Back in 1980 i sent one of my best Cat skinners up to build a drilling location up in N/E Ohio just south of I 90 off st. rt 193 . The lowboy dropped him off and radioed back that he was on his way to North East Pa. to move the one dozer up there to the new location . I was setting in my office looking over the work for the night shift when i hear Unity 28 to base call . I hit the key on the mic and said what do you need Beaver and he comes back with I am stuck in a w. W Va. ascent . What do you mean your stuck Jerry just dropped you off . I am STUCk comes over the radio . OK I'll be up . One lowboy was in the yard and one 750 Deere . Beaver ran a D 6 D his favort . I called back in the shop and told the one mechanic to go check out unit 40 and fire up unit 15 and help me with the stinking ramps Those were made out of 4 1/2 inch drill collar . Loaded up and headed up north as the old shop was on 193 . I was on location in a half hour and yep Beaver was Stuck . Unloaded and sucked him out with out a problem . Ok fine your out i am going back to the shop . He went back to pushen dirt and i headed for the trailer . Since i was by myself now i had to do things different and back the dozer on then use the blade and chain to pull the ramps up . As i was backing on i had just broke over the beavertail when i saw him sink the D 6 and was stuck again . Back off the trailer and drag him out . He was just getting started stripping the top soil . Pulled him out again and he and i looked over the location . even when you went and walked on the clay it wiggled , this was in mid summer . Up in that area the water table is just 3-4 feet down . The one thing i learned early on in the oil patch was that the old 750 John Deere dozers would work and go where no D 6 d would go .So i put Beaver on the 750 and i stayed on the D 6 on solid ground just in case he went down . while i was there the field man showed up and he asked why we had two dozers on this location and i had to show him why . We talked about it and i told him that this ground would never support a rig a it was and that we could never dig the three pits . Beaver got the top soil off but that location was nasty . and before the rig came it was decided to put stone on every thing and to use tanks for the pits . I had three dump truck companys hauling stone for four days every tri axle and tandem they could come up with and the first time i put down fabric to build a floating pad on top of four feet of stone covering a 300 x 400 foot area plus the 1500 feet of lease road Can we say CHA CHING just to poke a 5000 ft hole in the ground . From St Rt 5and 87 north to the lake plum nasty ground over to the ohio Pa line . Then ya have abiout the same ground conditions from St. Rt 534 north of US 224 up above the Ohio Pike and west to St > Rt 183 Swamp pads help . Driller knew that they would be usen at times 200 Ft of conductor pipe before they got it set in rock . They also knew that at any time from 200 feet or less they just might hit a pocket of surface gas down to 880 feet as several rigs went up in a huge ball of fire . The first company i ran the well water coming out of the spikets could be lite with a match and burn like a gas stove. That well was 325 feet deep .
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