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.
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👍
Now that’s a hand that knows how to work Derrick’s! Y don’t just latch them up and walk away. He tails the pipe in to help the floor hands then helps to keep the stand straight so it’ll make up all the way for the Driller and chain hand. 👍
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
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.
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.
Needs to learn how to let go of that Pussy rope a little faster. Hell in my day, if you used one for drill pipe and more than a wrap and a half for collars, you were either a puss, or a worm.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
I’m gonna take a wild guess. Dumb ass was like in 5 or 6 gear? Blocks seem to be working until it’s hits the weight of the drill string. Good thing the slips had not been pulled. This could have went South in a matter of seconds.
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.
Must of had the worm crews during rig up; pin are in backwards across from board No
Very slow, should be around 40 seconds a stand. Very poor whip control and block control.
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!
that driller is taking it real easy on that hand
Now that’s a hand that knows how to work Derrick’s! Y don’t just latch them up and walk away. He tails the pipe in to help the floor hands then helps to keep the stand straight so it’ll make up all the way for the Driller and chain hand. 👍
Take you a whole 12 hrs just to touch the bottom
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
All I had was a Lewis belt back in my day.😂
The good Ole days...last September.
Wtf?! C'mon man! Get after it. 😂😂
Wish I was there bro.
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.
Snag a sparrr
That's not "Old School" he has one too many safety belts on!
Yes it looks a little slow
Blocks not going fast enough
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.
Needs to learn how to let go of that Pussy rope a little faster. Hell in my day, if you used one for drill pipe and more than a wrap and a half for collars, you were either a puss, or a worm.
Tool pusher chewed my ass for hitting the cows cock like that he didn't want me scratching the paint
Someone needs to dope the deadline teach him not to hang on to it
This is Rough Neck stuff right here!!!!
I miss this so much. Enjoyed every single time up there. Seven years
They should put a hobble on for him
The driller never slowed down, they listened for the noise of the iron hitting.
The driller never slowed down, they listened for the noise of the iron hitting.
He held the pipe after latching Good hand
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!
Not in tune with each other at all
You called that right. Good eye. You must be one of them.
Although you did DOINK and just about missed it! Hahaha who knew 🤷🏻♂️🖕🏻
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
Drop the wrench in the hole you worm
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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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
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.
as slow as that block is going my grandma would latch that with no problem 😊
I thought this was the normal way
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.
Actually for real ,did that for years
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
That's the way I was taught in 1982.
Did 25 old school
Thats wright this job should be left to the men not there class training no working 18 yrs pussy
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.
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
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.
I never liked the Web Wilson elevators. The handles are too close together
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 😂
I’m gonna take a wild guess. Dumb ass was like in 5 or 6 gear? Blocks seem to be working until it’s hits the weight of the drill string. Good thing the slips had not been pulled. This could have went South in a matter of seconds.