He set up a pyramidal wooden derrick about twelve feet high, at the bottom of which were dung two large iron wheels connected by an axle upon which rope could be Wound when the wheels were turned by hand.

He patented his design, and in 1939, he replaced the wooden derrick with one of steel.

Then the oil-stained, motionless walkingbeam of a squat wooden derrick stuck up over a branch.

Like the cable tool system, pole-tool drilling used the weight of the drill string pounding into the ground from a wooden derrick to make hole.

The West Kern Oil Museum, at 1168 Wood Street, has vast holdings including pumps, fire apparatus, trucks, a historic wooden derrick, photos, models, and extensive displays of local history back to Indian times.

At first the well gushed oil, gas, rock, and sand and gravel hundreds of feet into the air, but very quickly the 84-foot tall wooden derrick caught fire and burned.

There is the crowded, artsy Green Thumb garden at Sixth and Avenue B, notable for its community programs and its main decoration, a giant wooden derrick hung with hundreds of stuffed animals, a kind of East Village Watts Tower.

The glider was tethered to a wooden derrick and controlled with various cables, but a 30 mile per hour gust tore the apparatus.

The first wooden derrick in Kern County was constructed at the later site of Reward in 1878 to drill for flux oil to mix with asphalt that was being mined in Asphalto and refined in McKittrick.

A large wooden derrick had been built on (or through) the main roof, and another, smaller rig had been built on one of the side sloping roofs.