Good hook. Just because he wasn't moving 100 mph don't mean shit. He worked at a nice pace and was efficient. Every movement made has a purpose. That's the difference between a Smart hand and a hand with just a strong back. Efficiency
I've done many of these solo connections in the mid 1970's when you were short handed or other crew members were trying to keep a mud pump or generator running. You " man -up " or go home.
He could've done a couple things to make it easier & faster for himself; the 1st thing he should've done was put the slips in. THEN close the valve & latch the tongs. Have the dope bucket and rig soap behind him so all he had to do is turn, grab, drop n lather, and toss the brush back in the bucket. He almost got blind sided by the pipe if he took any longer to dope the box. And for those of you that are wondering where the chain is, you don't need it if you got a working top-drive attached to the Blocks that at least does the spinning in for you. Otherwise, this Roughneck still got it down! Not bad at all
Duh yeah. But after you do this shit for years it gets easier sometimes lolhahahaha but it's hard dangerous work and I've worked on rigs where men got seriously injured.
@@TunnelSnake-es7tu gravity lolhahahaha its a drill bit n the 30 ft. drill stem driven by a huge diesel engine. Every 30 ft. you add more drill stem(pipe).
Very well coordinated for a one man floor crew taking the place of 2 men. Don't see any chain being thrown from the third man. Maybe the turn table goes fast enough to smack the pipes tight enough for one tensioning of the tongs finish it off. The other parts of the equation are the driller controlling the pipe going up and down as well as the turntable going around. He also tensions the tongs and is ultimately responsible for the safety of the crew. Is there a derrick hand on this particular rig?
It ain't a "turntable". It's a rotary. It ain't tension being applied by the tongs. Its torque. Worst 8 f#*king words ever spoken on a drilling rig. "I'm an engineer, and I'm here to help".
Some Kelly drive rigs have a low torque spinner for making connections. Older ones are without the spinner hence the chain. Some rigs also have a spinner set up like the tongs pretty well so the floor hand uses the bastard. The Rotary table is what turns the actual drill string when ur back in business.
I used to work in the oil field in Texas and made thousands of connections but never by myself cause we didn't have a Kelly spinner. We were a poor boy rig. The floor wasn't much more the lots of small pieces of steel welded together so the floor would move around under your feet. Los of alcohol lolhahahaha. The driller was always drinking but only one major injury and it wasn't from alcohol.. .
Who wants to work hard?work smart,2 other ppl to lighten the load,ease the stress,relax the muscles,and yet still get paid the same amount,.’ It’s the reason I get paid as much as my boss and we do the same amount of work yet his position is higher then mine and has authority over me and is trusted with a lot more stress n responsibility in which he should get more for his title holding position but you see due to my smart working methods all in all it’s just a title now coz our salary is the same ,who’d wanna do 3 times the work,stress,labour hard hours and yet get paid the same amount as someone who sits down all day??
People coping hard with that "rigger" nonsense. Lets be real people, if it wasn't a last name he said hard r, and if that offends you it doesn't make the camera-man racist, it makes you soft. That being said don't try to sugarcoat/defend something that isn't defendable cause its just bs lmao. Maybe he MEANT "rigger", but that certainly isn't what ended up coming out lol.
10 years ago I did this for a couple towers. The dummy roughneck fucked off to town with the medic, and didn't show up. So they fired him and the new dude didnt show up until late the next day. Motors was busy racking pipe and couldn't help very often. Good times.
Doging pipe lol could've avoided that had he got the dope brush and soap while the roatry spun off the joint, dropped the soap and put a big slop of dope on the thread quickly before pushing the pipe to connect to the one in the mouse hole. Not to sound like a superhand, but I was one efficient mf after a few days, learn quick or get fired quicker was my mindset.
Naw, only kids, ignorant morons, and someone asking for an ass whooping, says something like that. Some times it takes boys longer to grow into men. Some times they never do. It has nothing to do with being hard or soft.
That’s almost a “one man headed to the hospital with a broken face or smashed off hands connection” no good when you get hit in the face or your hand smashed off with a joint of drill pipe coming at you! Hell with hanging those tongs back man, make the connection especially single handed! Hang em back afterwards! If you’re going to be dumb, you’d better be tough!
Dumb question; the most dangerous thing on the entire floor to me looks to be the slip. How it has those steel handles spinning about seems it would just break legs like it was it’s job?!? Someone confirm this!?
that thing turning on the ground I keep seeing his foot getting twisted broken like a rag doll, you. think for the billions those fkers make they would haavr a crew of 5 just in case shit happens
Wtf did he say at the end? Am I hearing shit? Respectable, that’s some hard shit to do, let alone by yourself. Hope he didn’t do that too often bc he would forsure get an umbilical hernia.
I find it hilarious that a moron like you who started calling these people out for being "not real roughnecks" suddenly gets offended on the reality that you twits are as alien to them as are the rest of us and when confronted with that premise all you can dish out is " you're gay", so please, fuck off!
You know you've watched too many of these when you're not an oil guy yet understand every single step he's taking.
Good right up until the end there. You know you can't say booger.
lol
😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
Official West TX oilfield “Smile Nigger”😂
Lmfao
Damn that last line will have somebody in court these days.
Lol
thats roughnecking for you
People who are to weak and get bent by words will not be caught dead around this work anyways.
@@k.t.1641 I’d put his head I a tong for calling me that. He’d have to take his ass down to h&p cus he wouldn’t wanna see me again
Rigger
Good hook. Just because he wasn't moving 100 mph don't mean shit. He worked at a nice pace and was efficient. Every movement made has a purpose. That's the difference between a Smart hand and a hand with just a strong back. Efficiency
That looked as safe as it could be with one man.
I've done many of these solo connections in the mid 1970's when you were short handed or other crew members were trying to keep a mud pump or generator running. You " man -up " or go home.
PhreshFunk connected an extension to a drill.
@@billycarpenter4740 it's even more dangerous but still the same attitude in 2018
whats the ring thing and the screw in on the collar ??? didn't have that back in my time.............. pipe dope still stink ??
I thought working on a rig was dangerous....it’s wayyyyyy more dangerous than I thought
If death ain't on your mind when you fuck up at a rig dont even go
@Dave Leys I seen that clamp arm thing move for his leg and wonder how many times it hit him before he no longer flinched😐😓😯.
my buddy lost a leg on the rigs
you have no idea. should have been out there in the 70s and before. they made this look like helping mom in the kitchen.
@@kennethwallace4338 once. if you still can make it back to work, it won't happen again.
The end bruuuuuh 🤣
slow is smooth, smooth is fast, brother
Semper fidelis bro
Smooth like my poos
Big boy doing big boy things. Need more of that today
He could've done a couple things to make it easier & faster for himself; the 1st thing he should've done was put the slips in. THEN close the valve & latch the tongs. Have the dope bucket and rig soap behind him so all he had to do is turn, grab, drop n lather, and toss the brush back in the bucket. He almost got blind sided by the pipe if he took any longer to dope the box.
And for those of you that are wondering where the chain is, you don't need it if you got a working top-drive attached to the Blocks that at least does the spinning in for you.
Otherwise, this Roughneck still got it down! Not bad at all
Mabad, *soap-stick,not rig-soap.
What is the soap-stick for?
@@toddb930 helps keep mud ring from forming. Would probably mean they’re drilling a surface or maybe intermediate section
Did that in the early 80s... Good memories and lots of work! Loved it!
Nice job
We use to have a contest on our rig for a hundred bucks. No top drive tho. Double blocks and Chain
I dont know anything about oil rigs but it's pretty clear that this guy made something look easy that isnt.
Duh yeah. But after you do this shit for years it gets easier sometimes lolhahahaha but it's hard dangerous work and I've worked on rigs where men got seriously injured.
@@russelmurray9268 what stops the pipe from shooting out of the ground?
@@TunnelSnake-es7tu gravity lolhahahaha its a drill bit n the 30 ft. drill stem driven by a huge diesel engine. Every 30 ft. you add more drill stem(pipe).
@@russelmurray9268 i seen a blowout tho, and the drill stem was getting forced out of the ground by the gas pressure being so high
Rough necks we all love what we do🇺🇸 🛢
Any job
WOW! I bet he sleeps well at night.
This guy's a beast 💪. Easily a three man job.
He's on a small rig. Scope ups are simple to do all that by yourself
West Texas single man connections usually have a chain involved...
John McCoy ..chains have been outlawed...but i do remember those days..
@@Mydickinyoursister no shit.. really? Took all the fun out..
That new (to me) fangled top drive makes it ez.
@@foxjerry1 that's not a top-drive. that's a kelly-spinner. top drives don't use the rotary-table.
@@johndunn9819 : ok then, that Kelly spinner makes it ez.
Going to be a long night for him. Not the lazy ass holding the camera watching ONE MAN do all the work.
If I were ONE MAN, I’d let LAZY ASS know that if he ain’t helping by the third pipe ... I’ll make sure it’s a long night for him too
Very well coordinated for a one man floor crew taking the place of 2 men. Don't see any chain being thrown from the third man. Maybe the turn table goes fast enough to smack the pipes tight enough for one tensioning of the tongs finish it off. The other parts of the equation are the driller controlling the pipe going up and down as well as the turntable going around. He also tensions the tongs and is ultimately responsible for the safety of the crew. Is there a derrick hand on this particular rig?
It ain't a "turntable". It's a rotary. It ain't tension being applied by the tongs. Its torque. Worst 8 f#*king words ever spoken on a drilling rig.
"I'm an engineer, and I'm here to help".
@@shayjohnson5830
Huh?
You're right Matt; ya said 8 words? Wait till ya hear " intake and exhaust valves" on a mud pump by worm derrickman, lol.
Some Kelly drive rigs have a low torque spinner for making connections. Older ones are without the spinner hence the chain. Some rigs also have a spinner set up like the tongs pretty well so the floor hand uses the bastard. The Rotary table is what turns the actual drill string when ur back in business.
Almost applied for this position till I watched this video, I’ll stick to dragon fly hunting lol
Good job... Never tried that. Although I'd hate to do it all night long on a trip.
wonder how many guys have had an ankle taken out
I'm a volunteer firefighter and I have been to plenty of shattered leg incidents on drilling rigs
And this folks ends my fantasy of being an oil field worker.
😂😭
dream harder...
Why?
The oilfield has some of the kindest & most hard working people in it. Also, some of the dumbest.
It seems easy once u know how to pace yourself it’s clamping extensions together and apart and greasing up the grooves
I used to work in the oil field in Texas and made thousands of connections but never by myself cause we didn't have a Kelly spinner. We were a poor boy rig. The floor wasn't much more the lots of small pieces of steel welded together so the floor would move around under your feet. Los of alcohol lolhahahaha. The driller was always drinking but only one major injury and it wasn't from alcohol..
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So many come drunk on shift. Sometimes it feels unsafe just being around these guys.
Did he just say smile nig***? 🤦♂️😂😂😂
driller could be smoother coming out of the mouse hole......take some momentum out of the pipe/gooseneck///damn good hand tho
Mitchell Giebler yup
I thought the driller came out of the mouse hole to quick, should have given him more time, that pipe swinging into him.....
That was my exact thought. Typical driller got throw the floor hand rhythm off.
I don’t think you can get much hotter than this 💯
Awesome watching a real man working hard!!
Did you really need to leave this comment?
@@pkernoob786 Same question
Who wants to work hard?work smart,2 other ppl to lighten the load,ease the stress,relax the muscles,and yet still get paid the same amount,.’
It’s the reason I get paid as much as my boss and we do the same amount of work yet his position is higher then mine and has authority over me and is trusted with a lot more stress n responsibility in which he should get more for his title holding position but you see due to my smart working methods all in all it’s just a title now coz our salary is the same ,who’d wanna do 3 times the work,stress,labour hard hours and yet get paid the same amount as someone who sits down all day??
Good Ole west Texas.... don't miss the dust storms at all hamd
***Video Pans out, man speaking turns out to be a black man*** 🔥🔥🔥🤣
People coping hard with that "rigger" nonsense. Lets be real people, if it wasn't a last name he said hard r, and if that offends you it doesn't make the camera-man racist, it makes you soft. That being said don't try to sugarcoat/defend something that isn't defendable cause its just bs lmao. Maybe he MEANT "rigger", but that certainly isn't what ended up coming out lol.
Living Rent free. In their head.
LITTLE LIGHT ON PIPE DOPE SON
Is THAT a bear with a hard hat wearing human clothes....?
Great EFFIN' Job!
That ending tho😂 what did he say??
Oh you know lol that's everyday on a rig.
@@Truckerdaddy say Ong
No no, he said "rigger!"
Don't worry they having fun rigger
Lol ngl I heard the N
One man connection but remember ur not getting paid to have an accident REMEMBER ""TEAM WORK""
DONT TRY TO E A HERO
The West Texas Anthem. Fuck, Fight and Trip Pipe.
10 years ago I did this for a couple towers. The dummy roughneck fucked off to town with the medic, and didn't show up. So they fired him and the new dude didnt show up until late the next day. Motors was busy racking pipe and couldn't help very often. Good times.
Smile nigga aka black gold
the end caught me off guard
"smile rigger"
That "one man" is fckn awesome
This is way better than using chains but very hard work for one guy. Got to be tough when tipping out.
One man connection one man American Badass hoorah
Why change drives when you can just download and install a new one?
*cringe
I wonder how many hernias these guys get in their life
They actually get a lot
I was a driller assistant for 18 months
All 4 of the drillers had one before
Actually, one of them had TWO
Doging pipe lol could've avoided that had he got the dope brush and soap while the roatry spun off the joint, dropped the soap and put a big slop of dope on the thread quickly before pushing the pipe to connect to the one in the mouse hole. Not to sound like a superhand, but I was one efficient mf after a few days, learn quick or get fired quicker was my mindset.
UA-cam headquarters we need to talk. Why on earth would u recommended this on black history month 🤨
What does that even mean? Lol
Wat mean black history month
Black history month has no relevance to this video, your post doesn’t make sense to me
what a delightful video showing hard working class blue collar Americans Smile :)
That looks like a tough fucking job
2:34 I laughed so hard!
Lmaoooo I can’t tell if he said his last name or a racial slur
This video will be removed, racial slur.
Not in my US of A. I stand for all men.
was it his first connection?! dang … Is “West Texas Style” code for SLOW?
Only one pipe man connection. All day. Livethere
It wasn't pretty but damn sure got done.
What CanElson rig was this? And who was on the brake?
I was on the break fyi I hold the record 1min flat
This looks pretty tame compared to some other stuff I've seen
So you're in a bar...looking to start some trouble. You look around and see this guy...walk out.
HahahahahahahahahHahHahHa nicely done Roughneck
Got tired just lookin at him 🤟🏽 good stuff
What are we doing today drill? ..
Tripping pipes...
Oh.. :(
By yourself....... Could see something going horribly wrong here.
Casual hard r at the end - West Texas style
The ending statement is proof that this vid was taken in a parallel universe where White is Black.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who heard that
Ppl dont know that original Word in dictionary meant white person behaving ignorant.
That’s very dangerous wit one man
sure 1 man connection with top drive rig hell my daughter can do that
That’s a hand 🤘
Did he say "smile nigga" but with the hard R?? 😂
Rent free. In their head.
he caught that pipe like fresh born child
Lmfaoooo I’m hearing shii what did he say in the end tho
SMILE WHAT?
Seems like albertans are way faster.
Yeah, faster: ua-cam.com/video/HxAYAqQpeKk/v-deo.html
😂😂😂😂 only nonsofties understand the last words in this video!😂😂😂😂
Randy Gray you made no sense!
Randy Gray 😂😂😂😂
Naw, only kids, ignorant morons, and someone asking for an ass whooping, says something like that. Some times it takes boys longer to grow into men. Some times they never do. It has nothing to do with being hard or soft.
Ahhhbh .... But the proper statement would be
"Smile Nergo"
Lmao people who hate on this comment don’t live in West Texas
Loving this new CrossFit exercise!
those crossfit people would last 10 min maybe at best
The dude is a real machine !!!
God now i wanna be a roughneck
Hell yeah...now thats how we do it in West Texas...and damn boy..your a fucking hoss!!!
I've made a real one man connection on the brake handle too. People say it can't be done until I explain it
Now that's a talented roughneck.
That’s almost a “one man headed to the hospital with a broken face or smashed off hands connection” no good when you get hit in the face or your hand smashed off with a joint of drill pipe coming at you! Hell with hanging those tongs back man, make the connection especially single handed! Hang em back afterwards! If you’re going to be dumb, you’d better be tough!
yall in these comments worried about the wrong things...We just gonna act like he aint just say the N word with "ER" on the end like it wasnt nothing?
Dumb question; the most dangerous thing on the entire floor to me looks to be the slip. How it has those steel handles spinning about seems it would just break legs like it was it’s job?!? Someone confirm this!?
The handles are made out of a flexible, bendy material like rubber.
@@jacquesberenger4883 copy that ! I thought I’d seen steel handled slips in a lot of videos.
thats how you handle that tool joint hand.
that thing turning on the ground I keep seeing his foot getting twisted broken like a rag doll, you. think for the billions those fkers make they would haavr a crew of 5 just in case shit happens
LoL a top drive really! Try it with a Kelly rig and cat head spinning chain.
That’s looks hella easy
HOLD SLIPS TOGETHER LETM RIDE UP YOULL FEEL BETTER AN NO FUMBLE N AROUND SON
I do that every day non stop for 18 hours with 4 hours of sleep no big deal
damn when do u live?
Wtf did he say at the end? Am I hearing shit?
Respectable, that’s some hard shit to do, let alone by yourself. Hope he didn’t do that too often bc he would forsure get an umbilical hernia.
damn good video
The clowns on black gold tv show could do it faster!!!!! Nice connection
Don't even bring those oilfield Kardashian idiot's up.
What stops the pipe from shooting out of the ground?
It hasn't reached the production level. There isn't pressure in the well.
Haha great video. Ive done it myself and its hard work.
This looks like a Savannah, or Canelson rig. I wonder which one.
2:34 smile lil b
Lmao the end
Wait what’d he call him
Wow it's so very good man
Smile hunky
damn good hand! BRAVO
no one is talking about the n bomb at the end?
That’s Badass !!!
seems like every single person in the comments has done some work on drilling rigs
That ain't real rough neckin. That's puff neckin
how would you know? did you use to date one?
@@johndunn9819 your comeback would have had more teeth if you hadn't pretended to know these people aswell.
"pretended to know these people?" wtf? you are all strangers. you are just stranger than the rest.
I find it hilarious that a moron like you who started calling these people out for being "not real roughnecks" suddenly gets offended on the reality that you twits are as alien to them as are the rest of us and when confronted with that premise all you can dish out is " you're gay", so please, fuck off!
never been on one of those but just a guess, Looks like he knows what he is doing