Well was fixed in short order: Thanks Bennett, Bev, and Ken. Great when cavers represent to other people on the land (which actually seems to happen a lot).
Ben H On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Sam Young via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > I was wondering about the business at O9 Well. Did someone get down there > and clean the broken rods out of the pipe? > > Many years ago that would have been my father's job. He would not have > gone down the drop but would have pulled the pipe out with his pickup. My > father was Peck Young, the area windmill man. He installed that Aermotor > windmill which stands over O9 well and took care of all of the windmills > for the Noelke family which leases university land in the area. I was my > dad's helper in the Summers and I have been to many Noelke windmills but > never to O9 well. I do remember that he told me once that he slid down the > pipe. He did not say how he got out - probably rode up on the hook at the > end of a cable as his helper pulled him out with the pickup. > > Pardon my nostalgic diversion. If anyone is interested, I have written up > some stories about windmilling with my father on our website. Contact me > off of TexasCavers and I will send you the link. > > ......... Sam Young > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/te > xascav...@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >
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