Odie of the Outback, Capital Reef style.
I didn't take pictures slanted towards a trip report, I don't have "it" these days. I don't know if I'll have "it" again. In fact I don't know if I ever had "it" to begin with, there you have it. B...
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The Mad Norsky wrote:
just wondering if that old truck by the trough/well was not some old well drilling rig built to run off a steam engine power source.
That's what I was thinking it was. It looks like an old cable tool drilling rig. Cable tool rigs are also called pounders, percussion, spudder, or walking beam rigs. They operate by repeated lifting and dropping a heavy string of drilling tools into the bore hole. This is the oldest style of drilling and has been in continuous use for about 4000 years.
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