.....and up from the ground came a bubbl in crude

“Well, Ok. I'm jumping the gun a bit. Allow me to explain. I know there's some oil patch types in here....

We are building a house on our beautiful wooded 10 acre plot near Fayetteville Arkansas. The foundation blocks have just been laid and it's time for framing to begin.

Well, there was considerable "road work" to be done before construction began. this included cutting a path through the woods, laying down a "red dirt" (clay) base on the road, ditches on both sides of the road(with several culverts) and trenching utility ditches, and chat gravel to top it off.

Well, it's been a wet spring here and we soon discovered several wet weather springs on our property. Yesterday, while checking the progress of construction, I noticed something very odd. One of the culverts is filled with water that's BLACK! I mean thick jet black liquid, and a couple hundred gallons of it!

Have I struck it rich? Should we load up the truck and head to bev-er-ly?”

“First make sure you own the mineral rights to your land. Once sold by any previous owner knocks you out.”

“You busted through your septic field with the construction and the sludge is just old crap.

BTW, do we know you?”

“Good advice, SS!

We do. However, they may well be a covenant against having an oil well!”

“Stratdude forgot his old password to TT so had to change names, CD.
last edited: 6/04/07 10:29:52 AM”

“I am Stratdewd. Back after a long abscence and a lost password.....”

“the great Stomper of stoves is correct....


dang, he's fast too, lol”

“Oh ok, just thought you might be another dang troll. Welcome back!”

“Sorry for stompin' on you.”

“thanks CD!

Now I got that stupid Beverly Hillbillies song stuck in my head....”

“The neighbors drain field empty out to your culvert?”

“Don't think so Chili, there's a half mile of woods and a bluffline over us...”

“I'm hoping for billions for you Strat!”

“WOOHOO SASSY!

That'd be one killa TT party!


Wonder if they'd sell me the Buffalo River.....”

“Being from Oklahoma..I'm familiar with Oil smell in the air...you'll know by the smell.

When you leave the tree line (AT the Arkansas STATE line) and cross into the Sage brush of Oklahoma, the smell of the oil in groundwater springs hits strong...

Check those mineral rights and QUICK.”

“Back when I was in construction I was digging on a new home site with a back hoe and saw some black oily substance appear in the hole I was digging. It turned out to be an old oil tank buried in the ground from the old farm that had existed there many decades before. I hope you have better luck.”

“WHOOOT! NAKID FLOAT TRIP ON THE BUFFALO RIVER! Hot Rod's treat!!”

“When you get a 'cement pond' will you have a Elly May to swim with me?”

“Go ahead and start buying up all of the land around you. No need to be greedy about it-just buy up what joins you.”

“ST, I'm from the Tulsa area.

Lmao, SS!

Now sass, My wonderfull bride, Buffalobabe, may have a problem with that one...lol”

“Graduated HS in Broken Arrow...Family is still in Tulsa...Little Brother is an HVAC contractor in Owasso, Another Bro is a State Employee (State Auditors Office)...also owns a B&B in Guthrie......”

“I went to Nathan Hale, class of 83. Still have lots of family and friends there.”

“Shoot, perhaps you took that differently than I meant it....

I don't want just you Nakid but alllll the TTers. I got enough man to worry about in my own house. ;)”

“Go ahead and start buying up all of the land around you. No need to be greedy about it-just buy up what joins you.”
BS

But once you but up the adjoining land, then the plots around that become adjoining, etc. Next thing you know he owns the whole country and starts eyeing Canada and Mexico...

Kind of like Saddam with Kuwait?”

“lol sas, i just didn't want buffy to take ME the wrong way. It's all good

BS, I can just drill hoprizontallt under the neighbors land......”

“Kind of like Saddam with Kuwait?”
techntrek

or the reverse, you could NOT buy up the land around you and just slant drill like kuwait did

...not trying to turn this fuego LOL”

“

“Oh ok, just thought you might be another dang troll. Welcome back!”
Creek Dancer

You thought right. Just look what he's trying to make out of a little mud hole.

Hey folks! I used to live in Tulsa, too, near south Harvard Ave. My second son was born nearby in St. Francis Hospital. I transferred there from Harvey, Illinois, and worked at Sinclair Oil & Gas on Boston Ave and helped at Sinclair Research on the edge of town. On S. Harvard Ave. they said that if you ran out of gas, you could coast into a station with the brand of your choice. Gas was 18.9 in most stations, 1962-1963.”

“buying all the joining land is kinda like drinking from the spitoon...it all kinda strings together and you can't stop til it is all gone.”

“The contractor changed the motor oil from all hof is equipment on your property and dumped into the ditch.”

“Is there a graveyard nearby? Graveyards have black water.”

“eeeew bacpac.....not that I know of

Nowslimmer, my little brother was born at ST Francis, and Garfum worked there for years.....heck, I even got 2 stainless screws put in my ankle there after I was ran over by a pickup, still got em to this day...

I have an update on the situation...we went out this afternoon to check progress on the house(THE FOUNDATION IS DONE!) and I took a sample of the mysterious black liquid in a Gatoraid bottle. It's not as thick as it looked but it smells like a campfire mixed with grape koolaid....guess I didn't rinse out that bottle too well...I think maybe the black color is from a bunch of burnt stumps they are burying in that hole”

“And the dreams of instant riches go up in smoke...”

“Oil well.....[shrug]”

“Oh...ok, so I don't need to come on here and say how much I have missed you and how I was always your very best friend on TT....”

“We can still have a hell of a party when the new crib is done.”

“Chili, you are hereby cordially invited to stop by anytime you wish!


Fritz, do you still have fleas?”