I’m 31 and just took over the family well drilling company making me the 4th generation here in the Clearwater Florida area. My grandfather and father ran cable tool, my father switched over to rotary a few years before I was old enough to start working with him so rotary is what I grew up doing and still continue into my owning of the company. I’ve done some research and talked to the older generation well drillers vs my generation drillers and have gained so much knowledge on top of my family’s 90 year old traditions and I’m building our rotary into a combination rig. The strength of beating steel into the ground while being able to drill through the limestone with a rotary into the aquifer and save the cable tool from taking a beating on the rock. Very cool video of an old 22 still killing it!
@nostressmike3 жыл бұрын
I'm real happy for you. That's a good business to be in and it has a future. Play it smart and learn how to work with others. Mike
@jamesgill55112 жыл бұрын
20 years ago, when I was still working as a diesel mechanic, I had a side gig with a well company in NJ. They stopped drilling new wells probably 15 years prior to me working there and only did maintenance/repairs on existing wells but still had a 2 acre lot full of cable rigs. The smaller rigs were all on 1940's Diamond T or REO truck chassis, including a WWII era Diamond T 6x6, and there were also larger trailer mounted rigs. Sadly all of the trucks and rigs were rusted beyond saving except for one absolutely gorgeous Diamond T tractor that sat inside the shop. The shop by the way had lathes, mills and drills all driven by leather belts running down from the ceiling that were engaged by moving big wooden levers.
@kansascornhauler Жыл бұрын
Got one of those rigs in the yard Gpa dug a lot of oil gas and water wells with it, always loved running it when I was little
@shawnbutlermixing Жыл бұрын
Upstate NY here, a lot of guys run the old cable drillers here. I used to run a 22W Bucyrus a few years back and they drill like a dream. Depending on the rock, youd run anywhere from 5-10 ft an hour. if you get in good shale on a cable driller, you get a very easy well. Drilling Great video, very informative.
@oasissands8584 Жыл бұрын
Can you keep drilling even when you're in water or is it too hard
@752brickie2 жыл бұрын
My uncle had an old 22W that we had to climb the mast and put in the block that held the top section. I grew up on the Derrick Floor of my Grandfather's Standard Rig and National Machine ! When you were swinging a 45' stem with 200' cracker spliced into the7/8" drilling line that was drilling !!! I remember as a kid hanging onto the temper screw drilling with my grandfather's watchful eye. At 9 minutes in you can hear they are hitting some water by the sound.
@jmtplittleguy3042 Жыл бұрын
Cable tools are working daily !
@jeffbyrd79763 жыл бұрын
There are a few of those rigs still drilling in this area of NM. But always fun to watch.
@TravisOnori5 жыл бұрын
Great video. My grandpa had rotary rigs, and I always wanted to know how the cable tool worked. Neat process.
@jimjonn56844 жыл бұрын
22s good lil rig...looks like they know what to do .i worked on 3 diff. 22s ...thats a beauty ...dont underestimate what can happen in a tight spot! Take it easy and keep jarrin .
@oksurfer608611 ай бұрын
I wonder if the cable tool makes a better quality hole than the rotary. I know of three wells drilled with rotary, but the fourth, 40 y/o cable drilled hole, is the shallowest, with the cleanest water.
@guncotton19507 жыл бұрын
thanx a bunch Mike i enjoyed this - cheers
@delmarhodges995 Жыл бұрын
it is called the drill bit and the bucket as you call it is the baler
@franklingonzalezpelegrin30938 ай бұрын
Me gustaria saber si en algun lugar de los EEUU, todavia se usa la perforacion por cable o percusion .
@randythomas34787 жыл бұрын
Good to see you on here again Mike. I've been at the old Mincy Mine up near Franklin NC. I will review your recent KZbin videos...
@edmazzeo47347 жыл бұрын
I always wondered how they dig a well...thanks mike
@gabrielbrymer96556 жыл бұрын
We use one down here in Knoxville Tennessee same series, B&R drilling &pumps serv.
@tnburn355 жыл бұрын
Down in Fl., my Dad, ran a couple of cable rigs, up until the night he passed on. he ran those rigs for 40+ yrs.
@irishluck74615 жыл бұрын
It's called a bailer ...it goes down and gets cuttings out ....
@brianhutchison66536 жыл бұрын
I drill wells with an old cable tool rig in Idaho
@nostressmike6 жыл бұрын
Brian Hutchison my respects to you, that is man's work. Lol Mike
@terrycarpenter34307 жыл бұрын
I work for a pump distributor and I have a few contractors who still run cable tool rigs with good success
@nostressmike7 жыл бұрын
Here in Oklahoma? I was shocked to know this guy stays busy with water wells. Do they case the whole well (run pipe to the bottom)? Mike
@terrycarpenter34307 жыл бұрын
NoStressMike Southern California. They case the whole well
@jimjonn56844 жыл бұрын
@@nostressmike your house mite be siting on a an ol cable tool hole. Lol
@nostressmike4 жыл бұрын
@@jimjonn5684 there a whole mess of holes within yards. Mike
@claudemckenzie23984 жыл бұрын
They are holding the line to feel the rotation of the rope socket, believe it or not even banging a hole in the ground still needs to go round and round
@fredp8977 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting. Can you continue taping as they go deeper?
@nostressmike7 жыл бұрын
They finished and left already, sorry. Mike
@byronleatham1183 Жыл бұрын
First time I seen a water wells being drilled my great-uncle Lehigh here's the tractor I need tighter up to the side of it shrivel on it and he built a tripod with apollyon decent life with some weight attached to it then he took a 2-inch pipe appointed device on it call the Sandpoint and drove it about a hundred feet into the ground jump on it and it had real good water the second water will I worked on we have was cable pull rig and we drilled a 700 ft 10th well I too worked on an oil rig in late 70s and early 80s girling Wells up to four miles deep a I worked on again in 2000 for about 7 or 8 years and then I got too old and I love my work it was funreally good people to work for and work with I haven't worked on a oil rigs in Wyoming Colorado Utah and Idaho it was very fun and very interesting
@TruckguyTruckguy4 ай бұрын
no one has that kind of time anymore! nice rig but keep it for a show piece.
@69druth6 жыл бұрын
Pretty hard to beat a cabletool for water.
@quins6006 жыл бұрын
We still use pretty much the same tool
@irishluck74615 жыл бұрын
It's the only way to go !!!! Galvinized casing with stainless steel screen VS plastic by a rotary ....I always felt rotary wells are throw away wells ...you get hit by lightning you can loose the whole well vs steel casing you just fry the pump ...not only that with a steel well you tend yield more water than plastic....screen gets shot..send the spear down and spear it out ...cant do that with a plastic well ...I feel there are so many more pros to a cabled well than a rotary....however lot of drillers are going rotary because they can put a well in in the fraction of the time vs cable .....and we all know time is money ...but the quality is not there !!!!
@rwbz287 жыл бұрын
What will they do when they cant have their face glued to a cellphone or a computer?
@rwbz287 жыл бұрын
I don't know about you but I dot have access to a SAT phone lol you might lol I'm done ranting for now. liked your video. I was up to my chest all day long in a lake building a deck lol think I will go to bed.
@jimjonn56844 жыл бұрын
Keep it moveing . dont panic in a tite spot. Easy now just keep evthing movein. Good luck on water.
@nostressmike4 жыл бұрын
It ended up dry. Mike
@claudemckenzie23984 жыл бұрын
You mean a drill string and a mud bailer or mud bucket
@TheGalaxyhopper7 жыл бұрын
I would be wearing a good hard hat, to do that work, but hey, that's just me!
@nostressmike7 жыл бұрын
When I was in the oil business you could always tell who has worked on a cable tool because they had a figure or two gone. Very dangerous work. Mike
@ccjensen4670 Жыл бұрын
Spudding in to set surface conductor..? I ran several Speedstars before switching to rotary in Northern Calif...company is now 101 years old and still going...I'm retired