some rust

Saw these on the way home this morning.

Yep know where that is at. I knew that guy but i do not remember his name at the moment . Plus i worked all around that place back in the late seventys and early eighty's building entrance waysand drilling locations , dragging drilling rigs in and out pulled in lots of loads of tubing and pipe . That area is flippen SWAMP . Set one of my best operators up in that neck of the woods one day and the low boy driver called back to the shop and told me he had Just left that location and was headed for N/E Pa to pick up one of our other dozers and move it and not more the ten min. later i was out of the office talking to one of the mechanics on what needed done to one of the trucks and i here Beaver calling the shop and yelling I 'M STUCK . So back in the office and i ask him how bad are ya stuck and i get i'm stuck and the tree i tried to winch out on came out of the ground and is layen on top of me COME GET ME . Since i was the only one left at the shop and could drive the low boy and run a dozer i was elected . once you got down over a foot deep you were into the water table .

Those are some pretty nice pieces of antique iron. The gate looks like the cow was on one side and her calf was on the other side at one time. I've had plenty that looked like that through the years.

The tractors look a lot better then the gate.






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Thumbs-up.

Maybe tractor vet left them there when he got stuck back in the seventies and no one was left in the office to pull them out.

It's in Chester Twp. Hasn't been much if any drilling around here lately.

(quoted from post at 01:09:19 01/08/21) It's in Chester Twp. Hasn't been much if any drilling around here lately.

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What is "Twp"? Google doesn't give me anything that makes sense in this context.

TWP stands for township. Different states divide their land up in different ways I suppose, but in Iowa, there are 99 counties. Each county is divided into townships. The standard township is 6 miles square or 36 sections. There is some deviation for irregular boundaries such as rivers, etc. Usually used only for legal description and governance here.

Nope , But back then there was a drilling rig on ever corner . At night if you were on Rt 11 around us 6 and 322 you could see the towers all over . Back then i was running s large service company for a friend . If it was on tires or tracks that is what i was incharge of . Most times i was at the main shop keeping things moving between the phones and company radio . But there were times i had to go and get my boots muddy when things went south . We covered a vary large area of operation from the lake to the river over into Pa and Ny and W Va. . had 4 D 6 D's , 4 850 John Deeres , 4 750 John Deeres , 4 550 John Deeres couple 410 back hoes one Masey track hoe ( pure Junk ) 2 690's and 2 590's 4 ditch witches four mobile welding out fits , 380 300 BBl frac tanks to keep up with two frac tank haulers that ran 24-7 8 90 BBl water trucks 8 semi tankers a raft of 3 and 4 inch pumps a herd of pick ups and one tins miles and miles of 3 and 4 inch hose four service rigs four low boys and flat or floats plus my semi running pipe and tubing from the mills . had 11 mechanics working two shifts . And like i said there were days and nights i had to go out , even had to fillin as a pipe line welder one day to get a two mile tie in line in the ground . took one of the back up millers and put it in my own pick up along with everything i needed sole one of the mechanics as a helper and everything else we needed was up there . and i hate welding 4 inch . Weld and pull weld and pull then go down and weld on two 90's in the MUD . Got called out one Nov morning at 2:30 Am to go help move a drilling rig up by Kingsville on a Sunday morning in a driving rain storm that quickly turned in to a Lake affect Blizzard . Two of us tryen to get this rig out with two D 6 Ds . Rig was 3200 and some feet back in off the road and we had to winch the empty trucks back in and winch them out at about 200 feet a pull . I got there around 4:30 in the morning and we were just loading the dozers up to go to the new location at 1:30 Monday morning as the tool pusher was demanding we get that rig onto the new location and it was the same way a mud bog . I was whipped and the other operator was falling a sleep and it was still snowing . after the third time i slid off the side of the low boy i had had enough and told the tool pusher we were done And i was going HOME Soaking wet , tired and vary cold . That was a LONG ride to the house all the way in four wheel drive slip sliden down 11 and the short piece of 80 and back on 11 down to Canfield and if you did not know 62 you would not have found it to the house. Then the night i get a call at the shop that one of our lowboys with a D 6 D on layed over on its side on a back township road on a HILL because the road gave way and no way to get wreckers in to it and had to take TWO dozes down and only one low boy to do it all the way to Cladwell Took two 850 Deeres pulled one on and backed the other on and had my own personal semi tractor hooked to the low boy and set sail sure glad the scales on 77 were closed that night . Working the Patch was a adventure every day . as for no drilling going on it is feast or fammon , all those holes were in the Clinton formation and not vary deep 3-4000 feet up there and down here 5-7800 . Next good formation is the one they just drilled and that is 8-10000 , they hit that one hard and when the money ran out so did the drilling companys and never drilled the rest that were planed screwed over land owners cheated them lied to them . Only a few people that played it smart and did not sign .

(quoted from post at 11:29:34 01/08/21) TWP stands for township. Different states divide their land up in different ways I suppose, but in Iowa, there are 99 counties. Each county is divided into townships. The standard township is 6 miles square or 36 sections. There is some deviation for irregular boundaries such as rivers, etc. Usually used only for legal description and governance here.

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Thanks. I kinda assumed that was it but you know what they say about assume.

He use to jockey tractors and equipment , meet him when i was playing the game we called him Fink but i THINK his name was Finkenbinder or something like that. He was and OLD fart back in the 80's nice guy as was just about everyone i ever meet playen the game . Been maybe 20-25 years since last up that way . He use to drive some pretty old beat up pick ups and run to the sales with . Remember coming home from a sale out in Fletcher and saw his pick up setting on a ramp off I 71 broke down but nobody around , next day heading to another sale it was gone But he was at the sale with another old truck. Some times someone post a picture and it rattles the cobwebs . Over the years i have covered a lot of ground either going to sales or trucking over it . Place i would love to go back to is a small town in Neb. with about five step decks and a pick up load of dollar bills and i don't think ya could get it all on five 53 footers in one trip. All I H's starting at like 300's on up thru the 66's Just setting . Found them on my last outing with the semi off the beaten path .

I remember those days. The tanks are still rusting. FIL was farming then and he signed up with a local guy because he knew his dad. Lots of talk, he parked an IH dozer near the barn and it sat there at least six months. Then the guy comes by and says he sold the lease. Whoever bought it never did anything either. Seen a lot of flim-flam in that business. Like "we're all gonna get rich together" stuff. A lot of people ended up sorry they signed.

Around here townships are 5 by 5. Surveyed and sold by the Connecticut Land Company hence the "Connecticut Western Reserve". Gov't awarded land to Revolutionary War veterans.