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Search Result for Sub Elevator

rod-transfer elevator

A special type of elevator designed to accommodate the end of a sucker rod. it allows the derrickman to transfer the rod to the racking platform from the regular elevator being used to lift the rod out of the well.

elevator links

Cylindrical bars that support the elevators and attach them to the hook. Also called elevator bails.

elevator bails

See elevator links

speed kit

A dual-speed traveling block, which permits one elevator to pick up stands as they are broken out while the traveling bock continues to move.

sub elevator

A small attachment on the rod-transfer equipment that picks up the rods after they are unscrewed from the string and then transfers them to the rod hanger, or reverses the procedure when going into the hole. See rod-transfer equipment.

bail

1. a curved steel rod on top of the swivel that resembles the handle, or bail, of an ordinary bucket, but is much larger. Just as an ordinary bucket is hung from a hook by its bail, the swivel is hung from the traveling block's hook by its bail. Sometimes, the two steel rods (the links) that attach the elevator to the hook are also called bails.

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