ropin casing

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Permalink Reply by Raymond J. Dumontier on March 13, 2011 at 1:52am

yes sir when we were running casing the crew going off stayed over it was mandatory and that driller ran the cathead thanx for your reply

Permalink Reply by Dale William Brady on March 13, 2011 at 8:27am

well its been a few years back but ya we used to rope in any thing less than 1000 ft of casing. funny thing my last hitch, the rig crew and myself were talking about just that, and I still know how to braid an endless rope. Some things you never forget. (NOTE) Some drilling contractors in the 4 corners area still drill there rat and mouse holes old school. it still works but osha would S*!# a brick if they ever saw how its done.

Permalink Reply by Raymond J. Dumontier on March 13, 2011 at 1:59pm

on caza 14 we did that basicaly hooked a mud motor to the kelly backed it up w/tongs and kicked in the pumps on comanchee rig ?? we had this rotary table sprocket welded to a kelly and bushings set up i dont exactly quite remember it that was along time ago but if anyone ever seen that its old school fer sure.

Permalink Reply by Steve on March 14, 2011 at 2:40pm

You all must be going way back I only remembering having to "pumpout" a to shallow rathole and mousehole from the location builder we hands had to make sure that their was a ditch dug to drain the inevitable cellar overflow....I dont remember having to drill our own ....i remember both Peter Bowden and Loffland Brothers rigs. takin me back

Permalink Reply by Raymond Cochrane on March 13, 2011 at 10:06am

that is what you do when the company you are drilling for is too cheap to hire a casing crew. You are the casing crew. The floor hands use catline to screw the casing together and the derrick hand goes up to the stabbing board and stabs the casing and everything else is pretty much the same. The floor hands still have to roll the casing over as well. Trust me when I say "It sucks!"

Permalink Reply by Raymond J. Dumontier on March 13, 2011 at 1:39pm

yes we also set our own slips,cemented,etc. back then cut off and welded on wellhead. driller was the welder on the crew

Permalink Reply by Dustin Manuel on July 25, 2011 at 12:39pm

wood sills are still used as stabbing boards and tie rope across the mast to lean against to tail pipe at least 4 years ago when i was on  drill rigs that what we used or the casing crew did

Permalink Reply by Benny Hardridge on May 13, 2011 at 9:14pm

Using catline rope casing like a spinning chain on drill pipe. I got to do it once on a 28L Bucyrus Erie cabletool in the early 80's. After seeing it as a boy.

Permalink Reply by Michael Taylor on November 25, 2012 at 9:17am

Back in the day we use to use the cathead for many things..including throwing a chain, pulling tongs, uses with the boom line, and roping casing. make about 4-5 wraps around the pin end, whe you stabbed the next jnt you would slide the wraps up and pull with the cathead screwing it in. worked good!!