@@GrassLogic been clean his whole life . He lost 2 co workers to it. He has 3 kids and never fell down that rabbit hole . Once he put enough away in saving he changed to office work . Took a huge toll on his body .
It's because jobs like this only have workers due to drug and alcohol use. It's a long hard dangerous job that hires high school drop outs and convicts. It comes with that stereotype because that stereotype fits.
Literally what every successful businesses needs. When two minds can literally work as one, that minutia is critical to making things run flawlessly. You guys are running shit. Hell ya brother
@Daniel Garrett what’s the total contributions of the 400 wealthiest families compared to the rest of the country? You say it’s unfair but those 400 families put out more money in taxes “although at a lower rate” then the whole country combined. I wonder what there insurance is. Wonder how many people they employ. Wonder how much health insurance cost for said employees. Paid time off, sick days, fmla. Let’s look at the bigger picture here and not be angry because they make more and pay less. But be thankful that they don’t take there business’ and outsource everything. We would prob complain if that happened as well
The other day at the office, someone had put the staples on the top shelf in the stationary cupboard. I had to stand on the 2nd step of the step stool, which was not pleasant at all. So yeah, workplaces can be tough places.
nolichucky out doors I agree and usually they would have you have a green hard hat to but they also don’t have to wear FR clothing wish it was like that for me
@@johnmiller7198 what's washing or painting also I was always wondering what they do once they have installed the new pipe? Is that what they do and how long until they need to do this again
John Miller I’m a roughneck and when u call scrubbing and painting not work it kinda upsets me lmao but we also pack 50 and 100 lb sacks literally 100s of them in a 12 hour day
@@johnmiller7198 not all of em buddy. Lol. Depends on who you are working for and who you are working under. One person can not speak for all of us big guy
@Mike Mitchell This is why they are automating this process in new rigs. Once oil prices start to go up again, companies will begin to pump up their R&D budgets for automation on older rigs. You're either "slow and inefficient" or fast and reckless because idiots won't stop trying to define their life based on their job.
So they are drilling down into a oilwell, and these pipes that they are connecting are drill sections, they add 30ft off pipe at a time till they hit the bottom of the well. The pipes have thread on them and at the top of the pipe they have thread on the inside to connect the next section, they whip the chain to screw the next pipe into the previous pipe
I'm so happy to see a drill deck that isn't using chains to tighten and loosen the pipe, that always gives me goose bumps thinking about if the chain slips onto their hand when they wrap it and transfer the pipes.
With modern Flex rigs equipped with top drives taking over, we still have a good few of rigs here in Louisiana that wrap chains. Had an old friend of mine that got hurt throwing chain. Chain got a knot in it, when the knot left the floor and made it to his hands, it opened his hands up and got away from him and wrapped him in the head twice. He was initially put on morphine and got addicted to methadone while being pulled off the morphine.
I watched one of these videos randomly once and this time I was waiting for the chain to come from somewhere. Was a huge relief to realize that for some reason it wasn't necessary! LOL
@@eltoroluckypatientzero1355 I’m guessing you don’t know how much they get paid. Plumbers make $100,000 a year. Tradespeople are going the last ones working because they will be doing the hard labour that robots cannot.
@@rich9992 false.. “some” plumbers make 100k.. These workers are underpaid when taking into account the risk factor, type of work and the percentage difference between the amount that they make and the employer..
I worked as a roughneck back in the early 80's. We were still throwing chain back in those days. I liked working derricks the best. Great teamwork needed to get the job done.
With modern Flex rigs equipped with top drives taking over, we still have a good few of rigs here in Louisiana that wrap chains. Had an old friend of mine that got hurt throwing chain. Chain got a knot in it, when the knot left the floor and made it to his hands, it opened his hands up and got away from him and wrapped him in the head twice. He was initially put on morphine and got addicted to methadone while being pulled off the morphine.
how do I become a roughneck. It's a passion of mine. I will have to relocate of course. My pastor mentioned it to me since I strive in jobs where I can focus on tasks, not freelance careers/jobs. Also, he mentioned I should look at CDCR or state trooper. However, roughneck really I'm passionate about.
Well some times it’s slows enough to wash the rig when drilling....slow days suck they last forever. Tripping makes a 12hr day go by in about 5minutes! Oh man those were the days!!
@@Rider-nb5ts Wait, do you mean that you ingested psychedelics while working on an oil rig? 'Tripping' must have another use that I'm unaware of cuz that sounds scary af.
My dad done some of this roughnecking in west Texas where i was raised he almost lost his thumb in an accident on a rig went into construction after that just celebrated his 80th b-day
These muttafrackles are on point big dogs running that like its child's play any one of those moves miss stepped or not locked could break bones at best or kill you. Amazing and there never appreciated enough for what they do... ashame. Great job and thank you guys
I miss those days, they work clean, I was able to a connection on my own until I broke my pinky one day from underestimating a hose , you start getting too comfortable thinking you know what your doing and that’s when accidents happen , oil rig life shout out to every roughneck out there
When team work makes the dream work!!! Damn they killed it! This setup seems a little newer maybe different then one I watched where it was chains instead of those 2 coupling arms either way straight boss!!
Those handles on whatever they’re holding are so ready to grab one of those boys boots and fling them around like a ceiling fan… I think OSHA just pretends this job doesn’t exist 😂
Grew up in Kansas watching my dad and family do this, we owned a drilling company in the early 80s brings back memories for me. This work will make you a hard man for sure.
I know nothing about drilling oil and it's pretty easy to see what's going on. All it's doing is screwing or unscrewing pipe, but you have to have something to keep one end stationary while the other pipe is screwed or unscrewed. It seems that plug thing in the beginning is used to hold the pipe in place to keep it from lowering back into the hole so they can do their job.
Zendreax that’s exactly what’s going on. These guys are standing on the drill floor, above them is the Derrick, and the plug you mentioned is a tool called a slip. Below them is the hole and a BOP, the camera is more than likely sitting in the drill shack, where a third man works or monitors an automatic driller. Tough work, all shifts are 12 hours. Any questions just tag me
Yeah, your right. And the only way to avoid it is not slip or make a false move. You really have to be mindful of your surroundings. A good and willing crew makes it so much easier. But when winter comes some of the so called toughest men tend to scatter.
And people moan about luxury and oil. I guarantee you this.. These 2 guys? Dont protest, they arent confused about life and dont adopt other peoples problems so they can pretend to be "Compassionate". These two guys make the world run.
The floor hands work well together. I used to put one foot on the middle handle of the slips and push them in. Coming out of the hole you only need on person to remove the slips. Pinch the two outside handles together; as soon as the slips clear the bowl just push them back. Use leverage for everything. Easy peazy.
This job consists of 13 hours a day 14 days straight sometimes 16 during rig move. No lunch breaks so you eat on the fly. Trust me your will eat a lot of oil base. No time to remove your gloves. The only time you get to piss is when the driller pisses during trip sessions. I did 6 months so I was still wormy but I made it 6 months. Most newcomers don’t make the first hitch(2 weeks) sometimes 2 days. Roughnecks are the hardest working men on the planet. Money is decent but you will surely earn every penny
@@whitegoodman7465 The wage slave will tell you to work from the bottom of the pit wage and stay for years for that 401k and maybe in a few years when you are old and worn out you can just make decent money when you are just about to retire lol. Texas will have a big wave of south americans looks like cheap labor is back on the menu means buisness opening seasson 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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I grew up in the Texas panhandle in Perryton and my dad was a pharmacist there. I spent a lot of time at his drugstore and during the oil boom a lot of oil field guys came in and bought up all the Sudafed when you could still do that. They also bought syringes and I used to ask my dad what they were buying it for. He’d just mumble something about “Goddamned Hop-Heads” and leave it at that. It was years before I figured out what was going on.
I grew up in Northern Alberta Canada during a long oil boom and my dad was a coke dealer. Guys would come and drop massive amounts of money and dad would call them idiots after saying how they had to work so hard for so long just for a few measly grams that disappear before the next block of days start.
People say all that bull shit about women are just as good as men but I still to this day see no women in the NFL and the only women in college football are kickers so
I mean if a woman wanted to I’m sure she could get into this line of work, but when there’s plenty of men around, if I were a female I’d want to work at a car dealership and get paid to look pretty too
Which is fine but I don’t like the argument how women are underpaid when jobs like these exist where it is dangerous but paid well whereas most jobs women choose tend to be less so
GIRLTOASTER GAMING the nfl isn’t a real job and its split into sexes because of the physical differences they have; I get wht you mean but I bet a woman can do this job if they were determined to, it’s just that they don’t want to do it.
Honestly one of the best roughnecks I've seen was the toolpushers wife. Granted she was more manly than any of the rest of us but still technically a woman lol.
this is the 2nd time watching one of these videos... i cannot tell whats going on but im glad they so it because it looks important for our daily lives!
By 2 newbies, their shirts and jeans are still clean. Seeing how they’re not bullshitting as they do their thing, without any pause to the process, but being thorough says they’re new. To anyone used to having cameras on a site where SAFETY is the mantra, which it should be, knows when cameras are around, do it slower paced, up to spec, and make sure the spec PPE is used. Being left alone in the field by company people is what the ground guys want.
I work for an NOV warehouse and deal with these parts on the regular, I can attest that these red iron pieces are heavy AF. The little ones weight 70-80 lbs. And the big one that they wrapped around the pipe first is easily 120-150 lbs. I guess luckily we have overhead cranes.
Sorry bud. You're way off!😬 The tongs are hanging from lines that can hold up to a ton. Each tong weighs 500lbs. I know this because I worked on drilling rigs. It is solid steel!
Raise your son to be conservative. Honest. Most young people want to be "compassionate", but its not compassionate if its dishonest. Raise your children to be brutally honest. The rest of the world are wishful-thinkers.
Our Dad was a roughneck in the 1950's - 1980's, retired out, us four men (his sons) went to the oilfields also, we all did over 20 years, two still in, now my youngest two young men are in the oilfields, ten years and loving it!
My friend did this long ago, about 8 years ago maybe? the story he told is that your breaks throughout a 12 hour shift consist of stuffing a fucking granola bar into your face while waiting 40 seconds for a big section of pipe to be craned into place....it is fucking ridiculous. i have to assume they swing water or something else from out of their pocket, but who knows....he also said workers would buy their food for the day from a convience store, go in drop 60 bucks on snacks and drive to work....lol...
No breaks. Even though theybare supposeed to. But when i was in, vienna sausage or whatever you can stuff in your mouth between connections. Bottles of water were supplied as well as pickles and bananas to keep you from cramping at night and pickle juice to keep your electrolytes up
When you don't have to say one word to your coworker, you both know what's up
Best coworkers in the world are the ones you can work with in complete silence.
Absolutely. Team work and rythym are the key.
When someone does and you don't have to say a word....
That’s when u know you can work and get shit done my floor hand and. Don’t have to say one word to each other
It’s. The best way to work !!!! Both concentrated with what needs to get Done , team work makes the dream work !!
Had a buddy of mine do this for 8 years . Said it was extremely dangerous but loved every minute of it . Made great great money
And how much of that money survived the cocaine and alcohol abuse 🤔 🤣
@@GrassLogic been clean his whole life . He lost 2 co workers to it. He has 3 kids and never fell down that rabbit hole . Once he put enough away in saving he changed to office work . Took a huge toll on his body .
@@GrassLogic
@@GrassLogic it’s kind of insulting to assume a hard working labourer is a cocaine and alcohol abuser
It's because jobs like this only have workers due to drug and alcohol use.
It's a long hard dangerous job that hires high school drop outs and convicts. It comes with that stereotype because that stereotype fits.
Literally what every successful businesses needs. When two minds can literally work as one, that minutia is critical to making things run flawlessly. You guys are running shit. Hell ya brother
and an oil giant ceo who cashes in billions without paying tax whereass hardworking folks only get 4000€/m but still have to pay income tax
@@chuckchuck8319 billionaires pay a lower tax rate than any working person
@@TheRCish what’s the percentage
should have just invested in bitcoin and retired like some of us at 25. People are stupid
@Daniel Garrett what’s the total contributions of the 400 wealthiest families compared to the rest of the country? You say it’s unfair but those 400 families put out more money in taxes “although at a lower rate” then the whole country combined. I wonder what there insurance is. Wonder how many people they employ. Wonder how much health insurance cost for said employees. Paid time off, sick days, fmla. Let’s look at the bigger picture here and not be angry because they make more and pay less. But be thankful that they don’t take there business’ and outsource everything. We would prob complain if that happened as well
This country owes a lot to guys like this.
Too bad the media and our elected officials hate these strapping young men
They hate white men specifically.
The other day at the office, someone had put the staples on the top shelf in the stationary cupboard. I had to stand on the 2nd step of the step stool, which was not pleasant at all.
So yeah, workplaces can be tough places.
2 dudes, 2 hard hats, 4 dirty ass work books, and a can of chew.... fueling America! Good job boys!
@firmly grasp it Says the keyboard killer that has no job with Cheetos dust on his 4th chin.
Imagine romanticizing chew as if it doesn’t cause mouth cancer and is somehow associated with hard work lmao
@@Not_The_FBI_1992 If you keep working harder your boss can buy himself a new Lamborghini. 😂😂
spooky shark Y O U A R E A N G R
@@deathrattles214 I can't merit a response because I'm fucking retarded.
They might be new to that company but they ain't new.
leroy's hack shack veterans
exactly👍
Right?!
Think he means New Brunswick
nolichucky out doors I agree and usually they would have you have a green hard hat to but they also don’t have to wear FR clothing wish it was like that for me
Couldnt imagine doing this all day, bless these men
They dont. They wash or paint most the time. They work very little. 90 percent of the time there just washing and painting.
@@johnmiller7198 what's washing or painting also I was always wondering what they do once they have installed the new pipe? Is that what they do and how long until they need to do this again
@@johnmiller7198 while drilling you are right. But at tripping operation they work like this during the whole shift(12 hours usually)
John Miller I’m a roughneck and when u call scrubbing and painting not work it kinda upsets me lmao but we also pack 50 and 100 lb sacks literally 100s of them in a 12 hour day
@@johnmiller7198 not all of em buddy. Lol. Depends on who you are working for and who you are working under. One person can not speak for all of us big guy
Respect to these guys and people who do jobs that make our lives comfortable. Very easy to take what the do for granted.
fuck off these guys make plenty of money.
@@MethewSmeth sure they do, but it's hard work. What's the problem?
Where are the femenists when it comes to jobs like this eh?
oil isnt about comfort
People do these jobs because they want to. It's not a charity. It's impressive to watch though.
This looks so dangerous. Hats off to all of you working jobs like this so I can keep my family warm.
"Well, this is 2 minutes out of a 9 to 10 hour work day..."
12 actually
12 hours all day foe 28 days in a row.
@@carlitochristensen4060 That's some hardcore shit.
@@carlitochristensen4060 long days, but I bet they stay busy the entire time. When you work hard, time flies. I bet that 28 days flies like a breeze
@@bigjerm1631 I can assure you it doesn't. I've worked 15 hour days for 14 days straight and that shit's a crawl.
This looks like a bunch of injuries ready to happen. These guys do make it look smooth though.
@Mike Mitchell This is why they are automating this process in new rigs. Once oil prices start to go up again, companies will begin to pump up their R&D budgets for automation on older rigs.
You're either "slow and inefficient" or fast and reckless because idiots won't stop trying to define their life based on their job.
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@Mike Mitchell Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
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That dip circle. Iconic.
Please explain for the outsider, I'd like to know.
SpiritualOpportunism it’s a can of dip
@@spiritualopportunism4585 on one of the workers back pocket you can see what looks like an imprint of a circle, its caused by a chewing tobacco can
@@coldwarmth9167 lol, thanks.
**skoal ring
I’m sure they know what they are doing…but this looks nuts.Impressive.
What they are doing is called the wage gap lmao
So they are drilling down into a oilwell, and these pipes that they are connecting are drill sections, they add 30ft off pipe at a time till they hit the bottom of the well. The pipes have thread on them and at the top of the pipe they have thread on the inside to connect the next section, they whip the chain to screw the next pipe into the previous pipe
@@mistersquat5786 dude I worked like this for 45 years
@@tiktokcancerous9974 so you tellin me you are 65 years old and choose "tiktok cancerous" as your name??deadass??
@@Zeckeonee ya the kids are all brain damaged from tiktok
I'm so happy to see a drill deck that isn't using chains to tighten and loosen the pipe, that always gives me goose bumps thinking about if the chain slips onto their hand when they wrap it and transfer the pipes.
My thought exactly. Came here to see if anyone commented it before me.
With modern Flex rigs equipped with top drives taking over, we still have a good few of rigs here in Louisiana that wrap chains. Had an old friend of mine that got hurt throwing chain. Chain got a knot in it, when the knot left the floor and made it to his hands, it opened his hands up and got away from him and wrapped him in the head twice. He was initially put on morphine and got addicted to methadone while being pulled off the morphine.
I watched one of these videos randomly once and this time I was waiting for the chain to come from somewhere. Was a huge relief to realize that for some reason it wasn't necessary! LOL
@@charlesisbell4340I hope he's doing better
Love working with an experienced operator, it’s like
a dance, you both know each other’s next move❤️
True but those guys were supposedly newbies!
That heart was unnecessary and kind of gay
@@GamebossUKBwhat if he is gay what then
@@GamebossUKByou’re looking good my g ❤ no homo ❤
@@burr69 🤣
Homeboy had a can in his back pocket probably some grizzly wintergreen longcut yee yee
Yeah I seen that
Skoal is for pussys
Probably Copenhagen Snuff lol Grizzly Wintergreen sounds too soft lol I’ll drop dead if he said it’s Skoal Berry 🤣
C S ewwwwww!! Lol YACK!! 🤭🥴🤢🤮
Came for this comment specifically
Everybody gangsta until winter hits.
First time/first night on the floor TIH there was 6ft of ice in every stand..didn get the mud weight right an it was bad a sweep
LOL facts
Ain’t that the truth
Thats when you wear the jacket with the tassles and wear a nice long, floor length burlap poncho. Lots a fabric fluttering about.
😂
It’s beautiful to see real hard work done so well. Makes me want to send my kids to get some roughneck training!
To get underpaid in an increasingly expensive country?
@@eltoroluckypatientzero1355 I’m guessing you don’t know how much they get paid. Plumbers make $100,000 a year. Tradespeople are going the last ones working because they will be doing the hard labour that robots cannot.
@@rich9992 false.. “some” plumbers make 100k.. These workers are underpaid when taking into account the risk factor, type of work and the percentage difference between the amount that they make and the employer..
lol abused by your corporate lords@unclesam6386
@unclesam6386hey it’s Uncle Sam
Nothing but RESPECT for these guys!
You get that money!
That’s why those boys get paid the big bucks!!! That’s not only dangerous but extremely hard work!!
I like how they work so synchronised. Proper team work 👌🏻
I’m a welder and can be offshore a lot but I’ve never really seen what a roughneck does but these guys look slick
I can see why the job is so dangerous!!! Huge respect for keeping our vehicles moving (& that includes electric vehicles, they still need lubrication)
Not bad for a couple worms. They work well together. If they stay in the fight, they will make a great crew.
They do work well together
I moved up to dericks and the guy with the long sleeve got arrested. He was a badass hand too.
@Micheal Turner did you start as a roustabout?
@@satansucks401 no, this is a water well company and not as big as an oil company. I came on as a floorhand.
The floorhands are the roustabouts
Because of these boys we have gasoline in our cars.
Im pretty sure theres more like them.
L Rodriguez hell yea there is
And because of truckers!
A lot more than just these 2 guys make gas, lol. Oil isn’t put into a gas can after this process
That’s why I drive electric lol
There's nothing like a good days worth of hard work to help your country
i like how there's no intro, no commentary, no shaky cam, just straight to pro HD video
Amazing what these hard working young men can do without looking at their phones! Carry on and well done!
All about finding a groove, and a good work partner
BINGO! Not a lazy mans game!
@@michaelvandyke Far from it, we use to call it dancing.
I worked as a roughneck back in the early 80's. We were still throwing chain back in those days. I liked working derricks the best. Great teamwork needed to get the job done.
With modern Flex rigs equipped with top drives taking over, we still have a good few of rigs here in Louisiana that wrap chains. Had an old friend of mine that got hurt throwing chain. Chain got a knot in it, when the knot left the floor and made it to his hands, it opened his hands up and got away from him and wrapped him in the head twice. He was initially put on morphine and got addicted to methadone while being pulled off the morphine.
how do I become a roughneck. It's a passion of mine. I will have to relocate of course. My pastor mentioned it to me since I strive in jobs where I can focus on tasks, not freelance careers/jobs. Also, he mentioned I should look at CDCR or state trooper. However, roughneck really I'm passionate about.
Good hard steady work!! 22 years in the patch, loved every minute of it (Mostly - LOL )
Brings back memories of the North Sea 74 to 76 on the Odeco Ocean Rover , happy days 😊
I hope these boys are earning way more than those office nerds who complain if the thermostat is 2 degrees below average smh
I have no idea what’s happening or why I clicked on this video but I still find myself finishing the whole thing
Props to the guys that do this all day working them long hours
Is this a continuous process throughout their whole shift or does it stop at some point. It looks exhausting
Well some times it’s slows enough to wash the rig when drilling....slow days suck they last forever. Tripping makes a 12hr day go by in about 5minutes! Oh man those were the days!!
@@Rider-nb5ts Wait, do you mean that you ingested psychedelics while working on an oil rig? 'Tripping' must have another use that I'm unaware of cuz that sounds scary af.
@@Johnny-rj9on lol
@@Johnny-rj9on no tripping as in 'a round trip' when replacing parts
@@Johnny-rj9on it means they're feeding pipe into the ground.
Yea it may look easy, but someone like me that has been around for a while watching this makes my bones hurt. It's definitely a young man's game.
My dad done some of this roughnecking in west Texas where i was raised he almost lost his thumb in an accident on a rig went into construction after that just celebrated his 80th b-day
There are so many moments for something to go horribly wrong.
Welcome to the rigs.
The fact they holding the claws when secure the tubes made me think something horrible will happend
That’s literally life in general
Why do you think it’s pays so well?
Yea but nobody wants to get piss tested, so they make sure NOTHING goes wrong.
That’s harder than it looks. Smooth transitions
These muttafrackles are on point big dogs running that like its child's play any one of those moves miss stepped or not locked could break bones at best or kill you. Amazing and there never appreciated enough for what they do... ashame. Great job and thank you guys
They’re not appreciated because most of these guys are fucking idiots who you’d rather eat a turd than have to even speak to for five minutes.
I miss those days, they work clean, I was able to a connection on my own until I broke my pinky one day from underestimating a hose , you start getting too comfortable thinking you know what your doing and that’s when accidents happen , oil rig life shout out to every roughneck out there
Holy crap I’ve never seen this done.
I had an idea of how it worked but to see it in action is too cool!!
OSHA: where are your FRs?
Roughneck: What FRs!!
The new USB port seems a little confusing
When team work makes the dream work!!!
Damn they killed it! This setup seems a little newer maybe different then one I watched where it was chains instead of those 2 coupling arms either way straight boss!!
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Those handles on whatever they’re holding are so ready to grab one of those boys boots and fling them around like a ceiling fan… I think OSHA just pretends this job doesn’t exist 😂
Fuck OSHA
@@seansteele1269 safety dicks are green hands that couldn't hack it/home depot employees
Real jobs don't require safe spaces.
Slips! =correct name for those!
Mark ah yes loosing limbs, so the company can save a couple off dollars sounds like real massculine shit
Grew up in Kansas watching my dad and family do this, we owned a drilling company in the early 80s brings back memories for me. This work will make you a hard man for sure.
What ?! You must be really rich
I have no Idea what's going on... But this Looks awesome.
Hahaha you should try the oilfield some day.
I know nothing about drilling oil and it's pretty easy to see what's going on.
All it's doing is screwing or unscrewing pipe, but you have to have something to keep one end stationary while the other pipe is screwed or unscrewed. It seems that plug thing in the beginning is used to hold the pipe in place to keep it from lowering back into the hole so they can do their job.
Zendreax that’s exactly what’s going on. These guys are standing on the drill floor, above them is the Derrick, and the plug you mentioned is a tool called a slip. Below them is the hole and a BOP, the camera is more than likely sitting in the drill shack, where a third man works or monitors an automatic driller. Tough work, all shifts are 12 hours. Any questions just tag me
Justin what’s the purpose of doing this over and over again
Justin what’s the pay for something like this? And what are the qualifications?
Wow seems like one slip or false move can have you losing a limb or something in a hurry. Great job guys.
Yeah, your right. And the only way to avoid it is not slip or make a false move. You really have to be mindful of your surroundings.
A good and willing crew makes it so much easier. But when winter comes some of the so called toughest men tend to scatter.
And people moan about luxury and oil. I guarantee you this.. These 2 guys? Dont protest, they arent confused about life and dont adopt other peoples problems so they can pretend to be "Compassionate". These two guys make the world run.
@@buddyhale7263 Bruh the wet metal looks dangerous AF, and the spinning thing at the bottom, one slip or mistake...
@@henrik1743 for sure.
Impressed that they actually put the slips in the right way and the Driller actually stopped them in the right place after he spun out the stand.
i see alot of videos where they fuck it up on youtube. lol
Some of the hardest working people and very dangerous work.
This is how you know all of these guys know their shit. Smooth operation, boys. You keep the world going, literally.
The floor hands work well together. I used to put one foot on the middle handle of the slips and push them in. Coming out of the hole you only need on person to remove the slips. Pinch the two outside handles together; as soon as the slips clear the bowl just push them back. Use leverage for everything. Easy peazy.
Yep
Yup, I did the same thing.
I've always wondered how they don't cross-thread.
Tapered threads on the drill pipe.
Taper or "cone shaped" threads on the male end and the revurse of that on the female end gets it right everytime
Send it each time and hope for the best...
@@Silveradoguy if not, hit it with an impact
Mr. E 🤣🤣 facts
This job consists of 13 hours a day 14 days straight sometimes 16 during rig move. No lunch breaks so you eat on the fly. Trust me your will eat a lot of oil base. No time to remove your gloves. The only time you get to piss is when the driller pisses during trip sessions. I did 6 months so I was still wormy but I made it 6 months. Most newcomers don’t make the first hitch(2 weeks) sometimes 2 days. Roughnecks are the hardest working men on the planet. Money is decent but you will surely earn every penny
as a Rig mechanic makes my job look like cake lol
Slave work to break down down ur body for a buck, not a career either. Waste of time unless you want quick money.
@@whitegoodman7465 The wage slave will tell you to work from the bottom of the pit wage and stay for years for that 401k and maybe in a few years when you are old and worn out you can just make decent money when you are just about to retire lol.
Texas will have a big wave of south americans looks like cheap labor is back on the menu means buisness opening seasson 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Not the hardest work.
That was incredible. I have no idea what I just watched, but that was incredible.
Never met anyone who has a passion for this field, just in it cause money is good
There’s art in everything .. this is living art
Nah..I'll keep my driving job. Props to these boys. To much work for me!
This job isn't like this anymore and they do pay like 10 to 11k for the hitch which is 28 on 14 off!!
Jerry because you’re a peanut
Because ur a puss pop
Cuz you're a lazy, fat fuck
The synergy between them is really soothing
Don't forget about the driller, he's gotta keep both those guys alive
Respect, just got back pain by watching them.
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4. Never claim to know - Ask questions and it's best you work with an assistant.
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I think I might have came across the name on an interview last year where she spoke about finance.
Rockerfeller just sitting in his gigantic mansion right now like yeah you work hard for me boys. Keep on working.
so the same thing you are doing... got it
@@LtRiot I’m not the one collecting the Check.
Someone had to put up the capital to do it. If you want to take the risk, the money, the time, and start a company from scratch it is there for the grabs.
Aliens are looking at us like fuckin morons
Jesus all that for 1 connection...
Iron roughneck made it so much easier haha
Top drive + iron roughneck
Yeah the single slant was easy money other than rigging up and down every three days
Kinda makes you wonder how we get a gallon of that shit out of the ground, pulled out, refined, trucked around, and its cheaper than cow milk.
Make em bite!!!!!! that never gets old of hearing about greenhorns. hahaha
I hope these guys make more than everyone sitting on their ass at a desk all day browsing RUclips and reddit
"I'm new, I'm new, I don't know what to do!!"
Joe dirt
Good old B+v tongs I remember tripping pipe all day and all night with them tongs.
Its a pain when they don't bite, and for "some reason" there's no replacement teeth-_-
@@FuqURUclips tong dies.
I see a Skoal ring, these guys can't be THAT new.
Caleb Heney what’s that
@@bobbybarraza8472 A name for the ring in the back left pocket of jeans formed by having a can of dip/snuff
Caleb Heney hahah I see
Certainly look like they know what they're doing
Every part of that looked dangerous as hell! Good luck brothers. You're badass!
The toughest job that not many can handle! Rock on!💪
and people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars dancing for 15 seconds/taking pictures of food/eating challenges etc etc
Relays back to the age old phrase, work smarter not harder
@@JoshD96 without a doubt. and yes I'm salty
If its so easy why aren't you doing it
@@funy0n583 didn't say I wanted to
@@radovr6549 do it u won’t
Looks very prone to accidents from my perspective with no knowhow on the subject. Looks like great teamwork, smooth hand fast.
@1:15, you get that quicksilver on you, it ain't coming off for days!
Mercury?
@@apexmarketing7621 anti seeze its a aluminum based thread lube the problem is one spec of it can spred so far youd be looking loke the tin man by the time you get it off
Cancer causing shit , is what it is !!
Home boy has that dip can locked and loaded in that rear pocket. Respect for all the laborers out there.
First thing I saw. Damn dip sonnn
Can’t see anyone having a passion for this job
They’ll be a couple of pros in no time, miss those days
Watching this gave me a whole new appreciation for the accident rates in the oil industry.
I grew up in the Texas panhandle in Perryton and my dad was a pharmacist there. I spent a lot of time at his drugstore and during the oil boom a lot of oil field guys came in and bought up all the Sudafed when you could still do that. They also bought syringes and I used to ask my dad what they were buying it for. He’d just mumble something about “Goddamned Hop-Heads” and leave it at that. It was years before I figured out what was going on.
I grew up in Northern Alberta Canada during a long oil boom and my dad was a coke dealer. Guys would come and drop massive amounts of money and dad would call them idiots after saying how they had to work so hard for so long just for a few measly grams that disappear before the next block of days start.
Gotta love the can of dip in buddy back pocket
Crew: What are we doing today drill?
Driller: tripping pipes!😃
Crew: oh...🙁
Someones gotta do it 😂😂
Real roughnecks enjoy tripping
every single time!
Makes the day go by faster
I personally enjoy tripping pipe time goes by fast and its better then pressure washing in the cold
Love how there's a permanent dip indentation in his back pocket lol yup true rough necks
Wonder what feminists think of this...could a woman do this job?
People say all that bull shit about women are just as good as men but I still to this day see no women in the NFL and the only women in college football are kickers so
I mean if a woman wanted to I’m sure she could get into this line of work, but when there’s plenty of men around, if I were a female I’d want to work at a car dealership and get paid to look pretty too
Which is fine but I don’t like the argument how women are underpaid when jobs like these exist where it is dangerous but paid well whereas most jobs women choose tend to be less so
GIRLTOASTER GAMING the nfl isn’t a real job and its split into sexes because of the physical differences they have; I get wht you mean but I bet a woman can do this job if they were determined to, it’s just that they don’t want to do it.
Honestly one of the best roughnecks I've seen was the toolpushers wife. Granted she was more manly than any of the rest of us but still technically a woman lol.
These boys better be on $100 an hour living on there backs.
probably 150$ a day
atleast 100 in per diem and maybe 25ish an hour
florida boy I work in the rigs and I get them fat checks every 2 Weeks
Joel Hullum no not even close
100k-200k a year depending on how much they work. That's what oil jobs pay where I live
Feminists never complain about job inequality in these types of professions.
The dip can on the intro pic is relatable 😂
Love this feelin when you work not a word needs to be said you both know exactly where to be what to do and when to do it
Worker’s compensation accountant sweating right now
They are unclogging my toilet
They worked harder in 2 minutes than I did all week
this is the 2nd time watching one of these videos... i cannot tell whats going on but im glad they so it because it looks important for our daily lives!
By 2 newbies, their shirts and jeans are still clean. Seeing how they’re not bullshitting as they do their thing, without any pause to the process, but being thorough says they’re new. To anyone used to having cameras on a site where SAFETY is the mantra, which it should be, knows when cameras are around, do it slower paced, up to spec, and make sure the spec PPE is used. Being left alone in the field by company people is what the ground guys want.
Definitely American rig up here in Alberta and all of Canada we gotta wear full coveralls 🥵
It’s hot here too in the summer 🥵
I'm in PA and you have to wear full one piece FR's.
@Aaron Cubitt fr doesnt work like that..
I work for an NOV warehouse and deal with these parts on the regular, I can attest that these red iron pieces are heavy AF. The little ones weight 70-80 lbs. And the big one that they wrapped around the pipe first is easily 120-150 lbs. I guess luckily we have overhead cranes.
Sorry bud. You're way off!😬 The tongs are hanging from lines that can hold up to a ton. Each tong weighs 500lbs. I know this because I worked on drilling rigs. It is solid steel!
The slips they are pushing in weigh about 200lbs
How do a mother and father raise a boy to be a man like this? Great parents I bet on both of these men
Raise your son to be conservative. Honest. Most young people want to be "compassionate", but its not compassionate if its dishonest. Raise your children to be brutally honest. The rest of the world are wishful-thinkers.
Don't send them to school and make sure they know absolutely nothing and boom, roughneck
Nice compliment
Okay honesty and no soy, got it
Our Dad was a roughneck in the 1950's - 1980's, retired out, us four men (his sons) went to the oilfields also, we all did over 20 years, two still in, now my youngest two young men are in the oilfields, ten years and loving it!
My man got a grinder in his back pocket 😂😂good job fellas
Is this what you have to constantly be doing or do you all get a break/some time to rest? Men that looks exhausting!
My friend did this long ago, about 8 years ago maybe? the story he told is that your breaks throughout a 12 hour shift consist of stuffing a fucking granola bar into your face while waiting 40 seconds for a big section of pipe to be craned into place....it is fucking ridiculous. i have to assume they swing water or something else from out of their pocket, but who knows....he also said workers would buy their food for the day from a convience store, go in drop 60 bucks on snacks and drive to work....lol...
Lol couldnt be more correct with the snacks.. I remember spending up to atleast $40 a day if close enough to shops. Redbulls mainly
No breaks. Even though theybare supposeed to. But when i was in, vienna sausage or whatever you can stuff in your mouth between connections. Bottles of water were supplied as well as pickles and bananas to keep you from cramping at night and pickle juice to keep your electrolytes up
@@cmace5 how much do you get paid for this kinda work?
@@karcinoma it's still that way buddy