the tubular member at least one cylinder assembly is disposed within the cavity and fixedly connected to one jaw member so as to extend or retract the jaw member on a radial path centered at the center of the tubular member u s pat nos 5 746 276 and 5 566 769 assigned to eckel manufacturing odessa tex disclose a tool for rotating a tubular member passing through a slip assembly powered by a rotary table of a drilling rig the patents state u201c while snubbing operations have significant advantages compared to workover operations where the well is killed a recognized disadvantage of a snubbing operation is that the workover string may become stuck in a wellbore when this occurs remedial operations to u201c unstick u201d the string can be very expensive and time consuming in some instances it is also desirable to rotate a work string during a conventional workover operation even when the well is killed the patent describes improved techniques and equipment which allow rotation of a workover string during the snubbing or workover operations more particularly the tool allows for the rotation of the entire work string when making up or breaking apart a threaded joint at the well while this patent appears to disclose means to rotate a workover string during snubbing there is no teaching or suggestion of using a snubbing apparatus to drill open hole u s pat no 6 640 939 discloses an improved snubbing unit including a snubbing unit base a lifting assembly having a platform positioned above the base a rotary table positioned on the snubbing unit and a first slip assembly positioned.