Don Green tells of how he answered a telephone call and got a tough job in return.
Apparently he had experienced a compressor failure while some 280 feet in the ground. After extracting all the details I could from this gentleman, we agreed to get involved since it was relatively close by, and we had a rebuilt unit available. Now, I have to tell you, as we pulled into the drill location, my heart sank because the rig location would not make for an easy job. We had just enough room to get a hoist truck in close enough to uncouple the air end and move it back so we could operate the hydraulics to pull the drill steel out of the ground. After this was done, we lowered the mast and moved the rig to a better location locally to clean the system and install the rebuilt compressor air end.