Roughnecks at work smoothly running a kelly drive drilling rig exploring for oil. They're making a connection or "pipe stab" to continue drilling downward. You can see why this job is high risk and requires concentration and skill.
What's even more impressive is that they don't have to tell each other what's going on. They know exactly whats happening without saying a word. That's a proper team right there :)
@Methamphetameme I make 10-20 k a month and am a highly skilled professional lineman.i could do thier job,they could never do mine. These guys are laborers that work sometimes over 16 hrs a day.low skilled,a dime a dozen
This is my old rig. It's Energy Drilling Rig No. 7 in Casper Wyoming. Not my crew but that's Travis on the brake, Andy on the chain and Taylor in the corner.. not sure who that greasy motorhand is tho.. I have a lot more videos of things like this if anyone is interested
I think the oil rig videos are cool to watch. These men are some hard working pros! Much respect to them! Especially nowadays. Younger generations are clueless on knowing what real, hard work is. God I sound old and I'm 33.
I've worked as a groundworker, scaffolder and now civils on the railways and they're all physically hard jobs... but this is next level!! Mad respect to these and iron workers!
I did this for awhile in east Texas. I was a floorhand, worst job I've ever had. Working nights usually 15 hours a day two weeks straight. Working with some of the most back country hicks and felons from the deep swamps and rural parts of the south. Sleeping in bunks with all men 6 to a room. Back breaking work. While I was there we did a rig moves which was taking an entire drilling rig apart piece by piece and moving it to another location a mile a way. Drilling rigs are fucking gigantic and there's a ton to move. I would use a sledge hammer and bang open connections for hours on end. The actual tripping pipe and rolling casing was ok. Makes the time go by faster. I've never felt that level of exhaustion, I would get off, shower and pass out within 5 minutes. Make no doubt, i'm talking shit but these guys work hard as fuck and they are some of the most mechanically inclined people on this earth. It's no joke. It started being a rig move per hitch I just came to a point that there are a lot of better ways to earn a living than spending half month at a time in these hell holes. It's a tough living.
This brings back happy memories of my childhood when my dad (a geologist) would take me out to these rigs he was sitting on. I was always amazed at the spinning chains and the pipes. Even back in the 60's these men knew what they were doing and worked together.
My first day on the job I caught my little finger in the slips and nearly lost it. It swelled up to twice its normal size. Months later a guy I was working alongside caught his finger in the slips and got a compound fracture with the bone sticking through the flesh. That was when I decided to move back to my home city and study electronics.
I don't know how much they are paid, but it should be more. This is highly technical, extremely dangerous work, and physically demanding. They're in the elements...I can't even imagine the heat, or the smells...I mean very few people would be cut out for this job. My entire respect.
rtrThanos my friend was unfortunate a week ago in working on an oil rigg out in Cali. Old cable snapped, ripped through his stomach, tore his abdominal muscles. His intestines and colon fell out. Dirty company, otherwise, that company should have followed protocol by changing out old cables. He's not dead, he's in multiple surgeries right now.
This is a Kelly rig. Very old school equipment and technology. The rig I work on in Midland, is much more sophisticated. These guys deserve respect, they do a hell of a lot more work than I have to do on a daily basis.
This is probably up in western Kansas. Most of the rigs up there are timber rigs. Some are substructures but mist are in timbers. Old school chain throwers and heavy ass tongs.
I lived in Montana in the 70's . This was always known as one of the difficult ,most dangerous and one of the highest paying jobs in the state , not much fat on those boys !
These cats earn every cent they make. When I was a kid in south Louisiana back in the 60's a fellow down the street used to be the chain man on the rig floor. He was missing 3 fingers off of his left hand and still working.
@@cchmlfa Or maybe our society has been brainwashed to be content in serving our capitalist masters without realizing it. Has it ever occured to you that maybe the whole idea of "working hard for hard work's sake because it builds character" is propaganda fed to us from birth by the elite to serve their interests, drilled into us by our schools, our media, our movies? A little too convenient for them, don't you think? To keep us docile and "in our place"? Why SHOULD we have to work hard to survive? Why SHOULD we have to struggle for food, shelter, and medicine? Why SHOULD we have to forfeit our TRUE FREEDOMS -- the freedom to pursue our hobbies, spend time with family and friends, and just live life in peace -- be contingent upon an income that can barely afford us basic necessities? Make no mistake. This isn't to say that hard work isn't admirable. It certainly is, and people like these fine men should be recognized, praised, and, at least in our current system, emulated. But why should things have to stay that way? Why should we have to "work hard" to eat? To give our children proper education? To treat disease? This whole talk of "you have to overcome obstacles to make you a better person" is age-old propaganda intended to make us content in our struggle, to gaslight us and guilt us for questioning the system, to put us down as "lazy" or "entitled" whenever we speak up. Well, I dare say we ARE entitled to food and shelter. We ARE entitled to basic medicine and the highest level of education. It is only humane that we all have these things.
That’s what you call Working Men right there. Dangerous as all get out. Coordination has to be spot on. Horrible accidents staring them in the eyes 360° around. Pure love & respect for these types.
That looks like magnificent teamwork where everyone knows their role and they are looking out for each other. I've just watched an oil rig video from Russia with accidents. It's nice to see how it should be done with well maintained safe equipment
+Alex Thorne I also came from the russian accident vid too. Awesome to see this stuff done with teamwork. They seem proud of themselves too. I could never do it. Too damn clumsy.
I've done landscaping (aeration/lawn mowing), welding (acetylene/stick welding), and plumbing (moving 200/lb water heaters). I once moved a 20 year old water heater, about 8 years past it's due date, which meant the inside was FILLED with rust, nearly added 100 pounds to it. Felt like I was moving a marble statue. And to think that's hard, I can only imagine the physical work these guys endure. Son of a gun.
@@user-ig8vm1ns4t it’s certainly possible after working for many many years. Your myonuclei banking would different than a normal person and you could almost certainly do it with the right grip and rest position on your body.
Holy shit that spinning chain business is no joke. Wonder how many teeth have been lost to that. I salute you boys for the hard work that allows many in the world to experience luxuries.
That job is a great example of the saying my granddad always told me. “IF YOU MAKE IT THROUGH LIFE WITH ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOWS YOU REALLY ACCOMPLISHED SOOTHING”. Nice work fellas.
We just found this video and that one in the white that does the piece sigh is my dad and is at my house, this very cool to see him working like , when was gone for about 2 week every time he had to go work there
Bruh 532 It’s usually a 12hr a day shift and depending on your pay schedule, you can hit overtime halfway through your first weeks hitch. Now throw in a rig move and it’s easy to get 100hrs of total overtime!
I worked on the rigs in Alberta , British Columbia ,and the NWT in the 1970’s . When we went on short change , off at 4Pm and back at midnight everyone went to the bar . We were back at midnight pretty well hammered . We did this every time .
Not sure what's going on here but I'm extremely impressed with the work and the fact that they all have four limbs. The part where the chain was spinning around the metal casing looked like it would be super easy to get a finger caught or god forbid an arm or something, either way, hats off fellas
i'm 55, i have been at it since i was 21 ... i still pull 12hr tours day in day out .. its no joke, i'm battered and broken, but there is no life like rig life!
Back issues, all types of medications and multiple must have surgery’s at 40 😬 just to make under 80k a year meanwhile they’re corporate counterparts make over 120k easily and won’t require to be a punching bag 🤷🏻♂️😂
if there was a female working on the rig, doing the exact same thing those guys are doing, I'd want her to get the same pay. There's nothing wrong with equal work equal pay...unless you don't think that's a fair way to go about things
Damn, with all the technical innovations happening all around us, that (adding segments to the drill shaft thingie) is still done like that. I am absolutely mesmerized watching these guys do their thing!
Before Instagram became all sensitive, I used to come across graphic videos of accidents on oil rigs. Much respect to those who work under these dangerous conditions just so we can fuel up our cars on a regular basis.
@@kessler682 You see no women yeah, doesnt mean its only limited to men. Its Hars Work. Toxic masculinity is everything that is in the name itself, toxic
I was a roughneck in the early 80s and after watching many videos today I was shocked how some videos said world fastest blank and I seen the opposite. thought I seen faster these guy impressed me because they did more than others. great job guy's it's nice to know that some younger people still know how to work.
I'm 51 now but dam that brought back memories from when I got my first drilling job here in West Texas at the young tender age 19. My where does the time go. Hats off fellows
My Grandpa ran a pulling unit crew and my uncle(his son) worked in drilling rigs. Grandpa was 6'5 300 so the hands pretty well did what they were told! I've got respect for anyone that does this everyday.
Truth. My dad hauled drilling mud to these rigs. Let me tell ya, that ain't no job for whimps either!! Day and night, 24/7 in all kinds of shitty weather. I would ride with them.in the mud trucks as a kid into high school. I would swamp, run the winch line, load and unload 100# sacks of bentonite, 1 bag at time. It would literally kick your ass by the time you were done. There is no light job in the oilfields!
@@adriantomlin2902 are those jobs hauling still around? That sounds insanely fun. I really want to drive a heavy truck in some adverse conditions, that sounds like fun
Real nice setup you have there! Just add a Kelly spinner and you would have a real Cadillac. I spent almost 20 yrs on jacknive rigs. It's nice to still see some crews take some pride in the iron. A great crew can "make" a rig great but not the other way around. Keep up the good work!
My thoughts exactly about Kelly spinner. We had pipe spinner for tripping pipe back in the day but let the tool pusher go to bed and hello spinning chain.
There's just certain things women don't need to do to feel equal or empowered, this is one them women don't need to be police officers, fire fighters or even military there's just certain things that only require men to do period!!!
These guys know what the hell they are doing! So many ways you could get really fucked up especially the chains, I had a chain break on me and if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time it'll leave a mark!
When everyone knows their job and does it well on a crew like this it actually makes work fun. I built bridges for 10 years and with the right crew even the hardest days were almost fun lol
Increíble ver gente que se juega la vida tanto, respeto total para estos hombres. Trabajan muy bien y muy coordinados, definitivamente no es un trabajo para cualquiera!
