@@tnxjesus lmao u think that just applies to rigging? tell that to all the families who have starved to fucking death because they can’t feed their families because they have no job because some pos builds a robot that can do the same thing we can
Shout out, in all honesty, to all the white men in this world. Damn, white man be doin' some shit up. Makin' shit beautiful & comfortable for all of us!!! And we clown him & say he's the worst. Shit. I got respect for the white man.
@@luthervaughn1 I live in a farm area, never seen a black person working on a farm before. Also worked at Honda almost all their employees are white. Construction has a lot of natives. The people that cry racism and slavery literally work at Circle K or Uber eats.
Lol guy lives in a fish bowl and speaks for all ppl. My dad literally raises cattle locally. They meet other black farmers/cattlemen at least once a month. The issue is there aren’t many people of color that own heaps of land. Not many have had the opportunity to inherit it.
When I saw the title I thought it might be a video of me 50 years ago! Ha! I spent 50 years in the oil and gas business and Roughnecking was my favorite job, working derricks was the most coveted spot and my favorite! Hat's off to all my oilfield brothers who do a job most people couldn't or wouldn't want to do. It takes a special breed, willing to test themselves every day and they take great pride in their work. Most of us think we were the best there was, never met a derrickman who didn't think he was the best!.....Son of a Roughneck!
i was roughnecking offshore south africa. the assistant driller who i hated came to me and said go and relieve Mcdonald up the derrick. i am terrified of heights. if anyone else including the rig super had said that to me i would have said.......cant do it cause i am scared of heights. but for this dick.......i went up there hahahaha. two months later got the job......and still hated heights lol. the things the ego makes us do :D
Every word you say rattles my memories from the late '60s and early '70s. It's something you never forget. It was always hard work... and sometimes could be bloody dangerous if someone messed up. But the mateship and trust bonds you developed amongst your team and every team you ever became a part of had to be earned. A new boy on the team was watched like a hawk. "Is he dangerous? Is he a liability? Can we trust him? Will he pull his weight?" Those bonds once earned were something very special. You had become a part of a, well I still don't know what it was? Some kind of rare fraternity, maybe? But you did know it was something special. I've never experienced anything quite as tight as those drill floor bonds from fifty years back.
@@saintguns6758 Rigs are very automated now! Unless you're in some place that's very old, or without much to shell out for newer equipment, Kelly rigs and throwing chain are mostly a thing of the past. Maybe it's a better thing, I know a guy who lost his entire forearm to a chain spinning and tearing it off.
@@ChickenPizza uhmm, if you want to be sarcastic, then shouldn't it be "for double the wages"? That implies that they already have a good life but still complain in petty stuffs. They didn't teach you that in sarcasm 101?
@@9622AvAtAr It's not my fault that you think every office worker makes a shit ton of money. Maybe do a little research before you try to instruct people you don't know on things you don't understand.
@@ChickenPizza who says we're talking about "every office worker"? You didn't know how to be sarcastic and now you display how you lack even comprehension? Wow what a killer combo dude 🤣
@@9622AvAtAr Who is we? Do you think the internet is some collective of like-minded individuals that you're special enough to be a part of? Get over yourself. You're a nobody.
I was roughnecking for Bawden on the Piper Alpha in the North Sea in the late 70s, this brings back memories (except for the weather!) 12 hour shifts, 2 weeks straight. The work is hard & intense especially when you trip in and out on the same shift, but it was exhilarating, you get a bit of an adrenaline rush. I’ll admit I loathed being stuck out there, especially the first week; it was all about the money, but when you were busy the time passed quicker. No health & safety either, I still have scars from the sodium hydroxide burns (they added it to the drilling mud and didn’t bother telling us.) Glad to have done it, and being on the Piper, glad I stopped when I did.
You the man. I did the North Sea in the late '60s. two on and one off and sometimes a five weeker. Yes, well remember waking up and hearing the Draw Works humming. Having breakfast and doing a 12 hour shift to finish the trip out and then back in again. Health and Safety? What was that? Your health and safety depended on your crew mates. You all had to think and work as one and be 100% vigilant 100% of the time. Wintertime freezing night rain and cold... I'll never forget those nights!
@@cyvideoprods Ah yes, memories! The stink of fumes from the chopper when arriving on the pad, the sweet smell of the same fumes when leaving it😀 Being a decade earlier, it was probably even tougher for you out there. No more “North Sea Tigers” nowadays though… the drill floor is all automated from the warmth of an office, as I understand. They’d get a bit of a surprise if they had to go “old school!” 👍👍👍
@@justinneill5003 Yes, can still hear and recall all the sounds and smells. Pipe dope, dining room galley smells, diesel, mud... the mud!. The rigs are where I discovered Tabasco. I was the projectionist on a number of rigs, movies before turning in. Sadly, though, I had a couple of mates badly injured in SE Asia drilling for Sedco off Timor in '71. Gave it away after that.
@Nero Machiavelli Nah! US75K was the best I ever made. About A$85K back then. A decent wage in Sydney was about A$110. You could buy a house in Sydney for between $12-20,000, so that was big money back then. On average, that was for around 32 weeks of work a year. On offshore rigs, two weeks on, one week off. I was working a lot in SE Asia as that's where the money was. A lot of it exploratory drilling in the Timor Sea. Every six months they would fly you back to home base, wherever that may be. Then you'd come back, for another six month stint. Offshore drilling paid nearly double what I could earn on a land rig. Some of the best money if you could get a start, where you could earn up to $100k was if you could get onto the North Slope rigs in Alaska. In 1974 they started to use land rigs on the frozen sea ice. Rigging down when the thaw came in. Roughnecks in Alaska are earning no more today than in the boom years of the mid-'70s. They were good times, though. Fondly remembered.
I worked on a rig back in the late 70's and every move these guys made is still fresh in my mind. I knew what their next move would be before they made it. Not sure what in this video is supposed to make them the world's fastest but they are damn good. Smooth and coordinated. Every motion must have a purpose and set up the next move for yourself and partner. I envied the skill of an old roughneck I worked with named Leon. With a name like that you know he was born to work in the oil field. Anyway, Leon was a soft spoken older man who always wore long sleeve shirts with the cuffs buttoned. He was a chain hand and at the end of his shift the cuffs of his gloves wouldn't even be dirty. His movements were fluid , smooth, and steady with no wasted motion, and he was always smiling. Come to think of it I don't even remember seeing him break a sweat. Me on the other hand, I couldn't get a drink from the water can without coming back wet. I met a lot of hands back then but none like Leon. He was king of the rig floor and a real nice guy. RIP wherever you are, Leon.
Loved watching this, brought back a lot of memories I worked on big iron triples in South Australia and on Barrow Island off the northwest coast of Western Australia in the early 90’s Loved the work and the blokes I worked with ( most of them), wish I could go back, too old now
back in 1974- 1977 I roughnecked on a double in the Permian Basin ( central west Texas ). Went to high school during the day and worked the night shift. We all got hurt, made good friends and showed what we were made of. There's nothing like pulling a " wet string" at night during the winter and getting rained on. You smell like "pipe dope and mud" until you've been away from the rig a couple days and have taken several showers. Saw a 17 year old chain chunker get 1/2 his foot cut off when a drill pipe dropped on his foot. Does anyone remember just how heavy those drill collars were ? I also worked a single lay down rig for Serendipity Dill Co. out north of Pecos, Texas. Never worked so fast and so hard on such and old junky rig. Good stories now tho. Billy from Abilene
Hey Sean, don't be an idiot. Nobody wants to lose half a foot at work. Roughnecking is an "honest job" work outside in the rain, sun and snow for 12 hours a day and night. The rig doesn't stop so if it's Christmas and it's your shift then your at work. Most guys (such as your self most probably) can't handle the work, it's back breaking and if you're the worm (low man on th totem pole) you are constantly getting screamed at. These guys work a dangerous job and go home bloody and bruised on a daily basis but you wouldn't want to run into them at the bar after work cause they'd still kick you ass for being such a shit talking punk. You can thank them though oil is in everything around you, not just in your gas tank. It's in paint, medicine, everything plastic including your precious Xbox remote, it's in the components of your tv and the tires of your prius, it's in your clothes and your food. You're welcome!
I've worked shit jobs like these and it's nothing to be proud of, working long hours so your girl can get away with cucking you behind your back. And the sad thing is these cucks deep down know and they lie to themselves to make themselves feel like their life isn't 100% dispensable in this society, not to mention you won't be able to find another woman because you're working long hours. They boast about honest hard work while smoking cigs and chugging energy drinks all day while most likely being hungover from the night before because deep down they hate their life, and all those bad habits that they share with their room temperature IQ buddies and coworkers they pretend to enjoy until they're addicted and slowly kill themselves... Unless of course they lose half their foot or worse for a company that doesn't give a shit about them 😆
Roughnecked out of GC Kansas in the early 90s for a few years. Then I was offered a job on a casing crew. Loved running casing. Never regretted it. Teaches you hard work, camaraderie. Makes a man out of you that’s for sure. Great memories……
Blake Anderson yeah you can do it anymore because you’re a Pussy who collects a free check each week. Bumming off society while these idiots in the video make my family rich. Fucking peasants. And you dream of working like this for 40+ years????? No wonder people commit suicide lol
Dangerous and very hard work. My dad did this type of work until he retired in his early 70's He only lost half a finger unlike many who lost a lot more. Much respect for these lads!
@@Drew15000 Anyone doing this type of work is a liability. The older guys tend to be safer from experience. Also most of the older guys tend to move to other less physical work positions on the rigs.
@@anthonyrichard461 I have no idea what they are doing but it looks like they added an extension to the drilling head? why do they need to do it so fast, why not take a minute or two so they dont lose a finger
@@Drew15000 anyone any age could do this. Safety is what gets most strong young bucks. A 60 year old man with all his fingers who has done this 30 plus years aint losing a finger I bet you that.
first rig i worked was gearhart drilling services , rig 6 , spinning chain had just been banned in australia but we were still throwing. no top drive no pipe spinners, pipe spanners & chain tongs . never experienced work like that in my life , nearly killed me in the beginning but i could not get enough. watching these fellas brings back the best days of my life
The amount of skill and synchronicity going on here is amazing. I’ve done dangerous jobs involving massive amounts of solvents but this is something else.
People who don't take pride in hard work cant understand things like this. The 6 years I worked the oil field it was a competition to see who could bust their ass the hardest and fastest. We weren't unionized and didn't spend all day complaining about how hot it was or how tired we were. We showed up and worked 12+ hours giving it all we had so when that fat check came every two weeks you know that you earned it. We knew the whole time we were making some corporate suit filthy rich but we were taken care of. It was honorable to knock off at the end of shift covered in grease and mud. Makes you appreciate things more.
If you're still a roughneck after 10 years then you're not trying..... 10 years into that work and you're a driller or a tool pusher making twice the money and doing a 10th the manual labor.
I was gripped watching this. I have no idea what they're doing. The internet continues to remind me how big this world is, and how much there is to this life. I watched everything they were doing, and no clue what it's all for
I roughnecked with Tom Brown Drilling on old wore out, Rig No. 10. 1973. In the hot sun and ice with very cold wind. Those Waukesha engines gave us relief from the bitter cold. Permian Basin.
Full disclose....... I put in my time in the West Texas oil fields. Continued on to school at Texas A & M. Worked as a crane operator, then got out there and hung steel as an iron worker. Crushed a heel and foot hanging "red iron", so had to take up a desk job. Moved to Orlando, Florida in 1983 and was a real estate agent/ broker for 31 years. Currently my retirement job I manage a boat marina weekends and work as a maintenance man in a hotel a couple days a week. 63 now, and proud of my past work efforts. Hope the young guys will make grasp life by the balls !!!! Hell yeaaaa !! A TEXAN 'till I die !
"Hit it like you live".... I started out in 1975 as a floor hand on a jackknife drilling rig in Fort Stockton Texas. This is exactly how it used to be back then on those old school rotary drive power rigs. We worked our asses off, didn't mind getting dirty, and took pride in doing the job. The new generation of rigs have changed for the better, but the young guys starting out today can't appreciate the improvements if they never experienced working on the older rigs.
@@tgm_rka8888 yeah not joking, losing a thumb isn't the worst thing to ever happen to anyone. Pretty common injury in any industry when working with steel and hydraulics 👍
My dad was a retired TSGT from the USAF, he ran the jet engine shop. After doing each of the floor positions and as derrick man he became a driller. He's how I got working onto a rig. A good experience for me as a young guy.
People who have never worked like this don't realize you get the same highs as excercise and weightlifting but also actually contribute to the world and get paid. Everyone should have to work like this once in their life.
Contribution to the world??? If making an iPhone is also contributing to the world, sure I guess drilling a hole in the ground is too. A contribution to the world would be an engineer figuring out how to fully automate drilling and mining and stop these guys getting killed and maimed all the time.
As someone who knows a bodybuilder that died because of chemicals taken took to stay buff, I have to agree this seems so much more fulfilling than being at the gym all day and posting on Facebook about muscles that don't actually serve any purpose.
@@crmags Where did the gas in the engineers car come from? Who forged the steel? Who assembled it? Who cut down the tree his pencil was carved from? All done so an engineer can sit at a desk and contribute to the world in their own way. You clearly have either never done blue collar work or have tried and failed. Your comment reeks of bourgeois elitism and I wouldn't be surprised if considered us proletariats to be yokels.
I don't understand what's going on here. Or how I got here. But as a woman I'm honestly not mad at the algorithm. That's some hard working men right there.
Billy Carpenter, You write well, you've got a valuable story to tell. You were reared well, and are blessed to have had a appreciation of what you, and the other necks did. I pray we still have a few Texans with your grit. You helped your crew produce and you were well paid Y'all put fuel in my truck and kept my lights on. My boss in El Dorado, Arkansas, Dr Mark Dixon, worked out of Freeport off shore and on the deck of a rig, also Dr Dixon worked nights on rigs out around Smackover or Stephens, Arkansas while going to medical school at UAMS in Little Rock. Dr Dixon knew what work was and still probably is working his ass off. Also, Dixon has to be one of the best doctors I've ever worked with. We'd get med students or residents who had literally never had a job their whole life, come to our program and complain about how hard it was, and Dr Dixon would comment under his breath those Drs didn't know what hard work was. I've done my share, or close to it, doing hard work, labor, fencing, cows, long shore, construction, .machine shop was good, good money possible and always interesting. I appreciate all y'all with busted knuckles, you help us all have a better life, and I see a little John Wayne in you. American work ethic...made America the envy of the world-literally, and that's why they hate us. We'll just keep on going while the little, insignificant whinny bastards complain. Y'all have done well!
Unfortunately that era is likely at an end. I'm 30 and my generation is weak, but the next one coming of age. Thats when shit really starts hitting the fan
I was crazy about a roughneck. He quit school at 16 and went to work on a rig. He'd come pick me up and we'd run around all night. He was perfect. Always had a great tan, 6 pk abs and full of mischief.
13 years under my belt and the best is having a crew that work well together and look out for one another meaning these boys are like brothers from another mother and spend more time with each other than own family. sweet vid and love how prepared for next task they are and know what to do next, must have been working together for a while HANDS DOWN TO YOU BOYS love how all you hear is iron clanking and no talking PERFECT
I just really take pride in watching floorhands trip the kelley and making connection. The amount of activity involved near the draw works when this goes on is phenominal! Thanks guys for making all that oil makes possible! Hope your moneys are abundant and your days are safe!
My oldest Brother worked on the oil rigs in the early 90s he worked there for about 4 years, until he lost his thumb when a pipe crushed it, and had to get lower back surgery when he slipped with a pipe. He was almost going to be in a wheelchair for that injury. The oil company paid him a large amount of money, so he wouldn't sue them. Its a dangerous job to pursue and not everyone can. I got alot of respect for these guys, they get paid alot so don't feel bad for them, they are the guys driving the brand new Lifted up 3500 HD Diesel pickups. They get paid good, but it's high risk of injury.
It's a beautiful thing to watch an experienced crew work. I'll admit, my time on a drilling crew is limited, but I don't recall our rotary turning that fast.
@@darrylmcginty1296 I too worked derricks FOR TOM BROWN FWA SHARP GENE SLEDGE AND THE OFFSHORE CO. IN THE GULF OF MEXICO I NEVER SAW THE THE LEAD TONG HAND THROW THE CHAIN AS IN THIS VIDEO , NEVER IN MY 35 YEARS IN THE OILFILED.
Motorman is throwing “throwing” the chain, looks more like he walked it up rather than throw it. I had a buddy that worked for sharp for a very long time his name is Billy Joe Lamb. Ever know him? He roughnecked, drilled, pushed etc..
@@darrylmcginty1296 NO , I DON'T RECALL THE NAME, I BROKE OUT 1973 ON SHARP RIG 48 AND WORKED ON 47, OSHA SHUT DOWN 47 FAULTY DRAWORKS INJURED 4 MEN AND KILLED ONE SO I WENT TO WORK FOR SLEDGE DRILLER A.B. KANADY, SUPER WAS RED HASTING, FWA I WORKED FOR DRILLER ELMER LONG PUSHER WAS JAMES HIP. TOM BROWN THE PUSHER WAS NAMED NORM , DON'T REMEMBER HIS LAST NAME , HE PASSED OUT IN THE DOG HOUSE WATCHING HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WAS THROWING THE CHAIN WEARING RUBBER INSULATED GLOVES GOT CAUGHT IN THE CHAIN AND BROKE HIS ARM IN 4 PLACES LUCKY IT DID NOT GET RIPPED OFF. ANY OF THESE NAMES YOU KNOW ? YEP , MOTOR MAN WAS ALWAYS THE CHAIN HAND , BUT I HAVE SEEN SEVERAL VIDS WHERE THE LEAD TONG HAND THROWS THE CHAIN , LIKE THIS ONE.
@@darrylmcginty1296 I WATCHED IT AGAIN SAY YOU ARE RIGHT THE MOTOR MAN IS THROWING THE CHAIN BUT WE ALWAYS THREW ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TONGS , HE IS ON THE INSIDE , WE THREW WHERE ALL THE WRAPS WOULD BE ABOVE THE COLLAR , IT LOOKS LIKE HE DID AS YOU SAID WALKED IT UP.
No. what if it's a duster I have seen oil companies go broke with a few your not going to hit oil every time. And money only comes in after you pay for the well if a well only puts out 15 cubes a day a lot of times it mostly water 80 -90 % take a long time to pay for.. It took a long time to get were it is...
1978 west texas ft stockton Going to school till noon, roughneck evening shift, is still fresh in my mind. "You can't get it you can't stay" was our motto. Not like today, easy push button everything.
I was a driller in Utah back in the early 80s and we were drilling with air and form. You were supposed to let the pressure bleed off but the hands I had were real roughnecks and we broke it off and it blew over the crown Best crew I ever had. The air jammers told me that those quick connections were the only reason we could keep drilling with air. We were as fast as this video but no video in those days.
I just started helping drill water wells and the size comparison to oil drilling is insane. We go 80-120ft down where we’re drilling and since the size is so much smaller we take about 30-45 seconds per switch. Today is only my second day but so far my favorite part is the baling and water lines (since that’s all I know how to do)
I once replace the finger board while it was drilling and rode the kelly block to the top and slid down the counterweight line. lol 1976 to 1982. Then started going offshore welding and diving.
DALE thebelldiver Gday Bell Diver, I was land rigs from 1982 to 1985 then off shore till 3 years ago. In China now working as Drilling Warehouse supervisor. But this video brought back memories
I hear ya. Where were you working in 82? the shit hit the fan in 81 and 82 and most everybody was out of work. Drilling rigs stacked out all over the place. I am the guy who invented the first LCM mixer the HULLHOPER. Which went belly up in 83. By then I was already into commercial diving. and doing UNDERWATER WELDING and map making. I was producing TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS FOR DREDGING COMPANIES.. Getting back to the oil field I use to do some wild as shit. like sliding down the weight indicator and riding the kelly block to the finger board and you know that's a big step over space 99' off the rig floor. We didn't do drugs then either. lol I bilt rigs from a pile of iron. from scratch. Every single part. Did you hear of BIG CHIEF, BONRAY, PARKER, VERSON AND CHOCRAN, WRANGLER, CORE, UNIT, these were a few of my customers and people I've built rigs for or just field service. I lived in OKC back then.
it sure would be fun to meet up with a bunch of old oilfield hands and have some beers. WE USE TO FIGHT ON SATURDAYS just for the fun of it and see who was the best fighter. I mean to knock the other guy out fighting. lol and we had fights in bars outside of bars in parking lots in bathrooms in the bar itself. damn........... lol dancin, F'N, FIGHT'N and havin a good ole time doing it. While RIG HANDS were out on the rig lol me and the welding crew was in town screwing the roughnecks whoring wives. In every oil field town in OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. Indian Women too.
Exactly! Spending your body capital instead of monetary or knowledge capital. Not for me as I'd like to have a much longer span of influence on our society, but interesting to watch nonetheless
@@noahpalladino The intrinsic value in directly creating a commodity or service for the public is hard to pinpoint, but the pride you experience as a blue collar worker is real and has merit that you may not quite understand.
Old school roughnecking #1. Miss that style, I broke out in '79 and had the fever in my blood ever since. A lot of hard work but very rewarding. Floorhands only payed 8.50 an hour.
I'm an old man who just developed great respect for these drillers. I knew it was hard work and often dangerous. This is clearly a place where you have to know your job and do it well; much like working on an aircraft carrier deck or working steel on a high rise building.
I worked on rigs for Safari, D & B, Serendipity south of Abilene, Tex and west also. Making a connection was just routine work while you were taking car of other things.
Awesome work brothers. From a deep sea fisherman. Love the rough and tumble of my job. It’s like a high for me putting your life in the hands of the oceans with your brothers. I’d like to end my career doing the mines.
My Daddy worked on a Drilling Rig when I was a little girl. I got to hand it to these men thats a dangerous hard job to do. The men that are doing it today for a living y'all have my Respect☺☺☺☺☺
Real men who work together for the benefit of others. And they work really hard for their money. Something that does not happen much anymore. I would rather work with guys like this!!
I, an assembly worker, can tell you from experience that this stuff literally becomes second nature. If you do the same thing enough times over and over you lose the need to think about it and eventually work like the masterpiece we see on screen with ease.
@@tomminton5512 assembly worker...butcher? I don't get the comparison man 😂 It's called wearing proper PPE(Personal Protective Equipment), following your standardized work, and identifying potential problems to safety BEFORE an accident happens. I'm rather safe this way so your point isn't particularly valid.
@@tomminton5512 also, I apologize if I misunderstood your comment for an asshole comment rather than a joking one. Either way, my job requires safety first otherwise I refuse to build. A serious injury isn't worth the paycheck to me.
I was trying to make a point with humor. You are right, assembly worker and butchering does not equate. Neither does assembly line worker and working as a floor hand on a drilling rig. The most dangerous work is repetitive dangerous work. I was in the meat business for many years. From kill floor to retail meat cutting. Over the years I've worked with large breaking saws and other equipment that will eat PPE. Same with those rig hands. My comment was spured by your term "with ease". Ease as in easy. Maintaining focus was drilled into me constantly as a butcher. What you said just hit a nerve. I did not mean to disparedige you at all. I do know what you mean.
Easy money compared to logging down hill. We thought they were joking when first saw the whole deal. Had full crew or loggers from ore and alaska. Sure looked funny in Oklahoma. Ha Ha Ha drilled a hole 22000 .slow drilling to the right
This is what I was worried all jobs would be like as a kid.
Super cool, well paying, and laborious?
@@josephfigueroa3527 well paying? Haha wtf
@@josephfigueroa3527 Dude these are big balled life threatening jobs, look at Deepwater Horizon.
@@alanr4845 oh I know, still pays great and builds strength.
@@johnnyblack612 bro it's good pay, 120k a year plus!
Clean break, smooth transitions, solid transfer, matched rhythms, you can tell these boys been working together for a while
@@mikerotch6733 your mom does
Sad it's all gonna be replaced by robotic arms
@@NobleKnowledgeofphilly sad really? Tell that to all the workers that have died. Or rather tell their families and see how sad it is.
@@tnxjesus lmao u think that just applies to rigging? tell that to all the families who have starved to fucking death because they can’t feed their families because they have no job because some pos builds a robot that can do the same thing we can
@@isaiahh1568 not at all
Shout out to all the blue collar men out there. You are truly the backbone of our society.
Shout out, in all honesty, to all the white men in this world.
Damn, white man be doin' some shit up. Makin' shit beautiful & comfortable for all of us!!!
And we clown him & say he's the worst. Shit. I got respect for the white man.
@@luthervaughn1 ruckus?
@@luthervaughn1 I live in a farm area, never seen a black person working on a farm before. Also worked at Honda almost all their employees are white. Construction has a lot of natives. The people that cry racism and slavery literally work at Circle K or Uber eats.
Lol guy lives in a fish bowl and speaks for all ppl. My dad literally raises cattle locally. They meet other black farmers/cattlemen at least once a month.
The issue is there aren’t many people of color that own heaps of land. Not many have had the opportunity to inherit it.
@@EvilSt0ner haha true most of my Uber eats are arrived by blacks 😂
When I saw the title I thought it might be a video of me 50 years ago! Ha! I spent 50 years in the oil and gas business and Roughnecking was my favorite job, working derricks was the most coveted spot and my favorite! Hat's off to all my oilfield brothers who do a job most people couldn't or wouldn't want to do. It takes a special breed, willing to test themselves every day and they take great pride in their work. Most of us think we were the best there was, never met a derrickman who didn't think he was the best!.....Son of a Roughneck!
i was roughnecking offshore south africa. the assistant driller who i hated came to me and said go and relieve Mcdonald up the derrick. i am terrified of heights. if anyone else including the rig super had said that to me i would have said.......cant do it cause i am scared of heights. but for this dick.......i went up there hahahaha. two months later got the job......and still hated heights lol. the things the ego makes us do :D
Every word you say rattles my memories from the late '60s and early '70s. It's something you never forget. It was always hard work... and sometimes could be bloody dangerous if someone messed up. But the mateship and trust bonds you developed amongst your team and every team you ever became a part of had to be earned. A new boy on the team was watched like a hawk. "Is he dangerous? Is he a liability? Can we trust him? Will he pull his weight?" Those bonds once earned were something very special. You had become a part of a, well I still don't know what it was? Some kind of rare fraternity, maybe? But you did know it was something special. I've never experienced anything quite as tight as those drill floor bonds from fifty years back.
That’s BIG BOY money right there! Rigs have changed a lot since then but took a special breed to do this
@@saintguns6758 Rigs are very automated now! Unless you're in some place that's very old, or without much to shell out for newer equipment, Kelly rigs and throwing chain are mostly a thing of the past. Maybe it's a better thing, I know a guy who lost his entire forearm to a chain spinning and tearing it off.
And somewhere, someone is complaining about the temperature in their office.
Edit: To all the people whining in reply, no one cares.
For half the wages 😂
@@ChickenPizza uhmm, if you want to be sarcastic, then shouldn't it be "for double the wages"? That implies that they already have a good life but still complain in petty stuffs.
They didn't teach you that in sarcasm 101?
@@9622AvAtAr It's not my fault that you think every office worker makes a shit ton of money. Maybe do a little research before you try to instruct people you don't know on things you don't understand.
@@ChickenPizza who says we're talking about "every office worker"? You didn't know how to be sarcastic and now you display how you lack even comprehension? Wow what a killer combo dude 🤣
@@9622AvAtAr Who is we? Do you think the internet is some collective of like-minded individuals that you're special enough to be a part of? Get over yourself. You're a nobody.
Not gonna lie this shit looks intimidating as hell
I feel like I'm going to lose a limb just by watching
@@CEOofSleep I already feel emasculated for seeing such huge steel balls in this video.
If you think the work looks brutal just wait til you meet the crew. Started rough necking when I was 18 best decision of my life.
Wht r they doing?
@@GATOxNORTE tripping pipe on an oil rig
I was roughnecking for Bawden on the Piper Alpha in the North Sea in the late 70s, this brings back memories (except for the weather!) 12 hour shifts, 2 weeks straight. The work is hard & intense especially when you trip in and out on the same shift, but it was exhilarating, you get a bit of an adrenaline rush. I’ll admit I loathed being stuck out there, especially the first week; it was all about the money, but when you were busy the time passed quicker. No health & safety either, I still have scars from the sodium hydroxide burns (they added it to the drilling mud and didn’t bother telling us.) Glad to have done it, and being on the Piper, glad I stopped when I did.
You the man. I did the North Sea in the late '60s. two on and one off and sometimes a five weeker. Yes, well remember waking up and hearing the Draw Works humming. Having breakfast and doing a 12 hour shift to finish the trip out and then back in again. Health and Safety? What was that? Your health and safety depended on your crew mates. You all had to think and work as one and be 100% vigilant 100% of the time. Wintertime freezing night rain and cold... I'll never forget those nights!
@@cyvideoprods Ah yes, memories! The stink of fumes from the chopper when arriving on the pad, the sweet smell of the same fumes when leaving it😀 Being a decade earlier, it was probably even tougher for you out there. No more “North Sea Tigers” nowadays though… the drill floor is all automated from the warmth of an office, as I understand. They’d get a bit of a surprise if they had to go “old school!” 👍👍👍
@@justinneill5003 Yes, can still hear and recall all the sounds and smells. Pipe dope, dining room galley smells, diesel, mud... the mud!. The rigs are where I discovered Tabasco. I was the projectionist on a number of rigs, movies before turning in. Sadly, though, I had a couple of mates badly injured in SE Asia drilling for Sedco off Timor in '71. Gave it away after that.
@Nero Machiavelli Nah! US75K was the best I ever made. About A$85K back then. A decent wage in Sydney was about A$110. You could buy a house in Sydney for between $12-20,000, so that was big money back then. On average, that was for around 32 weeks of work a year. On offshore rigs, two weeks on, one week off. I was working a lot in SE Asia as that's where the money was. A lot of it exploratory drilling in the Timor Sea. Every six months they would fly you back to home base, wherever that may be. Then you'd come back, for another six month stint. Offshore drilling paid nearly double what I could earn on a land rig. Some of the best money if you could get a start, where you could earn up to $100k was if you could get onto the North Slope rigs in Alaska. In 1974 they started to use land rigs on the frozen sea ice. Rigging down when the thaw came in. Roughnecks in Alaska are earning no more today than in the boom years of the mid-'70s. They were good times, though. Fondly remembered.
feminists "we just choose not to do it"
I worked on a rig back in the late 70's and every move these guys made is still fresh in my mind. I knew what their next move would be before they made it. Not sure what in this video is supposed to make them the world's fastest but they are damn good. Smooth and coordinated. Every motion must have a purpose and set up the next move for yourself and partner.
I envied the skill of an old roughneck I worked with named Leon. With a name like that you know he was born to work in the oil field. Anyway, Leon was a soft spoken older man who always wore long sleeve shirts with the cuffs buttoned. He was a chain hand and at the end of his shift the cuffs of his gloves wouldn't even be dirty. His movements were fluid , smooth, and steady with no wasted motion, and he was always smiling. Come to think of it I don't even remember seeing him break a sweat. Me on the other hand, I couldn't get a drink from the water can without coming back wet. I met a lot of hands back then but none like Leon. He was king of the rig floor and a real nice guy. RIP wherever you are, Leon.
Dead
that's quite a story man I'd wish I'd met him.
I worked on rigs like this from 79 to 86. Met a lot of good people, real men.
Loved watching this, brought back a lot of memories
I worked on big iron triples in South Australia and on Barrow Island off the northwest coast of Western Australia in the early 90’s
Loved the work and the blokes I worked with ( most of them), wish I could go back, too old now
@@donarthiazi2443 Thanks for the respect asshole.
back in 1974- 1977 I roughnecked on a double in the Permian Basin ( central west Texas ). Went to high school during the day and worked the night shift. We all got hurt, made good friends and showed what we were made of. There's nothing like pulling a " wet string" at night during the winter and getting rained on. You smell like "pipe dope and mud" until you've been away from the rig a couple days and have taken several showers. Saw a 17 year old chain chunker get 1/2 his foot cut off when a drill pipe dropped on his foot. Does anyone remember just how heavy those drill collars were ? I also worked a single lay down rig for Serendipity Dill Co. out north of Pecos, Texas. Never worked so fast and so hard on such and old junky rig. Good stories now tho. Billy from Abilene
Sean you’ve never done anything but flip burgers what’s makes you so qualified
Hey Sean, don't be an idiot. Nobody wants to lose half a foot at work. Roughnecking is an "honest job" work outside in the rain, sun and snow for 12 hours a day and night. The rig doesn't stop so if it's Christmas and it's your shift then your at work. Most guys (such as your self most probably) can't handle the work, it's back breaking and if you're the worm (low man on th totem pole) you are constantly getting screamed at. These guys work a dangerous job and go home bloody and bruised on a daily basis but you wouldn't want to run into them at the bar after work cause they'd still kick you ass for being such a shit talking punk. You can thank them though oil is in everything around you, not just in your gas tank. It's in paint, medicine, everything plastic including your precious Xbox remote, it's in the components of your tv and the tires of your prius, it's in your clothes and your food. You're welcome!
I've worked shit jobs like these and it's nothing to be proud of, working long hours so your girl can get away with cucking you behind your back. And the sad thing is these cucks deep down know and they lie to themselves to make themselves feel like their life isn't 100% dispensable in this society, not to mention you won't be able to find another woman because you're working long hours. They boast about honest hard work while smoking cigs and chugging energy drinks all day while most likely being hungover from the night before because deep down they hate their life, and all those bad habits that they share with their room temperature IQ buddies and coworkers they pretend to enjoy until they're addicted and slowly kill themselves... Unless of course they lose half their foot or worse for a company that doesn't give a shit about them 😆
Yeah 'wet' trips are a hoot . . for near an entire 12 hr shift
Midland Odessa??💪💪👍👍
Roughnecked out of GC Kansas in the early 90s for a few years. Then I was offered a job on a casing crew. Loved running casing. Never regretted it. Teaches you hard work, camaraderie. Makes a man out of you that’s for sure. Great memories……
"Women should get paid the same as men."
- Dancing TikTok nurse
They do in the patch. Female engineers receive the same as men. If you're on the rig and you can cut it, raises come just the same as men.
Respect to all hard workers out there.
These days my body is broken after heart failure nine times. I can no longer work but at night I dream of it.
If it helps my mother always said Jeremiah 29:11 Psalm 91 and Ezekiel 36:26
Blake Anderson yeah you can do it anymore because you’re a Pussy who collects a free check each week. Bumming off society while these idiots in the video make my family rich. Fucking peasants. And you dream of working like this for 40+ years????? No wonder people commit suicide lol
THAT ONE GUY Fucking bigot.
@@oroshikarasu7769 hey man his name is THAT ONE GUY he warned ya 😅
I love that one guy trying to troll but no one really cares
Dangerous and very hard work. My dad did this type of work until he retired in his early 70's He only lost half a finger unlike many who lost a lot more. Much respect for these lads!
How would a 60 year old do this without being a liability?
@@Drew15000 Anyone doing this type of work is a liability. The older guys tend to be safer from experience. Also most of the older guys tend to move to other less physical work positions on the rigs.
@@anthonyrichard461 I have no idea what they are doing but it looks like they added an extension to the drilling head?
why do they need to do it so fast, why not take a minute or two so they dont lose a finger
@@Drew15000 anyone any age could do this. Safety is what gets most strong young bucks. A 60 year old man with all his fingers who has done this 30 plus years aint losing a finger I bet you that.
@@thedude5599 And anyone who's lost one to the job has hopefully learned their lesson! Haha
first rig i worked was gearhart drilling services , rig 6 , spinning chain had just been banned in australia but we were still throwing. no top drive no pipe spinners, pipe spanners & chain tongs . never experienced work like that in my life , nearly killed me in the beginning but i could not get enough. watching these fellas brings back the best days of my life
Meanwhile at the local nursery, the ladies discover that they've run out of biscuits for coffee.
Incel ah comment
It’s like watching a nascar pit crew. So precise and efficient.
Little bit less pay though!
@@user-cb1ln8vc8d What? Nascar pit stop crew make terrible money! Haha
NASCAR pit crews are the exact opposite of precise and efficient lmao.
Yeah, except this job is actually important, unlike any job in pro sports entertainment for those who love being asleep sheep.
@@drewjohnson4794 oh man, so edgy
You can tell they did this a 1000 times and mastered it to perfection. Their teamwork is so perfect they don’t even need to speak to each other.
The amount of skill and synchronicity going on here is amazing. I’ve done dangerous jobs involving massive amounts of solvents but this is something else.
It's a blessing we have cameras now so everyone can see just how hard and smart some guys work. Respect
People who don't take pride in hard work cant understand things like this. The 6 years I worked the oil field it was a competition to see who could bust their ass the hardest and fastest. We weren't unionized and didn't spend all day complaining about how hot it was or how tired we were. We showed up and worked 12+ hours giving it all we had so when that fat check came every two weeks you know that you earned it. We knew the whole time we were making some corporate suit filthy rich but we were taken care of. It was honorable to knock off at the end of shift covered in grease and mud. Makes you appreciate things more.
Do u still work there
Fox Wright we were takin care of.
Fox Wright we were making 300 bucks a day lol they didn't have to be to nice to us haha
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If you're still a roughneck after 10 years then you're not trying..... 10 years into that work and you're a driller or a tool pusher making twice the money and doing a 10th the manual labor.
I was gripped watching this. I have no idea what they're doing. The internet continues to remind me how big this world is, and how much there is to this life. I watched everything they were doing, and no clue what it's all for
I believe they're just adding another section of pipe so they can keep drilling deeper. They are badass though.
@@tavspop definitely cool perspective of the world man
Ah. You’d be to thick to understand anyways.
You sound like a smart guy my friend. I agree🙏
@@rubytuesday2913 a humble, curious person is always going to get further in life than an asshole, guess which one you are in that scenario
I roughnecked with Tom Brown Drilling on old wore out, Rig No. 10. 1973. In the hot sun and ice with very cold wind. Those Waukesha engines gave us relief from the bitter cold. Permian Basin.
No idea what they’re doing but 14 years later they still look good doing it 💪🏻
Full disclose....... I put in my time in the West Texas oil fields. Continued on to school at Texas A & M. Worked as a crane operator, then got out there and hung steel as an iron worker. Crushed a heel and foot hanging "red iron", so had to take up a desk job. Moved to Orlando, Florida in 1983 and was a real estate agent/ broker for 31 years. Currently my retirement job I manage a boat marina weekends and work as a maintenance man in a hotel a couple days a week. 63 now, and proud of my past work efforts. Hope the young guys will make grasp life by the balls !!!! Hell yeaaaa !! A TEXAN 'till I die !
"Hit it like you live".... I started out in 1975 as a floor hand on a jackknife drilling rig in Fort Stockton Texas. This is exactly how it used to be back then on those old school rotary drive power rigs. We worked our asses off, didn't mind getting dirty, and took pride in doing the job. The new generation of rigs have changed for the better, but the young guys starting out today can't appreciate the improvements if they never experienced working on the older rigs.
I didn’t see any earth shattering speed there, I just seen men doing a job.
Watching this after being a driller myself. Reminds me why I only have one thumb left
Shit bro.. if you are telling the truth I’m sorry. I bet the pay was good tho
@@tgm_rka8888 yeah not joking, losing a thumb isn't the worst thing to ever happen to anyone. Pretty common injury in any industry when working with steel and hydraulics 👍
1 thumb left? Wow 🥺
1 thumb left? Wow 🥺
My dad was a retired TSGT from the USAF, he ran the jet engine shop. After doing each of the floor positions and as derrick man he became a driller. He's how I got working onto a rig. A good experience for me as a young guy.
People who have never worked like this don't realize you get the same highs as excercise and weightlifting but also actually contribute to the world and get paid. Everyone should have to work like this once in their life.
Contribution to the world??? If making an iPhone is also contributing to the world, sure I guess drilling a hole in the ground is too.
A contribution to the world would be an engineer figuring out how to fully automate drilling and mining and stop these guys getting killed and maimed all the time.
As someone who knows a bodybuilder that died because of chemicals taken took to stay buff, I have to agree this seems so much more fulfilling than being at the gym all day and posting on Facebook about muscles that don't actually serve any purpose.
@@crmags Not everything can be automated away. Nor should it be.
@@lance-biggums No, but dangerous and shitty jobs definitely should be.
@@crmags Where did the gas in the engineers car come from? Who forged the steel? Who assembled it? Who cut down the tree his pencil was carved from? All done so an engineer can sit at a desk and contribute to the world in their own way. You clearly have either never done blue collar work or have tried and failed. Your comment reeks of bourgeois elitism and I wouldn't be surprised if considered us proletariats to be yokels.
I don't understand what's going on here. Or how I got here. But as a woman I'm honestly not mad at the algorithm. That's some hard working men right there.
1000 ways to lose an arm or leg is what I learned in this video
TEAMWORK...and that dude didn't take the cig out his mouth the whole time.. A+
Billy Carpenter,
You write well, you've got a valuable story to tell.
You were reared well, and are blessed to have had a appreciation of what you, and the other necks did.
I pray we still have a few Texans with your grit.
You helped your crew produce and you were well paid
Y'all put fuel in my truck and kept my lights on.
My boss in El Dorado, Arkansas,
Dr Mark Dixon, worked out of Freeport off shore and on the deck of a rig, also Dr Dixon worked nights on rigs out around Smackover or Stephens, Arkansas while going to medical school at UAMS in Little Rock.
Dr Dixon knew what work was and still probably is working his ass off.
Also, Dixon has to be one of the best doctors I've ever worked with.
We'd get med students or residents who had literally never had a job their whole life, come to our program and complain about how hard it was, and Dr Dixon would comment under his breath those Drs didn't know what hard work was.
I've done my share, or close to it, doing hard work, labor, fencing, cows, long shore, construction, .machine shop was good, good money possible and always interesting.
I appreciate all y'all with busted knuckles, you help us all have a better life, and I see a little John Wayne in you.
American work ethic...made America the envy of the world-literally, and that's why they hate us. We'll just keep on going while the little, insignificant whinny bastards complain.
Y'all have done well!
Amen
Yea I’m not gonna read all of that
Unfortunately that era is likely at an end. I'm 30 and my generation is weak, but the next one coming of age. Thats when shit really starts hitting the fan
The work of these Men together is like a Mozary symphony.
I was crazy about a roughneck. He quit school at 16 and went to work on a rig. He'd come pick me up and we'd run around all night. He was perfect. Always had a great tan, 6 pk abs and full of mischief.
Those are strong tuff dudes. Most people don't realize how hard this is. How heavy and grueling it is to lift and throw that stuff around. Respect
worked roughneck and derrick for seven years and never ever saw a fat dude on the drill floor hahhahah
13 years under my belt and the best is having a crew that work well together and look out for one another meaning these boys are like brothers from another mother and spend more time with each other than own family. sweet vid and love how prepared for next task they are and know what to do next, must have been working together for a while HANDS DOWN TO YOU BOYS love how all you hear is iron clanking and no talking PERFECT
Yo, you gay?
yeah our crew spoke little and did a lot. band of brothers. worked offshore scotland south africa australia and norway
I need to watch this again, because I was totally focused on the wrong thing.
Them boys did all that without saying a word to each other.
I just really take pride in watching floorhands trip the kelley and making connection. The amount of activity involved near the draw works when this goes on is phenominal! Thanks guys for making all that oil makes possible! Hope your moneys are abundant and your days are safe!
My oldest Brother worked on the oil rigs in the early 90s he worked there for about 4 years, until he lost his thumb when a pipe crushed it, and had to get lower back surgery when he slipped with a pipe. He was almost going to be in a wheelchair for that injury. The oil company paid him a large amount of money, so he wouldn't sue them. Its a dangerous job to pursue and not everyone can. I got alot of respect for these guys, they get paid alot so don't feel bad for them, they are the guys driving the brand new Lifted up 3500 HD Diesel pickups. They get paid good, but it's high risk of injury.
Be a travel nurse if you want real money
@@kookseatpussy7228 or a traveling power lineman
@@kookseatpussy7228 that’s where I’m headed baby
35k a year isn't even close to risking your foot over
the dudes driving a brand new truck but stays brand new because they never drive it
I loved watching real men without shirts work. Could watch all day. LOL
These blokes earn their money, puts into perspective the huge salaries actors, politicians and footballers get...
It's a beautiful thing to watch an experienced crew work. I'll admit, my time on a drilling crew is limited, but I don't recall our rotary turning that fast.
I noticed that too!
Mighty fast indeed
That’s Rotary Steerable. The one you were on was Conventional
The job posting says, "free crossfit all day long" - those are some lean tough dudes
They don't drill like this no more its all digital now. For the better
They still were in 2013 when I was doing it.
Think twice before you thank a you tuber for all their hard work.
All three finished their careers with 5 fingers.
I have nothing but respect for these men.
Brings back a lot of memories for this old West Texas roughneck
Me too brother!!
GENE SLEDGE
FWA
TRI-STAR
TOM BROWN
Just a few I slung iron for in the 80’s-90’s all over the Permian
@@darrylmcginty1296 I too worked derricks FOR TOM BROWN FWA SHARP GENE SLEDGE AND THE OFFSHORE CO. IN THE GULF OF MEXICO I NEVER SAW THE THE LEAD TONG HAND THROW THE CHAIN AS IN THIS VIDEO , NEVER IN MY 35 YEARS IN THE OILFILED.
Motorman is throwing “throwing” the chain, looks more like he walked it up rather than throw it. I had a buddy that worked for sharp for a very long time his name is Billy Joe Lamb. Ever know him? He roughnecked, drilled, pushed etc..
@@darrylmcginty1296 NO , I DON'T RECALL THE NAME, I BROKE OUT 1973 ON SHARP RIG 48 AND WORKED ON 47, OSHA SHUT DOWN 47 FAULTY DRAWORKS INJURED 4 MEN AND KILLED ONE SO I WENT TO WORK FOR SLEDGE DRILLER A.B. KANADY, SUPER WAS RED HASTING, FWA I WORKED FOR DRILLER ELMER LONG PUSHER WAS JAMES HIP. TOM BROWN THE PUSHER WAS NAMED NORM , DON'T REMEMBER HIS LAST NAME , HE PASSED OUT IN THE DOG HOUSE WATCHING HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WAS THROWING THE CHAIN WEARING RUBBER INSULATED GLOVES GOT CAUGHT IN THE CHAIN AND BROKE HIS ARM IN 4 PLACES LUCKY IT DID NOT GET RIPPED OFF. ANY OF THESE NAMES YOU KNOW ? YEP , MOTOR MAN WAS ALWAYS THE CHAIN HAND , BUT I HAVE SEEN SEVERAL VIDS WHERE THE LEAD TONG HAND THROWS THE CHAIN , LIKE THIS ONE.
@@darrylmcginty1296 I WATCHED IT AGAIN SAY YOU ARE RIGHT THE MOTOR MAN IS THROWING THE CHAIN BUT WE ALWAYS THREW ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TONGS , HE IS ON THE INSIDE , WE THREW WHERE ALL THE WRAPS WOULD BE ABOVE THE COLLAR , IT LOOKS LIKE HE DID AS YOU SAID WALKED IT UP.
Oil company makes billions and these guys get a thanks keep it up!
No. what if it's a duster I have seen oil companies go broke with a few your not going to hit oil every time. And money only comes in after you pay for the well if a well only puts out 15 cubes a day a lot of times it mostly water 80 -90 % take a long time to pay for.. It took a long time to get were it is...
Thanks to the army of men doing these kinds of jobs for us.
What a team! Each guy knew exactly what was going to happen next and was already there. That was smooth..
So does a lollypop person))
Man you can see danger in every aspect of it but they are so chill and fluid ,much respect.
1978 west texas ft stockton Going to school till noon, roughneck evening shift, is still fresh in my mind. "You can't get it you can't stay" was our motto. Not like today, easy push button everything.
Thank you for your service!
I showed my son the oil rigs and he said, Stop! I thought you didn't want me to have a traumatizing childhood..lol.
I was a driller in Utah back in the early 80s and we were drilling with air and form. You were supposed to let the pressure bleed off but the hands I had were real roughnecks and we broke it off and it blew over the crown Best crew I ever had. The air jammers told me that those quick connections were the only reason we could keep drilling with air. We were as fast as this video but no video in those days.
No idea what you mean but good job you yank bastard 👍 here’s a medal 🏅
@@SuperMilesy 😂
how does it feel to be responsible for the climate crisis? you destroyed our enviroment just so you can get superrich drilling for oil.
Dudes arent even moving that fast their just smooth af
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
That was not easy task. Try yourself.
Amazing!!
That's because they all know there role in the task at hand, and fully trust each other to do there part in it.
@@muhammadzaini5728 im not talking shit about them buddy chill they’re great workers
I worked as a roustabout, didn't have the chance to work on a rig, I used to hear the pump jacks in my sleep.
“Roughnecks” NAH, that was slick AF🤟
I just started helping drill water wells and the size comparison to oil drilling is insane. We go 80-120ft down where we’re drilling and since the size is so much smaller we take about 30-45 seconds per switch. Today is only my second day but so far my favorite part is the baling and water lines (since that’s all I know how to do)
Hi! How's it going, still in the business? Just curious, since it's been 2 years🙂
Pulling them is fun as hell too. You get 20 foot of nice cold water dumped on you after unthreading he pipe... Very Refreshing
Gotta be the 80s. Kelly drilling and no shirts. The good old days
I once replace the finger board while it was drilling and rode the kelly block to the top and slid down the counterweight line. lol 1976 to 1982. Then started going offshore welding and diving.
DALE thebelldiver Gday Bell Diver, I was land rigs from 1982 to 1985 then off shore till 3 years ago. In China now working as Drilling Warehouse supervisor. But this video brought back memories
I hear ya. Where were you working in 82? the shit hit the fan in 81 and 82 and most everybody was out of work. Drilling rigs stacked out all over the place. I am the guy who invented the first LCM mixer the HULLHOPER. Which went belly up in 83. By then I was already into commercial diving. and doing UNDERWATER WELDING and map making. I was producing TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS FOR DREDGING COMPANIES.. Getting back to the oil field I use to do some wild as shit. like sliding down the weight indicator and riding the kelly block to the finger board and you know that's a big step over space 99' off the rig floor. We didn't do drugs then either. lol I bilt rigs from a pile of iron. from scratch. Every single part. Did you hear of BIG CHIEF, BONRAY, PARKER, VERSON AND CHOCRAN, WRANGLER, CORE, UNIT, these were a few of my customers and people I've built rigs for or just field service. I lived in OKC back then.
it sure would be fun to meet up with a bunch of old oilfield hands and have some beers. WE USE TO FIGHT ON SATURDAYS just for the fun of it and see who was the best fighter. I mean to knock the other guy out fighting. lol and we had fights in bars outside of bars in parking lots in bathrooms in the bar itself. damn........... lol dancin, F'N, FIGHT'N and havin a good ole time doing it. While RIG HANDS were out on the rig lol me and the welding crew was in town screwing the roughnecks whoring wives. In every oil field town in OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. Indian Women too.
That's why they called us OIL FIELD TRASH
Meanwhile the CEO is laughing all the way to his bank with all his fingers and toes.
No woman in 10 miles radius
Imagine trying to learn that on your first day
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you make six figures without a high school diploma.
Exactly! Spending your body capital instead of monetary or knowledge capital. Not for me as I'd like to have a much longer span of influence on our society, but interesting to watch nonetheless
@@noahpalladino this kid reddits
@@noahpalladino you must be fun at parties
@@noahpalladino The intrinsic value in directly creating a commodity or service for the public is hard to pinpoint, but the pride you experience as a blue collar worker is real and has merit that you may not quite understand.
@@bobbypatton4903 i.e. the meth that one worker is clearly on ;)
I was waiting for them to start singing "back streets back, ALRIGHT!"
Old school roughnecking #1. Miss that style, I broke out in '79 and had the fever in my blood ever since. A lot of hard work but very rewarding. Floorhands only payed 8.50 an hour.
NOPE U FOOL
9.10 a hour Derrick and $40 sub good money back than..
Missin those good ol days of just bustin ass, no shirts, no bs, no FRC's!!! Jus turn to the right and push till it sounds expensive! !!
lol
We didn't have to wear hard hats in the late 80s
Video quality looks awful good to be the 80s
I work best without pants on
dfelixrx7 i work best naked. High on coke. Constantly smoking a joint, unsupervised.
I'm an old man who just developed great respect for these drillers. I knew it was hard work and often dangerous. This is clearly a place where you have to know your job and do it well; much like working on an aircraft carrier deck or working steel on a high rise building.
I guarantee these guys never had to take sleeping pills to get a good night's rest.
Nah because they probably had a wife to sleep well with
I worked for Grace Drilling (TRG) back in the late 70s early 80s, this was what we did every day, just a normal day drilling
Respect, love and best wishes to you Sir.💐💐💐🙏🏻💐💐💐
I worked on rigs for Safari, D & B, Serendipity south of Abilene, Tex and west also. Making a connection was just routine work while you were taking car of other things.
Much respect and a big salute to these guys.
These guys are super stars. If that was me you'd see me fly off in the distance as I grabbed that spinning pole.
Awesome work brothers. From a deep sea fisherman. Love the rough and tumble of my job. It’s like a high for me putting your life in the hands of the oceans with your brothers. I’d like to end my career doing the mines.
There is work in the northern Canada Alberta in the oil sand mines.
My Daddy worked on a Drilling Rig when I was a little girl. I got to hand it to these men thats a dangerous hard job to do. The men that are doing it today for a living y'all have my Respect☺☺☺☺☺
Dude almost got his head separated from his shoulders.
There's videos out there of this going wrong and guys getting their grapes smooshed, kinda like how you described.
When? I missed it
Damn sure did
@@waynegreen8815 1:36
Don’t think so, looked to me that he knew it was coming and precisely knew the limits of travel.
I must try to remember this video when I come home and say "I had a tough day at work" :)
Brings back memories I worked on a worker rig out of Louisiana and a jackup rig out of Texas. Hard work honest living.
Legend has it... dude at 2:01 still has that dart in his mouth
Almost looked like a well choreographed dance (minus all the risk)
Hats off to you fellas. That’s a dangerous, dynamic, dirty job!! 🦾🦾🦾🦾
I remember these days well, before the iron roughneck was introduced. An experienced crew throwing a chain was a sight to behold.
I like how they come out of no where from the wood work into the Frame like some mythical beast soldiers only born for this one job 😂
Real men who work together for the benefit of others. And they work really hard for their money. Something that does not happen much anymore. I would rather work with guys like this!!
A: you remember Tony from work?
B: Tony with one arm?
A: No! that’s Joe.
B: I thought Joe had one leg.
A: No that’s Jacob.
Now i finally understand where the term Roughnecks come from.
I miss those days. Good Iron. Good Crew. Good Pay. Early 80's. 17 years old and rich.
Me too brother!!
GENE SLEDGE
FWA
TRI-STAR
TOM BROWN
Just a few I sling iron for in the 80’s-90’s all over the Permian
That's some good synergy there!
Roughnecks, Oil, Petro Lucrum, Gas
Love this work,done long enough,&50yr old now, as motor man,,but had a slip disc,still love to return,,great job guys all do and respect,stay safe
"Threw Tongs" one summer while attending college - started at 188lbs and finished at 145lbs...
Perfection. Good driller, derrick, floorhands in harmony. Beautiful
I, an assembly worker, can tell you from experience that this stuff literally becomes second nature.
If you do the same thing enough times over and over you lose the need to think about it and eventually work like the masterpiece we see on screen with ease.
... Said the butcher with seven fingers.
@@tomminton5512 assembly worker...butcher? I don't get the comparison man 😂
It's called wearing proper PPE(Personal Protective Equipment), following your standardized work, and identifying potential problems to safety BEFORE an accident happens. I'm rather safe this way so your point isn't particularly valid.
@@tomminton5512 also, I apologize if I misunderstood your comment for an asshole comment rather than a joking one.
Either way, my job requires safety first otherwise I refuse to build. A serious injury isn't worth the paycheck to me.
I was trying to make a point with humor. You are right, assembly worker and butchering does not equate. Neither does assembly line worker and working as a floor hand on a drilling rig. The most dangerous work is repetitive dangerous work.
I was in the meat business for many years. From kill floor to retail meat cutting. Over the years I've worked with large breaking saws and other equipment that will eat PPE. Same with those rig hands.
My comment was spured by your term "with ease". Ease as in easy.
Maintaining focus was drilled into me constantly as a butcher. What you said just hit a nerve. I did not mean to disparedige you at all. I do know what you mean.
@@tomminton5512 thank you for clearing that up and sorry for the misunderstanding.
Now those are tough men. As a machinist, my hats off to you!
I got nothing put respect for people like that !
Easy money compared to logging down hill. We thought they were joking when first saw the whole deal. Had full crew or loggers from ore and alaska. Sure looked funny in Oklahoma. Ha Ha Ha drilled a hole 22000 .slow drilling to the right
Been there, done that! speed combined with safety was always essential. Nice crew! God bless the 5 man crews.
this video is being recommended by CZcams in 2024😳
The advantage of having a high level of competence in their job.
😂 what they don't show you is all the idiots who had to fall out before they reach a crew of "competents"
It seems as if the guy in the front is facing the chance of sudden death at least one time per connection ...
That's the thrill and the test
justin d Bridges and the letter to his family.
You cant imagine the dangers and the strengths it takes to trip pipe, TD, and make connection till you have!
How do you learn all of this. I mean i think a first day on the job would be hell.
Nice.
I did this as a young man in the early '80s. Got to stay focused and look out for each other.