Me and a buddy decided to try and build a water drilling rig. we just started looking online and watching YouTube videos for all the info we needed. we're not sure if this this will work but we will give it a try. we are doing this on the cheap and are using a lot of scrap metal and whatever else we can find. bought the water swivel, hydraulic motor, valve body , and most of the other misc. parts off eBay.
this is probably going to be a long build and we are in no hurry to get it done.
here is a picture of the motors, valve body and swivel
here we made the base out of I-beam and my buddy is welding the 14' upright. we used 4" channel and 2 3/8" pipe cut to 3" for spacers.
this picture shows the 14' upright welded to the base . we didn't realize how tall 14' was until we stood it up and almost took out the light.
next we started on the sled that will travel up and down the Channel. this will hold our motor and swivel. we're not sure exactly what we are doing and wanted to make sure this thing would be heavy enough to carry the weight of all of our drill stem. so we used 1/2" plate.
here is the sled on the upright with the motor and swivel in place.
on most of the rigs we looked at online never had any support on the swivel. all the weight was on the motor and the swivel just hung there. you can see that we added the bottom plate and added a support bearing. this should carry all the weight of the drill stem.
Here is a video on it and some of the other stuff we still need to do.
sorry couldn't get the video to load so just click on the link
AY
this is probably going to be a long build and we are in no hurry to get it done.
here is a picture of the motors, valve body and swivel
here we made the base out of I-beam and my buddy is welding the 14' upright. we used 4" channel and 2 3/8" pipe cut to 3" for spacers.
this picture shows the 14' upright welded to the base . we didn't realize how tall 14' was until we stood it up and almost took out the light.
next we started on the sled that will travel up and down the Channel. this will hold our motor and swivel. we're not sure exactly what we are doing and wanted to make sure this thing would be heavy enough to carry the weight of all of our drill stem. so we used 1/2" plate.
here is the sled on the upright with the motor and swivel in place.
on most of the rigs we looked at online never had any support on the swivel. all the weight was on the motor and the swivel just hung there. you can see that we added the bottom plate and added a support bearing. this should carry all the weight of the drill stem.
Here is a video on it and some of the other stuff we still need to do.
sorry couldn't get the video to load so just click on the link
AY
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