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5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

you know we live in dumb times when the author thought it necessary to add "oil derrick" to make sure the intended audience would understand. 

Funny thing, though.  Although most of us of a certain age are used to seeing oil derricks, they mostly fell out of use after WWII.  

Unless you want to count the mast of a driling rig as a derrick.

Kind of wild when you think about erecting several tons and a couple hundred feet of steel to drill a well and just leaving it there when you're done.

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Funny thing, though.  Although most of us of a certain age are used to seeing oil derricks, they mostly fell out of use after WWII.  

Unless you want to count the mast of a driling rig as a derrick.

Kind of wild when you think about erecting several tons and a couple hundred feet of steel to drill a well and just leaving it there when you're done.

Those are standard derricks and were often made of wood. I worked the A-frame derricks in the late 1970s which moved from site to site. They were big and made of iron.



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