It is a pleasure to watch you work with your hands. I get so frustrated when I see people that don’t know which way to screw on threads or how to properly use a wrench. Thanks
Another great oil field video, Zach! You make the work look so easy. I was grunting with you there using the cheater bar, removing that valve. One thing about the oil field, it will sure keep you in shape. Thanks again for taking us along, always enjoyable to see your work and how well you explain what you're doing. Looking forward to the next one. Take care and be safe.
You wear many hats to not wear a hat! (or gloves). I grew up in the oil patch near Borger Texas in the 50s and 60s. Rattlesnake hunting was a sport for us kids in the spring and summer and snake hunting was usually great around old tank batteries. You got bigger ones than me, I couldn't have put my hand under that tank!!!. Great channel! Keep the vids coming.
I've seen rope seals everywhere, seen them on the 2x3' AST hatches instead of a buna rubber. Most of the time it is because either someone was being cheap or they genuinely were using what was on hand at the time. As long as it doesn't leak, I don't begrudge, but dang there is a better way, nowadays.....
A good way to field verify that that pipe welder is 220V is to measure the heating element resistance; a 220V 1,500W element will be around 30 ohms whereas a 120V element will be around 9 ohms when cold. It's common for chinesium stuff to come with NEMA 1-15 equivalent plugs regardless of operating potential since their standard receptacles will take them.
Its got a ic/fet controller so I can't read the resistance directly without disassembling it but I plugged it in and read the current at 3.5 amps @120volts which would put it 31 ish ohms. It's absolutely a 220v heater. It's got a 5-15 bolt together replacement plug not a molded plug like they cut the 220v plug off and put on a 5-15 lol. It was cheap.
@@TheZachLife Sounds like time to wire on a 240v plug of your own and a 240v generator? Or a 240v step up transformer? Although that's starting to sound like an awfully sketchy way to set a piece of Chinesium on fire.
#1, That was great. I thought I was seeing things, gloves on. Couldn’t you have just put a cap on the bottom of the new water tank after you took off the valve? Are you able to get a lot of your supplies right in your town or do you have to travel? Does the high price of oil make its way to you? Are you seeing any of the videos coming out of MATS? See ya soon. Kc
Thanks. I was worried about corrosion and a possible leak in the connections under the tank. Being buried in the dirt is a common first failure point. Interestingly almost every little unusual one of a kind oilfield anything can be bought off the shelf within 15 miles of my house. The area around here was built on the oilfield and seemed to have kept it's establishments. The price of oil certainly is reflected in my paycheck buy what's hard to explain to people is that the relative price of oil really isn't up much. We are doing better than we have in the last few years but the extreme rise in cost of every thing counter acts the higher oil prices. Every single major expense we have has doubled in the last 12 months tubing, rubber products, obviously fuel, steel, electricity, and one of the hardest is the cost of labor. I have seen a few videos on facebook about the truck show. Theres some pretty cool stuff out there.
We have timber rattlesnakes here also, i usually see about six a year. They are like women sunbathing. They lay on the blacktop or gravel road absorbing heat. Legend has it my father’s mother mother, my great grandmother Mary Caston Crose lost her leg from snake bite. The fore mothers in my father family tree were hard workers. Their motto was their men worked from sunrise to sundown, six days a week, but their women’s work was never done. They don’t make many female like that anymore around here
Could the tanks be up off the soil on a bed of grave or a few patches of cement pad? Could you weld a collar and flange on the old tank so it could have a conventional gasket access port? Could you discuss the price of oil and when people reduce how much they pump because the cost of pumping/servicing the well exceeds the market price.
Great video Zach!!! I was hoping for some still shots of the inside of the AST from the nozzles and manway. The fiberglass install on that AST through that small manway would have been brutal. Would be super interested to have seen all the inside, espically the bottom to nozzle treatments..... Look forward to seeing more oilfield videos...
I have never seen a poly-welder, they're pretty damn cool, I always thought those joints in that kind of pipe were just hit with solvent and then glued up.
McElroy is what most of the companies doing HDPE up here use. That's what we were trained on years ago. Quality USA made units, sometimes a guy can get them at RB auctions.
on that pressure regulator deal in the oil discharge line to the tank... thinking it'd be easy enough to toss a heavy spring behind a big ball bearing, assemble it in some pipe reducers and nipples bingo bango fixed pressure check/relief valve for like 1-200 bucks worth of junk instead of a thousand for the big red guy
Thanks again, I like what you do, you know what your doing and understand it which in turn teaches me the process of oil drilling out in the field! The thing that puzzles me is that salt water! is it always present with oil out in the field, is that what pushes the oil out of the strata?
I have ran across several thing that use rope seals and they always seem to work pretty well but whoever thought to use it as a take gasket was a crack head lol.
I see that you broke the end off of your pipe wrench like I did using a cheater pipe. When you sent the pipe wrench to Ridgid to get a replacement did they send you a letter back that said it was abuse and they were not replacing it? Actually it was abuse and they were right!
Haha to be honest I bet that wrench is probably at least 50 years old and has been that way ever since I can remember. Ive got a newer 48" but I always use the broke one with a 2-1/2 tubing sub lol.
