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.
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.
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.
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, 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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 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.
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 UA-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!
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.
Well not bad for a will it start video. Really enjoyed it. Are yall sure you want to cut it up? Might make a good rig over time. Would be a good video to start that old backhoe too. Stay safe.
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!!
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.
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
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.
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
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
Sure wish you would say where you are in these post. I worked with "Franks Well Service" years ago, but that was a Franks in Racoon Bend near Bellville.
*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.
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.
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'
I'm going to echo Chris's comment some, but folks do what they need to do (and you didn't buy it to put it in a museum). I'll add my thanks for posting the video ... not sure how I found it since I was looking for 'oil rig accidents'. Go figure. Stay safe and spend as much time as you need in the shade!
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!!!
My parents were close friends with Joe and June Franks in Enid OK in the mid 1940's. We went on several vacations with them and their 2 daughters and my brother and I were the same ages. Dad once told me that joe ha a machine shop in Enid and built truck mounted oil rigs. Could this be one of those?? If so I could share a lot of stories of the Franks family.
@@TheZachLife that works, just was wondering if you guys did anything to back off the spring/parking brakes, since something was stuck enough to twist off the drive shaft. I really enjoy your oil field related videos. Thank you for sharing
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 🤦🏻♂️👍🏻
Hey Zach is that as a drill of no value? Sure seems like going through the plumbing n rigging would get ya a really buff drill. Cant a guy find a quad axle chassis relatively cheap n mount on to that? Seems a shame to scrap what seems like wants to live again? You are great at explaining stuff so would love a video about this rig!
The draworks is rated to probably around 3000' for drilling, more for service and work over work. The weak point with this rig is the double poles, I'd shy away from 50 ton max pull on those poles. The draworks is in common use and very valuable even though it was made before 1965. They can build a rig from this and sell it for a hefty profit right now.
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!!"
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.
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
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.
Love this stuff. Every time I get a notification for this channel it goes to the top of my que
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
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 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.
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..
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.
Your channel is unique! Technical and in nature and hard work with impressive hardware. And your educate me a lot about the oil welling.
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.
Had me puckered up when those poles started over. Good work
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
Well done man. You and your friends have a lot of talents and experience.
Thanks.
@@TheZachLife You are a glutton for punishment of WORK.
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!.😎👍
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.
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.
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.
Good watching Video. Y’all having fun with the Project. Very interesting old Rig !! Thank You !! H.
You guys absolutely know the path of least resistance!
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.
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 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!
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!
Watched this holding my breath for most of it. Great job Zach.
Thanks.
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.😂😂
Boy, I could sure use that old Case backhoe hiding behind the rig.
Been waiting for your next up load keep them coming.
Thats the plan.
Love the videos, thanks for taking the time to catch it on camera. Great work
I really like the old machinery / oil feild engines , great work
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.
Nothing like watching you guys doing a hard days work for hopefully a hard days pay. Best of luck and keep em coming!!
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.
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 UA-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!
This brings back so many memories.
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.
Zach , I could never get that lucky on getting a rig running. My luck is bad luck.
I'm so glad I found your channel Zack. 😂 You guys are some kind of wild! Hat tip, sir.
Love your videos Zach keep up the good work my friend
Thats the plan.
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😊
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.
wonder how many times it was struck by lightning
I bet a few.
Well not bad for a will it start video. Really enjoyed it. Are yall sure you want to cut it up? Might make a good rig over time. Would be a good video to start that old backhoe too. Stay safe.
Everything about that contraption screams: "Hurt me!"
-hurt +kill
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 👍
That is awesome in so many ways!!!
Hats off to you guys and Cummins!
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
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
Change a few hoses, and start pulling rods!😂😂
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
thanks for focusing 30 seconds on that rabbit, little things like that make life great
I have been lurking for a bit . Great channel . You have a wide skill set .
Thanks.
I've worked on Franks this is first two leg Derrick I've seen. Like a giant pile rig
Never seen a triscope?
That guy climbing Derrick looks like he could really use the Derrick hands counterweight haha
Hi Zach great video, you and your friends can get anything to run again.
Haha Thanks.
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
Them cummins engines start up real nice on these kind of 'will it start' videos.
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
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
Its even got the jeronimo line hooked up we had to do drills on it bout twice a year i hated that part
You guys are truly amazing!!!
What a beast, i would have voted for a full compliment of tires on at least one drive axle
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.
Sure wish you would say where you are in these post. I worked with "Franks Well Service" years ago, but that was a Franks in Racoon Bend near Bellville.
Perforated quite a few wells off these service rigs back in 73 rigging for GO International in the San Juan Basin.
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a while Go International!
*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.
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.
Really enjoying your channel. Very interesting. Thanks
Thanks
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'
I'm going to echo Chris's comment some, but folks do what they need to do (and you didn't buy it to put it in a museum). I'll add my thanks for posting the video ... not sure how I found it since I was looking for 'oil rig accidents'. Go figure. Stay safe and spend as much time as you need in the shade!
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!!!
This was really fun to watch! Thanks for posting!!
My parents were close friends with Joe and June Franks in Enid OK in the mid 1940's. We went on several vacations with them and their 2 daughters and my brother and I were the same ages. Dad once told me that joe ha a machine shop in Enid and built truck mounted oil rigs. Could this be one of those?? If so I could share a lot of stories of the Franks family.
It's possible. It's a Franks rig.
man some fresh rubber and that thing was ready to work
No air, did we at least cage the brakes before jamming it into gear? They all were likely still stuck to the drums, but good first step...
Cage brakes lol. I just took a sawzall to the brake chamber rods. I knocked the s cams and shoes loose from the drums.
@@TheZachLife that works, just was wondering if you guys did anything to back off the spring/parking brakes, since something was stuck enough to twist off the drive shaft.
I really enjoy your oil field related videos. Thank you for sharing
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.
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
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!
Cool I worked on a galaxy workover rig. Had a lot of fun
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.
Loving this oil field stuff
That little 4 cylinder Cummins backhoe should did the job nice thanks BigAl California
that rabbits going to miss eating in the shade of that rig
The t shirts are a plus
Amazing, that they laid the mast down, then moved it. No one was hurt!Good job so far!but at thirty below it doest work like that!
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.
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 t- shirt!
I know it was a lot of work but looked like yall were having fun.
CANT YOU USE THIS ON ANOTHER WELL, ITS FANTASTIC❤
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 🤦🏻♂️👍🏻
Did you see any lions, hyaenas, giraffes? while on safari? great vid.
I would love to have one of them hydro winches and a pump
The rig worked so good seems a shame to cut it up!
did you watch the video?
Hey Zach is that as a drill of no value? Sure seems like going through the plumbing n rigging would get ya a really buff drill. Cant a guy find a quad axle chassis relatively cheap n mount on to that? Seems a shame to scrap what seems like wants to live again? You are great at explaining stuff so would love a video about this rig!
The draworks is rated to probably around 3000' for drilling, more for service and work over work. The weak point with this rig is the double poles, I'd shy away from 50 ton max pull on those poles.
The draworks is in common use and very valuable even though it was made before 1965. They can build a rig from this and sell it for a hefty profit right now.
@@diesellivesmatter Thanks! I have no idea about drilling or anything really but sure seems like a good piece of machinery to just torch.