In my last column, I wrote about a lifting device my dad either made or had made for lifting and lowering drop pipe into wells. I had intended to write this time about some other lifting and lowering devices that we used that may or may not have been unique. Some of you readers may have used very similar devices. I wanted to include pictures of these things as they are a bit hard to describe in words, but I have had photographic problems and that column will have to wait.
In the meantime I’m going to write about a really, really old drill rig — the first one I had any experience with. That story goes all the way back before the United States entered World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. But first, I want to give readers a bit of family history about how my father and then I got involved in the well drilling and pump industry.