It looks the same except for homemade rear fenders. I could possibly bring it up to your department if you are having some kind of open house or parade or whatever. I no longer have the bed but still have some of the gear and photos and paperwork from its days of operation. I can be reached at ropespear66@yahoo.com

My Grandad had a National Machine. He was drilling for South Penn around the Bradford, PA fields on the company-owned National machines, and they offered up the sale of the rigs to the drillers, so he partnered up with another fellow and bought one. I think this was in the late thirties. In the early fifties, they made the contractors go to spudders in order to build smaller locations and smaller access roads as they were doing a lot of drilling in the Allegheny National Forrest, so the National was sold (Grandad had dropped his partner a while back), and an 83 Speedstar took its place. A couple of the drillers quit because they couldn't get the hang of the spudder. My Dad was probably 12 or 13 when that happened but still recalled his Dad slipping the clamps to get a longer screw just like you describe. My Grandad bought a couple of leases when my Dad was in his teens, and Dad pumped my Grandad's wells after school and serviced them on weekends, along with his brothers. After tech-school, his 2 years of army obligation, and working a few other jobs he didn't care for, my Dad dressed tools and drilled for my Grandad. My Grandad even bought a second 83 Speedstar, but Pennzoil wouldn't give him enough work for both rigs. In the mid-sixties, the oil business was kind of depressed, and the leases weren't making enough to oil the jacks, so Grandad sold out and moved back to Ohio, which was where he and my Grandmother were from originally. On the last few wells, My Dad would drill on one 8 hour tour, and Grandad would dress tools for him, and then my Dad would dress tools for another driller on the next 8-hour tour, as my Grandad's men had started to find other work and he was short-handed. Dad said he would get the next location ready after the well was shot and they were cleaning out-cut poles to skid the rig up on the timbers, run the gas line and water line, and have everything ready to go for the day they moved. Other guys would just sit around between runs. On their last well, usually, it was at least four guys moving, but this time it was just Dad and Grandad. They had her rigged down, moved over, and the stem buried before the next tour came on. The dozer man said, " You two get along better than a whole crew! " Dad wanted to take over the oil biz but didn't have any money. My Grandad was in his mid-fifties, so not old enough to retire. They tried to get on with an oil drilling outfit in Ohio, but that didn't work. A local realtor told my Grandad there was a need for water well drillers, so he and my Dad bought a little old 42 Cyclone and tools from a guy in a nursing home. My Dad got a job at Lincoln Electric but came down every weekend to help his Dad. After seven years at Lincoln, and getting married, my Dad quit Lincoln and built a house here and bought another rig, and partnered up with Grandad in the early seventies. My brother and I worked summers since we were only six or seven years old and I got to spend hundreds of days with my Grandad on the spudders-usually I'd be with him on the drill-deeper jobs up through the eighties and early '90s, hearing the tales of how it was in the oil patch. He died in '95. I partnered up with my Dad in 2008 and bought the whole thing in 2013, but still have a lot of the equipment and tooling that we started with. Trying to maintain the old ways-like you said, the button bits aren't worth a nickel. Never owned one. I collect some stuff from the oil patch-old engines, pumps, even got a couple of standard rig models. Last fall I bought a band wheel from a National machine from a museum that sold out. My Dad is still living but he's like you-one of the last of the people who got to see the old walking beam rigs actually work. If I had the resources, I'd buy a National (there are a handful of steel ones still standing) and plop it in my back yard make it work just to see how it worked. Where and when did your family drill? What rigs did you use in the water well business? We have two 36 Cyclones, a 42 Cyclone, and a 36 Rotary combination rig, all of which are on video on here. We are only an hour from where the cyclones were built, so that's why we used that brand. I also have two pump hoists and two backhoes, as well as a huge collection of bits and stems and fishing tools and all the other stuff you acquire in 55 years of doing business (I'm 46). Good to hear from you. Sometimes I'm slow to reply because I'm a one-man operation and have to do paperwork when I get home from a full day of work. Talk to you later!

@@ropespear66 Wow that is amazing !!!!! There are still a few Nationals in your area? They are all gone around here. My great uncle Willie Miller also drilled in Bradford for I believe South Penn on a National Machine. He had one of his own for a while and in the end ran a shudder for them. My dad was working for Gulf Oil at the time when he ran into uncle Wille going to work one day coming down rt 219. Uncle Wille had a little jeep and he drove about as fast as you can walk .Dad knew it was him and got on his tail and he could see uncle Willie giving him the devil in the mirror for not passing until dad flew by and pulled over. I think at the time he was running a Northern Ordinance YoYo rig. Those Cyclones are wonderful rigs. I almost bought a 36 when I was looking for a rig to play with years ago. They are a wonderful rig and the old 42 air shudders "we called them" would out drill a Bucyrus on a bad day and smoke them on a good one. What part of Ohio are you in ? Have you ever been to Drake Well Parkin Titusville? If you have you have seen the big Standard "Kewanee" Rig. My dad worked on it and they set it up for Drake Well back in the '60's I remember when they were drilling with it near Brookville. That was for F C Deemer who was bought out by Kewanee,then Gulf and last Chevron. Dad was fortunate to have every one carry his seniority so he retired at 55 then worked for me and the township as a supervisor for years. I still would love to have a rig. Even a little 35 Cyclone just to mess with or a 20W. Would really love to have either a 60L or 72 Speedstar to drill a couple shallow gas wells on my ground north of town. Keep in touch . If it were not for Rampp I have no idea where you would buy tools??

@@ropespear66 I also believe my granddad showing me how they threaded the rope sockets for the cracker. I believe they used 24 pieces of soft rope 24" long and weaved them into the cracker and then they would pull it in to the socket to seat it with the crank. I have to tell you this little funny story. Back in the'60's a friend of mine bought a National and was going to drill a couple wells with it, which they did. On the first well they were drilling they had just buried the tools not very far . I was standing in the rig when an old driller was there that wanted to run the tools in and spud a while "because they were not deep enough to start using the screw" well His decided to check the jars" which my granddad faithfully always did too' and when he came down on the brake "POP" out came the cracker and down went the tools and the cracker landed back at the bullwheels ! You should have seen the look on Hud Smith's face when the cracker came out. You could look down the hole and see the rope socket. The next day they had them fished out and were drilling again. They were a great rig. You could actually carry on a conversation with one another without shouting. I swear that is one of the reasons I cannot hear well today is that Bucyrus Erie 22 W was so loud. That and possibly playing my electric guitar full volume !!

@@752brickie No Nationals in my area. I'm in Carroll County, Ohio-I'm just a little west of the northern tip of West Virginia. There is one in a museum in Canada, one in a museum in Kansas, and one in a museum in Texas. There is one in a video on here that was out in a field in Montana, and a friend of a friend knows where it is, on an Indian reservation. He said, " What in the world does he (meaning me) want that for? " I figure if there are a video and pictures of a few on the internet, there has to be a few more somewhere still complete. They would never survive in this dampness, but out west, I'm sure there has to be a handful. These were all steel models-my grandad's was wood, and I'm sure there aren't any of those left. I have been to the Drake Museum a couple of times. The museum they just sold off last year was Ken Miller Supply, south of Wooster, Ohio. They had a lot of portable rigs and spudders and swabbers. No jerker line display or standard rig like in Titusville, but an impressive collection. I bet a lot of the outdoor stuff went to the scrap yard. They sold a spudding pulley and a band wheel for the National. The pulley went for high dollars, but I got the band wheel. The oil-related signs went for more than the machines. They had a restored Star on an old truck with a walking beam and temper screw that only went for $2400, but it was so huge the average person wouldn't have a place to store it. It would have taken days to tear it apart and get it home, so I passed. I had a full gooseneck trailer as it was. I actually told the auctioneer what some of the stuff was, and overheard guys talking about what some of the things did, and they were wrong. The National spudding pulley had a label on it and a guy was telling his buddy that it was a crown pulley-since I was there, I corrected him. Even though I'd never seen one, or seen one used, I knew that it went on the wrist pin for the first 150' before you hitched on to the beam. I also bought a spudding shoe for a standard rig for ten bucks-nobody knew what it was for. Can't start a well on a standard without it. The bidding was going way up on a yellow dog and a guy asked me what the heck it was because he saw me buy this other odd stuff. My Dad said there must have been a dozen or more of those old yellow dogs under the bench in the doghouse when they sold their rigs. Never thought they would be worth a fortune. As far as buying tools, Rampp is the only place I know, but I've bought tools off of several retired drillers over the years for peanuts so I'm well stocked. The only things I might buy new are jars or rope sockets but haven't needed anything in a long time. I've paid scrap price for a lot of good stuff, just no demand any more.

My granddad’s rig was all steel . The only thing that was not was the gin pole and the last well he drilled for himself he broke it starting to raise the mast and had to have a steel one made. Every other well we touched up all the paint on the National Machine. There were drillers north of here that had a #3 that had the shock too and casing reel . All of the sills were white oak . I believe the main sill on the standard rug was either 20” or 24” square and 24-38’ long but I could be wrong . I know they were pretty big and impressive!

The Sanderson Cyclone Drill Co. built this rig, as well as hundreds of others like it. There are several videos on youtube of this model, by others, with the same identification. A Google image search of "Cyclone 36 cable tool rig" will produce pictures of this model from all over the U.S.A. The brass plate on the rig says, "Sanderson Cyclone Drill Co.". I have the original bill of sale, as well as a factory brochure for the 36R (the rotary-spudder combination version built by Cyclone with the same spudder built-in), the factory parts book with engineering drawings, and finally, witnessed by my 82-year-old father, who was there at the factory in Orrville, Ohio where the rig was built, when the order was placed, and the rig was picked up. This was the "latest" version of the Cyclone 36, which was built from the mid-sixties until the closing of the Cyclone factory in the early eighties. There was an older version before this design which had a cable raised mast, a more angular frame made of channel iron, and slightly smaller gears, but the layout of the draw works and controls were essentially the same. I have a video of myself bailing on the "older" version posted, as well as a couple videos of the 36R, the Cyclone rotary-spudder combination. Cyclone also built a 36A (for spudder-auger combo), a 36TH-60 combination, and other models with this layout, such as the models 5 and 35 for lighter work, and the 38 and 43 for deeper wells.

@@ropespear66 I have been around cable tool rigs my whole life and have seen many. I have watched hundreds of videos not once have I seen a rig exactly like this one. Certainly not a Cyclone rig as the Cyclone Pittman and beam sets backwards to other rigs and has a different shive design. This rig may be called a Cyclone but it is almost an exact copy of a Bucyrus Erie with a touch of Speedstar design. I expect this is from a small independent shop that built a few of these machines copied after the true work horses. This isn't the true Cyclone drilling rig though they are very unique and unmistakable rigs. The mechanical lay out of your machine is practically a dead match for a Bucyrus while the power unit sets backwards like the speedstar on opposite sides of the rig. If I was to have closer inspection I expect I could find even closer similarities that this is a copied rig. Don't take this wrong even though it may be a copy they copied the best in the buisness and she is a good sound rig. But I know cable tools born and raised on them. It's not uncommon to find old rigs like yours where independent shops built and copied styles and sold them. They would make just enough change to avoid patent issues or in some cases build copies after the patents have expired. Happens all the time.

@@kenjett2434 In the "hundreds of videos" you have watched you must have missed a few. If you look at "cool 2013 029" you will see a 1914 Sanderson Cyclone rope rig with this exact layout. This is the design they started with before the invention of wire rope. Of course, you'll come back at me with the "I never saw it, so it doesn't exist" nonsense. The Drake Well Museum has the same rig, a 1917 model, mounted on a GMC Big Brute truck. There is currently an ad on eBay for a 1905 Sanderson Cyclone ad with a picture with this configuration, only the engine is near the mast and the boiler is out front. I'm very aware of the model you describe. I own one, a 42. They made a 40, a 41, a 42, a 44, and a 46, among others, all with the layout you describe- bull wheel back near the mast, beam hinges at the mast, belts on the right, sand reel up by the engine. The beam has an air piston shock absorber built-in. A very common rig around my area at one time. My 55-year-old business was started with one. But to say this style was the "true Cyclone" would be like saying the "Thunderbird" was the only "true Ford". Both were truly recognizable models of their own unique look and style, and both had a history before their time and carrying on of their manufacturer after their own run came to an end. You can simply look at my channel-I have not only this 36 Cyclone but a model 36 that is at least ten years older. It has the same layout, but the mast and framework are strikingly similar to it's "42" cousin because they were built at around the same time. Yes, I said it. A company can build more than one model, with neither having interchangeable parts, at THE SAME TIME!! Will a Bucyrus Erie 22W's gears mesh with those on a 20W? Not a chance. Same company, though. The reason for the design of the 42 and others like it, with the air piston in the beam, was the conversion from manilla rope to wire rope. Manilla rope had enough stretch to not need any kind of shock absorber, but wire rope did. The patent for the stacked rubber disks under the crown was likely first filed by Bucyrus, so the other manufacturers had to go another route. The air shock worked well, but the number of moving parts is ridiculous. The drilling line goes through twice as many sheaves on a 42 as it does on a 36, and with the piston linkage in the beam, has something like 19 grease fittings (and an oil reservoir) for just the parts that affect the beam and spooling of the drilling line, including the pitman and crown. The 36 has eight fittings to do the same job. So when the patent expired, most manufacturers went with the simple design of the floating crown. It was hardly the end of the Sanderson Cyclone Drill Company. They did build a few 44-rotary combination rigs, but this modern-looking rig in my video (36 Standard) was fitted with a 3 sided derrick in 1964 to introduce the "Cyclone 36-R Duo Drill", a rotary-cable tool combination. I own one of those and have videos of it on my channel as well, and the draworks are a carbon copy of this rig, as they were built the same year (1969), at the (same) Cyclone plant in Orrville, Ohio, only you'll say they don't exist because you never saw them, even though I have documentation, brochures, blah, blah blah. You could even bring your 36 Standard spudder back to the Cyclone plant, and they would retrofit a derrick and rotary table, and turn it into a Duo Drill. I've seen these retrofits with my own eyes-you can tell where the original mast hinges were cut off and moved out to accommodate the wider derrick. I have pictures in my personal collection. I've also seen this rig with a 3 sided derrick and no rotary table or rotary kelly, likely ordered to someday do a conversion that never happened. They also built the 36 Standard with the telescoping mast (like the one in this video) with a short kelly and a rotary table, used for shallow small diameter gravel wells. Cyclone would build anything you could dream up, which is why there are so many models out there. They had their own casting plant, built their own engines, forged their own drilling tools, even had their own unique tool joint size. Their rotary design eventually morphed from the Duo- Drill to the RO-300, into the Cyclone TH-60, which was the reason (patents!) they were acquired by Ingersoll-Rand, (which is now Atlas-Copco) in the mid-1970s. The bottom line is, I know what I have. I own 4 Cyclone machines. I know what they are and where they came from. I have seen, in-person and online, multiples of each model, and there are currently multiple examples for sale or in archived photos of past sales. I also save photos from past online sales in my personal collection. For someone to say, " I've seen it all and know it all " really closes you off to a wealth of information. I've been studying these machines and this company for a long time. Last year I was at a museum liquidation auction, and up for sale was a 4 cylinder power unit with "Cyclone" cast in the block, and "The Sanderson Cyclone Drill Co." cast into the radiator. I didn't yell at the auctioneer, "Cyclone didn't build that because I've never seen one!!". I bought it. I took it home. And with a little research, I found an ad from the late 1920s with a picture of my engine announcing the acquisition of a marine engine plant in Cleveland by...(drum roll) The Sanderson Cyclone Drill Co.!! It said all casting equipment and molds will be moved to the Cyclone plant in Orrville. I spent a couple hundred bucks, learned something, and may have the only surviving piece of an almost forgotten history. That's the point of my videos-to show something, that is slowly fading away, to a wider audience. If I document something incorrectly, I'll be the first to admit it if shown enough proof. I know you can't prove a negative, but "I've never seen it so it didn't happen" just proves a closed mind-it doesn't even come close to proving me wrong.

Motor could have been swapped, as you know there are other displacements for this block such as 377 and 331