Drilling rig

Lugnut · Post by **Lugnut** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:01 pm

Hey fellas, While at a construction site south of Indy I looked over the fence to a back lot behind some buildings, and lo and behold there set a CCKW closed cab with a drilling rig on the back. Did the Gov-mint have these or is it a post war alteration?

Nick Bombini · Post by **Nick Bombini** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:46 pm

From what I have read, the Corps of Engineers had custom built drilling rigs but I think you will find that most of the rigs you come across are civilian post war built units on the trucks. Has anyone ever come across an original engineers rig?

--Nick

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:44 am

Of cpurse now it would be hard to tell if it were original Corps of Engineers or civilian modification as too many years have passed, but the Corps modified a lot of CCKW's and 1 1/2 ton Chevey's to fit their needs for a post war construction boom for the corps. That included a lot of Air Force base work as more and more hard surface runways had to be built and longer ones to meet the needs of jet aircraft.

oldreliable9_47 · Post by **oldreliable9_47** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:12 pm

World War II Victory Museum in Auburn IN has a nice CCKW drill rig and a nice Compressor truck among its collection