OT gots the rig spotted lots of pics

Wiyh a little patience and team work and a couple of snapped winch cables

I would have thought they would have built a gravel road for that project.

How deep is em holes 8000 ft.? that ser rig almost as big as the gas rigs round here that poke 5-6000 ft.

that hole is 1700 meters, ha ha you gots to do the math now

They can't. It would all sink or get churned up. Not quite far enough north for permafrost. Old WW2 runway mat would have been quicker, but they don't want to pay all the guys they would need for that stuff. In a war, labor is free. If that was my land, I would say "wait till November, when the ground is froze solid again".... funny, if there is so much oil and gas in so many places, why do they need to set a rig... exactly positively right here and no where's else will do.... the stories about gazillions of barrels- just don't mesh...

good thing about triple stack rigs that go to 20,000 plus feet. they spend a little more money getting the location ready seeing pictures like that doesn't make me miss the patch as much. good pics lyle--tell those roughnecks to make em bite, they'll know what you mean.

That rig sorta looks like Burdett's old rig less the sub . That i use to drag in and out . It was all i could do with a 750 Deere . They had a D7E that was always breaking down . The first time i helped move his one rig i was just finishing up the location when they started to move in and there old 7 dropped kicked them and the tool pusher came up to me and asked if i could stay and help get them on hole . Yep i can try but my tonka toy is not as big as your 7 . They were all surprised that i could pull the rig and had no problems moving the tubs with the 750 When things got real tough i had a secret weapon i have snatch blocks and you add two snatch blocks to a Hyster W6F winch 1 1/8 drill line something is going to move .And we did not have NICE MATTS to lay down just mud and usually lots of it along with HILLS .

I did lots of towing with a 850 case dozer, people were surprised what those little dozers could do.

It's like any other business. You have to be part of it to fully understand the thinking.If you're schooled in it, it all has its own good reasons but the guy looking in from the outside only sees the high spots. I've often thought a farmer at times had lost his mind until he explained the issues he was facing. Ever wonder why the rail roads do what they do or the highway department? Or better yet, how about the Corp of Engineers! Now those guys work in a whole 'nother world!

Where I'm located, in the middle of the Haynesville Shale gas play, it doesn't really matter where they spot the rig; the main consideration is putting it in a place that's suitable to the landowner, and away from residences. The gas is down there; all they have to do is drill down to the shale and then turn the pipe sideways. In fact, they often use one suitable rig location to drill in three or four different directions. I'm sure it's about the same in the Barnett Shale, the Marcellus and the other shale fields that are being developed.

There have been hundreds of wells drilled within a 50-mile radius of my house, and there hasn't been a dry hole yet.

That 750 would out work a D6D and it had and advantage over the Cat's i could winch and track at the same time , also while turning i still had full power to both tracks . It was the vary first 750 Deere in the patch and she had to earn her reputation as if ya did not have a Cat you had nothing . Back when they were in full swing drilling in the Clinton formation around here there were lots of rig , just about one on every corner and lots of service company's tryen to get a piece of the pie . And every equipment dealer was tryen to sell his goods. When i went into the patch i was running a small service co. with two water trucks and the 750 and a 450 C a Ford backhoe and a dump truck and a lowboy outfit . All we were getting was building entrance ways and tank battery pads. Then i was asked to build a location as the guy with the cat broke down and the rig was on the way . They did not think that the Deere could get the job done , give me a break build a 250 foot by 350 foot level pad on sub soil and dig three pits took me all of five hours when the field man came to see how much longer i was going to be i was loading the 750 on the lowboy . What you broke down ???? Nope i am done What you can not be done as it takes so and so a day and a half to build a location . Nope done pits dug i am done and i gots to go and put in a entrance way three miles from here i got stone coming gots to go . While i was cutting that entrance way that field man spots by and asked me if i could build two more locations in the next three days , built both in one day. Loved the speed of that dozer . I was a Cat man till then . I have run just about every dozer up to D9's

Those are some interesting pictures. Never been around a rig, looks like it came together alright.

They gonna be pokin holes with a rig like that on my place come winter.
They better not make a mess like that if they wanna live.

When they get 'em stuck they really get 'em stuck!

They gonna be pokin holes with a rig like that on my place come winter.

The pits are dug on mine and awaiting a rig. Sold the ground so just have royalty left.

you give in didnt you? Hope you got enough out of them to pay for your new shop and then some. Now with all that extra cash you will have you can hire me to paint all those 8N you have. PS this winter make sure you plow enough snow by your house so the rig crews can turn around when the take a wrong turn. Ya know what I mean??

I'm still nogotiating,I don't know what a test hole is worth.

Do You???

I want 30 grand a hole.

I'l poke for 29,99

4250'

Make 'em bite. Other way, worm....... :lol: