Setting up the drill

The well drilling platform is this neat little crawler that can actually get into much tighter spots than our well site. It needs to be hooked up to a water and power source, which in this case was a supporting truck seen in the previous post. The thing at the left that looks like a lunar landing craft expels all the rock that the drill flushes out with water that is pumped through the tubes you see lying around the bottom. The next device over is the control panel for the entire operation. It's actually used to drive the machine as well as operate the drill.