Show modern oil well drill riz ris Is huge mechanical assembly recently your printer drove out east cast to see what an oil well drilling rig looked like its big its immense compared with the water well rigs with which I 1 have been concerned now and then the driller courteously answered V tt t questions about the machin inachin ial ky telling him of the report that this illi is the second largest outfit in the world he corrected me by saying that no larger rigs are made except that higher towers may be needed in some cases for present requirements his foot tower is suf sufficient f there are four h p motors but only three are needed thus far at the present depth of feet the control unit between the four engines and the well is a complicated affair full of indicators levers gadgets and weighs 30 tons one of the blocks in the fhe block and tackle system has f five i v e pulleys and weighs over five tons some tools were lost in the well but they have been abandoned and drilling has been continued past or beside them more alore detailed information was not available agthe as the superintendent in charge was away that day the lighted tower is visible at night from monticello |