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....
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 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
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Cowboybob. Great video. Most people miss the point that it was a 'Bet'. I 'Broke Out' on a rig floor in the mid-70's and did it for ten years. The best years of my life. The days of throwing a spinning chain are just about gone. It is all going to automation. We were drilling an average of 6,000' wells. Every Sunday we moved the rig to a new hole. I am fortunate to have lived in a time when Iron Men wore Aluminum Hats.....
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
Back in '06 I used to do one-man tripping for 18 hour shifts. I'd pull thousands of feet of stands, run the monkey board AND break connections all by myself. Just one guy running a triple on the "Ocho" in Wamsutter. Once tripped out from '12,000 by myself - ran the mud tanks, generators, derrick, racked pipe, broke connections, changed bits, ran the forklift, jarred when stuck, replaced cable, and mixed mud/pumped slugs, while I was also company man and tool pusher and ran myself off/got re-hired TWICE- all by myself for 28 days straight in howling winter winds at -57 while keeping the steam plant going all the way to TD all by myself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
This is a baby ass single drilling with freshwater.. also back when I was working floors and motors, if we had a connection that took this long we’d all have been run off on the spot 😂 driller obviously is tight with the pusher and company man, because that took forever!! (Still kudos to the driller though that’s cool!)
@@TheBlueCollarBaller the rig was a triple. You could drill a ten thousand foot well. With it . Now any roughneck that has really roughnecked at all knows that as little double will work you harder than any big rig .
fake news bob. Agree to disagree. I worked in North Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado on several different styles of rigs and different styles of drilling. Drilling 20k+ ft with a horizontal and using invert for drilling fluid is hands down the hardest.. anything else felt like playing softball vs baseball I will say having an iron rough neck and joysticks definitely makes it easier on the driller though, that’s for damn sure.
@@TheBlueCollarBaller I was roughnecking before downhole motors before PDC bits and I roughnecked when you still had to roughneck, the only iron roughneck we had was all the men that worked on the Rig. You might know a lot about what’s going on today, but you have no clue about what went on in the real oilfield. And a double will by far make a a rough neck out of a man. and I’m here to tell you right now 90% of what’s passing for the oilfield today would not stand up in those days.
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
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.
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
@@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.
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
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
@@davidhall2522 thanks for the positive comment. This was a bet my guys were having a hard time working the floor because the rig was leaning slips wouldn’t set.. and the Kelley was hard to push back. I told him I thought I could do it by myself. They said it was impossible. The rest is history far as I know there’s not another video on the Internet globally. That is a true one man connection.
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.
Looks like a two to three person job. I'm wondering how often this pipe connection and transfer is done per hour? Looks like this kind of work could take one person down and out in no time.
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
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.
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
@@richavic4520 😂
@@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.
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 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
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
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.
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
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
It's men like this and their sheer will that built this country.
Which country ?…..could be anywhere
And the women who fed them, clothed them, dealt with their bs, etc.
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
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.
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
Last of the real genuine bad asses right there! I hats off to you brother! Stay strong,work hard! God bless!!!
I can tell you right now that's a f****** driller absolutely flawless performance captain
Wasn't flawless. But it was good. I'm impressed.
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
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!
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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Real treat too watch SIR. All the years in the patch never once seen that. Hope your still hard ater. RESPECTS
Cowboybob.
Great video. Most people miss the point that it was a 'Bet'. I 'Broke Out' on a rig floor in the mid-70's and did it for ten years. The best years of my life. The days of throwing a spinning chain are just about gone. It is all going to automation. We were drilling an average of 6,000' wells. Every Sunday we moved the rig to a new hole. I am fortunate to have lived in a time when Iron Men wore Aluminum Hats.....
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 long day that the deck hands didn't show up for work.
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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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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
Back in '06 I used to do one-man tripping for 18 hour shifts. I'd pull thousands of feet of stands, run the monkey board AND break connections all by myself. Just one guy running a triple on the "Ocho" in Wamsutter. Once tripped out from '12,000 by myself - ran the mud tanks, generators, derrick, racked pipe, broke connections, changed bits, ran the forklift, jarred when stuck, replaced cable, and mixed mud/pumped slugs, while I was also company man and tool pusher and ran myself off/got re-hired TWICE- all by myself for 28 days straight in howling winter winds at -57 while keeping the steam plant going all the way to TD all by myself.
@@daktrllcahobl9455 awesome
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
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.
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 guys pants stayed on the whole time. How did he manage that. Frigging stud of an ol’ man here 💪💪
Must have some kind of secret trick Velcro arrangement , I hate belts as you always have to loosen them when get into a vehicle
Lol..Toollie told em "you dont like it, go to the house". Whole damn crew left..
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!
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 😵
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...
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.
Lol😂, gotta be a be with all crew,but all I can say is great job and a one man connection, 👏👏👏 great job drill..
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Challenge complete..
Who's going to pay for the beers...
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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No floor hands on a connection? No problem! That's why He's DRILL! ;) Well done. Good timing on the Worm-hole stab.
For those of you not quite sure this is what hard work really looks like. Great job sir.
@@JamesSalie thanks for the positive comment
looks like all the felons got into a bar fight after payday
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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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.
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.
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.
How much do you want to bet he can do this because his whole crew bailed one day and he was like "Fuck em"
True rough neck, no fluff necks on this rig.
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.
This is a baby ass single drilling with freshwater.. also back when I was working floors and motors, if we had a connection that took this long we’d all have been run off on the spot 😂 driller obviously is tight with the pusher and company man, because that took forever!! (Still kudos to the driller though that’s cool!)
@@TheBlueCollarBaller the rig was a triple. You could drill a ten thousand foot well. With it . Now any roughneck that has really roughnecked at all knows that as little double will work you harder than any big rig .
fake news bob. Agree to disagree.
I worked in North Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado on several different styles of rigs and different styles of drilling.
Drilling 20k+ ft with a horizontal and using invert for drilling fluid is hands down the hardest.. anything else felt like playing softball vs baseball
I will say having an iron rough neck and joysticks definitely makes it easier on the driller though, that’s for damn sure.
@@TheBlueCollarBaller I was roughnecking before downhole motors before PDC bits and I roughnecked when you still had to roughneck, the only iron roughneck we had was all the men that worked on the Rig. You might know a lot about what’s going on today, but you have no clue about what went on in the real oilfield. And a double will by far make a a rough neck out of a man. and I’m here to tell you right now 90% of what’s passing for the oilfield today would not stand up in those days.
@ I won’t deny 90% of what you just said bob. But I’m standing behind my statement above.
Merry Christmas brother 🙏🏻 god bless
Make sure this guy is on the platform when everyone else calls in with a hangover! Well done!
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I was just waiting for the company man to show up! lol
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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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
Total Respect!! Awesome job.
@@Johnny2step-j7k thanks for the positive comment . You must be or have rough necked before.
Happens when nobody wants to work for you.
Lol!
this gentleman has tripped more than one piece of drill pipe in his life.
That moment you think you're irreplaceable
He's definitely under paid.
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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
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
i recognize those FR's 🤘🏼
I’m impressed.
Boy, I'm here to tell ya! The phrase is "like a boss!" Booya!
Looks kinda like that ole Southern Triangle rig I used to roughneck on.
Remember slips...Not lips 😁
Id be more than happy to be there learning and working my ass off
Couldn't stop laughing man good job!!!! Good stuff
Straight up roughneck..beast bro
Something about that job that makes me want to do it, good job man
crazy work .......... respect !
5 people... 2 Floorhands, Maintenance guy, Derrick hand, Driller
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
Well done! Shows how much faster the floor crew makes it. But with automated tongues, he'd have it covered.
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'm guessing he won the bet.
@@danrose3233 yes sir I sure did.lol
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
ahhh haha great job! but who is rolling the pipe? who doped the threads? who is doing the mud pits?
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.
Lord of the Rigs.
One driller who could fuel us all.
This guy don't need no worms to get the job done!
What im wondering is when you tighten an extension on what keeps it locked when you reverse the drill?
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.
As much as they saved on the crew, could at least get him a set of power tongs!
That's what he was using , the step before was stilsons or chain tongs & cheater bar
God bless this man
That guys the King, no doubt about it 👌
My back Hurts 😭 just watching him.
Sor might be the hardest working guy on the internet for those 12 mins. Super respect no matter y hes working alone
@@davidhall2522 thanks for the positive comment. This was a bet my guys were having a hard time working the floor because the rig was leaning slips wouldn’t set.. and the Kelley was hard to push back. I told him I thought I could do it by myself. They said it was impossible. The rest is history far as I know there’s not another video on the Internet globally. That is a true one man connection.
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.
Looks like a two to three person job. I'm wondering how often this pipe connection and transfer is done per hour? Looks like this kind of work could take one person down and out in no time.
puts his name in all 4 positions
Amazing, all done without a belt!
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Well done!!!
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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This man probably been doing this for YEARS
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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So THIS is where milk comes from!
That this isn’t automated is a shame.
That guy is the equivalent of a revolutionary war soldier with a musket.
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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 .
Wow that's muscle memory on several levels and very cool . So much going on but the process is nailed
Back when I was young.
What is the ROP for this rig. No accidents though?