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The Six Flags Over Texas Oil Derrick is a 300-foot (91 m) tall observation tower, and an attraction at the theme park Six Flags Over Texas.Six Flags claims it to be the world's tallest land-based oil derrick (although it is actually not functional as such, and never has been).
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A derrickhand or derrickman is the person who sits atop the derrick on a drilling rig. [1] Though the exact duties vary from rig to rig, they almost always report directly to the driller . [ 2 ] Their job is to guide the stands of the drill pipe into the fingers at the top of the derrick.
A gin pole derrick (also known as standing derrick or pole derrick) is a derrick without a boom and with single tower or mast supported by four guy wires (two side guys, a fore guy and a rear guy). Its guys are so arranged from its top as to permit leaning the mast in any direction.
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An oil derrick starts to turn, as blood slowly drips down the screen. In the next scene, a young boy climbing down from a tree meets a man who appears to be U.S. President George W. Bush riding a horse. The horse excretes a small television, and trots away. The boy sits down and watches the TV, and slowly turns into a sheep, as a plane flies ...