Thursday, May 23, 2013

The last canvas covered Schlumberger logging truck.

Present day Schlumberger logging truck.


Pretty fancy. Spacious air conditioned work room behind winch and winch controls.

In 1950 I started to work for Schlumberger in Bakersfield, California. I was a logging engineer on the last Schlumberger truck which had the winch out in the elements covered with a tarp. I was on jobs where the winch operator was being snowed on. There was a window between me and the operator. When the window was open snow would get on me and the log recorder. Pretty cool job, huh?


I believe that the number of the truck was 321. Do you suppose that is the right number? And I remember it after 63 years?

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