching you do the WOR! We had some rigs use top drives on WOR when they deepen wells in the Austin Chalk! They also air drilled some wells deeper with WOR! Do you have any SCDA damage from lighting! That's what I did the last 17 years I was in the oil patch!
Okay well how much would you potentially pay, and if was accepted then were to stay temporarily then maybe live, maybe. Can send resume and go from there. Oooh, I got it give one shop to stay, and go from there..... lol 😊😊😊😊😊
As with most all of Your projects Zach, this work-over/completion/drilling rig , seems like a sound financial endeavor . The only rat sign in the oatmeal is, as You mentioned, hiring people that know the difference between their rump and a hole in the ground. Know what the hole is, what it does and how to make one or maintain one. I could launch a diatribe about how we built a drive on sub-structure for a truck mounted Garner Denver extended derrick 1500 , but i'm going to show mercy by shutting my pie-hole. Best Wishes to You and Your Family, hope Y'all enjoy the vacation time.
Remote control will keep you out of line of fire, give mobility to work around while you drilling, they don't cost much now days and work perfectly with hydraulics which you have to use for all functions
Because it's about swabbing; production gets lowered over time because oil, can clog like cholesterol in your veins, so swabbing increases oil production because it can clear the veins for the oil to flow.. I'm sure that that is exactly what that machine can do, tell me how it feels to get a few wells cleared and is it better????? 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
As you've got a growing RUclips channel, Video's of the rebuild/resurrection of the rig will also be a income stream. Prehaps some collabs with some diesel/mechanical type other channels would also be beneficial to both channels.
We've got alot of drilling pipe and a big work over rig plus drilling rigs that came from Texas if you're interested let me know our office is in Texas
When you build your substructure why couldn't you make it so it is like a trailer that the duels are on hydraulic cylinder and cand raise and lower themselves to transform to be able to put down the road and if you are creative you could also make it hydraulically and to widen at locations and shrink to pull down the road to avoid wide load permits?
Zack , i suggest thinking about a railroad gondola car. Some have low side and some higher. Flip it upside down and cut down the center beam. They are more than heavy enough, and you can buy them for scrap price. Im not sure the width maybe 12 feet wide. I think this will give you quick ideas.
Zach, if i weren't stuck in the armpit of the midwest, Southern Illinois, I'd come down there and harass ya into letting me help you pull a well or do some of the awesome stuff you do in the field. I have had a lot of very strange jobs, from literal gravedigger, to hot tar roofer, tree trimmer, mechanic, industrial maintenance and repair like the wiring in the control boxes for your wells, and now I work in a scrapyard. My job is a welder, but I do everything except buy scrap. I run the big machines, fix them, fix all the balers and electrical stuff and all of it. I reckon my job is just "fix it" lol.
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I worked for oil company that had a,Frank's rig mounted on a 1948 Ford truck. They bought it new. It had a,little turntable and a mud pump. It had 2 Buda motors powering the rig. It was only a single.
A gentleman delivered it to Kemmerer Wyoming from Tulsa Oklahoma. That rigs top speed was about 40 mph. Rumor has it he crawled out of the rig and ran to the train station. He had enough of that rig on rough dirt roads.
haha
Oldest known data I've worked on was a 1945, of course is was on a truck from the 90's
Pumped to hear this contraption gets another life & we get along to see it, thanks.
I think the very first video of yours I ever watched was Franks rig, I subbed after that.
Good ole Jeff. Love that guy. I can't even remember how many years ago it was, I sent him a scale model of a Cat 245, I figured he would make more use out of it then me. Love seeing it on his shelf when he is sitting there talking with them behind him.
As far as the rig goes, I do believe if anyone is going to get it running it will be you.
Great channel Zack.
Haha thanks.
Looking forward to this project.
I like your drilling rig idea. I broke out on a Cabot 900, built in Pampa, very similar to what you are thinking. It was an overgrown well service rig on a Crane Carrier, and a separate skidded sub with rotary table that we backed up to. Two 12v71's with Allison Automatics, we drilled to 10,500' with 4-1/2 dp.
Also, Walker-Neer built combo spudder/rotary rigs like you are thinking.
This is what I've been waiting to hear ever since you rigged it down and drug it out . Can't wait to see this happen.
Zach, as an amateur electrical nut ( who also watches Carlson's Lab ) making a lightening suppression rods around my well rigs would become a priority to me. Seems like you could come up with a homemade system sorta like what space x and nasa has on their launch pads to draw lightening strikes away from their rocket ships. This could be a great project for ya'll tubers! Just saying!
Work over rig is handy as a pipe wrench to a man that owns several wells.
8:45 Um...thanks? 😋 Had to turn captions back on to be sure I heard right. Didn't know I was a machinist...never got the chance start learning any of it though do have the lathes. I can weld well enough to make things stick together but that's about it.
My father was a petroleum geologist and I kicked around seismic crews for 15 years. I saw a lot of shot hole drilling rigs and work over rigs, but I never saw a combination work over/drilling rig. There must be a reason because original ideas are as rare as hens teeth and someone is bound to have had this thought before you.
Thanks for explaining the difference between servicing and drilling rigs.
My first year running a rig in East Texas I run a double triple three-legged Frank’s. That was like 15 years ago and was one of my favorite rigs along the way.
Thank you sir👍🇦🇺
My grandfather built a rotary table for a work over rig. He couldn’t afford a swivel at the time. It was made out of a truck rear end..
Man, I'm tickled to hear that you're gonna resurrect that ole rig! I have an affinity for bringing old abandoned stuff like that back from the edge, and your project makes it sound even better by giving the thing not one, but TWO new leases on life!
Thanks for the update, Zach!
Hell yeah! I'm self admittedly nostalgic and sentimental. I'm all for bringing old iron back to life. Nothing more rewarding than seeing her eat again. I look forward to the video of that machine operating. No doubt she'll get right down and haul the mail.
Me too lol
I keep finding I bump into the same people, or linked people all the time.
It is actually a big world out there, but there are a lot of small circles within it.
P.S..... Always go up on thickness of material and not down...😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Not so shocking when you consider it's only a small world for competent people who can do really good things,,, that's why I want you I enjoy seeing bright young men who can think for themselves,
I'm always looking forward to your' videos!
Look forward to seeing this project shape up. I have a Schramm rig been spending money on for some time now. Planning a trip across Oklahoma and Texas panhandle next month and look forward to seeing oil country again.
I worked on a cardwell 250 that had a drilling substructure that tied into the drivetrain on the rig. Simply backed into the sub. Worked great. Didn't need a ramp.
Ditto. I've worked on Cardwells like that, and helped build an Ideco rig like that in WV back around 1978,. We built about an 8' substructure, chain drive rotary table that hooked up to a shaft on the rig. Part of the substructure base was a large beam that mated with the base of the derrick. No ramps necessary
I'm glad you decided to keep and work with this rig. Looking forward to seeing it done. Thanks, Zach!
I can't wait for your new vlog about this project!
Greetings from the Netherlands!🇳🇱👍🏼🇺🇲
16:13 an equipment drop trailer could be the base to build this setup you back onto. Just need to move it with an old semi truck to location
can't wait to see more of the widow maker! zach, wear a hard hat, buddy.
I forgot to mention about a update on the silver/gray Ford Dually pickup! Thanks for the update on Mack,Rig!
I love the drill rig... even if it didn't make the most sense from an Oil Man's perspective, that crusty old thing is RUclips Gold. That and dipping your arm in PCB transformer oil, lol.
Yay a drilling and service rig is going to be so cool going to dril some wells?
Can’t wait to see what that truck can do! Jay pay dirt is great! Thanks for sharing
Man that office looks clean Awesome video can’t wait
Hey Zach, so glad to hear that you are going to get your rig going. I can't wait to see your video series on this project! You've got some great ideas for it for sure. It will certainly be a nice workover rig for your leases, you will be saving a lot of money that way. If your looking for a vacation idea, how about taking your RV out to Midland, TX to the Permian Basin Oil Field Museum. It would be a great setting for your RV. I have been out to this museum several times and never tire of it. Of course, you may want a vacation away from the oil fields, just an idea. Enjoy your vacation.
use a old flat bed of some sort as the platform, , back the rig up onto the flat bed structure, add a hydrolic ramp to level the rig truck, and clamps to fix the structure to the rigs frame. looks like a solid plan.
Glad you are saving it i would. A nice hydraulic drive will make good for the table. I put all the components together for a fellow a few years ago with the same idea.
Old school never goes away. Best ideas always start with practices from the past. 👍
100%
Love your vids. It is good to see you plan and sketch. You come up with interesting plans and ideas.
Cool rig!! Looking forward to seeing it running.
Feller locally here had 4 or 5 Bucyrus-Erie water well drilling rigs that set up on the ground like you were describing. He retired from that business and sold the rigs several years ago. AL B.
Look forward to the video series. Get that vacation planned, and go…!
Thank you sir.
might be a substructure and dog house from days gone by was for doing reentrys with a well servicing rig guy who owns it has sold rigs and is getting out located in perryton tx I'll chk tomorrow see if its still there
Stroll on Zach, that sounds good, what a project. Try to keep all your work in-house, we used to do everything in house but about 15 year ago we got rid of half our men and subbed the work out. Now we have had enough of cowboys and the like and are now bring the work back in-house. I look forward to the rig videos. All the best.
HOO-RAH !! ... looking forward to another project in The Zack Life ... keep on pump'n that Texas Crude !!
So look!!! On the main supports to the wrig, and even the frame... Do, density / material thickness, ultrasonic. meter is used in welding and it gives you metric material thicknesses in welding inspecting. Inspect the main supports and cross members, go from there, or cut out carefully and replace parts by welding and done, lol 😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Looking forward to seeing the rig progress.
Enjoyed!
This will be a fascinating project to watch and another challenge for you to create
I'm looking forward to see it working like You intend!
Zach, the best inventers are Men with an idea and limited money.
🔥🔥 Badass Can't wait 🤘🤘
Looking forward to this series!
Ready for workover rig videos now
Make sure you record the whole project. This would be really interesting to see. Good luck.
Wow.. this will be a great series. Looking forward to it Zac.
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When Zach (literally) drag that rig out of the field it was rotting on, I instantly thought there was no way he would cut it for scrap.
I'm glad I was right. This big old stuff asked to go back to work when it came back to life years ago.
Yeah I think I kinda knew but didn't want to convince myself lol.
always enjoy your vids , was wondering what was the plan with that rig all is now clear , keep em coming
Now could you use two low bed trailers side by side with sub structure to 36" . So you'll have a 16' x 40' ish platform for rig,turn table , rigging. Set up would be easier if the turn table with motor was mounted one while the other can hold tanks, rigging, and more.
There's lots of double triples coming up for sale I'd buy one of those, you can convert yours to a single pole rig and make it very handy and use a rig that has plenty of pulling power 70t+ instead of a 50t rig.
Thank you for the update 😊
Thanks for taking time to make these videos bud know your a busy guy
Oh man... you aint put any turn buckles on the H base? I hope you aint pulling much weight? And you gotta make sure therig is straight or youll twist the derrick. Atleast thats how tripple doubles work. As far as the sandline drum. The way ive rigged up/down, on franks as well. Theres no "handle" at the swab stand (swab stick) it should be a ratchet type handle with a release that lets you release the brakes/engage them. You just set the handle to the middle so the derrick can scope/come up and the hydraulics will release some sand line but the brakes will slightly grab so it doesnt free spool. Rigging down you select the highest gear clutch in the sandline and set the brake to that middle spot where the brakes are grabbing but the gearing is so high that it wont rip the derrick down/over.
Ive never had to have 2 people on the carrier rigging up/down other than when im ready to break the derrick over. When you rig her up and down enough times you know exactly where you need to put your blocks to make sure the blocks dont rip stuff up and the sandline does what you want/need it to do. When i broke out on a franks we use to "hang" the blocks there was a place in the derrick where there was a chain and hook that wed loop into the top of the blocks then let the let some drill line out to the half moods on the back of the derrick then lay the derrick over. I went to another company and ive never done it since cant remember if that was a franks thing or a the company i worked at thing but if you have a thin piece of metal in the back of the derrick so the blocks can slide up the derrick as you lay the derrick over you shouldnt have to touch the handle again. It makes rig up/rig down way faster and easier.
Im not an engineer by any means but i do know rigs in and out, atleast trip doubles and your old girl looks the same just smaller, ive worked around a lot of really good user friendly set up rigs and rigs that were horrible to work with, ive worked on a service king sk1000 8 line 118' tripple double, a falcon 8 line trip dub that was either 118 or 112' derrick. Ive worked on frank with 98' derricks where you damn near crown out every time you pull a hang. I also know some old timers that love to shoot the sheet and have built rigs from the ground up. Engineering side i most likely wont be able to help you but set up side, man feel free to let me know ill shoot ya an email and give you my number and i can help with anything and if i dont know i know people who will know. I aint looking for handouts or shoutouts just one fellow oilfield trash hand to another. One thing ive learned about the oilfield is the more people you know the more information you can get, and sometimes a phone call can save a ton of money, especially working on rigs
Worked on many of the rigs your trying to build. Both drilling and work over .
Got your eyes on a place to poke a new well?
interesting content. I think we may be heading to a point in time where you actually drill a well. that would be quite a thing!
Do you plan on having BOP‘s underneath your rotary? Or at minimum an annular. And as far as the rotary goes, I would personally go with hydraulic over diesel, similar to the style that you would find on a standalone snubbing unit. You will be able to adjust torque and RPM’s precisely.
I would also recommend integrating a flow cross under the rotary With 1502 iron ports out each side of it.
But in all actuality, it would probably be cheaper and more efficient in the long run to get a top drive power swivel for it. it would eliminate some of the issues that you will run into having a bottom drive rotary with the blocks.
Why not run a xk 90 power swivel we drill out plugs outta laterals then your not dealing with a bunch more moving parts kinda a hybrid top drive rig for shallow wells
That sounds like a great idea to make a combination rig .
would the table and structure be on wheels ? airbag them up or pin in your axles and move it? Or is it a slide off big trailer type item?
Hi Zach, We also watch Jay! I will enjoy watching you do the WOR! We had some rigs use top drives on WOR when they deepen wells in the Austin Chalk! They also air drilled some wells deeper with WOR! Do you have any SCDA damage from lighting! That's what I did the last 17 years I was in the oil patch!
Zack could you build that platform like those portable tanks , it has a axle at the rear and you pull the front up to lock in the fith wheel ? 🤔😊
Where you at? I thought you were perma basin but then you said witch falls and all the darn rain
Okay well how much would you potentially pay, and if was accepted then were to stay temporarily then maybe live, maybe. Can send resume and go from there. Oooh, I got it give one shop to stay, and go from there..... lol 😊😊😊😊😊
250$ a hour. I wish. Service rigs here are like 550$ per hour
As with most all of Your projects Zach, this work-over/completion/drilling rig ,
seems like a sound financial endeavor .
The only rat sign in the oatmeal is, as You mentioned, hiring people that know the difference between their rump and a hole in the ground. Know what the hole is, what it does and how to make one or maintain one. I could launch a diatribe about how we built a drive on sub-structure for a truck mounted Garner Denver extended derrick 1500 ,
but i'm going to show mercy by shutting my pie-hole.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family, hope Y'all enjoy the vacation time.
Thanks. and yes I agree.
The best guys I ever had didn't know anything at first. Now they can do anything
Franks 658 is rated to drill around 4000' maybe up to 4500 irc
Remote control will keep you out of line of fire, give mobility to work around while you drilling, they don't cost much now days and work perfectly with hydraulics which you have to use for all functions
Because it's about swabbing; production gets lowered over time because oil, can clog like cholesterol in your veins, so swabbing increases oil production because it can clear the veins for the oil to flow.. I'm sure that that is exactly what that machine can do, tell me how it feels to get a few wells cleared and is it better????? 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
No you are thinking, and you should go for it, you could find a Derrick and substructure. You see stuff laying around every where,even Kansas.
Will that built up / wedge piece have wheels on it or how else would you get it down the road?
As you've got a growing RUclips channel, Video's of the rebuild/resurrection of the rig will also be a income stream. Prehaps some collabs with some diesel/mechanical type other channels would also be beneficial to both channels.
Yeah I might. Thanks.
Another great video! Keep it up!
looking forward to new videos! always good stuff.
good luck on the project
I bet that welder likes red, a lot!
Haha you must know him lol
@@TheZachLife yes sir he does awesome work. He has fixed a few absolute disasters for me.
Good job. I know it’s a lot of time to film and publish these videos, keep up the good work. Kc
Thanks.
There's companies that use double triples to drill with, back onto a sub and drill it down.
could a guy build the sub structure to be pulled like a trailer you know double axle that would drop and lift make it easier to move to location?
Something like that is possible.
Keep up the good work 😎
I have made a couple of small sub structures like your wanting there’s a couple of different ways to do it any questions please feel free to ask
You remind me of me bud, It cant be done !!! Hold my beer and watch this.
We've got alot of drilling pipe and a big work over rig plus drilling rigs that came from Texas if you're interested let me know our office is in Texas
When you build your substructure why couldn't you make it so it is like a trailer that the duels are on hydraulic cylinder and cand raise and lower themselves to transform to be able to put down the road and if you are creative you could also make it hydraulically and to widen at locations and shrink to pull down the road to avoid wide load permits?
Something like this may end up happening.
Zack , i suggest thinking about a railroad gondola car. Some have low side and some higher. Flip it upside down and cut down the center beam. They are more than heavy enough, and you can buy them for scrap price. Im not sure the width maybe 12 feet wide. I think this will give you quick ideas.
Interesting.
This is going to be interesting!!!
5 by 5 two-bin.😂
Is this a revamped LDH rig?
Awesome
Why not make it a top-head? You're not deep enough to need a shitload of power, are you?
Zach, if i weren't stuck in the armpit of the midwest, Southern Illinois, I'd come down there and harass ya into letting me help you pull a well or do some of the awesome stuff you do in the field. I have had a lot of very strange jobs, from literal gravedigger, to hot tar roofer, tree trimmer, mechanic, industrial maintenance and repair like the wiring in the control boxes for your wells, and now I work in a scrapyard. My job is a welder, but I do everything except buy scrap. I run the big machines, fix them, fix all the balers and electrical stuff and all of it. I reckon my job is just "fix it" lol.
Haha sounds about like me. Just fix it lol.
@@TheZachLife Thats it! FIXITFIXITFIXIT!!! lol
thanks Zach😎😎