System--MH-1899 Iron Roughneck; TopDrive--Nat''l PS2-650/650 power swivel.DERRICK: Loadmaster 170'', 1,500,000 lb.BOP SYSTEM: Shaffer 13 5/8", 5,000 psi ann.; twoCIW TL 13 5/8", 10 k doubles; Diverter--Hydril MSP500-30".CRANES: Three Letourneau 50 t, two w/ 100'' booms, one w/120''.REMARKS: Five Bay Ross Hill SCR control system;Zero discharge, 70'' cantilever reach.WORK AREA: N/ACHILES MAGELLANRIG DESIGN: Letourneau Super 116.PERFORMANCE: Water depth--380'', Leg length--544''.CONSTRUCTION: Amfels Shipyard, Brownsville, Texas, 1999.

Even if the price had been higher, we probably would have bought it. I''m a sucker for old gray tractors. My late grandfather had an old Ford he used to clip pastures with a clattering sickle bar. My 78-year-old father, Don, still uses an old gray tractor to plow snow and mow at his place in Delaware, Ohio. It''s a Ferguson T0-30 made in 1951--the year I was drillpresstableplans born. I learned at 10 to drive on that tractor, under Dad''s close supervision, of course.Dad got the tractor in 1956, not long after he bought 15 acres just west of Delaware and put up one of the first pole barns in the area. "I took it on a trade, sight unseen, as credit on a down drillpresstableplans payment on a piece of real estate," he recalls. "The buyer was $1,100 short. He offered me the tractor with a two-bottom plow, rear manure scoop and a two-row cultivator.

"Energy efficiency and passive-solar heating save homeowners huge amounts drillpresstableplans each year in reduced utility bills," says Emily Dekker-Fiala, office coordinator for the group. "Many of our homeowners came from poorly built, drafty, energy-inefficient rental homes--houses built for copper miners at the turn of the century. These homes often cost $200 to $300 a month to heat. In our energy-efficient homes, heating bills run from $20 to $30 per month." What people need to realize, drillpresstableplans she says, is that an important aspect of affordable housing is not just the initial cost of the house, but making sure that people can afford to continue living in it.

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