July 2009 Blog Posts (3)

As I sit here and read other people blogs, I start thinking back to when I started out on a drilling rig.

To some they would not call it a rig. But it done it's job drilling wells in and around Stephens County, Oklahoma. The old rig is not much to brag about. It was just a derrick mounted on an old army trailer, that my dad had bought from someone.

The derrick was home-made out of 2 7/8 tubing. with a small crown mounted on top of it. My father and I welded channel iron to the…

Hey Guys,

There is a video & close-ups of the National 370 Drawworks on here now that I was yappin' about earlier.

This is the 1st rig I built where I attempted to put scale into my work. It is the one that was a complete layout from front to back and side to side. It took 5 years (off & on) to complete.

The drawworks itself was a 4 month project. It made its Maiden Appearance in the 1990 Energy Show in Estevan Sask, Canada & a few other appearances over the…

I am a Toolpusher for CanElson Drilling (Formerly Totem Drilling) in S.E. Sask for the past 6 years, prior to that I worked for Big Sky Drilling for 19 1/2 years, pushing Rig 4 for almost 10 of those years. I build working, 1/16 scale drilling rigs as a hobby.

I spend 100's of hours of my spare time replicating prototype drilling rigs and currently building a "Hodgson Design" 2800 m. tele double that will be 'almost' completely functional.

I have built 2 models in the past that…