[TheForge] Re: Triangles

[Charle B Vincent]

Sucker rod is used in wells .  It is a steel rod that is used to connect 
the surface and downhole components of a rod pumping system. They are 
usually about ten to 25 ft long  
<http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=ft> long and 
threaded at each end.   Sometimes they have square ends and bosses.   
One of the places that we had years ago had a huge corral system made 
out of siuccker rod and well casing.  It was exceptionally stout.  In 
fact there was a huge pile of sucker rod behind the barn.  Wish I had 
bothered to get it when we moved ( there is a linear accelerator station 
where it was in Waxahachie Texas)    Really wish I had pulled all of the 
levers and sheaves off of all the abandoned farm equipment we left 
behind as well.   Regarding the rebar, I always thought it was trash as 
well, since a single bar had radically different behaivior end to end, 
but as someone once told me --" That triple decker overpass over there 
is held together by it, you really think  the melt is random?"

Charles


Chris Kilpatrick wrote:

>What is sucker rod???
>Also, I thought rebar was made from trash, but some posted on one of the groups I read that it is 1060, or 1070, is that true?
>
>-Chris K.
>
>  
>