People like you give me hope for this country. Risking your own capital, not afraid to get dirty, supplying a much needed commodity, and fulfilling a niche of repairing industrial/oil field equipment.
It is big, frighteningly tall. I like that you don't make 10 clickbait videos with name, cheapest machine, will it start, was I scammed etc. I hope you keep making videos.
There are so many "I can't believe its" in this video that I wouldn't know where to start. I'd have been lowering it with a 60 foot pole. I'm amazed at how good that engine started. Thanks for the video!
Ive had people call me crazy for buying and moving old rigs and equipment like that. I guess alot of folks don't have the knowledge or guts to do it. I'm glad to see there's still some other crazy guys out there taking on projects like this.
I cannot believe how good that engine ran after sitting for that long. Simply amazing. I would have lost a bet that two backhoes could move that pulling unit. Amazing work fellers!
Great insight for a Texas native non-roughneck, been around oil my whole life in Houston. Many don't know the hard work getting oil out of the ground, I always knew it was hot, hard, and dangerous. I know these men and they have told me, it is a young mans job. Salute.
That just proves Texans don't know the word CAN'T BE DONE. You got some good buddies. I just wished your buddy had a safety belt on . Can't wait to see what you make out of that old rig.
Man, seems a shame to cut that cream puff up, thanks for showing this project, I have a Frank's double - double that needs that rod basket, if your not going to keep it Zack, let me know
They say necessity is the mother of invention was placed in the mind of a few. Your friend who sold you the rig really understood that concept. I am amazed the tall rig did not just fall and go boom. Nice work Zach.
Cool rig and setup! I worked a few singles and doubles but my favourite was what call a super single. Loved the small deck and craziness surrounding it every day haha. The only downside was you were always in the elements no matter what.
I gotta agree with some of the other comments. When I think of the work that ol girl did, and the history behind what the fellas that built and ran it went through it is kinda a shame to just cut her up, but just like the rig it replaced progress waits for no one, or thing. fun video. I thought it was funny when you said "Across the pasture there, is another lease" I thought of the word pasture, meaning a grassy field, you know cows and such. but you must be in the Permian Basin, that's not a pasture, that's someone's back yard.
I have a 1980 Wilson Super 38 single drum, double single Wilson derrick here in East Texas. I have a 6v92T deck engine with a Allison torque converter. I have had it going on 25 years, and it works every day. Pulled 1000s of wells. Mounted on a 1981 long wheel base Freightliner with a 8v92t. Derrick man, one floor hand, and me running brake. I enjoy the little rig. Pulling 3800' Woodbine wells.
@@TheZachLife simple set up. Started doing this oilfield stuf in 1975. Plugged a lot of spray berry trend wells in west Texas, and Drilled a lot around Graham Texas with a Garden Denver 2000. Multiple pay area.
I have two 912s with 192" stokes with 2-14" pumps. Same as a sub pump 5 strokes a minute. 600 bbls per day 50 bbls per day oil. 1200 bbls of water. East Texas saltwater cost .o6.5 cents per barrel metered from the gun barrel to a spill pot.. I sold for June $190,000.00 in oil $4,000.00 to saltwater. Your in the wrong area.
We had a lease called the Harmon between Graham and Farmer Texas 550' gun sight. Water flood 750 bbls per day in 1983. I re-entered a lot of wells off of scout tickets. Old drill stem test.
The Google has plenty o’ pics of other Franks rigs that size and they all appear to be 4 axle except for some 658s like this monster. Someone really pushed the boundaries with this beast.
Yep I got here about 7ish days ago I guess? suggested you to me. for some reason there blowing you up and putting you as suggested videos for folks. I like old iron and stuff like this so it did good on that!
I would have loved to see that rig refurbished and out working again! A Frank’s rig was one of the first I ever started working on in the oilfield! Great video! Amazing how that engine ran and even the draw works raising the blocks etc!
My jaw dropped on all y’all’s tenacity to get it done. Hats off to you all. Okay can’t get enough various content, y’all definitely aren’t boring for a second 🤦🏻♂️👍🏻
First, this is a great Channel! Kind of reminds me of the first rig I broke out on in 1979 (Permian Basin), was a 1948 Frank's Explorer double gin pole (no tubing board), no hydraulics rigged up with drill line & snatchblock. Rig had 2 speed air clutch. We did well abandonments,, we did everything from blowing/parting casing to cementing, a lot of our jobs were up in the Texas panhandle La Mesa, Amarillo, Post Would take forever to get to location if I rember right the rig only did around 30-something mph ha ha Sorry, the only Hydraulics we had was a setup for the spider jacks.
Zach your making me miss that more an more you can still hold me up with the cat line dam i miss it that work just gets in your blood an you can't shake it
When I was young and dumb, I would’ve worked derricks on that. I had a friend killed working under a homemade repair buy a uncertified welder on a pole unit when the saddle weld broke. Tiger well service
all that "rigg'n" remind me of my father, different industry (restaurant equipment) but the same sort of , just pull or push it, get it into the trailer and deal with the destruction of everything later. Great Videos Zach. always enjoy your content.
When I started on a workover rig it was a 1956 Franks Rocket rig was a four legged double double and had a Cummins 220 backed by a five and four speed and that thing could pull like mad. The deepest well we worked on was 9300 feet and we had to pull the pump and the tubing for a hole in the tubing and when we got it all out the rig looked like it had two more legs. I think that I still have one of the chrome name plates. It met its demise when the machine shop screwed up the crankshaft and the rear thrust plate melted and the only way we found it was an injector line cracked and when I drained the oil and diesel out I spotted a few silver balls coming out with it and the rig operator got a hold of the owner and then the mechanic had to sand down a thirty thousand over rear main bearing to get in place so we could drive it back to the shop so we could pull the motor again and put one from a n old hot oil truck in it. Then on the way to another owner that motor blew up. Keep up the great videos.
I worked on a Frank’s Derrick on a Cooper carrier. Frankenstein. 4 line blocks are super fast compared to the 6-8 line big blocks we run now. Good video. Don’t see many work over rigs on TH-cam this up close.
Yeah i saw it only had 4 and knew it would be fast! Geared high for that shallow West Tx wells! I ran a Wireline truck, got transferred to Abilene and went from doing 1 job a day to 3-4! Blew some fluid out the hole on some open ended shallow wells numerous times! Until then id NEVER even rigged up on a well open ended! LOL
@@AsianManZan Yeah i spent most of my time in the Ark-La-Tex and you cant pull any without BOPs! We lost a few hands on one, 7 i think it was a few years ago! Stupid company had them working a gas well over while producing using a Snubbing Unit! Something went wrong and it blew out! Caught on fire before they could get off it! Derrick Hand was blowing in the wind like a rag doll! That company ended up changing names basically. Was over in North Louisiana back in 1998 i think. I worked with the Packer Hand numerous times. Lost him too!
Definitely just take your time and systematically restore/rebuild this rig truck. Many reasons. First being quality, second being a new rig like this would be likely full of proprietary electronics that would likely make a new rig impossible to work on, third, it could save money, possibly the time involved will be another big cost but if you are organized and systematic about rebuilding the various systems on the rig it should work out fine. I'm sure with your business history it would be easy to lease a new one, but it's way cooler to keep an old machine in tip top shape if it can do the same job basically as a new one. Aircraft owners do this all the time, I've done it with some of my cars. Also make sure the oil filtration is up to spec, if it has a bypass filter on it replace that filter. I have a 1998 gasser that has 385,000 miles on it, still has compression well within specs. I'm pretty sure using a bypass secondary oil filter has something to do with this particular engine's current excellent shape after so much running. Definitely helps keep oil clean, analytically, especially beneficial for diesel engines as well.
Lmao I'm just listening to the video with ear buds working in the shop laughing my a$s off, can't wait to watch it now . This would have been old oil field days around ND until the fun police can (OSHA). Your have fun times to remember!!!
A man named Earl Carroll sold us real to real microfilm on Scott tickets showing drill stem test. I re-entered a Strawn well that recovered 1000' of oil in the upper Strawn. Made 200 bbls per day. They wanted a well that would flow. Went on to the Caddo below the Strawn. Tested to surface 1 million cf per day. They plugged it in 1977. In 1981 I re-entered it. Pace and strange lease between farmer and Marley in young county. It also had a gun sight formation at 900'
Great channel mate. You are surely teaching me a few tricks and I am really old! I like the technical details of how everything actually works. Such a wide knowledge base you can fix everything. You are fortunate that USA still has a manufacturing industry. That all went away in Aussie, now we have different levels of Chinesium junk!!
Hope you make a time-lapse of disassembling this old gal. You seem to have fun doing what you do. With those leases and your knowledge, I imagine you're easily a millionaire.
*insert random azz osha joke here* In all seriousness though... That's a damn brilliant bit of machinery you got there. Gotta admire the amount of hard work and ingenuity you guys are doing to keep the rest of us fed, clothed and moving. Thanks, guys.
Another awesome video, Zach. What an awesome machine! It’s amazing the mechanical genius that went in to creating this thing. I am impressed how you all got her fired up and running in addition to lowering the mast. Albeit the intense heat, I bet you had a great time working on this project. I really appreciate the angle shots you get on your videos and the time.and energy you put into them. Thank you to you and your buddies for putting this together. I can’t wait for the next oilfield video!
Dad said when he started that rigs were made of wood and men were made of iron !!! 1957 New Mexico. Retired from chevron in 2001.in Bakersfield I’ve seen a few Gin poles that some independents had. And well tech and the rest had single rigs on the “are river lease? Very shallow and all the way to 15000’ at Yolumni… left the patch in 97.. like to reminisce but that’s as close as I’d want to get… Sunde company in signal hill for 10 years and Well tech and Pride and Pool company for 2 years. From Huntington Beach to Falllon Nevada drilling steam wells and changing pumps., we’ll servicing in Kern county… Good times with some good guys… love the videos…Lee
That is definitely a cool old rig. I'd guess she weighs 70k. My old Frank's came in at 84k with a 96' triple double Derrick on it. 4 axel carrier. They're some damn good dependable rigs.
I've been having a great time binging on your videos, I'm a very new subscriber and just gotta say it's a relief from all the crap that's going on in politics. You're my kind of people Zach!
What a great bunch of rust! Awesome find. You know some youtubers would be signing chunks of rubber and popping them on the merch site..... Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Almost a shame to cut her up that old man was pretty genius building that thing. Amazing what some people can do
Would be a shame to try and use it... you're likely to get killed.
that is a shame, they are taking something above average and turning it into something below average
They could let it rust for another 4 decades.@@ccclc6159 Having it be useful to people is more valuable than sentiment
@@ccclc6159 the cost to get it in usable shape far outways what it's worth...So no its not a shame that it's parts will keep other equipment going.
People like you give me hope for this country. Risking your own capital, not afraid to get dirty, supplying a much needed commodity, and fulfilling a niche of repairing industrial/oil field equipment.
Thanks
It is big, frighteningly tall. I like that you don't make 10 clickbait videos with name, cheapest machine, will it start, was I scammed etc. I hope you keep making videos.
Also:
"Police were called to my RIG video".
Thats the plan.
@@RTeBokkel "OSHA shut me down!!"
There are so many "I can't believe its" in this video that I wouldn't know where to start. I'd have been lowering it with a 60 foot pole. I'm amazed at how good that engine started. Thanks for the video!
Man I can't believe she started up that easy after sitting so long.
That old man was a hell of an engineer to pull that off.
Ive had people call me crazy for buying and moving old rigs and equipment like that. I guess alot of folks don't have the knowledge or guts to do it. I'm glad to see there's still some other crazy guys out there taking on projects like this.
I cannot believe how good that engine ran after sitting for that long. Simply amazing. I would have lost a bet that two backhoes could move that pulling unit. Amazing work fellers!
Its was surprising.
@@TheZachLife A jack-in-the-box toy is surprising. That engine running was a miracle!
It was back when they built a damn truck! 👍💪
Great insight for a Texas native non-roughneck, been around oil my whole life in Houston. Many don't know the hard work getting oil out of the ground, I always knew it was hot, hard, and dangerous. I know these men and they have told me, it is a young mans job. Salute.
Try 30 years of it up the Alaska highway in -50 degrees temperatures...it gets a lot harder and a lot more dangerous there.
@DevilMachine heh
I don't know how I stumbled across your channel, but glad I did. I'm impressed at how easy she folded up after being out there that long!
Haha enjoy.
That just proves Texans don't know the word
CAN'T BE DONE.
You got some good buddies.
I just wished your buddy had a safety belt on .
Can't wait to see what you make out of that old rig.
Found this channel about 4 or 5 days ago and I've already watched almost all of your videos. Love the content man keep it up
That is absolutely crazy it still ran. The durability of workover rigs amazes me. You got some balls for rigging that death trap down. Damn lol.
Hahaha It was 100% a death trap.
At today's diesel prices that 35 year old diesel might be the best bonus part of the purchase
Hahah
I would rebuild that old work over rig! Too cool man!.😎👍
Had me puckered up when those poles started over. Good work
What a beast! I could have walked around that for hours just seeing how everything worked. You fellers worked for that piece of iron!
Hint: Cables... it works with cables and hydraulics.
Love this stuff. Every time I get a notification for this channel it goes to the top of my que
Man, seems a shame to cut that cream puff up, thanks for showing this project, I have a Frank's double - double that needs that rod basket, if your not going to keep it Zack, let me know
I'm surprised that mast went down so easy. And I would've never thought 2 backhoes would move it with flats.
Count this one to grunt and luck.
I didn't realize how strong backhoes were until I saw this. I'm impressed as well.
I sure appreciate the hell out of you taking the time and sharing your knowledge and experience! The old guys from way back when were smart..
Boy, I could sure use that old Case backhoe hiding behind the rig.
Your channel is unique! Technical and in nature and hard work with impressive hardware. And your educate me a lot about the oil welling.
that rabbits going to miss eating in the shade of that rig
Everything about that contraption screams: "Hurt me!"
-hurt +kill
Boy the man that climbed it need a bonus and a giant smoked steak dinner wow , nice thanks BigAl California
Yes I do haha I need to post my cash app so all y’all can buy me one.😂😂
I'm so glad I found your channel Zack. 😂 You guys are some kind of wild! Hat tip, sir.
That guy climbing Derrick looks like he could really use the Derrick hands counterweight haha
Well done man. You and your friends have a lot of talents and experience.
Thanks.
@@TheZachLife You are a glutton for punishment of WORK.
They say necessity is the mother of invention was placed in the mind of a few. Your friend who sold you the rig really understood that concept. I am amazed the tall rig did not just fall and go boom. Nice work Zach.
I'm trying to picture how many boxes of stick rod went into that. That's some serious man hours and serious thought into building that beauty.
Hahaha a bunch.
Love the videos, thanks for taking the time to catch it on camera. Great work
You guys absolutely know the path of least resistance!
Been waiting for your next up load keep them coming.
Thats the plan.
Good watching Video. Y’all having fun with the Project. Very interesting old Rig !! Thank You !! H.
Cool rig and setup! I worked a few singles and doubles but my favourite was what call a super single. Loved the small deck and craziness surrounding it every day haha. The only downside was you were always in the elements no matter what.
Watched this holding my breath for most of it. Great job Zach.
Thanks.
I gotta agree with some of the other comments. When I think of the work that ol girl did, and the history behind what the fellas that built and ran it went through it is kinda a shame to just cut her up, but just like the rig it replaced progress waits for no one, or thing. fun video. I thought it was funny when you said "Across the pasture there, is another lease" I thought of the word pasture, meaning a grassy field, you know cows and such. but you must be in the Permian Basin, that's not a pasture, that's someone's back yard.
Hahaha.
I have a 1980 Wilson Super 38 single drum, double single Wilson derrick here in East Texas. I have a 6v92T deck engine with a Allison torque converter. I have had it going on 25 years, and it works every day. Pulled 1000s of wells. Mounted on a 1981 long wheel base Freightliner with a 8v92t. Derrick man, one floor hand, and me running brake.
I enjoy the little rig. Pulling 3800' Woodbine wells.
Thats sounds like the set up. Detroits, Allison, and truck instead of a stupid crane carrier.
@@TheZachLife simple set up. Started doing this oilfield stuf in 1975. Plugged a lot of spray berry trend wells in west Texas, and Drilled a lot around Graham Texas with a Garden Denver 2000. Multiple pay area.
I have two 912s with 192" stokes with 2-14" pumps. Same as a sub pump 5 strokes a minute. 600 bbls per day 50 bbls per day oil. 1200 bbls of water. East Texas saltwater cost .o6.5 cents per barrel metered from the gun barrel to a spill pot..
I sold for June $190,000.00 in oil $4,000.00 to saltwater. Your in the wrong area.
You need a garden Denver 2000 and come to East Texas.
We had a lease called the Harmon between Graham and Farmer Texas
550' gun sight. Water flood 750 bbls per day in 1983. I re-entered a lot of wells off of scout tickets. Old drill stem test.
thanks for focusing 30 seconds on that rabbit, little things like that make life great
This was really fun to watch! Thanks for posting!!
Hats off to you guys and Cummins!
Thanks for sharing buddy that’s one hefty rig hopefully it’ll have some good parts for you guys
man some fresh rubber and that thing was ready to work
You guys are truly amazing!!!
The Google has plenty o’ pics of other Franks rigs that size and they all appear to be 4 axle except for some 658s like this monster.
Someone really pushed the boundaries with this beast.
I agree. I also bet those polls might be heavier that a derrick. They look smaller but but were at least 1/2 inch wall tubing.
Damn man I found your channel last week when you were at like 4K subs and you’re already over 8k now. Loving the content!
This last week has been crazy.
Yep I got here about 7ish days ago I guess? suggested you to me. for some reason there blowing you up and putting you as suggested videos for folks. I like old iron and stuff like this so it did good on that!
Nothing like watching you guys doing a hard days work for hopefully a hard days pay. Best of luck and keep em coming!!
I would have loved to see that rig refurbished and out working again! A Frank’s rig was one of the first I ever started working on in the oilfield! Great video! Amazing how that engine ran and even the draw works raising the blocks etc!
My jaw dropped on all y’all’s tenacity to get it done. Hats off to you all. Okay can’t get enough various content, y’all definitely aren’t boring for a second 🤦🏻♂️👍🏻
First, this is a great Channel!
Kind of reminds me of the first rig I broke out on in 1979 (Permian Basin), was a 1948 Frank's Explorer double gin pole (no tubing board), no hydraulics rigged up with drill line & snatchblock. Rig had 2 speed air clutch. We did well abandonments,, we did everything from blowing/parting casing to cementing, a lot of our jobs were up in the Texas panhandle La Mesa, Amarillo, Post
Would take forever to get to location if I rember right the rig only did around 30-something mph ha ha
Sorry, the only Hydraulics we had was a setup for the spider jacks.
Zach your making me miss that more an more you can still hold me up with the cat line dam i miss it that work just gets in your blood an you can't shake it
If That thing was sitting in Michigan there would be nothing left. Great video
I really like the old machinery / oil feild engines , great work
Thanks.
Zach , I could never get that lucky on getting a rig running. My luck is bad luck.
That is awesome in so many ways!!!
When I was young and dumb, I would’ve worked derricks on that.
I had a friend killed working under a homemade repair buy a uncertified welder on a pole unit when the saddle weld broke.
Tiger well service
Way to man. Last time I saw something rigged up like this was in Libya 1986. Hope your project went well and good luck the rest of the way😊
all that "rigg'n" remind me of my father, different industry (restaurant equipment) but the same sort of , just pull or push it, get it into the trailer and deal with the destruction of everything later. Great Videos Zach. always enjoy your content.
When I started on a workover rig it was a 1956 Franks Rocket rig was a four legged double double and had a Cummins 220 backed by a five and four speed and that thing could pull like mad. The deepest well we worked on was 9300 feet and we had to pull the pump and the tubing for a hole in the tubing and when we got it all out the rig looked like it had two more legs. I think that I still have one of the chrome name plates. It met its demise when the machine shop screwed up the crankshaft and the rear thrust plate melted and the only way we found it was an injector line cracked and when I drained the oil and diesel out I spotted a few silver balls coming out with it and the rig operator got a hold of the owner and then the mechanic had to sand down a thirty thousand over rear main bearing to get in place so we could drive it back to the shop so we could pull the motor again and put one from a n old hot oil truck in it. Then on the way to another owner that motor blew up. Keep up the great videos.
Never seen a Derrick like that. I’ve seen a three leg franks but never one like that. Truly old school
This brings back so many memories.
The t shirts are a plus
Brings back memories of the old days. Worked for Exxon for 25 years. Not sure they’d approve of the safety.
I worked on a Frank’s Derrick on a Cooper carrier. Frankenstein. 4 line blocks are super fast compared to the 6-8 line big blocks we run now. Good video. Don’t see many work over rigs on TH-cam this up close.
Yeah i saw it only had 4 and knew it would be fast! Geared high for that shallow West Tx wells! I ran a Wireline truck, got transferred to Abilene and went from doing 1 job a day to 3-4! Blew some fluid out the hole on some open ended shallow wells numerous times! Until then id NEVER even rigged up on a well open ended! LOL
@@WW5RM yeah it’s crazy out west. I spent most of my time in North Dakota, some places up north we didn’t even run BOPs pulling tubing.
@@AsianManZan Yeah i spent most of my time in the Ark-La-Tex and you cant pull any without BOPs! We lost a few hands on one, 7 i think it was a few years ago! Stupid company had them working a gas well over while producing using a Snubbing Unit! Something went wrong and it blew out! Caught on fire before they could get off it! Derrick Hand was blowing in the wind like a rag doll! That company ended up changing names basically. Was over in North Louisiana back in 1998 i think. I worked with the Packer Hand numerous times. Lost him too!
I'm a builder in Skowhegan Maine we don't have any oil wells around here so this stuff is really interesting to me. Thanks
Thanks for watching.
Love your videos Zach keep up the good work my friend
Thats the plan.
CANT YOU USE THIS ON ANOTHER WELL, ITS FANTASTIC❤
I have been lurking for a bit . Great channel . You have a wide skill set .
Thanks.
What a beast, i would have voted for a full compliment of tires on at least one drive axle
Definitely just take your time and systematically restore/rebuild this rig truck. Many reasons. First being quality, second being a new rig like this would be likely full of proprietary electronics that would likely make a new rig impossible to work on, third, it could save money, possibly the time involved will be another big cost but if you are organized and systematic about rebuilding the various systems on the rig it should work out fine. I'm sure with your business history it would be easy to lease a new one, but it's way cooler to keep an old machine in tip top shape if it can do the same job basically as a new one. Aircraft owners do this all the time, I've done it with some of my cars. Also make sure the oil filtration is up to spec, if it has a bypass filter on it replace that filter. I have a 1998 gasser that has 385,000 miles on it, still has compression well within specs. I'm pretty sure using a bypass secondary oil filter has something to do with this particular engine's current excellent shape after so much running. Definitely helps keep oil clean, analytically, especially beneficial for diesel engines as well.
Lmao I'm just listening to the video with ear buds working in the shop laughing my a$s off, can't wait to watch it now . This would have been old oil field days around ND until the fun police can (OSHA). Your have fun times to remember!!!
Them cummins engines start up real nice on these kind of 'will it start' videos.
I've worked on Franks this is first two leg Derrick I've seen. Like a giant pile rig
Never seen a triscope?
A man named Earl Carroll sold us real to real microfilm on Scott tickets showing drill stem test. I re-entered a Strawn well that recovered 1000' of oil in the upper Strawn. Made 200 bbls per day. They wanted a well that would flow. Went on to the Caddo below the Strawn. Tested to surface 1 million cf per day. They plugged it in 1977. In 1981 I re-entered it. Pace and strange lease between farmer and Marley in young county. It also had a gun sight formation at 900'
Good to see a new video , Zach . Just wanted to cay cool motorhome . Hope you get bugs worked out soon . Take care buddy .
Terry
Thanks 👍
Really enjoying your channel. Very interesting. Thanks
Thanks
There's Ol Diesel Creek a Backhoe lol, Zach ya have a good channel brother, I like the shirts ya have on at times too lol.
Haha Thanks.
Another great vid mate love em
Thanks.
Great channel mate. You are surely teaching me a few tricks and I am really old! I like the technical details of how everything actually works. Such a wide knowledge base you can fix everything. You are fortunate that USA still has a manufacturing industry. That all went away in Aussie, now we have different levels of Chinesium junk!!
Thanks. So much of the Chinese stuff is awful.
@@TheZachLife how can you say that!? It has a little sticker saying it passed QC! Must be legit
Hope you make a time-lapse of disassembling this old gal.
You seem to have fun doing what you do. With those leases and your knowledge, I imagine you're easily a millionaire.
Hahaha I wish.
That little 4 cylinder Cummins backhoe should did the job nice thanks BigAl California
Love your videos!
Love the t- shirt!
*insert random azz osha joke here*
In all seriousness though... That's a damn brilliant bit of machinery you got there. Gotta admire the amount of hard work and ingenuity you guys are doing to keep the rest of us fed, clothed and moving.
Thanks, guys.
Haha never heard of her lol. Thanks.
Loving this oil field stuff
Great videos!
wonder how many times it was struck by lightning
I bet a few.
Another awesome video, Zach. What an awesome machine! It’s amazing the mechanical genius that went in to creating this thing. I am impressed how you all got her fired up and running in addition to lowering the mast. Albeit the intense heat, I bet you had a great time working on this project. I really appreciate the angle shots you get on your videos and the time.and energy you put into them. Thank you to you and your buddies for putting this together. I can’t wait for the next oilfield video!
Thank you. It was a project.
Dad said when he started that rigs were made of wood and men were made of iron !!!
1957 New Mexico. Retired from chevron in 2001.in Bakersfield I’ve seen a few Gin poles that some independents had. And well tech and the rest had single rigs on the “are river lease? Very shallow and all the way to 15000’ at Yolumni… left the patch in 97.. like to reminisce but that’s as close as I’d want to get… Sunde company in signal hill for 10 years and Well tech and Pride and Pool company for 2 years. From Huntington Beach to Falllon Nevada drilling steam wells and changing pumps., we’ll servicing in Kern county… Good times with some good guys… love the videos…Lee
That is definitely a cool old rig. I'd guess she weighs 70k. My old Frank's came in at 84k with a 96' triple double Derrick on it. 4 axel carrier. They're some damn good dependable rigs.
You might be right. It may be lighter than I'm thinking.
My 77 single double frank explorer 2 is around 74
But she has a lot more metal big cat walk
What a great bit of history. Thanks
Thanks.
Dude this channel has blown up congrats. Great content
Thanks.
I love this channel
Thanks.
I've been having a great time binging on your videos, I'm a very new subscriber and just gotta say it's a relief from all the crap that's going on in politics. You're my kind of people Zach!
Awesome! Thank you!
What a great bunch of rust! Awesome find. You know some youtubers would be signing chunks of rubber and popping them on the merch site..... Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Hahaha my sister has been trying to get me to sell t shirts.
@@TheZachLife As long as the shirt is clever, "T-Shirt Displayed After The Ad" for instance... I am sure your sister is right.
I'd buy a quart of crude oil
Man that looks like a lot of fun.
I like the shirt. Another good video
Zach, I really love your content.
Thanks.
@@TheZachLife I live here in Roundrock Texas and I’m fascinated with the work you do.
Cool I worked on a galaxy workover rig. Had a lot of fun
Hi Zach great video, you and your friends can get anything to run again.
Haha Thanks.
Dragging a rig through the pucker brush, that's the kind outside the lines thinking I like. I guess I will hit the subscribe button. Cheers