Featuring Cliff on the brake, On the Tongs Grimey and Barry, later to cameo "Twig" with Ryan on the camera. Footage dating back to around 2006, down SunChild Road, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada.
@@Paulymuscles from a guy named empty broken soul....picture perfect display of what the oil patch really is under all of the showboaing about how their guys are the meanest toughest mean tough things ever. Its just an existence where you are forced to embrace the suck.
Ziggy Stardust EU-HR as long as safe? Really why can’t you be competent enough to be safe and efficient? When they stack a rig and lay off do u think the fact u haven’t been hurt will save you????? NO IT WILL NOT, if u r not efficient AND safe, if that driller has to tell u when and where your fucking tongs go then I highly doubt u guys are useful elsewhere on the rig. Sorry but it’s true and ur feelings and feeding ur family don’t matter when it comes keeping your job, it’s on you to show how much u want it.
LOL! Youre right. Better be safe. But the tool pusher and the company man wont agree with the take your time part though they will nod their donkeys on the be safe part.
I’m only three hitches in and I really don’t think anyone really knows how difficult this job can be when you and your fellow roughneck are totally exhausted. I love this job and teamwork but it really does take a particular kind of person to be able to handle it. Heavy steel and super dangerous environment
I used to write the phrase "Death From Above" on the rig floor....just to remind everyone who was not in the moment and looking down all the time that the single biggest threat to their lives will always be coming from above. Awareness will always trump exhaustion....and eat more than you want to every day. It takes a person with 2 eyes 2 ears 2 hands and a working brain after that its just going through the motions and building a knowledge base. Everything has an "easier way" and once you learn that you do not get tired or exhausted.
This is partially my own fault for holding the pipe wrong while we were going back in the hole(I was new), but we had a new driller who didn't like me and he jerked the handle and I got my hand caught between the swinging pipe and the tongs. Clearly he hadn't gone up high enough either. We were coming up on our safety bonus though, so I kept my mouth shut.
+Rene Gonzalez LOL. You are right, but it just doesn't work that way in those environments. Those guys didn't have to sit down and take Business Management, where they teach learning techniques and personality types. And can't have a bunch of softies working out there, they have to be tough or they'll get hurt… or dead. So the guys are almost always "type A" personalities (I think "A" stands for "aggressive" or "asshole" ) where the training is 45% instruction, 5% encouragement and 50% teasing, insults and other berating comments. From my experience, this environment seemed pretty mild.
You wont learn shit out there without being yelled at. Now this cry baby generation is infiltrating the patch too. The greenhorn was doing fine, he was new and didnt know much put still put out, the big guy, i dunno what to say about him. Must be a relative of the push or something cause he wouldnt have lasted long on my rig, one hitch or less is your trial period. There are thousands in line for the next position.
This is funny. I worked on drilling rigs back in the 60s and 70s when you used cat heads, boom line, and throw the chain and if you worked Derricks you used a line burner.
I worked on an old kelly rig for bout a year and a half, small locally owned drilling company and I loved it. Throwing chain was what made it fun for me, especially trippin back in
I worked on a drilling rig in South Texas in 1960. John Henry Brown was my Driller. Old school who started roughnecking when he was 14 years old. He started me throwing the chain. Never worked Derricks. Glad he started me throwing the chain. Did not have time to be scared.
Hes used to working with an experienced Crew but this time they gave him 2 Rookies and and I dont give a shit Motorhand.Junior on the Dummy side can be saved, lazy ass experienced guy is what he is and the Cookie Monster has to pick it up or spool his rags and get the hell off the lease because he is just a born klutz.
Fella's my hat is off to you all. You do NOT get paid enough. I am a retired US Military Pilot and when I retired I flew EMS helicopters for 10 years (36 total years flying). I responded many times in Louisana to accidents at oil rigs. Been there seen that. Extremely dangerous work. Stay safe live long and save your money. God Bless these Roughnecks. Safety first
Roughnecks stay in the business a long time, some eventually becoming too pusher. The main reason is mostly they blow up all the earnings in town during the days off. Then like it or not get back to fighting iron.
Alien Hatz yeah right thats a joint every minute or so right you know i think that its always better when you break out and you call ypur wife and she sont know what your talking about
Ya know, every one has some good shit to say here. This is a good clean conversation amongst oil field folks. I call myself oil field Trash, have for 30 some years now. I dig you all and thank you for your service to supply America with fuel. In below freezing, mile and country's away from home. Hard asses all around, cold steel to talk to, and the horrible smell of diesel in all of our food and cloths. Making a connection with frozen gloves. Water trucks freezing on sight. Piss freezing before it hit the ground. Hang in there and make hole brother
Come on man. Drilling and fracking is two different worlds. I am glad your hands are so superior to the rest and you had a minute of glory to say you in a fracking unit. haliburton fucks you bite. We make the hole and you take the hole.Fuck all you frackers and your million horse allison air craft bull shit.
Truth is yulleait 2. You wouldn't last a minute in the Siberian tundra or the north slope of Alaska unless you had some experience at it.Even you was a worm in your first pair of coverall at one point. Fuck you. worm.
Wouldn't last a minute...ma man when ur working in 120 degrees weather with a sand storm and with 36 hours of no sleep eating tuna straight out of the can and no cigarette cause there's nothing in a radius of 100 miles then Alaska and Siberia can go fuck them self cause it's the same shit....all the drilling crews do is just stand there and wait for the next connection the. Their time is off and they get to go nite nite. They dnt know about 24-36-50 hour day and yes I said 36 and 50 hour days of non stop intensive work but that's ok...looks like we r a different breed of men :D
First day on the floor can be no doubt but once the adrenaline takes over you get into a good rhythm and are able to pick up a great deal. The other floor hand wants you to do well and is there to really save your ass if need be. He helps to show you the ropes and it makes his life easier as a result. My first time was a night shift and we tripped pipe all night long. The floor hand I had to fill in for did not show up for work and as a result I got a "promotion".
They're drilling with invert and keeping the floor clean so definitely not the worst connection. Few things I could criticize such as not putting something over the mouse hole but I'm guilty of cutting the same corner. All in all a good connection if not the fastest
We all started somewhere. The driller really should have communicated with his floodhands better, but this is how things used to be and thats why people would get hurt more often. No need to pull on that chain when your stud roughneck has his body in the way of the chain. The size difference is a pain between the two guys, otherwise the connection could be made higher, and having the stud guy much larger sucks because he has to break on the bottom side of the string. The big guy needs some more training/ mentorship hope he made it through okay because he cant even lift the slips properly, let alone stab or be aware of his body positioning. Glad I had some good mentors who took the time to teach me back then.
You are 100 WRONG, theres nothing you need to teach that big lazy bugger ok he knows how Rig Floors and Tongs work.Its way worse than you are saying, thats one lazy ass Rig Hand just a big tall drink of nothing, I called him Cookie Monster. The Drillers name is Cliff and he was a dam good communicator, we told Cookie Monster to stay out of bad positions and to stay off of his knees many times, he was a pain in the ass that screwed up all rhythm and roll on the Floor, do you know the difference between Rig-Smart and Rig-Wise?....lazy experienced hands are Rig-Wise and they know when and where the really hard work is and they try to avoid it, dont mistake Cookie Monster for a Green Hand. The suckhole taking the video was supposed to be on that Floor in Cookie Monsters position, so Cookie Monster was whiny and did not want to put out.I was just sent out to this Rig to fill in short term thank god.
Довожу до вашего сведения, что в буровой бригаде Щ. А. А. при спуске КНБК на бурение на глубине 1770м невозможно было вызвать циркуляцию, запуск бурового насоса. Причина в обрыве шланга пневмолинии (заявка на шланги подаётся регулярно, но не исполняется). Далее, из-за резкого выброса сжатого воздуха под большим давлением, повредило энергоблок(ПГМ), пропало электричество. Далее при аварийном запуске ДЭС-300 взорвался аккумулятор. Предпринята последняя надежда - запуск ДЭС-100, но и тут произошёл казус, не нашли ключ от ДЭС-100. Механик Б. А. побежал за ломом, чтобы взломать входную дверь ДЭС-100, и, когда бежал обратно с ломом, запнулся об заземление, упал лицом в ведро с резьбовой многокомпонентной смазкой РУСМА-2. Лом, выскочив из рук механика, пробил кабель КРБК, питающий ЭЦН. В итоге отключилась КТПН-6/04кВ, скважины заказчика встали, и все закричали "ВСЁ ПРОПАЛО". Приехал электрик ТЛП "Покачевнефтегаз", механик Б.А. начал объяснять электрику, что произошло, но в ходе беседы началась словесная перепалка, электрик обозвал Б.А. "БОРОДАТЫМ УШЛЁПКОМ". Завязалась драка, и, поскольку механик Б.А. занимался рукопашным боем, он легко сломал нос и пальцы электрику. Далее приехала полиция, начали одевать наручники на Б.А., но сковать его не удалось, так как сотрудники полиции были жестоко избиты механиком Б.А. Со словами "ЁБАНЫЕ ПНЕВМОШЛАНГИ" Б.А. начал крушить сооружения мобильной буровой установкой АЕ-520RU, но остановить его никто не решался. Считаю, что инцидент произошёл по вине отдела снабжения, не закупающего в нужном кол-ве пневмошланги и базы производственного обслуживания.
Barnekkid lol well Canada only has 35million people so 3 wells a year could supply them with enough crude... JK my wife's actually Canadian so I can pick
Barnekkid the DRILLER is a WORM!! NEVER break Kelly off driller side!!! Offside cathead design for break!!! And carpet NOT a good place to be!! Roll roofing tile works better!! I've run rigs like this 46 year's still have fingers and limbs!! Men that goes past 5 years without losing a finger will make it!! I've was 17 when I started I love Derrick's,pumps and working with mud!! The Driller still needs some practice!!
@@haloamerica1420 ....could be a vertical hole with no mud motor..just doing a clean out run on a tight spot with bit and collars to run casing...then you can break drillers side...horizontal hole absolutely never break drillers side
I'd love to have that job... I'm sure it's a dangerous and stressful environment and the hours are long... But what an awesome and exciting career to have. Hope they appreciate what they have!
@mikeleikam2892 my dad was a chain hand on a rig in wyoming in the 70s. Got the job because the foremans son cut off 4 fingers on the floor. Mostly his own fault, but everyone blamed the driller. Everyone walked off and they hired any joe off the street
Yeah on the Rig everything is out to kill you if you dont watch it. Its up to you to stay out of harms way. Watch yourself and your buddies and youll be alright.
No Pal its that a lot of dumb ass people are out there trying to kill themselves on the poor Rig. Any monkey with common sense will thrive on an Oil Rig but if you lack that you will feel like everything is trying to kill you or pinch off a piece of your meat or body. Death from Above my friends lol lol lol lol .... the Rigs were a blast and I miss them every time I think about it...even the blood and dangers....
This is actually a safe and clean floor. Sure ol boy missed the stab a couple times and they looked like they were being extra cautious which in this job isnt a bad thing
Nope, Fatso was not green and it was his Rig, I am in the Green lid and had already worked a few smaller Rigs and I was there to fill in short term, this was my first day on the Rig on that Floor and with this Crew, very first time on the Floor.....I had never seen such a cluster-%$ck before and I was laughing inside but had to go with the flow.I felt sorry for Cliff the Driller because everyone was jumping ship so no one gave a dam about anything.The Rig was working with Invert and no one wanted to go out there.
There are no naturally born women who could have worked in the Patch even in the 80s...today yes back then no I got my first Motors job by taking an arsehole down to the end of the Catwalk and spudding him....he went home and I got promoted....
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You can’t use chain and tongs out here in most parts of West Texas anymore. It’s against safety policies of just about every major oil company around here. Anybody else?
Im not saying nothing bad about those guys im sure they tried hard. I was in the oilpatch for 20 years. started back in the early 70s back then if a tower made a connection like that they would have all been runoff.
Probably a crew of guys who are all pretty green. When your training someone to work the floor the rest of the crew should be able to pick up slack of the new guy.
we could make 1 1/2 minute connections all day until one of the crew bragged to someone then it was 5 minutes at least. spinning chain no kelly spinner
Can someone explain to me why this is considered bad? From watching I take it from their speed and the few (what seems to be) slip ups occurred. I noticed there's a lot of pride in the job and notice comments claiming it's best when done really fast or bullshit the more safety protocol is in place then others contradict it claiming H&S is important and speed should be at a reasonable pace.
Going fast only benefits ur tool pusher and driller but at the same time the faster and better u do the more likely u will receive a call for the better paying job sites
The Motorman was a suckhole Rig Wise hand and he is who took the video................he belonged on the Floor in Cookie Monsters spot. This video was taken on my very first shift I was sent out to cover short term and this was the first time I had even seen this particular Rig Floor.... also the first time I has on a Rig this size and also my first time working with invert....lol lol lol , Cookie Monster was allergic and broke out pretty bad....lol..lol...and I did not stick around that piece of Iron although they tried to convince me to.
Easy guys, they could have had an alarm set off in camp on their short change setting them into a whiskey induced runaway before realizing it was just a false alarm.. AmIright?
ol Boy is actually Cookie Monster and that connection was disjointed mostly because of him. As usual. Someone was new to the Rig and saw the cluster#ck developing. Cliff had to yell at Cookie Monster to put his tongs on first lol lol lol but the guy on the other side was the brand new guy to the Rig (First Shift first time on the Floor), the Motorhand who jumps in later was an ok hand and at least he knew how to use his Tongs to bad he didnt know how to hang them when they Rigged Up.That Rig was a pain in the ass in Winter.There were some real losers on that Rig and you can hear one suckholing to Cliff.
Most tall guys suck on a Rig Floor and you have to get them up the Stick and the hell away from the real action before they get themselves or someone else hurt, gangly guys are klutzes. Big tall fat guys are lazy in the mind and do not easily learn technique because they can belly-push everything around but this is bad because they have zero stamina in the long haul and always peter out on you when the going gets toughest. Vertically Challenged my ass, if you said that near me in my Prime you would have found yourself vertically challenged and asleep on the ground at the end of the Catwalk. Just watch Cookie Monster in the video lol lol lol .
I he yellow things are power tongs, they clamp 2 different pipes& those winches pull the chains to turn the tongs, tightening the pipes threads big time! These guys are adding pipe to a long string of pipe, 9 m at a time
Yeah. I mean, You could go for a happier medium/ lesser danger job like plumber or electrician. They seem to die A LOT less frequently and still make 50k.
Bin there done that... Savana Drilling has newer rigs and they like it fast. Nabors was alright, they take time to train guys, can't get your shit signed without that experience nowadays. Gotta check off the list one by one in the competency checklist to move up and onward. That connection was obviously that dummy neck's first hitch and the "stud" is obviously not that experienced either. Driller looks like he should be in the push shack but that can't happen cause there's too much work and not enough experienced hands. Lots of them went down south or to Australia and so on. Those tong guards can be a real fuckin pain and they break off so fast when you actually make a connection happen in less than 30 seconds. Lots of these videos are getting guys fired . My bro got fired cause of this kinda shit. I guess if this was a commercial it wouldn't be gaining any customers. But they sure make people want to sign up cause they make all them stories of how a floor actually operates when you got a safety hand up your ass and a consultant standing in the doghouse makin sure you're makin hole like you get paid to : / .... Them good old days. I gained 30 lb of solid muscle in my first two months on them rigs. Yep, was an old dinosaur 1980 triple conventional Bronco that PD threw some PD green on and called 'er good. PD 517 baby , Them pumps screamed for days and that pop valve was heard for a mile. We had a great crew I tell ya. My push stood up for me like he was a roughneck, told the geo to fuck himself cause he thought I was using the same samples in the bags... I actually was lol. old fucker had it coming. You want to get a good work out though, get yourself on a singe. Or maybe a really busy service rig with a pump truck to rig up and out every few hours . Well, my comment is now turning into a book.. Peace ! I actually machine downhole tools for fracking now. I actually have to purposely work out these days fuck...
30 pounds of muscle thats not possible even body building with steroids in 2 months your like everyone on the rigs damaged goods and lie about everything
All good. Can't believe cause ya can't get past them limits you put on yourself . No biggy, you push pencil all day and read BS magazines and articles saying that it's impossible. I was 165 lb when I started. Was 195 in no less than three months. Some people just have good genes . I'm 205 now and haven't worked out in over a year. You gonna slam me for that one too ? In damn good shape . It's called conditioning . MMA fighters know all about it.
James Huber Hey James, really like your post. Im waiting to go out for PD. Was hoping to speak with your for any advice man. I like the whole aspect of working on a rig and getting a great work out at the same time. Look forward to hearing from you
not the worst connection Ive seen or done....lol Sometimes things just dont click and sometimes everything just drops into place. Either way, they kept the floor clean and did a good connection.
I must say, that I am not a roughneck but a rig up hand. I drive trucks {until retired}you could walk under without ducking your head. I have pulled out more Halliburton hands from ditches and stupid predicamets than any other Oil Field Drivers in the mid west..Colo.- Mont.- N Dak.- S. Dak. Okl.- Utah...Roughnecks drill up to 3 miles deep with a simple CAT motor and Man Power. Frackers come in set connections, blast away with some awsome equipment, I must say, or send charges down the hole. Then you leave us with a mess of gell and sand and a total sess pool to wade through and haul off your tanks and food wrappers. Gotta show you lads how to chain up. Worms in my book.
That rig floor is way too fucking clean. Spend more time working on making the hook and less time Hazeling up the goddamned deck, and those connections will go a helluva lot smoother. A squeegee on the rotary and an area rug. Gimme a fucking break. On the other hand, you guys get some credit for using an actual bucket for a "mud bucket".
@Travis L hahaha I didn't say f all on putting anything or anyone down. I was only referring too the invert. Why don't you stfu and read before ya type ya key board warrior
