"SteveB" wrote in message
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"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote

Thanks for the explanation of "joint". Again, likely an oil field term,
certainly nothing ever used where I worked, but then we didn't specialize in
pipe, either.

Harold



Unless, of course, you are referring to a joint of drill pipe. In that case,
they are random lengths, IIRC, from 39 to 44 feet each, and I don't know why
they are uneven lengths. I have sent many hundreds of miles of it up to the
drill floor through the V door.

Perhaps Turtle knows the answer to the why of the uneven lengths.....

Steve

This is Turtle.

For the first 1 to 2 mile of drill pipe put in the hole you can use the 44 foot
joints. then after that you had to go to the 39 foot joints because of the main
rotor putting so much tork on the drill pipe. They had 1,000+ horse power D.C.
electric motor turning the rotor and they can twist it off if it hit a rock
formation or hard spot.

Any Man that has ever looked down through a V Door while working, you don't have
to tell him about hard work or how it is. Did you ever get use to that safety
belt tied on your ass ?

Are you still a member of the InternationBrother Hood of Oil Field Trash ? I
give up my membership about 15 years ago and I still is getting calls from the
Membership about a Cook up that is going on.

TURTLE