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Posted: 7/3/2012 4:44:38 PM EST
A few years ago, I was working a job that originated around Dexter, KS.

This was one of several items that was found at the site. I'll even give you a hint and say that it was unearthed.

It is cast iron, and the end cap grooves were originally an eyelet that has since rusted away.

I already know what it is, and it caused quite a stir with the bigwigs (a few of them pooped their shorts...) when we found 4 of them together. how many members here know what it is too?















Added: Winner listed below. This is an oilwell perforating charge. After a well is drilled and the wellbore is cased, they send a string of perforating charges to the bottom of the wellbore and detonate them in sequence. The rounded metal end goes off like a cannon shell and blows a hole through the wellbore casing and deep into the strata so that it will hemorage raw petroleum


These puppies were originally used on a well outside of Dexter, KS when it was first drilled around 1983. The well was pumped for several years, but then production dwindled off and the well was capped around 1996.

The well remained capped for about 10 years, and then the cap was drilled out using 5" diameter "wash pipe". While unplugging the cap, these babies were unearthed from 5,500 feet below the surface of the earth, where they had been sleeping since 1983.


These two beautiful specimens were collected by the county sheriff's bomb squad shortly after they were phtographed here.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:46:02 PM EST
[#1]
Nancy Pelosi's butt plug finally found.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:47:00 PM EST
[#2]
Quoted:
Nancy Pelosi's butt plug finally found.



You could only wish, my friend...

Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:47:21 PM EST
[#3]
really old grenade.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:47:26 PM EST
[#4]
Well it's not a opossum
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:48:33 PM EST
[#5]
Quoted:
really old grenade.


Damn, no cigar for you...agghhh!
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:49:21 PM EST
[#6]
UXO don't fuck with it.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:49:48 PM EST
[#7]
Cannon shot?

Shot
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:52:41 PM EST
[#8]
Quoted:
Cannon shot?

Shot


This is my geuss too.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:52:51 PM EST
[#9]
Quoted:
Cannon shot?

Shot



Not that old, it's a "tool" of sorts for a very specific job.

Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:53:23 PM EST
[#10]



Quoted:



Quoted:

Nancy Pelosi's butt plug finally found.






You could only wish, my friend...





Harry Reid's butt plug?



 
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:53:27 PM EST
[#11]
OST
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:53:55 PM EST
[#12]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Nancy Pelosi's butt plug finally found.



You could only wish, my friend...



Case Shot Fuse????
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:56:41 PM EST
[#13]
Looks like an WWII German grenade with the wood handle rotted off.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:56:42 PM EST
[#14]
Bomb fuze?
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:57:15 PM EST
[#15]
Quoted:
Looks like an WWII German grenade with the wood handle rotted off.


Looks too rounded at the one end for that.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 4:59:57 PM EST
[#16]
Radioactive plumb?
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:00:02 PM EST
[#17]
Bullet casting pot.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:01:31 PM EST
[#18]
Tag for answer
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:01:46 PM EST
[#19]
That radioactive thing they use in oil exploration?


Radiography projector something or other?


Lots of gamma if so.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:02:28 PM EST
[#20]





Quoted:



Radioactive plumb?



I was going to just say "old plumb" but your way is much cooler.





 
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:03:26 PM EST
[#21]
Uxo... used to bust through hard strata while drilling.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:04:17 PM EST
[#22]
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:04:59 PM EST
[#23]
Quoted:
Uxo... used to bust through hard strata while drilling.




WINNA WINNA, CHICKEN DINNA!!!

See original post.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:13:23 PM EST
[#24]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Uxo... used to bust through hard strata while drilling.




WINNA WINNA, CHICKEN DINNA!!!

See original post.


Your state kinda gave it away.
Some of that oil field ordnance is scary powerful.
Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:22:49 PM EST
[#25]
Best we could determine from drilling permits was that the well was completed in 1983, apparently some of the casing ordnance did nto explode in the wellbore.

It laid dormant there while the well was producing, and then later capped.

A few years ago another production company bought the well and drilled out the cap. These casing charges came up from about 5,500 down where they had been for over 25 years.

When one of the crew hands was cleaning out the washpipe and putting it back in the racks...one of the charges detonated, thus turning that drill pipe into the world's largest zip-gun.

Here's a redacted photo of a man showing how the accident happened.




Link Posted: 7/3/2012 5:52:18 PM EST
[#26]
Quoted:
A few years ago, I was working a job that originated around Dexter, KS.

This was one of several items that was found at the site. I'll even give you a hint and say that it was unearthed.

It is cast iron, and the end cap grooves were originally an eyelet that has since rusted away.

I already know what it is, and it caused quite a stir with the bigwigs (a few of them pooped their shorts...) when we found 4 of them together. how many members here know what it is too?

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f159/cleaner1369/DSC00450a.jpg


http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f159/cleaner1369/DSC00449a.jpg










Added: Winner listed below. This is an oilwell perforating charge. After a well is drilled and the wellbore is cased, they send a string of perforating charges to the bottom of the wellbore and detonate them in sequence. The rounded metal end goes off like a cannon shell and blows a hole through the wellbore casing and deep into the strata so that it will hemorage raw petroleum


These puppies were originally used on a well outside of Dexter, KS when it was first drilled around 1983. The well was pumped for several years, but then production dwindled off and the well was capped around 1996.

The well remained capped for about 10 years, and then the cap was drilled out using 5" diameter "wash pipe". While unplugging the cap, these babies were unearthed from 5,500 feet below the surface of the earth, where they had been sleeping since 1983.


These two beautiful specimens were collected by the county sheriff's bomb squad shortly after they were phtographed here.





That's not quite right.  The winner has it correct.  Those aren't for perforating the casing for production.  Those are used while drilling to bust through hard formations.  I know, it's details.  Just had to throw that in...
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