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Bruce raises the forklift to place Shorty and the cement barrel on the rig floor
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We were fortunate enough to recover some of what we drilled yesterday, even without an inner core barrel. The metal on the left is a piece of the casing shoe, and the olivine-rich rock on
the right is from the bottom of the hole, ~9,870 feet.
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Everyone gets in on the action to help tighten the top of the cement syringe
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The setup for pumping the cement slug to the bottom of the hole
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Shorty and Paul discuss the right and wrong way to pour cement
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Shorty and Paul are tightening a tool to keep the cement syringe from dropping down the hole while it is being filled.
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Shorty attaches the syrince to the wireline, and in an hour we will be at the bottom to inject cement
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Shorty pours a bucket of cement into the syringe, which can hold 47 gallons
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