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It seems that the Dempsters were galvanized while the Stovers are unpainted

Yes that is huge manilla rope from what I understand the old timers were very cautious with their ropes that they did not rub on anything whether drilling or pulling wells. Around this area west of San Antonio alot of wells were drilled with horsepowers they were built by Krueger machine known later...

The drilling rig is definitely a factory built machine.You can see the large manilla rope they used to drill with beside the rig. Throughout most of Texas the Ft.Worth Spudder was a popular machine. Their rigs had a wooden frame with huge beams.In fact they continued to build them that way long afte...

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Whoever built that tower for that vaneless mill did an excellent job building a sprung tower.

If it is a samson tower the platforms were round like the one blue has and had a light galvanized angle iron band around the wood. The f&w star towers had a triangle platform as well as the aermotors. I have a 40' 3 post samson tower it had a 12 ft samson model s on it that was too much weight a...

I will have to look in my junk yard i might have part of a 8 footer 6 footers are not to common in my area

If you need some parts i might be able to help you those three leg samson towers are very common in my area

I invested in a set of 1/2" drive 8 point deep and shallow impact sockets a while back the ones made by sunex are good quality and worth the investment and like windy said let it soak you will end up ruining are hard to find part if you rush it diesel is a cheap penetrating oil.

after the sand settled