Watched a crap load of videos and this derrick hand is the only one so far that knows to hang on to the stand after the latch and keep it from throwing the floor hand all over! Back in the 70s derrick hand better hold on if he wanted any friends when he come down. This is a top hand!!!
Mike Leikam I was asked by my daughter in law about some pics I have hanging in the shop and I got a little nostalgic so I showed her a few you tube clips of some of the daily responsibilities that I had to do and she couldn't believe that I had done that for a living, I think she has a whole different opinion of my work ethics as now I'm on disability.
Jeffrey Setzer outstanding! I unfortunately do not have any personal pictures from the old days. I've shown UA-cam videos to my youngest daughter and granddaughter. Not sure if they're impressed with anything I've ever done! Except for maybe the fact I was never late , not once, to work at my last job . 14 years on time. With my dad, you got to be late twice when he'd stop to pick a hand up, no third time!! I'm retired on SSI too. COPD. Good luck to you sir.
He's throwing that pipe too early he keeps hitting the cows cunt. Throw it late and throw it hard and latch the elevators with the bails. Haha. We used to trip in high gear and the blocks would fly past your head. No slowing down. I remember doing a bit change from 4600 metres out and in, and back Drilling in 10 hours. 5 inch pipe, 3 stands of heavy weights and 3 stands of 8 inch collars. Aussie oilfield 🇭🇲😱👍
@@MontanaDirtRoads Yes... getting drill collars back and out of the way of the blocks was a chore. 7" collars weren't bad... 8" collars were a bitch and usually required some help from the floor with a air winch line. I always wanted to latch a drill collar on the fly but it was to dangerous for the floor hands unless it was tethered on the floor.
Yea I don't remember any of my drillers slowing down the blocks or putting my handle on the cable.I think we bungeed those Texas longhorns so they would be more level.Didnt have a body harness either just a wide belt around the waist.Rougnecked from 75 to 86.Derricks from 80 to 86 when the bottom fell out.
I worked derricks (Standard, Ideco Full View, Lee C. Moore) 6 years, the old school way. I was in the Oilfield 20 years. I miss all of it. You can get a man out of the Oilfield, but you can't get the Oilfield out of the man! Oilfield Trash is who I am👍
Same here. I loved it. I was up there in my own world where I could see everything. I didn't like it though when the worms would sleep on my pumps after I scrubbed them down, white Continental Emsco triplex and duplex. I've worked National and Oilwell pumps also with up to 20" stroke.
Yep that’s how I did in bass straight on the glomar 3 the driller never slow down I kept him movin we had competition to see who were the fastest shift in tripping I love it
Perfect B careful holding the drill line the last line that is stationary and don't move thru the blocks if it gets that hand it's bye bye forever But perfect every other way
Only thing I did not like to see was holding the drill line , if your glove gets a bure it can pull you off the board . the dead line is fine , not from the blocks . Derrick man 1979 to 1986 i drilled for 1 year . my place was in the derrick not on the brake .
My Drillers used to tie my elevators closed with #8 or #10 sash cord when tripping in and that didn't work. So he took some rebar #9 wire adding that to the cord. That worked and but dulled my Buck knife. We always had safe fun though.
on the 30,000 foot rigs i used to work on with 4 1/2 and 5" pipe you would have to rack it back in the lower forty, and the driller is really the one who controls the kick back on the flloor-hands, depending how fast he runs, if wide open it'll run smoother, less kick.. but now up in the derrick if i wanted to wipe the floor, then i would hold on to the pipe, with everything i had. to help control the floor kick back on the drill pipe, is you hold it, but not like the floor hands believe. but i could hold that pipe and the 40,000 pound block dead still. but then we'd have to fish the back-up tong hand out of the cat head. fun times. on Parker Drilling rigs # 165, #174, #180, #181 all SCR rigs, we worked 7 days a week 8 hours shifts. as derrick hand, i could come on, mix slug, pump slug-come come outta hole, change bottom hole assembly, go back to bottom and be drilling in eight hours @ 21,000 22,500 feet. less than a minute a stand, and almost everyone will say impossible, no not @ all. and do it almost every time, unless have to cut drill line, we were wrote up in several oilfield magazines. the Driller was Jimmy Wetherington, ToolPusher was Sidney Jacobs and Johnny Osborne on Wagner and Brown wells, company man Buddy Vaughn. best driller, fastest best rig runner i ever seen in 43 years. fun times.
True that my friend, know that I think about , I can’t remember any of my floor hands throw a ‘Thank You.’ for mixing a good pill before tripping. Bar is not light. Very few will even know what this conversation is about.
I rode the elevators up once and they do it too push your saw me. When I got down he said I know you had to try it once but don't do it no more. I had grooves in the soles of my boots from sliding down the ladder.
@@geneautry2091 gotta always know there will always be tong cuts at the tool joints. I slided down the drill line . Maybe catch a bur (which would also take a finger off) but not as much as the drill string itself. The company’s I worked for in NM ,CO,TX,UT. kept good records and we would slip new drill line(wire rope) often depending on hours,use, depths, and tripping per say.
I used to bear hug the last collar that was racked back and slide down it and right before I got to the floor I would holler real loud and scare the shit out of the driller!
I fail too understand why there is no hobble being used. When I was a driller I would make sure everything that could be done to make the job easier for the crew was done. That's one of the responsibilities of a driller. The easier the job the safer and more efficient the job is.
There was nothing negative in my comment. I still don't understand why the hobble is not being used. I worked derricks for many years, and I can't see any advantage in not using the equipment correctly.
@@kennypeshlakai2416 have you ever worked Derricks on a semi in the winter in the North Sea back in the late 70s and 80s. If you have you might know what I mean. Unlike a land rigs these derricks are subject to the motion of the rig in heavy seas, so a hobble does become pretty important.
@@kennypeshlakai2416 It depends on how much room the floor hands needed... if you set that first 10" collar back to far on the floor ain't nobody going to pull it back with one rope... maybe with 2 ropes if you can get some flex action going... you must be one of those guys that could bench 350 lbs back in the day.
I've worked "Lee C Moore, IDECO Full view, Standards, the "ole School" way. Never worked a "top drive". You don't get enough exercise with a top drive.
Seen some low crown head space , only 20 foot , going to fast and no time to hit the break before crowning out . no one wants to see that , seen a driller on dope crown out , 2 weeks of welding the floor and 2 cranes to replace the water table and crown . lucky no one was killed when the blocks fell 120 foot .
everybody misses one from time to time as long as you don;t let it fall across. and if your on top of things like this guy that wont happen. watch how quick he grabs hold of the pipe after latching it!!! this is how its supposed to be done!!
I never. did ride the pipe down... and the deadline would leave a lot of sticky tar on your clothes, gloves and boots and wasn't really the surface to come down easily. The counter weighted derrick climber without the anti fall device line attached was the best to ride down. Once un hooked from the ladder just put your feet and hands on the outside of the ladder and squeeze to control decent speed. When close the floor, like 15 feet away, push off the ladder and land on the floor... then count to 2 or 3 and jump up... the counterweight took a few seconds to reverse and give you a boost like 5 to 6 feet in the air... then it was ok... the fun was over... on the way down it was like repelling in a way. Now I could go back to the pits and pumps and make sure everything was ready to drill again. I only rode the blocks when going up and the derrick hand on duty would hand you a rope before you jumped to the diving board so you had something to hang onto just in case.
Yes Tom... we get it... however... every size has its advantages. It turned out that the very first rig I worked on was pretty fast. It had four 379 cats on an inline compound ( pre diesel electric ) and a small but fast Brewster 95 Draw works with a high and low drum and a 4 speed trans. it would probably only go to about 15,000 ft with 4.5 size drill pipe. I think the Lee C Moore derrick was rated at half a million. Anyway, on 8 lines in high gear those cats would make those blocks run pretty fast. I don't know how many times the slips had to be reset so we could lower the blocks and get the crossed over drilling line straightened out on the drum... The driller wouldn't get off the gas soon enough... at least once every other trip or two we had to stop for a minute and fix the line placement on the drum. We were always trying to beat the other crews for tripping in the hole time and making those nice tight lines on the gilograph... or whatever it was called.
Biggest rig was Parker 166. 3000 hp Draw works and 2.5 million lb derrick... 1600 barrel pits. I have pictures of it on slides... I should transfer them to pictures and post them up.
I can tell this is a small rig and runs kinda slow. The elevators don't have a rubber strap holding them a little higher than they normally hang. Not a big deal but makes it easier to latch. The fastest rig runner I ever saw was Karl Moorehouse.... RIP.... It was Brinkerhoff 40 out on Table Rock south of I -80 between Rock Springs and Rawlins. At the time it had a Dynamatic instead of a Hydramatic. A Dynamatic uses an electrical power system to slow the drill string instead of water like a Hydramatic does. So, when the string weight would start getting heavy Karl would just pick up the string and then throw the brake lever up as drillers do. However, with no brakes being used he would let it fall 2 joints and then engage the Dynamatic to 100 %. A simple lever was the control for the Dynamatic. Got to stop here for e second... the sound of the drilling line running through the shives in the blocks sounded almost like tires screeching on the hi way when somebody locks up the brakes in a car, It was scary! Anyway, with full Dynamatic on the brakes worked as intended and everything was nice and smooth for setting the slips. But, here is the problem with letting the bit push through the mud downhole at that speed. The formation couldn't take the additional pressure at the point called the "hydrostatic head". We would lose a bit of circulation briefly once on bottom and our pit levels would reflect the volume lost downhole to the formation fracturing. It wasn't long before a Hydramatic was replacing the Dynamatic and the beautiful tight graph lines on the Gillagraph ( ?) weren't like they use to be. A overheated brake failure would have been catastrophic at those speeds with the Dynamatic. I have heard what happens when drilling lines gets loose when somebody drops the blocks... its a potential killer. One day I saw 375,000 lbs hit the rotary table when a driller didn't get it shut down in time while tripping in the hole... luckily nothing broke... however, the slips got pinched by the elevators and went flying out the V door like a wet watermelon seed between fingers.... they ended up about halfway out the catwalk on the ground somewhere.
Last time I saw big red 40 it was drilling right outside of Evanston. Still have the engines on the floor with conventional drawworks. Pretty impressive I must say
You ask me they all worms . They won’t round trip 10,000 ft. Of 5” in 10 hrs. That’s how it was done in the 80’s with no spinner hawks all chain Baby!!!!
Ive worked L.C. Moore, Ideco full view (double), standard. I've never worked a top drive. The derrick hand in a top drive hasn't near the work as ole school.
Yeah... I had to do it on the smaller triples... Had to learn new muscle memory to get good at it. Or, sometimes we would leave pipe on the left side and pick up some new pipe and just store it there until later.
Ive worked from 2" "gas pipe" (completion and workover), up to 4.5" dp drilling & exploration. The 4.5" was 16lbs/ft. The larger the pipe diameter the easier to handle. I never did like tubing on a triple especially 2", 2 3/8 & 2 7/8 8 round or even 6 round. 2 3/8 we used was 4.7lbs/ft...2 7/8 was 5.4lbs/ft. or 5.2....been 40+ yrs ago.
@@geneautry2091 , yep, i hated running tubing and with chevron we would run dual-string. and we'd use our 30,000 foot rig for work-ya-over on a couple of well that stopped completion for one reason or another. still a pain in the arse.
You’re right we ran tubing a few times on triple doing some production work waiting on location. It was fucking crazy like trying to latch up a piece of cat line or something spaghetti. It just got too dangerous they stop the blacks
Dude, that's a long string on that rig! The fuckin' weight boys! Not maxed out, but yeah, smilin' under load for sure! Deadline bravery. Stayin' with the pipe to help the roughnecks does make a big difference!
He’s ok, but stand up straight and don’t have the rope so low on the pipe. Why is he pulling on the drill line ? Where’s the hobble at ? It must be a double rig. And yea I worked in the patch started in 75 in the gulf for Pool Offshore working derricks and roughneck, then overseas with Sea Drill, last time in was 2013 in midland/ Odesa floor hand motors. I’m not braggin honest I’m just saying he could better.
I can do this for 12 hours a day, being a roughneck... not even on my best day can I do that. I’m guessing you have to work your way up to be a derrickman?
I started bail hatching the short ones. We had some really short pipe 25.60 5 inch. And there were some stands about my knees but when you got them out do you latch them they were at your ankles. One of those Derekhand from Oklahoma show me how to Bailhache. And he was a little guy and he had a club foot to had half his foot chopped off. Anyway that’ll give you a Boner when you get one of those short ones. That’s where Derekhand get the glory
If you don’t know what that means when I say bail latching I’ll show you. That’s when you got that pipe out in the middle of the Derek with your hand in the tool joint in the cows cock goes by and you’re dropping it in the elevators in grabbing those bales pulling back. You’re latching it a few feet below the board. That’s when you’re a real Derekhand and I wish I had a camera back in those days
I miss this so much. Enjoyed every single time up there. Seven years
Watched a crap load of videos and this derrick hand is the only one so far that knows to hang on to the stand after the latch and keep it from throwing the floor hand all over! Back in the 70s derrick hand better hold on if he wanted any friends when he come down. This is a top hand!!!
Mike Leikam was trained to help control pipe and make life smoother for the whole crew
Jeffrey Setzer takes me back to when I worked derricks for my Dad. Miss those days.
Mike Leikam I was asked by my daughter in law about some pics I have hanging in the shop and I got a little nostalgic so I showed her a few you tube clips of some of the daily responsibilities that I had to do and she couldn't believe that I had done that for a living, I think she has a whole different opinion of my work ethics as now I'm on disability.
Jeffrey Setzer outstanding! I unfortunately do not have any personal pictures from the old days. I've shown UA-cam videos to my youngest daughter and granddaughter. Not sure if they're impressed with anything I've ever done! Except for maybe the fact I was never late , not once, to work at my last job . 14 years on time. With my dad, you got to be late twice when he'd stop to pick a hand up, no third time!! I'm retired on SSI too. COPD. Good luck to you sir.
Mike Leikam you know the drill!
All I had was a Lewis belt back in my day.😂
The good Ole days...last September.
Yep this is how I did it back in the day,except the driller NEVER slowed down.
Slow down wha???😂
If the derrick hand can't latch that pipe while the block is traveling, they shouldn't be up there.
Shit nobody knows what a Kelly rig is anymore or how to jack back back collars without a fuckin winch line
He's throwing that pipe too early he keeps hitting the cows cunt. Throw it late and throw it hard and latch the elevators with the bails. Haha. We used to trip in high gear and the blocks would fly past your head. No slowing down. I remember doing a bit change from 4600 metres out and in, and back Drilling in 10 hours. 5 inch pipe, 3 stands of heavy weights and 3 stands of 8 inch collars. Aussie oilfield
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@@MontanaDirtRoads Yes... getting drill collars back and out of the way of the blocks was a chore. 7" collars weren't bad... 8" collars were a bitch and usually required some help from the floor with a air winch line. I always wanted to latch a drill collar on the fly but it was to dangerous for the floor hands unless it was tethered on the floor.
Yea I don't remember any of my drillers slowing down the blocks or putting my handle on the cable.I think we bungeed those Texas longhorns so they would be more level.Didnt have a body harness either just a wide belt around the waist.Rougnecked from 75 to 86.Derricks from 80 to 86 when the bottom fell out.
I worked derricks (Standard, Ideco Full View, Lee C. Moore) 6 years, the old school way. I was in the Oilfield 20 years. I miss all of it. You can get a man out of the Oilfield, but you can't get the Oilfield out of the man! Oilfield Trash is who I am👍
Ahhhh… good ol rotary rigs. Thumbs up for the Kelly bar!
I worked as a derrickhand for 2yrs. It's the best job ever.
Same here. I loved it. I was up there in my own world where I could see everything. I didn't like it though when the worms would sleep on my pumps after I scrubbed them down, white Continental Emsco triplex and duplex. I've worked National and Oilwell pumps also with up to 20" stroke.
Yeah had to be pretty fucking drunk to sleep in the pump house
I think I like the dumpster best
I always like the horn elevators the best
Yea, them side latchers was the worst.
Conventional suck the most.
Service side though.
I remember the Opr would come up so fast the pipe use to bounce two or three times once I latched it in the elevators 😂
Love it brings back old memories. My driller and I did this on the fly and I do men on the fly never slowed down it was high gear all the time .
3rd gear high range and don't lift till the pipe comes up off the racking boards was how I learned
The blocks are so close to the diving pad on those old school rigs that’s crazy. Guess they have to be able to reach the elevators
The way it should be done .... even steadies the pipe after latching ... 👍
Good derrick hand always tails the pipe
Steadying the block and pipe is part of the derrick hands job.
Yep that’s how I did in bass straight on the glomar 3 the driller never slow down I kept him movin we had competition to see who were the fastest shift in tripping I love it
Perfect
B careful holding the drill line the last line that is stationary and don't move thru the blocks if it gets that hand it's bye bye forever
But perfect every other way
That's the "deadline".
That guys a work overhand went to work on Derek drilling rig so Still got the old habits
Looking good, and no hobble.
When tripping in-hole I never used a hobble except durring completion running gas line using MYT elevators.
Only thing I did not like to see was holding the drill line , if your glove gets a bure it can pull you off the board . the dead line is fine , not from the blocks . Derrick man 1979 to 1986 i drilled for 1 year . my place was in the derrick not on the brake .
Probably a great workover derrickhand who has the knowledge to burn the blocks!
Hes trying to burn the blocks. That's the blocks deadline, it dont move.
I was thinking about that too. In logging we called them jaggers.
you dont need a hobble with web wilson elevators piece of cake!!!!
Web Wilson‘s are balanced and don’t need a horrible but I hate them because of that because you can’t swing them to latch
He can do this all day long without missing a beat!
My Drillers used to tie my elevators closed with #8 or #10 sash cord when tripping in and that didn't work. So he took some rebar #9 wire adding that to the cord. That worked and but dulled my Buck knife. We always had safe fun though.
Sounds pretty fucked up to me
on the 30,000 foot rigs i used to work on with 4 1/2 and 5" pipe you would have to rack it back in the lower forty, and the driller is really the one who controls the kick back on the flloor-hands, depending how fast he runs, if wide open it'll run smoother, less kick.. but now up in the derrick if i wanted to wipe the floor, then i would hold on to the pipe, with everything i had. to help control the floor kick back on the drill pipe, is you hold it, but not like the floor hands believe. but i could hold that pipe and the 40,000 pound block dead still. but then we'd have to fish the back-up tong hand out of the cat head. fun times. on Parker Drilling rigs # 165, #174, #180, #181 all SCR rigs, we worked 7 days a week 8 hours shifts. as derrick hand, i could come on, mix slug, pump slug-come come outta hole, change bottom hole assembly, go back to bottom and be drilling in eight hours @ 21,000 22,500 feet. less than a minute a stand, and almost everyone will say impossible, no not @ all. and do it almost every time, unless have to cut drill line, we were wrote up in several oilfield magazines. the Driller was Jimmy Wetherington, ToolPusher was Sidney Jacobs and Johnny Osborne on Wagner and Brown wells, company man Buddy Vaughn. best driller, fastest best rig runner i ever seen in 43 years. fun times.
Shut the fuck up you fucking worm lol
@@eltorocantu9699 . lol, indeed.
True that my friend, know that I think about , I can’t remember any of my floor hands throw a ‘Thank You.’ for mixing a good pill before tripping. Bar is not light. Very few will even know what this conversation is about.
Did you happen to be on the Parker rig (I forgot the rig number) around 2002 ? NW NM and SW CO? Delivered casing while swamping on rig up trucks.
Big talk for little rig .Go offshore.
that driller is taking it real easy on that hand
When it was time to trip pipe I would ride elevators up to the board and slide down last stand coming down.
I rode the elevators up once and they do it too push your saw me. When I got down he said I know you had to try it once but don't do it no more. I had grooves in the soles of my boots from sliding down the ladder.
Same here, riding the elevators up to my monkey board. Cut your hand once sliding down that pipe and you'll think wisely next time.
@@rmeyers2003 I always slid down my ladder
@@geneautry2091 gotta always know there will always be tong cuts at the tool joints. I slided down the drill line . Maybe catch a bur (which would also take a finger off) but not as much as the drill string itself. The company’s I worked for in NM ,CO,TX,UT. kept good records and we would slip new drill line(wire rope) often depending on hours,use, depths, and tripping per say.
I used to bear hug the last collar that was racked back and slide down it and right before I got to the floor I would holler real loud and scare the shit out of the driller!
That's the way I was taught in 1982.
That's a Derrickman with talent
That’s fukking right what happened with this whole stopping to latch and pull! I mean really what the Fukk! Did the blocks get woked ? HahhHahah
I love that love tap on the blocks...bows that bitch to the point of self latching with those Wilson’s. I dig it brotha.
I fail too understand why there is no hobble being used. When I was a driller I would make sure everything that could be done to make the job easier for the crew was done. That's one of the responsibilities of a driller. The easier the job the safer and more efficient the job is.
There was nothing negative in my comment. I still don't understand why the hobble is not being used. I worked derricks for many years, and I can't see any advantage in not using the equipment correctly.
Those are center latch elevators. Either BJ, or MK. You dont need a hobble. If you know what you're doing, they'll latch themselves.
Are you kidding me .? Worked the board 10 years . Always had my own ropes. Especially, collars, 10 in. and 8 . No winch .
@@kennypeshlakai2416 have you ever worked Derricks on a semi in the winter in the North Sea back in the late 70s and 80s. If you have you might know what I mean. Unlike a land rigs these derricks are subject to the motion of the rig in heavy seas, so a hobble does become pretty important.
@@kennypeshlakai2416 It depends on how much room the floor hands needed... if you set that first 10" collar back to far on the floor ain't nobody going to pull it back with one rope... maybe with 2 ropes if you can get some flex action going... you must be one of those guys that could bench 350 lbs back in the day.
Wh wh wh where's the topdrive? No linking it out in his lap? Lol, good memories here.
Wish I was there bro.
Yep. They are drilling fast. Slap it into the collar, the boys below are using chains and power tongs to join the pipes. Gotta make hole!
I've worked "Lee C Moore, IDECO Full view, Standards, the "ole
School" way. Never worked a "top drive". You don't get enough exercise with a top drive.
Actually for real ,did that for years
as slow as that block is going my grandma would latch that with no problem 😊
Best of what I seen yet still to slow. Up and down either driller is a worm or he can't catch them any faster
Seen some low crown head space , only 20 foot , going to fast and no time to hit the break before crowning out . no one wants to see that , seen a driller on dope crown out , 2 weeks of welding the floor and 2 cranes to replace the water table and crown . lucky no one was killed when the blocks fell 120 foot .
That also depends on the height of the derrick, the length of the block assembly, and other factors.
That’s what limit switches are for.
I wouldn’t admit to that big fuck up
No that’s what brains are for
Burning that DEAD LINE...that how ya fuckin do it, bro!!
I,ve thrown a lot of ringers but miss one, it’s a bad day in bed rock. But this hand is good.
everybody misses one from time to time as long as you don;t let it fall across. and if your on top of things like this guy that wont happen. watch how quick he grabs hold of the pipe after latching it!!! this is how its supposed to be done!!
Now if you’re really doing it old-school slide down the last stand pipe or the deadline. I think rode the blocks to The first few years
I never. did ride the pipe down... and the deadline would leave a lot of sticky tar on your clothes, gloves and boots and wasn't really the surface to come down easily. The counter weighted derrick climber without the anti fall device line attached was the best to ride down. Once un hooked from the ladder just put your feet and hands on the outside of the ladder and squeeze to control decent speed. When close the floor, like 15 feet away, push off the ladder and land on the floor... then count to 2 or 3 and jump up... the counterweight took a few seconds to reverse and give you a boost like 5 to 6 feet in the air... then it was ok... the fun was over... on the way down it was like repelling in a way. Now I could go back to the pits and pumps and make sure everything was ready to drill again. I only rode the blocks when going up and the derrick hand on duty would hand you a rope before you jumped to the diving board so you had something to hang onto just in case.
He held the pipe after latching
Good hand
The driller never slowed down, they listened for the noise of the iron hitting.
Must of had the worm crews during rig up; pin are in backwards across from board
No
They should put a hobble on for him
Snag a sparrr
That's not "Old School" he has one too many safety belts on!
All little land rig hands , need to see how much bigger things are,when they can float!
Yes Tom... we get it... however... every size has its advantages. It turned out that the very first rig I worked on was pretty fast. It had four 379 cats on an inline compound ( pre diesel electric ) and a small but fast Brewster 95 Draw works with a high and low drum and a 4 speed trans. it would probably only go to about 15,000 ft with 4.5 size drill pipe. I think the Lee C Moore derrick was rated at half a million. Anyway, on 8 lines in high gear those cats would make those blocks run pretty fast. I don't know how many times the slips had to be reset so we could lower the blocks and get the crossed over drilling line straightened out on the drum... The driller wouldn't get off the gas soon enough... at least once every other trip or two we had to stop for a minute and fix the line placement on the drum. We were always trying to beat the other crews for tripping in the hole time and making those nice tight lines on the gilograph... or whatever it was called.
Biggest rig was Parker 166. 3000 hp Draw works and 2.5 million lb derrick... 1600 barrel pits. I have pictures of it on slides... I should transfer them to pictures and post them up.
This is Rough Neck stuff right here!!!!
I can tell this is a small rig and runs kinda slow. The elevators don't have a rubber strap holding them a little higher than they normally hang. Not a big deal but makes it easier to latch.
The fastest rig runner I ever saw was Karl Moorehouse.... RIP.... It was Brinkerhoff 40 out on Table Rock south of I -80 between Rock Springs and Rawlins. At the time it had a Dynamatic instead of a Hydramatic. A Dynamatic uses an electrical power system to slow the drill string instead of water like a Hydramatic does. So, when the string weight would start getting heavy Karl would just pick up the string and then throw the brake lever up as drillers do. However, with no brakes being used he would let it fall 2 joints and then engage the Dynamatic to 100 %. A simple lever was the control for the Dynamatic. Got to stop here for e second... the sound of the drilling line running through the shives in the blocks sounded almost like tires screeching on the hi way when somebody locks up the brakes in a car, It was scary! Anyway, with full Dynamatic on the brakes worked as intended and everything was nice and smooth for setting the slips. But, here is the problem with letting the bit push through the mud downhole at that speed. The formation couldn't take the additional pressure at the point called the "hydrostatic head". We would lose a bit of circulation briefly once on bottom and our pit levels would reflect the volume lost downhole to the formation fracturing. It wasn't long before a Hydramatic was replacing the Dynamatic and the beautiful tight graph lines on the Gillagraph ( ?) weren't like they use to be. A overheated brake failure would have been catastrophic at those speeds with the Dynamatic. I have heard what happens when drilling lines gets loose when somebody drops the blocks... its a potential killer.
One day I saw 375,000 lbs hit the rotary table when a driller didn't get it shut down in time while tripping in the hole... luckily nothing broke... however, the slips got pinched by the elevators and went flying out the V door like a wet watermelon seed between fingers.... they ended up about halfway out the catwalk on the ground somewhere.
Big red 40
Last time I saw big red 40 it was drilling right outside of Evanston. Still have the engines on the floor with conventional drawworks. Pretty impressive I must say
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I thought this was the normal way
Tripping back in , push had to run the last stands . Hit a cave in down hole. My mud was fine . Digging rig problems 🙄
You ask me they all worms . They won’t round trip 10,000 ft. Of 5” in 10 hrs. That’s how it was done in the 80’s with no spinner hawks all chain Baby!!!!
Ive worked L.C. Moore, Ideco full view (double), standard. I've never worked a top drive. The derrick hand in a top drive hasn't near the work as ole school.
Dont hit that cattle guard wait for it n pull that dead man line.tell em to speed it up on 4 gear or high gear .make sum hole
Also trust ur tail rope and cmon wit it
thats how its done
Anyone ever work the left side? It's a trip within a trip. Lol
Always scarrede me Left side of not good for me. ß
I didn’t like the left side but I had to learn to like it just have to do it all backwards
Yeah... I had to do it on the smaller triples... Had to learn new muscle memory to get good at it. Or, sometimes we would leave pipe on the left side and pick up some new pipe and just store it there until later.
what''s this rig gonna be when it grows up. i hate work ya over rigs.
Kelly rig buddy. Harder workin up stick on this than a service rig. Both harder than a top drive.
Ive worked from 2" "gas pipe" (completion and workover), up to 4.5" dp drilling & exploration. The 4.5" was 16lbs/ft. The larger the pipe diameter the easier to handle. I never did like tubing on a triple especially 2", 2 3/8 & 2 7/8 8 round or even 6 round. 2 3/8 we used was 4.7lbs/ft...2 7/8 was 5.4lbs/ft. or 5.2....been 40+ yrs ago.
@@geneautry2091 , yep, i hated running tubing and with chevron we would run dual-string. and we'd use our 30,000 foot rig for work-ya-over on a couple of well that stopped completion for one reason or another. still a pain in the arse.
You’re right we ran tubing a few times on triple doing some production work waiting on location. It was fucking crazy like trying to latch up a piece of cat line or something spaghetti. It just got too dangerous they stop the blacks
Dude, that's a long string on that rig! The fuckin' weight boys! Not maxed out, but yeah, smilin' under load for sure! Deadline bravery. Stayin' with the pipe to help the roughnecks does make a big difference!
0:47 I learned that I have baby nuts
I never liked the Web Wilson elevators. The handles are too close together
Lamento mucho pero el señor enganchador no puede agarrar el cable con la mano
Yes it looks a little slow
Someone needs to dope the deadline teach him not to hang on to it
Did 25 old school
Blocks not going fast enough
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He’s ok, but stand up straight and don’t have the rope so low on the pipe. Why is he pulling on the drill line ? Where’s the hobble at ? It must be a double rig. And yea I worked in the patch started in 75 in the gulf for Pool Offshore working derricks and roughneck, then overseas with Sea Drill, last time in was 2013 in midland/ Odesa floor hand motors. I’m not braggin honest I’m just saying he could better.
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I can do this for 12 hours a day, being a roughneck... not even on my best day can I do that. I’m guessing you have to work your way up to be a derrickman?
I started bail hatching the short ones. We had some really short pipe 25.60 5 inch. And there were some stands about my knees but when you got them out do you latch them they were at your ankles. One of those Derekhand from Oklahoma show me how to Bailhache. And he was a little guy and he had a club foot to had half his foot chopped off. Anyway that’ll give you a Boner when you get one of those short ones. That’s where Derekhand get the glory
If you don’t know what that means when I say bail latching I’ll show you. That’s when you got that pipe out in the middle of the Derek with your hand in the tool joint in the cows cock goes by and you’re dropping it in the elevators in grabbing those bales pulling back. You’re latching it a few feet below the board. That’s when you’re a real Derekhand and I wish I had a camera back in those days
Very slow, should be around 40 seconds a stand. Very poor whip control and block control.
Jesus this is slow.
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Slow as fuck
That's slow way too slow we used to round trip 5 hrs 120 stands of drill pikes that was quick.....
Pipes
once worked on rig that we run Vicks on the block so the floor hands would not catch a cold.
Bullshit
What the hell is old school about that!???
The driller never slowed down, they listened for the noise of the iron hitting.