Bring your tripping juice lol as a former floorman, unless you have a nice driller or motorhand your only breaks were when the elevators travel up and down and the occasional flow checks, but i tell yuh id rather trip all day then fukcin scrubbing revert at -40
I've been watching so many of these videos the past few days and am slowly piecing together what every step of the process is doing. It's been fun figuring it out!
Good work, brothers. Y'all quietly make the world go round while the rest of us work in fancy air conditioned buildings and complain more than we should.
the rest of us create the ecomony that creates the demand for the oil, and hence, this work - we are all cogs of a machine greater than any one of our jobs, and we are all equally important. well...mostly all of us
Try winter in Texas lolhahahaha no kelly spinner lots of whiskey n weed but the same pace $48.n hour and $48. just to show up. 7 days a week or 7 on 7 on
I'll try to verify thinking know it was at least 18000 worked for Patterson and nabors. Please comment learned on top drive scared of swinging block. Worked a swinging block never wanted to touch a top drive again.
I wouldn't wanna waste my energy talking if this was my job. I'd save all that energy for the work. I never had a job like this but I've had jobs where even just talking would tire you out
Back when I was 18 and hard up for work and money, I would have volunteered to do this all day long. I worked in a sweat shop factory, 12 hours a night trimming flash off of scalding hot plastic office chairs fresh out of a molding press. 48 hours one week, 60 hours the next, for 4 years. Worked my way through University doing that and other physical labor jobs. I had to do it the hard way, but it made me better. I'm 50 now, three Master's degrees, Journeyman Electrician license.
Thank you. You give me hope. I'm 34 female, working weekly rotating shifts in a production plant, 12 hour shifts with OT. I'm trying to dig myself out.
Those 10 seconds of just standing there are the only breaks you get while on the floor and those feel like the best 10 seconds of your life haha gotta love the life of a roughneck
That right there separates the boys from the men. You aint gotta be huge and buff. Just gotta have that heart and a no give up attitude. 🤙 hats off to you boys
I learned to roughneck in 1976 at 18 years of age. I gave it up in 2006. Roughnecking was the best in the 70’s doing triple stand backs. I once had a driller who wouldn’t hire a hand unless they drank beer and smoked weed. Great times!!!
We used to average 7 stands in ten minutes on a triple. Just like your going. 3 stands in five minutes and 4 the next five. To 13,000 feet. Worked our ass off.
@@elsapojimmyYou “fish” them out. “Fishing” is what’s called. You either run certain bha (bottom hole assembly) which is a specific set of tools that go at the bottom for what needs fished or you trip in the hole and hope to screw on to whatever you dropped. When I was a green roughneck I didn’t tighten the dog collar tight enough and we lost our drill collars. Took hours and hours on end on a single tripping in and out to get them. I perfected tripping in and out in one shift lmao
My Dad did this 12 hrs a day offshore for me to become a chemical and petroleum engineer. Thanks so much for this video. I am downstream....for 20 years. But just opened my eyes what he did in the Gulf every week! Thank you guys!!!!
Exactly how we used to trip in the hole. Old school and fast. Good shit boys. That's only a 2 stander (I've worked on 2 & 3 standers) not a triple which is what I used to work on, 3 stander. Everything is a lot bigger and heaps more room on the floor. It's something that is hard to explain to people who haven't worked on a rig eh, so good on you guys for posting this video. 🇭🇲👍
In the north sea we only ever worked triples (3 joints = a stand,a stand = approx 90ft of pipe)...sometimes if we'd been round tripping i was so tired i couldnt climb into my top bunk and used to fall asleep on my cabin mates bed (1 in on days 1 out out on night shift)....wake up about 7 hours later,shower ,food and do it again....those guys on the lands rigs had it tougher than us...much respect.....glad i'm retired now !
@@DrDemented9885 fuck the toolpusher they are useless as tits on a boar hog at least my toolpusher is lazy as fuck but thats Coastal Drilling East for ya
Because they’re physically incapable of doing it. 10-12 hour days. Weeks at a time. No civilization nearby. They don’t possess the strength to do a single shift at California office working conditions let alone what men do all day everyday for days on end. They literally can’t do it and they know it.
That really takes me back, I did that for a few years in the 80's when I was 20something. Went through Roustabout, Pipe racker, Lead tongs, Derricks. Looks the same. We weren't allowed to use the rotary table to hold back up. Had to make up the pipe with both tongs every joint. Slows you down a little but not much. joints are more surely tight though.
Been there and done it . Tripping out is more work, break the pipe loose and standing it up in the rig on a floor of mud ain't no walk in the park .Worked on rigs where it took us 12 hours to trip out 5000 to 6000ft of pipe.
This is just awesome. Love watching these guys work. Real men here no doubt. There's something inspiring watching that guy throw chain. He's totally focused. Gotta be I guess, otherwise you die.
I hated throwing chain on some rigs. Some about pulled your back out pulling the chain back. Actual throwing was easy enough. Had a hell of a teacher , my dad. He was the driller and had been in the field since he was 21. He was 39 when I broke out.
Started out in 1972, did 22 years in ND... Your only good as the crew you work with... Can tell you all worked as a team, great job.. My old man started out in 1953 in ND and Montana, did 46 years on the rigs, my brothers (three) we all did the patch also... My brother Kip did 35 years working derricks. Us other three stayed floorhands..
The well practiced choreograph of a floor crew slipping and sliding on a mud and spilled copper-coat thread grease, trying to beat the previous shift crews trip time is hard, it's dirty , it's noisy BUT bloody hell it's exciting!!!
Laughing at people saying " that's slow! We did it twice as fast blind folded with one arm and two tongs in a snow storm on a 36 hour shift during an earthquake!"
I work in the field/industry and even at power plants these machines never stop. Someone has to constantly be on it. There are 16 hour days I can’t even set down long enough eat lunch. I have to trade off bites with my partner smh. I’ve seen some crazy crazy shit. From suicides to falls to peopling getting flattened. It’s dangerous as hell but damn do you feel like a badass when everyone goes home safe and alive at the end. It don’t get more American than this boys. 😎
@@TERRENCEJJR Oh Stop!! You knew what he meant!! Find something better to do than being a spell checker, that comment truly wasn’t necessary at all! Did you even get the message that he was trying to convey or were you just so stuck on his grammar lesson?! SMH 🤦♀️…
PETRY MEET WRLD: My son just moved to Texas to become a Roughneck!! I’m so proud of him!! So I wanted to watch some videos just to get an idea of what he was doing!! Teamwork and strength are the 2 top qualities that are a must when it comes to this kinda work, it seems! Of course having total focus and concentration on what your doing is also key!! You guys are in a League of your own!! Not just anyone could do this type of work…. Impressive and Strong as as Ox!! I’m so proud of my son!! All of you Roughnecks out there, Stay Safe and Be Well!! And Thank You for Your Service and Hard work!! ✨🇺🇸✨🙏✨🇺🇸✨🙏
@@steel12city17cowgirl Big difference between spell checking and listening to drivel. He isn't making a typo he is using the wrong word purposely. To answer your question, no I didn't understand a word coming out of that southern fried idiot's mouth.
I remember heading out to the location with the crew and as soon as the rig came into view we could see all the pipe stacked in the derrick. We called it the "black leg". We knew we'd be trippin' all shift.
This brings back memories of my youth... Worked for 2 years at 18 years old as a rough neck on a triple Kenting rig in Alberta at Minus 55 coldest day .. One Christmas Morning 3am I climbed the Derrik and took the escape buggy for a ride. The worst part was climbing back up Derrik with buggy on shoulder to reset
Worked camp job’s northern Alberta. ( triple big rigs )Peter Bawden Drilling Ltd. , fall. and winter 1960s roughnecking and this is the speed we went running the pipe back hole ( called. tripping ) these man on this rig , are good hands real good teamwork / keep that oil patch drilling have. a good. day / Bill. S. Canada
Unsure why they're called world's fastest but they're doing a good job. For those unsure what they are doing, they are attaching what are called "stands" of drill pipe which are usually 3 pieces of already connected drill pipe to the existing string of pipe that is down the hole....so each time they make a connection they can lower the drill bit down the hole an extra 90 ft or so, until they have connected enough pipe that the bit reaches the bottom of the hole and they can start drilling again. Stay safe.
Never drilled for oil, only water and 1200 feet max. Tripping pipe in and out was always fun. API threads are amazing things. The toughest coolest connections I ever worked with. Cheers
Don't let size fool ya!! My dad hauled drilling mud to these fuckin rigs for almost 40 years. 24/7 in all kinds of weather!! I would go swamp on the truck with several different drivers he had. Lemme tell his best and fastest sack handlers were small framed wiry dudes!! Good truck drivers too!!
John Henry Brown was my driller in South Texas in 1960, He broke me in throwing the chain. Scares me now looking at this video. When you are 20 you are invincible.
Definitely not the fastest rig on RUclips or television. But I, like others, appreciate your hard work. You guys are why we have fuel and oil in our vehicles daily 👍 Much love and respect ❤️🙏
I miss this. Sounds weird now looking back on it. However we didn't have to use the spinning chain. We had a 2 lever chain tongs that hung from a hoist that we used to spin them up. Coming out we just used the rotary to spin it. Simple times
I did a 8 hour trip to replace a drill head and when my relief didn't show did 8 hours to replace it in -20 snow storm . Northern Michigan Roughneckin'!
Michiwonder Outdoors Haha! 35 below! Williston basin .N. D. ice all over the rig . Tripping iron full tour fishing for stands dropped by another crew. Northern lights running wild. What a day to be alive . 1980 to 1983!
@@georgeminer6865 Arctic in Canada in 84, between Tuktoyuktuk and Inuvic NWT. Get a map. Dropped onto tundra by copter every morning. In full blown winter. Geophysical survey mapping.
When Halliburton re-worked one of our wells in North Dakota, They couldnt find the correct fittings for the packing sleeve, finally our company man tracked it down like a 1000 miles away in northern Canada, I bet that hot shot made 1500 bux driving that piece to our site in 48 hours ! Those hydraulic tongs their using are $ 40,000 bux brand new !
I ran a rig like that with my lil brother but we had 25sec from break in and break out...tripping n rough necking...all Arizona love here Navajo Nation
I am not going to say this work is "easy" but as a construction worker. I do believe once you gotta a good technical grasp and a good team of guys who gel well. It looks as easy as these guys make it look.
My first day i broke out was tripping damn near 30,000 feet in the hole on a directional well for 12 hours. Unit 365. Let me tell you I quit a dozen times that night and puked after every connection haha . But they wouldn't let me quit and gave me so much shit but that crew was the best and I did it for another 3 years.
I assume from your post you think working in a an office or McDonalds or walking down the street is ten times more dangerous than rough-necking an oil rig. I think workman's comp insurance carriers would differ. So do I.
BlackSwan912. I once worked at a fast food restaraunt where a person dropped their keys into the oil vat and without thinking immediately chased their keys with their hand getting it stuck beneath the heating element in fryer oil. She still has nerve damage where the oil cooked the muscles. I do suppose all fields have dangers. Just some you are more apt to get hurt.
This was my favorite part going and coming out of the hole the only thing I didn't like was wrestling with the drill collars believe it or not this was fun to me and if you Roughnecks out there you know what I'm talkin about
Used to make me weep when the BHA started appearing....now you've got to change tools and get messy with stuff...i hated it ....tripping pipe?...not a problem
My sister worked on a drilling rig in the early 90s around Masterson,tx. Made great money. Never complained about rasing or being too slow. They got the job done right.
Man I absolutely loved it it was wonderful in my time when I was there doing the same type of thing I miss it the crew made a homemade hook which ended up going through my job which was illegal yet you do what you do there I spit the blood out throwed some gauze in it and we kept on rolling you do what you got to do I still have that old hook and I look back and think of it all the time it's a lifetime job of reality that when it's in your blood you will never ever forget it and let's not forget that Dereck hand either hanging on for that perfect snatch drop& driller I could keep going but trying to keep it short all I can say it's the best job I've ever had and I still love it!!!!!!!
Remember doing that with Kelly rig, with 6000m pipe in the hole. Round trips were 24 hours. Laying down pipe was long process. Often 3-6 months on a hole. Sure beat those stinkin little singles, doubles as for quality of the drill rig. Everything was bigger, cleaner ( as you had time to clean, maintain rig). The chain was faster than a pipe spinner, or iron roughneck. My wrists were like steel, pulling slips all day, for months on end. These guys are pretty good. Big rigs were more civilized.
my worst day of being a roughneck was getting called in to work a 15 hour night shift in the cold winter of utah. i was runnin on 3 hours of sleep too. don’t sign up to roughneck unless you can really handle conditions like that. and if you can’t stay focused and pay attention the whole time you can potentially lose fingers or limbs. roughnecking ain’t for the weak
You got that right.....As an elevator constructor I worked many 7 12's for months but we had many easy days in there. A roughnecks job requires 100% focus and 100% attention at all times on the job....Not to mention being physically ready to perform.....Much respect for you guys....
@@michaelshepherd733 hey i appreciate it man. idk much about your job but much respect for that as well. doesn’t sound like an easy one. but i just barely decided to go back to HVAC tech. im only 18 and i don’t wanna get sucked into the oilfield forever, it’s too brutal for a career
@@ianmeacham8605 HVAC Tech.......great trade...some electrical, some plumbing and pipe fitting, some sheet metal work....All good to know.....Don't blame ya for getting into that instead of roughnecking
one of the scariest moments for me came when my co-worker was tossing the chain and it broke leaving him with the chain in his hand and snapping back at driller
same story was a chain chucker because all the relief kept getting hurt I asked to learn it, I'm 64 and can feel the exhaustion watching this I worked a Pool rig, Well Tech, and Neighbors, You?
not once... Not EVER... has a Woman been on a rig or lined up for the opportunity. They just want the pay that you get by sacrificing your body for 20 years
I never did that. Im too puney. 4:05 But i worked in machine shop in oil field and repaired those tongs. Rotary slips. Elevators. And rethreaded thousands of those pipe threads. Wash pipe, drill pipe, drill collars, Drill caseing, 8rd thread, buttress, a.p.i regular, full hole, internal flush, hughes slim hole, h-90, hydril, atlas bradford, line pipe. Back in the old days.
Yeah for a minute excess of 76 below zero in big piney Wyoming the southern deserts of Utah at 116° broke out in 1978 that was a long time ago worked all positions in the crown of the ground and all around my last driller with my best name was Greg you guys are good crew pat yourself on the back cuz nobody else is going to I love that dance and tripping pipe and I hate that dance of dripping pipe good job
@@alen-commentnazi8774 tripping is what it is called when all the pipe is pulled out of the hole or ran back into the hole after a bit change or a tool change
Father in law did this in the fifties. Got his foot crushed one shift and they made him wait five days for a ride out to get medical attention. Wasn’t “serious enough” to warrant a special trip his boss said. Crazy times, crazier job.
Hard to believe they only did 10 minutes worth of work in this video. Just imagine a full 12 hours of doing that over and over.
Yep, a 12 hour day of tripping pipe will leave you dragging ass!
Bring your tripping juice lol as a former floorman, unless you have a nice driller or motorhand your only breaks were when the elevators travel up and down and the occasional flow checks, but i tell yuh id rather trip all day then fukcin scrubbing revert at -40
And over and over.
Riglet life.. service rigs are better
It does make for a long day. But I miss roughnecking like this. I work on a drillship now and it’s all automated. It’s so boring!
I've been watching so many of these videos the past few days and am slowly piecing together what every step of the process is doing. It's been fun figuring it out!
i work on another drill rig nothing like these boys do its pretty fun to watch aye
Good work, brothers. Y'all quietly make the world go round while the rest of us work in fancy air conditioned buildings and complain more than we should.
Heck yeah Mercia 🔥
Theres alot of jobs that arent in fancy air conditioned buildings brother 😂😂
😭
the rest of us create the ecomony that creates the demand for the oil, and hence, this work - we are all cogs of a machine greater than any one of our jobs, and we are all equally important. well...mostly all of us
Try winter in Texas lolhahahaha no kelly spinner lots of whiskey n weed but the same pace $48.n hour and $48. just to show up. 7 days a week or 7 on 7 on
Good to know there are still some youngbloods who can roughneck old school. Good job men.
Noice
I agree but seems medium pace to me maybe thought my group was faster. 20000 trip in or out 12 hrs
I'll try to verify thinking know it was at least 18000 worked for Patterson and nabors. Please comment learned on top drive scared of swinging block. Worked a swinging block never wanted to touch a top drive again.
I can do everything but when it comes to 4 inch I stab like a virgin 🤣🤣
Isn't great to have a good crew, when you don't have to say anything, your all on the same page...!!?
Love it..!
No shit, trust
It’s nice to see a RUclips video with a motor man that spins chain properly
Hang out and bang brother!
I wouldn't wanna waste my energy talking if this was my job. I'd save all that energy for the work. I never had a job like this but I've had jobs where even just talking would tire you out
Back when I was 18 and hard up for work and money, I would have volunteered to do this all day long. I worked in a sweat shop factory, 12 hours a night trimming flash off of scalding hot plastic office chairs fresh out of a molding press. 48 hours one week, 60 hours the next, for 4 years. Worked my way through University doing that and other physical labor jobs. I had to do it the hard way, but it made me better. I'm 50 now, three Master's degrees, Journeyman Electrician license.
Thank you. You give me hope. I'm 34 female, working weekly rotating shifts in a production plant, 12 hour shifts with OT. I'm trying to dig myself out.
A wonderfully choreographed dance of great strength and endurance, repeated over and over non-stop for 12 hours.
and that is called dehumanization
Those 10 seconds of just standing there are the only breaks you get while on the floor and those feel like the best 10 seconds of your life haha gotta love the life of a roughneck
That right there separates the boys from the men. You aint gotta be huge and buff. Just gotta have that heart and a no give up attitude. 🤙 hats off to you boys
Exactly! Know how to work without killing yourself.
I learned to roughneck in 1976 at 18 years of age. I gave it up in 2006. Roughnecking was the best in the 70’s doing triple stand backs. I once had a driller who wouldn’t hire a hand unless they drank beer and smoked weed. Great times!!!
We used to average 7 stands in ten minutes on a triple. Just like your going. 3 stands in five minutes and 4 the next five. To 13,000 feet. Worked our ass off.
looks like you know about this, what happens if the tubes come loose and fall? how do you get them back
go back in and thread on
@@elsapojimmyYou “fish” them out. “Fishing” is what’s called. You either run certain bha (bottom hole assembly) which is a specific set of tools that go at the bottom for what needs fished or you trip in the hole and hope to screw on to whatever you dropped. When I was a green roughneck I didn’t tighten the dog collar tight enough and we lost our drill collars. Took hours and hours on end on a single tripping in and out to get them. I perfected tripping in and out in one shift lmao
My Dad did this 12 hrs a day offshore for me to become a chemical and petroleum engineer. Thanks so much for this video. I am downstream....for 20 years. But just opened my eyes what he did in the Gulf every week! Thank you guys!!!!
Exactly how we used to trip in the hole. Old school and fast. Good shit boys. That's only a 2 stander (I've worked on 2 & 3 standers) not a triple which is what I used to work on, 3 stander. Everything is a lot bigger and heaps more room on the floor. It's something that is hard to explain to people who haven't worked on a rig eh, so good on you guys for posting this video. 🇭🇲👍
In the north sea we only ever worked triples (3 joints = a stand,a stand = approx 90ft of pipe)...sometimes if we'd been round tripping i was so tired i couldnt climb into my top bunk and used to fall asleep on my cabin mates bed (1 in on days 1 out out on night shift)....wake up about 7 hours later,shower ,food and do it again....those guys on the lands rigs had it tougher than us...much respect.....glad i'm retired now !
12 hours of that takes a heck of guy, you two definitely are showing how it is done....
For slow worms...
Not two.... What about Derrick hand and driller
@@sureshchandra4046 yeah the whole crew tough as nails 💅....
What about the lonely old toolpusher 😔
@@DrDemented9885 fuck the toolpusher they are useless as tits on a boar hog at least my toolpusher is lazy as fuck but thats Coastal Drilling East for ya
Why aren’t there any woman complaining about equality when it comes to this? Oh... yeah.
Lol so true
@Kacyn Wikel I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit
Most men can't do this let alone women, if there are they must look lile truckers.
Because they’re physically incapable of doing it. 10-12 hour days. Weeks at a time. No civilization nearby. They don’t possess the strength to do a single shift at California office working conditions let alone what men do all day everyday for days on end.
They literally can’t do it and they know it.
Just like they're lining up for skyscraper iron working and SWAT units in police departments.
That really takes me back, I did that for a few years in the 80's when I was 20something. Went through Roustabout, Pipe racker, Lead tongs, Derricks. Looks the same. We weren't allowed to use the rotary table to hold back up. Had to make up the pipe with both tongs every joint. Slows you down a little but not much. joints are more surely tight though.
When you have to put more work into your shower, when you get home, than most people put it in an 8-hour shift.
I couldn't have done this job even in my best of days, thank God there is people who can.
I’d die
Me to
Been there and done it . Tripping out is more work, break the pipe loose and standing it up in the rig on a floor of mud ain't no walk in the park .Worked on rigs where it took us 12 hours to trip out 5000 to 6000ft of pipe.
This is just awesome. Love watching these guys work. Real men here no doubt. There's something inspiring watching that guy throw chain. He's totally focused. Gotta be I guess, otherwise you die.
Why would he die.
I hated throwing chain on some rigs. Some about pulled your back out pulling the chain back. Actual throwing was easy enough. Had a hell of a teacher , my dad. He was the driller and had been in the field since he was 21. He was 39 when I broke out.
That chain hand is hella slow..looks like real teenagers..ide work the floor faster by myself
yeah, or get slapped in the face with what used to be your arm.
Ain't gotta worry about getting hurt going that slow!!...I can do both their jobs by myself faster than that...I remember my first day
Whatever these people get paid, is not enough
Not only is mega hard work, is also extremely dangerous
Massive respect !
Y'all work well together,I remember those days,I respect this 💯 percent
Started out in 1972, did 22 years in ND... Your only good as the crew you work with... Can tell you all worked as a team, great job..
My old man started out in 1953 in ND and Montana, did 46 years on the rigs, my brothers (three) we all did the patch also... My brother Kip did 35 years working derricks. Us other three stayed floorhands..
The well practiced choreograph of a floor crew slipping and sliding on a mud and spilled copper-coat thread grease, trying to beat the previous shift crews trip time is hard, it's dirty , it's noisy BUT bloody hell it's exciting!!!
I would have broke my fingers and my back within the first try! Respect!
They did too, they just kept going
Ain't that bad.. you get used to it.. adapt and overcome
Laughing at people saying " that's slow! We did it twice as fast blind folded with one arm and two tongs in a snow storm on a 36 hour shift during an earthquake!"
Shut up and appreciate those who endure!
Those who say that, do not have at least one finger ))))
Always somebody saying we did it faster. Shut up.
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@MudFlood Warrior2020 Great adventure!
I work in the field/industry and even at power plants these machines never stop. Someone has to constantly be on it. There are 16 hour days I can’t even set down long enough eat lunch. I have to trade off bites with my partner smh. I’ve seen some crazy crazy shit. From suicides to falls to peopling getting flattened. It’s dangerous as hell but damn do you feel like a badass when everyone goes home safe and alive at the end. It don’t get more American than this boys. 😎
Wtf is "set down?" Sit, the word is sit.
@@TERRENCEJJR Oh Stop!! You knew what he meant!! Find something better to do than being a spell checker, that comment truly wasn’t necessary at all! Did you even get the message that he was trying to convey or were you just so stuck on his grammar lesson?! SMH 🤦♀️…
PETRY MEET WRLD: My son just moved to Texas to become a Roughneck!! I’m so proud of him!! So I wanted to watch some videos just to get an idea of what he was doing!! Teamwork and strength are the 2 top qualities that are a must when it comes to this kinda work, it seems! Of course having total focus and concentration on what your doing is also key!! You guys are in a League of your own!! Not just anyone could do this type of work…. Impressive and Strong as as Ox!! I’m so proud of my son!! All of you Roughnecks out there, Stay Safe and Be Well!! And Thank You for Your Service and Hard work!!
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@@steel12city17cowgirl Big difference between spell checking and listening to drivel. He isn't making a typo he is using the wrong word purposely. To answer your question, no I didn't understand a word coming out of that southern fried idiot's mouth.
I remember heading out to the location with the crew and as soon as the rig came into view we could see all the pipe stacked in the derrick. We called it the "black leg". We knew we'd be trippin' all shift.
This brings back memories of my youth... Worked for 2 years at 18 years old as a rough neck on a triple Kenting rig in Alberta at Minus 55 coldest day .. One Christmas Morning 3am I climbed the Derrik and took the escape buggy for a ride. The worst part was climbing back up Derrik with buggy on shoulder to reset
I like how these ol' boys even have Jake Brakes on the Detroit. It's like "damn it boys, if we stop faster, we can start sooner!""
Worked camp job’s northern Alberta. ( triple big rigs )Peter Bawden Drilling Ltd. , fall. and winter 1960s roughnecking and this is the speed we went running the pipe back hole ( called. tripping ) these man on this rig , are good hands real good teamwork / keep that oil patch drilling have. a good. day / Bill. S. Canada
Mad respect for any physical labor job like this. I couldn't do it.
My back hurts just watching it.
I want to do this job inshaallah
Unsure why they're called world's fastest but they're doing a good job. For those unsure what they are doing, they are attaching what are called "stands" of drill pipe which are usually 3 pieces of already connected drill pipe to the existing string of pipe that is down the hole....so each time they make a connection they can lower the drill bit down the hole an extra 90 ft or so, until they have connected enough pipe that the bit reaches the bottom of the hole and they can start drilling again. Stay safe.
You can tell these boys are tired. Tripped it all out just to go back in. Gotta love it. Get you some
You stay if your releaf don’t swow
This is poetry in motion fellas.
Outstanding work.
12 hours of this and youll find out real quick what your made of 💪
These guys are high drive badasses..Gotta admire them
More like fuckin worms
Never drilled for oil, only water and 1200 feet max. Tripping pipe in and out was always fun. API threads are amazing things. The toughest coolest connections I ever worked with. Cheers
Those skinny little buggers are tuff as nails. Kudos boys!
Don't let size fool ya!! My dad hauled drilling mud to these fuckin rigs for almost 40 years. 24/7 in all kinds of weather!! I would go swamp on the truck with several different drivers he had. Lemme tell his best and fastest sack handlers were small framed wiry dudes!! Good truck drivers too!!
John Henry Brown was my driller in South Texas in 1960, He broke me in throwing the chain. Scares me now looking at this video. When you are 20 you are invincible.
They are doing their job neatly ..... and skillfully.
Definitely not the fastest rig on RUclips or television. But I, like others, appreciate your hard work. You guys are why we have fuel and oil in our vehicles daily 👍 Much love and respect ❤️🙏
I miss this. Sounds weird now looking back on it. However we didn't have to use the spinning chain. We had a 2 lever chain tongs that hung from a hoist that we used to spin them up. Coming out we just used the rotary to spin it. Simple times
I did a 8 hour trip to replace a drill head and when my relief didn't show did 8 hours to replace it in -20 snow storm . Northern Michigan Roughneckin'!
Michiwonder Outdoors you sir are a badass!
Michiwonder Outdoors Haha! 35 below! Williston basin .N. D. ice all over the rig . Tripping iron full tour fishing for stands dropped by another crew. Northern lights running wild. What a day to be alive . 1980 to 1983!
@@georgeminer6865 Arctic in Canada in 84, between Tuktoyuktuk and Inuvic NWT.
Get a map.
Dropped onto tundra by copter every morning. In full blown winter.
Geophysical survey mapping.
Good job
When Halliburton re-worked one of our wells in North Dakota, They couldnt find the correct fittings for the packing sleeve, finally our company man tracked it down like a 1000 miles away in northern Canada, I bet that hot shot made 1500 bux driving that piece to our site in 48 hours ! Those hydraulic tongs their using are $ 40,000 bux brand new !
I ran a rig like that with my lil brother but we had 25sec from break in and break out...tripping n rough necking...all Arizona love here Navajo Nation
Lokote Views maybe within the surface casing 😂 Them ole rigs can’t pull that fast....I don’t care what jungle juice you’re feeding them draworks.
Nothing hotter than watching two young dude's throwing chain.
These are some HARD working guys HERE!!!!
I was pipefitter for 35 years.(oil andgasindustry)... always hade respect for you roughnecks..... good to see again
I hope these guys make ALOT of money. Much props
Peanuts.
Something tells me those two are Native Americans from somewhere up north. Respect tho.
These guys are some bad Mo' Fo's.....like a well oiled machine.....
I am not going to say this work is "easy" but as a construction worker. I do believe once you gotta a good technical grasp and a good team of guys who gel well. It looks as easy as these guys make it look.
My first day i broke out was tripping damn near 30,000 feet in the hole on a directional well for 12 hours. Unit 365. Let me tell you I quit a dozen times that night and puked after every connection haha . But they wouldn't let me quit and gave me so much shit but that crew was the best and I did it for another 3 years.
Why the puke? An odor? Exertion?
The good old days... I've round tripped a lot of pipe in 8 and 16 hours...
LOL, I'll be damned, G.S. What are the odds?smdh
Me too 28 days
27 HSE guys didnt like this video
@Martin Turner did you hear a zipper rattle?
Throwing chain your entire 12 hour shift, fuuuuuuck!
Been there done that
Easy fuckin money if you got balls!
@@Godisforyou8989 why’s that take balls?
@@prepaidtrash5552 if u gotta ask you wouldnt know snowflake...i didnt say it took balls but its not hard if you got a pair.
There ain't no easier way doing it, these guys hustle a dying breed.
Lol, I've worked on some compound Kelly rigs but I never heard a Jake brake on them Ole cats. That's awesome
Very cool to watch these guys do a dangerous job with precision. Nice work, and thank you.
Makes me remember how awesome it was to have a pipe spinner when tripping!
Whats trip
Brings back so many memories 😂, back when I was tuff , that’s one job for the the younger men, I can look at a rig floor and get tired 🤣
I see about a hundred ways to get seriously hurt doing this work. If you're not on your toes, you might be missing some fingers.
Ralph Averill I see 1000 ways to get hurt working in an office, or McDonald's or walking down the street..
I assume from your post you think working in a an office or McDonalds or walking down the street is ten times more dangerous than rough-necking an oil rig. I think workman's comp insurance carriers would differ. So do I.
Ralph Averill you shouldn't assume bud, now you're just making an ass of you and me.
Throw that chain wrong and some guys have spun their arm backwards around that stem. Snap snap snap
BlackSwan912. I once worked at a fast food restaraunt where a person dropped their keys into the oil vat and without thinking immediately chased their keys with their hand getting it stuck beneath the heating element in fryer oil. She still has nerve damage where the oil cooked the muscles. I do suppose all fields have dangers. Just some you are more apt to get hurt.
i used to enjoy working graveyards when it was hot during the day... perfect temp at night and loved spinning chain
This was my favorite part going and coming out of the hole the only thing I didn't like was wrestling with the drill collars believe it or not this was fun to me and if you Roughnecks out there you know what I'm talkin about
Never done it on a drilling rig or a riglet like this.. only done service rigs, and the pace is a lot of fun on those.. unless you're pulling wet
Fasthole-ing was fun
@@stanleykendziorski7964 yeah buddy. I've mostly worked on well service rigs, but I've done some drilling rigs too. Drilling rigs are slow.
Used to make me weep when the BHA started appearing....now you've got to change tools and get messy with stuff...i hated it ....tripping pipe?...not a problem
I get tired just at looking them work, respects!
My sister worked on a drilling rig in the early 90s around Masterson,tx. Made great money. Never complained about rasing or being too slow. They got the job done right.
Christ, you must need a a lot of stamina to do this over and over. I imagine these guys build up strength fast.
I worked for Dresser Magcobar drilling fluids. Delivered drilling fluids to many rigs in New Roads LA. Loved it!
I did this for a year on a Parker Brothers rig in Elk City Oklahoma back in the '80's...
Man I absolutely loved it it was wonderful in my time when I was there doing the same type of thing I miss it the crew made a homemade hook which ended up going through my job which was illegal yet you do what you do there I spit the blood out throwed some gauze in it and we kept on rolling you do what you got to do I still have that old hook and I look back and think of it all the time it's a lifetime job of reality that when it's in your blood you will never ever forget it and let's not forget that Dereck hand either hanging on for that perfect snatch drop& driller
I could keep going but trying to keep it short all I can say it's the best job I've ever had and I still love it!!!!!!!
We all know why so many heads work on drillin rigs..the joints are 30 feet long, dope comes in 5 gallon buckets and they gotta pusher on every rig!!
Only reason i came to d oil field
As a driller I can remember round tripping 18,000 ft in one shift. One hell of a goos crew.
Man i do concrete n i thought my job was tough...i tip my hat sirs!
Go for it lads. Good to see chain being used.
They look like some Navajos to me haha
Remember doing that with Kelly rig, with 6000m pipe in the hole. Round trips were 24 hours. Laying down pipe was long process. Often 3-6 months on a hole. Sure beat those stinkin little singles, doubles as for quality of the drill rig. Everything was bigger, cleaner ( as you had time to clean, maintain rig). The chain was faster than a pipe spinner, or iron roughneck. My wrists were like steel, pulling slips all day, for months on end. These guys are pretty good. Big rigs were more civilized.
I rewatched Armageddon because of this video
They make this shit look easy. Nothing beats a team that has a good rhythm.
Throw in 80 k wind n some rain ....would make a nice shift....they look bored
Roughnecking is the HARDEST work ever! Salute to these men.
1 driller told me there's 2 levers on this rig ..lever A (points to brake handle ) and YOU lever B!
my worst day of being a roughneck was getting called in to work a 15 hour night shift in the cold winter of utah. i was runnin on 3 hours of sleep too. don’t sign up to roughneck unless you can really handle conditions like that. and if you can’t stay focused and pay attention the whole time you can potentially lose fingers or limbs. roughnecking ain’t for the weak
You got that right.....As an elevator constructor I worked many 7 12's for months but we had many easy days in there. A roughnecks job requires 100% focus and 100% attention at all times on the job....Not to mention being physically ready to perform.....Much respect for you guys....
@@michaelshepherd733 hey i appreciate it man. idk much about your job but much respect for that as well. doesn’t sound like an easy one. but i just barely decided to go back to HVAC tech. im only 18 and i don’t wanna get sucked into the oilfield forever, it’s too brutal for a career
@@ianmeacham8605 HVAC Tech.......great trade...some electrical, some plumbing and pipe fitting, some sheet metal work....All good to know.....Don't blame ya for getting into that instead of roughnecking
one of the scariest moments for me came when my co-worker was tossing the chain and it broke leaving him with the chain in his hand and snapping back at driller
What happened?
I did this for 10 yrs when I was 18 to 28. Last four was on off shore rigs off Cali coast. It was very rewarding but I'm 64 now and can feel it. Lol
same story was a chain chucker because all the relief kept getting hurt I asked to learn it, I'm 64 and can feel the exhaustion watching this
I worked a Pool rig, Well Tech, and Neighbors, You?
@@godngunclinger I worked land rigs. Doubles and singles. Hated cable tool. Did off shore in the Pacific on a floater for 4 yrs.
Awesome guys! Hard ass fn work. Y'all move seamlessly. That is roughnecking right there! Be safe! 👍💪
No doubt about it, that's hard work.
im exhausted just watching the video.. can't imagine doing this as a job. hats off.
This dudes are mexican twins that work hard . Also woman can yall do this job since yall want to be like man and have the same jobs
not once... Not EVER... has a Woman been on a rig or lined up for the opportunity. They just want the pay that you get by sacrificing your body for 20 years
I never did that. Im too puney. 4:05 But i worked in machine shop in oil field and repaired those tongs. Rotary slips. Elevators. And rethreaded thousands of those pipe threads. Wash pipe, drill pipe, drill collars, Drill caseing, 8rd thread, buttress, a.p.i regular, full hole, internal flush, hughes slim hole, h-90, hydril, atlas bradford, line pipe. Back in the old days.
Very interesting process. Much respect to you hombres.
I worked for Blocker Drilling in 1980. I chunked Chain as you see in the vid. Great Job, made killer money about $1200 a week. No Lie
2day would b 3,000
Damn, that is "making a living" the hard way. Props to you guys! Robots are coming soon.
This little rig brings back memories though. Ain't many of these little doubles left I don't think
Nothing like being a rough neck not a job for everyone but those who are love it
Yeah for a minute excess of 76 below zero in big piney Wyoming the southern deserts of Utah at 116° broke out in 1978 that was a long time ago worked all positions in the crown of the ground and all around my last driller with my best name was Greg you guys are good crew pat yourself on the back cuz nobody else is going to I love that dance and tripping pipe and I hate that dance of dripping pipe good job
From the look of how muddy those boys are I would say they tripped it all out at the start of the shift
What do u mean trip
@@alen-commentnazi8774 tripping is what it is called when all the pipe is pulled out of the hole or ran back into the hole after a bit change or a tool change
Father in law did this in the fifties. Got his foot crushed one shift and they made him wait five days for a ride out to get medical attention. Wasn’t “serious enough” to warrant a special trip his boss said. Crazy times, crazier job.
First connection is the best, 0:23. The guy quoted Michael Jackson.
🤣
Thank God for rig workers who make everyday life possible
We still trip pipe like this down in southern Saskatchewan
Viking play?
Rick B probably the Baaken field
No you dont.....
cyc25ruffneck they don’t spin chain anywhere in Canada anymore do they?
I don't get why there are no women working here. Surely there must be some diversity quota gifting women positions in this industry.
Should b high school requirements