He seems like he is well practiced at doing this by himself. Knows exactly how to accomplish multi person tasks single handed. He also has the rig set up with ropes to facilitate being in two places at once. So long as someone is on the rig to watch his back when he's working. Having a rope inadvertently wrap around the drill pipe and then his leg could prove disastrous for the guy... Or a heart attack....
This serves well as a training video. By him doing everything himself, one step at a time, you gain a clear understanding of every phase of the evolution. All I didn't see him doing that I expected was to check and clean the pipe threads before making the connections.
plus the time it takes it wouldnt work i no they could hire 8 lads 2 do it fast or 4 ppl good ppl could do it faster than them 8 but 1 man is a no no them rigs are costing 50grand a day thats a guess obv so taking this time cam not work
What's wrong with you f****** weirdos is that the only thing you notice is that he has no belt he's got a chubby butt are you f****** kidding me that's a driller stupid a perfect driller just in case you're wondering all of it
To do these connections dozens of times a day for 5/6 days a week is mind-boggling. Just think of all the steps and timing it takes for this. Plus working fast on a steel platform coated with oil and water. I think i have bad at my job...All respect to you men working on these rigs.
Or when all the hands get in the pick- up and leave. We left when the drunk / drugged up drill , crashed the crown. I came down (derrick man) got in my truck, the rig floor hands followed me down the stairs. I left with a huge roostertail of mud, off my spinning rear tires. I never looked back. Try to kill me once, I am Gone.
Good job drill. I am also a member of this club. Back in my drilling days I would make connections by myself while my crew was eating their lunch. I did just to show off more than anything else.
I ruff neck for about 18 years broke out in the early 70s I remember my first day we were driving up to rig the Kelly hose broke mud going everywhere. I thought to myself I don’t no if I want to do this or not . Driller told me that’s not normal. On top of that it was a wash down boy that old mud sure did stink. The other hands told me if I could handle this well I could handle any of them. I worked two wash downs before helped drill a regular well. Those were the days.
Looks like a tutorial for newbies, to make the process easier to understand and less intimidating. Very high quality video, what, 4K? That he's my age or older and can do all that encourages me now that I have an interview with a drilling company next week.
This guy being this for a long time...he looks like the Foreman of Foremen...plus this is definitely one of those jobs where your shirts, jeans and boots better be top notch 100% American made!!!💯👊...and after work Feed that Man!
I never saw a one man before but I had to work the floor by myself a couple times. Now I have seen everything. I work around Abilene TX in the mid 90's.
Thanks Bob. Our driller would always yell out on the PA, 'Roughnecks to the rig floor! Roughnecks to the rig floor!.' You brought back a lot of good memories. Southern Cross DV Santa Fe rig 107 drilling in Bass Strait Australia back in the 80's Cheers
Seen a bit of that when I roughnecked with a Canadian driller in 1981, he liked jump out behind of his driller console to teach whole crew how it should be done. Drilling for Sedco offshore then was very tough, they made us drill lot faster then any TH-cam shows.
The man is awesome. You don't get good at this sort of thing sitting in a classroom. You get there with hands on experience doing it over and over with the seasoned workers at your side.
Awesome, not only can he make a connection by himself, but he didn’t have a lot of wasted steps. Honestly, he looks like he had things step up to run like this. Can’t wait until he makes a video tripping
@@cowboybob5265 well from the sounds of it they're probably pretty use to slow connections anyway. I'll tell you they just don't make hands like they use to. Even worse is hr just coddles them like theyre their own children. I still went through probably 75+ hands running rig over the last 2 years... shit there was times we'd come on hitch and it was just me and the Derrick hand dressing out.. those were the days
@Digger Graveyardz I did it for 10 years lol and your right its not for everyone. I've literally seen hundreds of guys come and go over the years. Gotta weigh the pros and cons. Its a lot of money but can be dangerous if you work with dumb people.
@Digger Graveyardz that type of shit happens a lot. Or did, its not as common place. I'm land based so I'm not 100% familiar with off shore drilling procedures but from the sounds of it they were 40 some days behind 50mill over budget and were just trying to get the well done. But yeah before that incident there was quite a bit of "dog housing" tests and paperwork. I think a lot of companies saw how much money that cost and decided to get away from bs'ing paperwork. As well as the epa/osha and every other agency cracking down on bs tests. On the other side of the coin there's a lot of "old timers" that are just garbage consultants/tool pushers and will have you do stupid stuff. Its up to the individual to decide what is more important your job or your life. I've twisted off before and not afraid to do it again if I need to. I work to live now live to work. I should also preface that 90% of my rig time has been workover; which is the production side of a wells life span. The epa is a lot harder on the drilling/fracing side of a well for whatever reason. Not sure if that was the answer you were looking for? Or if you have a more detailed question?
@Digger Graveyardz yeah most of the big players in the oil business don't mess around anymore. That 50 mill behind turned into billions of dollars in fines and clean up law suits ect. They can afford to stay out of prison but there's a lot of smaller companies that don't have that kind of money and people end up in prison for that stuff. There was a company here the manager told a welder to weld on a tank and it ended up blowing up and killing the welder. The manager that had him weld on the tank is going to prison for it. I think the laws changed a bit after Deepwater and people are now liable for deaths, negligent homicide stuff like that. Which is the way it should be, the people in charge there should go to prison for making the decisions that lead up to the 8? People losing their lives. There was a company here (north dakota) that had a rig/well burn down couple people died from it and that really changed a lot of north Dakota companies almost over night. The saying is "rules are written in blood" it usually takes a death or multiple deaths before companies change their ways. There's a ton of tests that have be done throughout the drilling process to protect the environment. Its not what people make up or think is going on with fracing, they don't frac into the water table there's so much casing and cement and thousands of vertical feet between the zone being fraced and the water table. It blows my mind that people believe that fracing effects the ground water. But then again people in the US think socialism is a good thing too so I guess its not that surprising how easily misinformed people are
Im going to guess this guy is a BASTARD to work for and fired all the deck hands and said "I'd rather do it slow by myself than deal with you idiots" Hats off to him, He did it. However he's not going to keep up this pace all by himself long, Especially at his age. This is a young man's game.
Well actually... This guy saved his money up to fund this oil rig by cash by himself. He also built and setup everything by himself. This was in the TV few years back. Guy legit did everything solo, he got all parts to the location on his back swimming across the ocean.
Well 🤔 this maybe something only a guy in the computer industry says but sometimes it’s nice to work for a guy who actually has some clue what’s involved with a days work.
He looks like a bossman that never cusses but when he finally does and says get the "F" off my rig, everybody listens and starts to look for another job because they know they got run off. Lol.
As a business process engineer, I can see that with redesigned tools and changes to the workflow, the connection process could be made more quickly and more sustainably for one-man (one real man) operation. Hats off to this specimen of a guy.
I respect this gentleman for his willingness to get the job done. I did this same job with a crew of two rough necks a driller and Derrick man. I was 19 at the time it will make a man out of u quick. Now I am 60 and still working in the oil field.
I can see this being for real.. I worked on the rigs for a while years ago and I know you've got to keep that bit spinning. And nowadays no matter what the money is hard to find people that want to work hard.!
@@that1guy535 As an older guy I will say don't save all your money, go have some fun on days off and buy some toys but no stupid long term loans on expensive shit you don't need. Try to put at least half or more away for a year to give you many more options instead of living check to check and probably enough to start your own business for better pay and hours. I blew all my fat paychecks out my ass as a young man. It was a blast but I could've had just as much fun while saving a good portion looking back now.
Not bad. not the 1st I've ever seen do it. makes me wish I could challenge this, but no Kelly rigs around me any more. I did this very same thing back around 2006 on a Scan Drilling Rig. Props for making it happen. I hope they paid up after they realized they lost the bet.
Watch black gold tv series on youtube to get a landrig impression, offshore is a whole lot harder, you dont get to go home every night and see a bar. Still series gives a good rig impression, 5 seasons long.
Seems to me that the rigs has to many steps compared to the rig I worked in 1963 and I was 14 year old at the time. Best I can remember the rat hole wasn't that close to the drow works, but anyway; driller good job and a safe one at that. Yes sir.
@@cowboybob5265 well Bob it seems that I flailed to but my name down (Billy Ray Smith) some how when got this the guy at the phone house put the wife's name in and we tried to fix it . Oh well, thanks for your nice reply. I'm the one back in 1963 or 64 when I was 14 years old and crowned my first rig, man I was for sure going to get a biting with a pare of tongs from my dad (the driller). shut down both engines .there was this was this old man dad (oops driller) hired that got eye ball to eye ball the driller and said Charlie the boy went through the steps just fine and there was nothing said, we got
Does his job diligently. Deals with the owners who don't appreciate what he's doing. Then he goes home and deals with the wife and kids who have no idea of what he's been dealing with. Then goes to work the next day and does it again.
I’ll bet this is the one hard ass foreman or higher up manager that went out and did what got him where he is in his 20’s. He’s about to lay off half the guys he had out there just for the simple fact they don’t deserve the money he gives them for rolling out of bed, when there’s actually just a few guys running the show all day. This is an example of house cleaning performance. A standard to be met by those on his “team”
Bryan Carter no doubt!! Not to mention the 50 different things that could go wrong trying that dumb stunt. Probably had to log rig service for this crap
It is very inefficient but it can be done. You will not get much drilled but it can be done. Much respect. We know there was a camera guy there but this driller is a hoss. I can not even keep track of how many steps it is to get a new pipe in the hole.
Damn ...it would be hard with just 2 on the drill floor...Off-shore it would be impossible to do it with one......but on a land well? ive seen it all....trying to get the connection in the rat hole would be next to impossible with one ....or so i thought.... My whole oilfield life was spent off-shore .....I broke out in 78.....left for good in 83.....I worked for oil companies after 83 but as a geologist processing data....never a roughneck again.
@@cowboybob5265 I went to OSU and finished school with a degree in geology....I worked for Fina Oil and chem but as a data processing geologist and retired from Exxon in 2010
@@scottbriggs7299I wouldn't unless I knew it was my last well. 12 minutes is a really long time to let a bit sit and trash to fall back down around it. Why can't younger back down? When are you laying a joint down? Oh you spent 12 minutes making a connection and had to redrill the joint? Brilliant... hope it was worth it.
Knowing nothing about this industry, my thoughts are the fuel being consumed, and service hours to productive output, but aside from that I’d give up my bar stool to this guy without a second thought. Age, stamina, body mass, this guy’s swinging big pipe as they say.
I have to say I have never done this job before, but I am thoroughly impressed with everything that he was able to do and I agree with one of these people in the comment thread. I think he did this as a bet. Lol
Well Ladies and Gentle Men. This goes to show all of us that these young guys out here. Out here working every day. When you Bet the Boss Man he can't do it buy your self. The money talks Most important is. The pride knowing that you have been doing these for so long that it has payed off. That's the reason you are the Boss. Know everyone gets back to work. And he is going to go to the office and take a Break. Real Talk 101 !!!!!
Seriously, the Tool Pusher ought to have faced a court marshal for allowing such an uncalled for one-man-army bravado, seriously! The pipe threads got the rubbing in the process, and creating a probable Fishing job = days of NPT, loss of Well Control, etc. Overall, this act was far worse than horseplay on an active rig.
Pretty good job of stabbing that drill pipe. I can't count the number of times we went out short handed and I worked floors alone. I started in 1976 in Abilene, Texas.
❤❤❤he should also use to lock the table during spinning the pipe in connection, but it's a heck of a job , he did it, it's amazing....I admired him....❤❤❤
Right . There was lots of things I could have done differently. But the agreement I made with my hands was , I would do it the way they had to do it . It would have been way easier to break with the rotary table. Plus use the lock. Thanks for the positive comment 👍
Damn somebody got their ass run off! Back in the first oil boom of the late 70's i was a roughneck off-shore GOM and Alaska for Western Oceanic ....lead tongs....the pay was great but 28 days offshore is a tough life.....but i did save lots of money.
Spent over 15 years watching connections made but not by a single worker. Was a fun watch. No Kelly spinner or top drive. Wouldn't doubt I've been in that rigs doghouse before. I didn't realize how much I had missed hearing the brakes squeal. Been maybe ten years since I heard that. Thought I'd never go back but hmmm.
I was derrick man, the drunk/drugged drill crashed the Crown. I grabbed the T handle. Flying down the Geronimo line. Ran into the doghouse grabbed my shit, ran down the stairs, with the rig floor hands behind me. My rear tires threw up a huge roostertail of mud. I never looked back. Try to kill me once, I AM GONE.
Noway that is right. On Thanksgiving night just me and my driller rigged down the rig and was ready for the moving trucks at 6 am. Hardest morning tour I ever did.
Lol, must be a tough way to go through life... I'm not a liberal either, I also wouldn't be dumb to think conservatives are looking out for me either. Lastly, do you really think he's going to do that all night by himself...haha
There's a couple of jobs that are two man. Pulling the chocks, aligning the connections, and throwing chain. Using the tongs is a neat trick! Throwing a loose loop to wind the chain off is also a neat trick.
So I wanna gt into this line of work. Any companies out of Texas or Arizona that hires inexperienced hard workers? This is a serious question. So please only serious people. I’m really looking for this line of work
Every time I had well how’s he going to do that question… he answers it. Especially when he was going to get the slips out. I thought he was just going to come up a bit to loosen them up and pull ‘em out but he had the tongs do it for him!!
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Driller probably made a bet with the hands that he could make a connection by his self. Probably didn’t have to buy the beer for a month.
He seems like he is well practiced at doing this by himself. Knows exactly how to accomplish multi person tasks single handed. He also has the rig set up with ropes to facilitate being in two places at once.
So long as someone is on the rig to watch his back when he's working. Having a rope inadvertently wrap around the drill pipe and then his leg could prove disastrous for the guy...
Or a heart attack....
The OSHA man doesn't work nights.
@@richavic4520 lmao fuck ya
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@@Zewestcoaster with how lazy m-fers are right now, if you're a Forman of a crew, you have to know how to continue the job by yourself.
This serves well as a training video. By him doing everything himself, one step at a time, you gain a clear understanding of every phase of the evolution. All I didn't see him doing that I expected was to check and clean the pipe threads before making the connections.
We always prep the pipe when we pick it up and mouse hole a joint. 👍
Lmfao get fukt
@@th3n1ck27 What the fuck is your major malfunction, numbnuts?
And he didn't wash off the Kelly
plus the time it takes it wouldnt work i no they could hire 8 lads 2 do it fast or 4 ppl good ppl could do it faster than them 8 but 1 man is a no no them rigs are costing 50grand a day thats a guess obv so taking this time cam not work
Great job. I'm also impressed at how well his jeans stay up with no belt or anything.
His ass is chubby
@@essamalqadeem2270 chubby ass*0le 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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What's wrong with you f****** weirdos is that the only thing you notice is that he has no belt he's got a chubby butt are you f****** kidding me that's a driller stupid a perfect driller just in case you're wondering all of it
This guy learned the floor when derricks were wood and men were iron!
F yeah 😂😎or like they say where I come from- he’s from the old school
What a complement! Thanks!
Excellent comment robstaples. Do you mind if I use that one some time?
And he looks pissed because he's doing the entire job of 3 roughnecks by himself
Imagine how the employee sheet looks like in his shift.
1st shift - 4 people
2nd shift - 4 people
Night shift - Master Chief
30% slower 75% cheaper.
That’s funny!
imagine he just had this on his property and was just digging for oil 30ft at a time haha
theres only two shifts in oilfield. We do 12's :D
@@Daytonaman67530% slower is a massive understatement. This is like 90% slower
To do these connections dozens of times a day for 5/6 days a week is mind-boggling. Just think of all the steps and timing it takes for this. Plus working fast on a steel platform coated with oil and water. I think i have bad at my job...All respect to you men working on these rigs.
What is that chuck thing with handles that he drops in the hole to stop the pipe from moving. - Just curious. Fascinating.
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Slip tongs
@@durhamvid slips
@@durhamvid they are called slips
It's not that hard of a job. Its just a few easy tasks done over and over and over again.
This is what happens when all the floor hands quit.
Yep lol
That's really funny your comment should be on top
Or when you have a random drug test.
Or when all the hands get in the pick- up and leave.
We left when the drunk / drugged up drill , crashed the crown.
I came down (derrick man) got in my truck, the rig floor hands followed me down the stairs.
I left with a huge roostertail of mud, off my spinning rear tires.
I never looked back.
Try to kill me once, I am Gone.
Talking real heavy
Wouldn't it have been easier to go bail them all out 😆
Oh God that's the best shit post of the bunch.
Lmfao no shit, only a roughneck knows how true your statement just might be, I'm still laughing. What if his relief doesn't show up?!!!
Double trouble
Best Comment So Far!!!
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Hahaha
My hat off for this hard and stylish working man. WRANGLER SHOULD PROVIDE HIM FREE JEANS FOR REST OF THIS MAN'S LIFE!
Lol !!,,stylish
It's men like this and their sheer will that built this country.
Which country ?…..could be anywhere
I would pay money to watch this man have a conversation with a millennial from LA. God bless men and women who not afraid of hard work!
I can tell you right now that's a f****** driller absolutely flawless performance captain
Good job drill. I am also a member of this club. Back in my drilling days I would make connections by myself while my crew was eating their lunch. I did just to show off more than anything else.
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I used to do it to win 60lbers of Crown Royal from doing a connection faster alone than my opposite Crews, I never lost in 8 years.
I ruff neck for about 18 years broke out in the early 70s I remember my first day we were driving up to rig the Kelly hose broke mud going everywhere. I thought to myself I don’t no if I want to do this or not . Driller told me that’s not normal. On top of that it was a wash down boy that old mud sure did stink. The other hands told me if I could handle this well I could handle any of them. I worked two wash downs before helped drill a regular well. Those were the days.
Looks like a tutorial for newbies, to make the process easier to understand and less intimidating. Very high quality video, what, 4K? That he's my age or older and can do all that encourages me now that I have an interview with a drilling company next week.
Probably the camera man is the safety guy he doesn’t want to get dirty ..... great work from the operator 👍🏼
🤣🤣I thought about it to
This guy being this for a long time...he looks like the Foreman of Foremen...plus this is definitely one of those jobs where your shirts, jeans and boots better be top notch 100% American made!!!💯👊...and after work Feed that Man!
I never saw a one man before but I had to work the floor by myself a couple times. Now I have seen everything. I work around Abilene TX in the mid 90's.
Lots of alone connections myself over the years.
I worked for Legacy Drilling in the early 90s out of Tye.
@@scourge34 I remember them. I worked for Charlie Short over at Wintex Drilling.
Last of the real genuine bad asses right there! I hats off to you brother! Stay strong,work hard! God bless!!!
Thanks Bob. Our driller would always yell out on the PA, 'Roughnecks to the rig floor! Roughnecks to the rig floor!.'
You brought back a lot of good memories.
Southern Cross DV Santa Fe rig 107 drilling in Bass Strait Australia back in the 80's
Cheers
Seen a bit of that when I roughnecked with a Canadian driller in 1981, he liked jump out behind of his driller console to teach whole crew how it should be done. Drilling for Sedco offshore then was very tough, they made us drill lot faster then any TH-cam shows.
Lol..Toollie told em "you dont like it, go to the house". Whole damn crew left..
This guys pants stayed on the whole time. How did he manage that. Frigging stud of an ol’ man here 💪💪
The man is awesome. You don't get good at this sort of thing sitting in a classroom. You get there with hands on experience doing it over and over with the seasoned workers at your side.
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And we all think we’re tired at the end of our working day... and he’s no spring chicken, either ....
That’s why he’s able to do it, he knows how
Efficiency of movement
It's very hard work it's dangerous work good job and so proud of you oil drillers.. God bless
Awesome, not only can he make a connection by himself, but he didn’t have a lot of wasted steps. Honestly, he looks like he had things step up to run like this. Can’t wait until he makes a video tripping
Real treat too watch SIR. All the years in the patch never once seen that. Hope your still hard ater. RESPECTS
Challenge complete..
Who's going to pay for the beers...
Company man: hey I was looking at your connection times last night... uh 12 minutes? What happened there?
Derrick hand: were gonna be TH-cam famous
@@cowboybob5265 well from the sounds of it they're probably pretty use to slow connections anyway. I'll tell you they just don't make hands like they use to. Even worse is hr just coddles them like theyre their own children.
I still went through probably 75+ hands running rig over the last 2 years... shit there was times we'd come on hitch and it was just me and the Derrick hand dressing out.. those were the days
Too funny! 🤣😂
@Digger Graveyardz I did it for 10 years lol and your right its not for everyone. I've literally seen hundreds of guys come and go over the years. Gotta weigh the pros and cons. Its a lot of money but can be dangerous if you work with dumb people.
@Digger Graveyardz that type of shit happens a lot. Or did, its not as common place. I'm land based so I'm not 100% familiar with off shore drilling procedures but from the sounds of it they were 40 some days behind 50mill over budget and were just trying to get the well done.
But yeah before that incident there was quite a bit of "dog housing" tests and paperwork. I think a lot of companies saw how much money that cost and decided to get away from bs'ing paperwork. As well as the epa/osha and every other agency cracking down on bs tests.
On the other side of the coin there's a lot of "old timers" that are just garbage consultants/tool pushers and will have you do stupid stuff. Its up to the individual to decide what is more important your job or your life. I've twisted off before and not afraid to do it again if I need to. I work to live now live to work.
I should also preface that 90% of my rig time has been workover; which is the production side of a wells life span. The epa is a lot harder on the drilling/fracing side of a well for whatever reason. Not sure if that was the answer you were looking for? Or if you have a more detailed question?
@Digger Graveyardz yeah most of the big players in the oil business don't mess around anymore. That 50 mill behind turned into billions of dollars in fines and clean up law suits ect. They can afford to stay out of prison but there's a lot of smaller companies that don't have that kind of money and people end up in prison for that stuff.
There was a company here the manager told a welder to weld on a tank and it ended up blowing up and killing the welder. The manager that had him weld on the tank is going to prison for it. I think the laws changed a bit after Deepwater and people are now liable for deaths, negligent homicide stuff like that. Which is the way it should be, the people in charge there should go to prison for making the decisions that lead up to the 8? People losing their lives.
There was a company here (north dakota) that had a rig/well burn down couple people died from it and that really changed a lot of north Dakota companies almost over night. The saying is "rules are written in blood" it usually takes a death or multiple deaths before companies change their ways.
There's a ton of tests that have be done throughout the drilling process to protect the environment. Its not what people make up or think is going on with fracing, they don't frac into the water table there's so much casing and cement and thousands of vertical feet between the zone being fraced and the water table. It blows my mind that people believe that fracing effects the ground water. But then again people in the US think socialism is a good thing too so I guess its not that surprising how easily misinformed people are
You gotta do what you gotta do to become employee of the month.
Say what you want about him being hard to work for and running ppl of, none of the drillers I knew would have done that. It would have been shut down.
They would have if it meant being run off themselves and not paying a mortgage and keeping a wife happy lol
Im going to guess this guy is a BASTARD to work for and fired all the deck hands and said "I'd rather do it slow by myself than deal with you idiots" Hats off to him, He did it. However he's not going to keep up this pace all by himself long, Especially at his age. This is a young man's game.
Well actually... This guy saved his money up to fund this oil rig by cash by himself. He also built and setup everything by himself. This was in the TV few years back. Guy legit did everything solo, he got all parts to the location on his back swimming across the ocean.
Guaranteed his whole crew quit for one reason: because he's was an ass clown and disrespected everyone underneath him.
We don't have deckhands in the Drilling business we have Righands./ and if you do it a few year's we call you a Roughneck
thats any good worker. i rather do it by myself than watch you guys mess it up. it fine, but when layoffs come, im safe
Well 🤔 this maybe something only a guy in the computer industry says but sometimes it’s nice to work for a guy who actually has some clue what’s involved with a days work.
Nope, this is what happens when some youngins run their mouth to the old guy :-p
He looks like a bossman that never cusses but when he finally does and says get the "F" off my rig, everybody listens and starts to look for another job because they know they got run off. Lol.
Safety guy drug tested everyone besides 1 man and a camera man. Lol!
that was a roughneck driller floorhand derrick man nice to see folks still can do it no one gets hurt......
Taken too long to make a connection
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I was thinking the same thing 😵
As a business process engineer, I can see that with redesigned tools and changes to the workflow, the connection process could be made more quickly and more sustainably for one-man (one real man) operation. Hats off to this specimen of a guy.
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Happens when nobody wants to work for you.
Lol!
I respect this gentleman for his willingness to get the job done. I did this same job with a crew of two rough necks a driller and Derrick man. I was 19 at the time it will make a man out of u quick. Now I am 60 and still working in the oil field.
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No floor hands on a connection? No problem! That's why He's DRILL! ;) Well done. Good timing on the Worm-hole stab.
Now, running the rig AND standing back drill pipe by one man; Ya gotta be REAL FAST on that one! ;) Nice one man connection, Cowboy Bob...
I can see this being for real.. I worked on the rigs for a while years ago and I know you've got to keep that bit spinning. And nowadays no matter what the money is hard to find people that want to work hard.!
@@cowboybob5265 doing any hiring.? I'm 60 but i bet i can still throw a chain.! These kids now don't have a clue how to work..
Drove to the Bakken yesterday. Started Floorhand job today. Hours of safety videos. Rig work tomorrow. Gonna make that $$$
@@that1guy535 As an older guy I will say don't save all your money, go have some fun on days off and buy some toys but no stupid long term loans on expensive shit you don't need. Try to put at least half or more away for a year to give you many more options instead of living check to check and probably enough to start your own business for better pay and hours. I blew all my fat paychecks out my ass as a young man. It was a blast but I could've had just as much fun while saving a good portion looking back now.
Make sure this guy is on the platform when everyone else calls in with a hangover! Well done!
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Ahhhhhh The Beautiful Screeching Soound just gets me all Excited . And That Driller is probably my Grandpa at the very least my Hero 💪✌️🤠
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looks like all the felons got into a bar fight after payday
Not bad. not the 1st I've ever seen do it. makes me wish I could challenge this, but no Kelly rigs around me any more. I did this very same thing back around 2006 on a Scan Drilling Rig. Props for making it happen. I hope they paid up after they realized they lost the bet.
True rough neck, no fluff necks on this rig.
Thank goodness for videos like this, I've been waiting to know how to work the rigs and make the big bucks.
Watch black gold tv series on youtube to get a landrig impression, offshore is a whole lot harder, you dont get to go home every night and see a bar. Still series gives a good rig impression, 5 seasons long.
@@robsmit4553 I'll stick with my dirtwork instead, a nice warm cab and the ability to take my frustrations out on truck drivers keeps me happy.
Seems to me that the rigs has to many steps compared to the rig I worked in 1963 and I was 14 year old at the time. Best I can remember the rat hole wasn't that close to the drow works, but anyway; driller good job and a safe one at that. Yes sir.
@@cowboybob5265 well Bob it seems that I flailed to but my name down (Billy Ray Smith) some how when got this the guy at the phone house put the wife's name in and we tried to fix it . Oh well, thanks for your nice reply. I'm the one back in 1963 or 64 when I was 14 years old and crowned my first rig, man I was for sure going to get a biting with a pare of tongs from my dad (the driller). shut down both engines .there was this was this old man dad (oops driller) hired that got eye ball to eye ball the driller and said Charlie the boy went through the steps just fine and there was nothing said, we got
B.R. again, my two fat thumps got in the way...just of it that man saved my butt. To this day I thank him.
Does his job diligently. Deals with the owners who don't appreciate what he's doing. Then he goes home and deals with the wife and kids who have no idea of what he's been dealing with. Then goes to work the next day and does it again.
I was just waiting for the company man to show up! lol
As much as they saved on the crew, could at least get him a set of power tongs!
I’ll bet this is the one hard ass foreman or higher up manager that went out and did what got him where he is in his 20’s.
He’s about to lay off half the guys he had out there just for the simple fact they don’t deserve the money he gives them for rolling out of bed, when there’s actually just a few guys running the show all day. This is an example of house cleaning performance. A standard to be met by those on his “team”
No Forman’s in oil field. That’s a driller. And he probably had a company man calling that phone none stop asking what is taking so long.
Bryan Carter no doubt!! Not to mention the 50 different things that could go wrong trying that dumb stunt. Probably had to log rig service for this crap
It is very inefficient but it can be done. You will not get much drilled but it can be done. Much respect. We know there was a camera guy there but this driller is a hoss. I can not even keep track of how many steps it is to get a new pipe in the hole.
Musta just started his shift he was awfully clean at the beginning
Drillers are always clean
@@RizztrainingOrder Probably a tool pusher. A driller would not even consider this
Well done! Shows how much faster the floor crew makes it. But with automated tongues, he'd have it covered.
I’m impressed.
Boy, I'm here to tell ya! The phrase is "like a boss!" Booya!
How much do you want to bet he can do this because his whole crew bailed one day and he was like "Fuck em"
Damn ...it would be hard with just 2 on the drill floor...Off-shore it would be impossible to do it with one......but on a land well? ive seen it all....trying to get the connection in the rat hole would be next to impossible with one ....or so i thought....
My whole oilfield life was spent off-shore .....I broke out in 78.....left for good in 83.....I worked for oil companies after 83 but as a geologist processing data....never a roughneck again.
@@cowboybob5265 I went to OSU and finished school with a degree in geology....I worked for Fina Oil and chem but as a data processing geologist and retired from Exxon in 2010
This guy don't need no worms to get the job done!
This makes for one hell of a slow round-trip. I can’t even believe Pusher would let this happen.
I’m 80 & I worked around Midland in late 50’s.
This is west Texas. WE GET SH*T DONE!!!! And this was a drilling connection not a trip you dookie head
@@scottbriggs7299I wouldn't unless I knew it was my last well. 12 minutes is a really long time to let a bit sit and trash to fall back down around it.
Why can't younger back down? When are you laying a joint down? Oh you spent 12 minutes making a connection and had to redrill the joint? Brilliant... hope it was worth it.
Knowing nothing about this industry, my thoughts are the fuel being consumed, and service hours to productive output, but aside from that I’d
give up my bar stool to this guy without a second thought. Age, stamina, body mass, this guy’s swinging big pipe as they say.
I have to say I have never done this job before, but I am thoroughly impressed with everything that he was able to do and I agree with one of these people in the comment thread. I think he did this as a bet. Lol
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That moment you think you're irreplaceable
Where are all the feminist crying for equal pay....
Id be more than happy to be there learning and working my ass off
Well Ladies and Gentle Men. This goes to show all of us that these young guys out here. Out here working every day. When you Bet the Boss Man he can't do it buy your self. The money talks
Most important is. The pride knowing that you have been doing these for so long that it has payed off. That's the reason you are the Boss. Know everyone gets back to work. And he is going to go to the office and take a Break. Real Talk 101 !!!!!
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puts his name in all 4 positions
Lord please keep this man safe , for he is only working hard trying to provide for his family. Amen
Thank you for the prayer. I am the guy in the video.
This man probably been doing this for YEARS
5 people... 2 Floorhands, Maintenance guy, Derrick hand, Driller
Wouldn't want my drill string stationary for that length of time...
Good job. You are the required douche bag comment every video has. 🖕
Seriously, the Tool Pusher ought to have faced a court marshal for allowing such an uncalled for one-man-army bravado, seriously!
The pipe threads got the rubbing in the process, and creating a probable Fishing job = days of NPT, loss of Well Control, etc.
Overall, this act was far worse than horseplay on an active rig.
$100 says he ain't trippin by hisself 😉🤠
He nailed those slips and that connection, didnt he? Cool to see. Good job, bub.
Pretty good job of stabbing that drill pipe. I can't count the number of times we went out short handed and I worked floors alone. I started in 1976 in Abilene, Texas.
@Brian Reed my dad drilled out there in the 70s-80s. I wanna say he worked for global? Maybe I'm wrong
❤❤❤he should also use to lock the table during spinning the pipe in connection, but it's a heck of a job , he did it, it's amazing....I admired him....❤❤❤
Right . There was lots of things I could have done differently. But the agreement I made with my hands was , I would do it the way they had to do it . It would have been way easier to break with the rotary table. Plus use the lock. Thanks for the positive comment 👍
Damn somebody got their ass run off! Back in the first oil boom of the late 70's i was a roughneck off-shore GOM and Alaska for Western Oceanic ....lead tongs....the pay was great but 28 days offshore is a tough life.....but i did save lots of money.
Worked for western oceanic in the north sea 80s .
Spent over 15 years watching connections made but not by a single worker. Was a fun watch. No Kelly spinner or top drive. Wouldn't doubt I've been in that rigs doghouse before. I didn't realize how much I had missed hearing the brakes squeal. Been maybe ten years since I heard that. Thought I'd never go back but hmmm.
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I was derrick man, the drunk/drugged drill crashed the Crown. I grabbed the T handle. Flying down the Geronimo line. Ran into the doghouse grabbed my shit, ran down the stairs, with the rig floor hands behind me. My rear tires threw up a huge roostertail of mud. I never looked back. Try to kill me once, I AM GONE.
Puss
Noway that is right. On Thanksgiving night just me and my driller rigged down the rig and was ready for the moving trucks at 6 am. Hardest morning tour I ever did.
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God bless this man
This guy: you know Phil, you COULD put down the camera and help.
Phil: 👀
OSHA: 👀
My back Hurts 😭 just watching him.
I remember working the floor short handed. Part of a drilling tour then tripping out. Good work on your own there.
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Straight up roughneck..beast bro
Lord of the Rigs.
One driller who could fuel us all.
That dude is no liberal. He has a work ethic. They need to pay him for four people.
Lol, must be a tough way to go through life... I'm not a liberal either, I also wouldn't be dumb to think conservatives are looking out for me either. Lastly, do you really think he's going to do that all night by himself...haha
A valiant effort, although I’m not sure the tops would go for it - they’d probably want to go back to drilling meterage 😆
ohhh my gosh...this is hard work...
12 hours of this 7 days per week. Yep. Hard work indeed. Called earning your pay. Every red cent.
Luckily for some rig men have 7 days, I spend 28days. Yes my dear rig men work very hard for their money.
No job for snowflakes.
Depends on the job title and rig type.
It's really not.
There's a couple of jobs that are two man. Pulling the chocks, aligning the connections, and throwing chain. Using the tongs is a neat trick! Throwing a loose loop to wind the chain off is also a neat trick.
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So THIS is where milk comes from!
Looks kinda like that ole Southern Triangle rig I used to roughneck on.
Remember slips...Not lips 😁
So I wanna gt into this line of work. Any companies out of Texas or Arizona that hires inexperienced hard workers? This is a serious question. So please only serious people. I’m really looking for this line of work
Too many experienced hands out of a job right now. NO CHANCE !!
Google oil rig jobs near me and there you go. No degree or experience needed. Have fun bro
Everybody quits. (In black painters voice) someone get this man a belt he has a job to do.
crazy work .......... respect !
Wow that's muscle memory on several levels and very cool . So much going on but the process is nailed
Lol, he fired his crew
38 years ago I had done this on several occasions. When you have done it enough it just becomes routine. And yes at a higher rate of speed
Back when I was young.
I've been watching these videos for awhile n never understood whats going on. Finally its slow enough to understand 🤣
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Alot of hard working men like this are out of work due to our new freaking Potus...God bless the men of the oil feild..
Every time I had well how’s he going to do that question… he answers it. Especially when he was going to get the slips out. I thought he was just going to come up a bit to loosen them up and pull ‘em out but he had the tongs do it for him!!