This is a friends 8mm video of oil field work at Pratt Kansas around 1952. The Dart truck doing the heavy work was found 5 years ago in a junkyard and is currently under going restoration. www.chargerfeve...
I was born in Russell Kansas and worked 35 years in the Kansas/OK Oil Patch. Love the oil patch: Drilling, Production, Completion. 3 generations of our Smith family worked it. :)
Small rig drilling shallow holes that usually lasted about six weeks and then it was time to move on. Went to 12 grade schools in my first three years throughout northern & western Texas around 1950. But it sure beat picking & stripping cotton. It made our lives very unique and appreciative of all good things. We had to grow up fast. Half of the girls in the United States were married at 18 years old or before in the United States.
