CLOSING
TIME
“Closing Time” is the page of Water Well Journal that showcases—you! It will always feature a few pictures of people at work at job sites around the world. Please send in photos and brief descriptions and you just
may be the subject on the last page of an issue of WWJ. And remember, if your photo is selected as the cover image of WWJ, you receive $250. If your photos are selected, you will be
asked to fill out a photo disclaimer form that grants the National Ground Water Association the royalty-free right to display the photos. Please send high-resolution digital photos to tplumley@ngwa.org.
WWJ showed in the July issue images of a Dempster cable tool rig that sits on a 1925 Douglas truck and is housed at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott, Iowa. It is estimated the rig was built between 1900-1910. Here are more images. Also, go to www.water welljournal.com to see a slide show of the rig at the museum.
This is the front of the rig. It is part of a collection of 50 to 60 trucks being displayed at any one time at the museum. This is the spudding beam and shock absorbing beam— still wood. Ninety percent of the rig is wood.
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This is a close look at the winch for drilling cable. All photos submitted by Dave Meier of Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. Anyone with more information on a Dempster rig can call Meier at (563) 468-5228.
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