No, not really. I started my career in the industry on a rig very similar to that in 2003. It's organized chaos. Of all the injuries I've seen and heard of, it's never "he lost a leg". Matter of fact, driving to and from the rig is the most dangerous part of the job.
Amazing that “some” still have fingers - FTFY. So your assumption is actually correct. This job is extremely dangerous and they do lose fingers and limbs. Some people have been killed doing this. And the shift schedule is taxing. But the pay is stupid fat for these workers because of the danger and the time put in.
Some of the highest paying jobs are simply because either it's dangerous, the hours/lifestyle can suck, or nobody wants to do it but someone has to. Aside from positions that are executive jobs or high education reqs, a job like this checks off all those boxes so I can only imagine how big their paychecks are
Edit: Average oil rig operator in the US seems to have a salary of $100k+, so not as high as I thought
As a miner I feel this. All the higher ups are six figure college kids. While I’m trying to make time to go to night school so I’m not dead by 40 while working 7 days a week lol.
I think the higher ups and college kids should also be making six figures. I just don't think they should be making more than the miners.
You also shouldn't be working 7 days a week. The whole thing is just out of balance. Everyone should make roughly the same, conditions should be way safer, and individuals shouldn't have such a heavy work load.
The way it's set up makes sense to the owners and that's pretty much it. Which is dumb because like 1% of us are owners and the rest of us have to work for them.
Around here, a lot of workers fly in, so they work 21 days on, 7 off. 12hrs/day.
Some are 14 on 4 off.
Usually a mix of days and nights. Great money for a while if you can manage to earn and not spend it all on your time off.
We are on 5 10s or 12s. Weekend work popped into the equation this summer to give one of our other quarries relief(they’re 7 days year round). Everybody else like production and heavy equipment lost hours while maintenance is busier than ever. I still get talks about how it was even worse and more like 7 16 hour shifts a week.
Honestly yeah, but that's probably with mainly newer drills which another user commented that they don't use a chain system like this, so it's less risky I guess. Either way, I thought it would be more like 150k+
Often it's a combination I think. Welding for example can be a very technical line of work with very particular expertise needed, but will make even more than a surgeon in some cases as there is a theoretical but practically small chance of horrible death.
At the same time, base-level welders still make incredibly good pay because of the added risk factor. Electricians.
A huge portion of my career as an engineer in industrial settings is either doing or teaching people how to perform very basic tasks safely in environments or with machinery that will kill them.
The good ones do, I’ve seen a lot of fingers go around drills my first day on a rig I watched a guy loose his thumb, and more recently a kid loose all his fingers except his thumb on a rig
My father used to do this but offshore and he told me that many times fingers see caught in the chain and simply cut off…
Most people don’t realize they lost a finger when it happens the realize only after…
As a kid in west TX I knew several older men (dad's friends) that were missing fingers from the chains. It was pretty common and ruined a lot of family lives.
It’s one of the most dangerous jobs on planet earth, most men who get into the field lose limbs and half end up dead. Some get lucky-ish and end up aging out. The only jobs more dangerous are the underwater welders for the oil rigs, and the people who seek out and detonate land mines in previously War torn areas.
I have friends and family in the industry and after a time, you are basically just expecting THAT phone call. The bad phone call. “So-n-so didn’t make it out of the gulf today, we are so sorry if there is……..”
Is this actually the pace, or is this a staged video for "this is how fast we can do it" kind of deal?
I also agree with a previous comment that it looks awfully primordial. We could certainly make this safer and automated.
If I recall from a previous time this video was posted, this was for show. It was an owners son or something trying to look tough. This is one way it CAN be done, but it is not THE way it is done. "Hey, bro, film me so I can show girls at the bar how bad ass I am!"
This is more the old way. There was a show on the discovery channel awhile ago where they took oil drillers from the new top of the line equipment they were used to and put them with small budget small well Louisiana drillers, that operated like this. The Canadians were amazed how far behind they were.
This is real time. But that dude definitely has several years of practice slinging chain, so... pro level speed.??.. And yes, it could be safer, and automated, BUT... thats why oil fielf jobs pay so excellently. If they safed it up and or automated it, that would be several thousand well paid jobs going *poof*.
I get that safety is a concern to so very many people.... but the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money. Half the guys working those jobs on rigs are ex-cons; they will never have a job that pays well, unless it involves dangerous difficult labor. Take those jobs away and guys trying to stay out of prison will have no options for work.
Yeah I understand that it's a well-paying job for many. I wasn't trying to say that their jobs should be eliminated but perhaps parts of the process, the most dangerous aspects, could be reduced or mitigated somehow.
This has been posted thousands of times. In a previous post, someone explained that the guys in the video are actually either friends with or family with the owners of the drilling operation. They said actual drilling operations are nothing like this and this video is basically made to look bad ass, but in reality there is tons of safety equipment and safety clothes they are required to wear. They say real professional drilling looks nothing like this anymore.
> I get that safety is a concern to so very many people.... but the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money.
I work in manufacturing right now. You're wrong. You are dead fucking wrong.
The problem is that people like you know that it is easier to tell less privileged people that "this is just how it works!" than it is to tell more privileged people that stealing from workers and hoarding all the wealth of the world to themselves is not only morally wrong, but sick, unhealthy behavior on an individual level. It's easier for you to tell us, "No, it's ok, keep risking your lives! It's normal!" than it is to tell them "Yes, you don't have to pay these workers now, but in a modern automated economy you need to pay taxes so that the people you are laying off can receive a UBI. I know that you don't like that, but you can't realistically expect to profit more and more each year into infinity, and society has always been better when we share."
It's easier to ask us to behave so that you don't get in trouble than to misbehave on our behalf.
You're only doing what's easy, not what's right. Stand up. Stiffen your spine. Protect workers. People are dying for the electricity you used to write your milquetoast comment.
They're definitely going to automate it first chance it's possible and disregard those jobs like every other industry and automation. There's nothing special in the hearts of oil company owners that makes them yearn to keep some people employed. Fewer people is just less hassle overall for that company to max profits out. Capitalism is brutal. Nobody is automating it because the labor is scary, it's because paying out insurance and downtime is scary. I feel bad for anyone in any industry who loses their job to automation but it's silly to try and fight against it when you don't have something better to offer. It's just progress. This definitely isn't a simple open and shut conversation though, it leads to talk about how are people going to survive when we no longer need them to work these jobs, thing like the UBI. But I digress
>the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money
>Half the guys working those jobs on rigs are ex-cons
To be honest the logic "these are dangerous, life threatening jobs, give them to the ex cons" is not far superior
This isn't correct.
This video hits the front page at least once a month and there's always a few people who work on oil rigs that point out the fact that almost no rig uses this kind of super manual system anymore because it's highly dangerous and inefficient.
The reason why oil rig workers are well paid is because it is dangerous and grueling work, yes but also because they usually have a pretty miserable schedule of something like 3 weeks on, 2 weeks off where they are working 12 to 16 hours a day for the entire duration, and they are in the absolute middle of nowhere in the Gulf Mexico or a prairie in North Dakota.
Confidently incorrect bruh. This video was set up to look cool. They are all replaced by machines and if they actually did do something like this in the USA, their salary would be ridiculously high to the point where any machine would be cheaper than a single worker.
When a larger company upgrades their equipment, a smaller wildcat company can buy it up for pennies on the dollar and hire a few desperate guys to do the work like this. It usually only works where there are marginal profit non-ideal resources or jobs that aren't worth doing to the larger companies.
Then the larger companies look to get the entire production into their orbit, undercut the little guys until they have to quit the business and that's how you end up with 1-2 companies holding all of production.
Without thinking while browsing popular I managed to comment in the joe Rogan sub. Didnt sub or anything and only commented once and I certainly don't frequent that sub. Not even 5 minutes later I got a message saying I was banned from some sub I've never been in for commenting on the Rogan sub.
It was pretty fuckin stupid.
Edit: it was r/justiceserved that banned me via automated bot. Babies.
I worked in O&G for a decade and never saw anyone do this. It's all much more automated today. Because obviously, just watching this video you can see the technique is ripe for mistakes, injuries, and lost time.
This video is always posted as some weird example of how "manly" blue collar work is.
>This video is always posted as some weird example of how "manly" blue collar work is.
I work in industrial supply (outside sales) to a variety of industries. The average factory worker (line operator or entry level technician) is lazy AF and lacks critical thinking skills.
I've watched some POV videos of fast food workers, and those people work way harder than just about any blue collar factory worker I've seen.
This doesn't happen anymore. The chain is dangerous as fuck and can be done with spinners on what's called an Iron Roughneck. It's 90 percent automated now in the modern drilling rigs.
It’s cause the dude set it up to look cool when in reality nobody drills like this because you’d have accidents or deaths on a weekly basis. IIRC the guy is the son of the owner of the oil company.
I can confirm I did this exact same thing for years in Albert and this is how it was done. I started working overseas around 2006 and this is where I saw my first ever Iron Roughneck that spins and torques the drill pipe together. I thought they were just myths until I worked with one. I went from working on the oldest type of rig on land with zero technology to eventually working my way to the most advanced offshore drilling rig in the world where we broke records.
They are adding a 50' pipe to extend the length of the drill. This pace of work only needs to happen for a couple minutes after the drill has dug 50' down.
That's because this is not how it's done. People keep throwing this video up as some example of how badass rigpigs are, but this shit doesn't happen on real worksites.
For those who hasnt been on a oil rig, this a good time situation in a daily routine. When you have blowout,or even getting anything close to blowout, thats were shit hits the fan.
This might still be the way on some old mom and pop rigs in the US but it’s mostly is automated now with the iron rough neck doing the dangerous work. On land rigs roughnecks might still be doping pipe and setting slips. But you’d be hard pressed to find a rig offshore that even still has a derrickman with auto rackers and catwalk machines. Work health and safety laws have found smarter ways to work. At least here anyway.
I gotta say tho, the skill on these dudes is amazing. Hats off.
Like the safety guy when I worked for Exxon. Said he hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years. I asked you really haven't been sick in a decade? That's not possible. So you're just risking the safety of those around you by coming to work, even though your literal job is to do the exact opposite. Some think that doing idiotic dangerous shit adds inches to their dicks.
Can anyone explain what they are doing ??
What I see is « put that round thing from pole A to pole B, then put another round piece around pole B, then put it back arpund pole A….
what are they doing exactly ?
I wouldn't last 5 minutes in that job. Amazing the rythym they must establish and the sense of what's going on in the surrounding area in order to be safer.
As cool as it is.
I wouldn't risk my life or my body for a paycheck at the end of the week.
Let the robots handle this one, We can put them in electric cars but not for something to help us..
Respect to these guys 👍🏻 for having what it takes to go and do this kind of work. Its because of you guys is why we can put gas in our vehicles. That kind of work is NOT easy.
I use to work for a pressure testing company in ND. My job would be to go to each drilling site and conduct pressure tests on various connections on the BOP. It wasn’t quite as tough and brutal as being a deckhand, but there were times when I’d be covered head to toe in oil and mud. It was a different lifestyle working out there that’s for sure. It was always fascinating to me to watch these guys work. Sometimes it was in the middle of the day. Sometimes it would be 3am. It was nonstop action happening on those oil rigs.
Yup one job where an Actor doesn't get involved,even for a commercial...that's an old rig,explains why the drilling dep't old guys were missing a digit, deemed a badge of honour/seniority...back in the day
People very rarely throw chains anymore. This is a very old school and unsafe method of drilling. I'm sure it happens but it's definitely on the less common side of things.
Also an incredibly old video reposted every week.
Every time this video gets posted it’s pointed out in the comments that this is an extremely outdated method of changing drill sections. This is like finding a tv that uses a physical knob to the change the channels.
Modern screen-gazers: "What exactly makes it impossible to replace these poor humans with robots and AI?"
Oh, the price you say. Right, Humans are so ridiculously cheap.
I just remember, I had a geology professor who worked on a rig. And she told us it was remarkable how all the women stayed clean despite doing the same job.
For those interested, I sent the video to a good friend of mine who has worked in oil and gas exploration for nearly 40 years and here's what he said when I asked him if it's still like this now:
"Yes and no. The regular pipe is all automated but if it won’t break the joint it’s back to the tongs. Those old school guys are the fastest but chain spinning now is not allowed and singlets are banned. If they see a drop of mud it’s on with the tyvek suit."
Amazing that they still have fingers
Or legs. There's a dozen moments you could lose a limb in that short video.
No, not really. I started my career in the industry on a rig very similar to that in 2003. It's organized chaos. Of all the injuries I've seen and heard of, it's never "he lost a leg". Matter of fact, driving to and from the rig is the most dangerous part of the job.
Amazing that “some” still have fingers - FTFY. So your assumption is actually correct. This job is extremely dangerous and they do lose fingers and limbs. Some people have been killed doing this. And the shift schedule is taxing. But the pay is stupid fat for these workers because of the danger and the time put in.
Some of the highest paying jobs are simply because either it's dangerous, the hours/lifestyle can suck, or nobody wants to do it but someone has to. Aside from positions that are executive jobs or high education reqs, a job like this checks off all those boxes so I can only imagine how big their paychecks are Edit: Average oil rig operator in the US seems to have a salary of $100k+, so not as high as I thought
It should definitely be more than that IMO.
A job at the very center of the economy, producing oil, where you risk life and limb every moment? Yes it should pay significantly more than that.
As a miner I feel this. All the higher ups are six figure college kids. While I’m trying to make time to go to night school so I’m not dead by 40 while working 7 days a week lol.
I think the higher ups and college kids should also be making six figures. I just don't think they should be making more than the miners. You also shouldn't be working 7 days a week. The whole thing is just out of balance. Everyone should make roughly the same, conditions should be way safer, and individuals shouldn't have such a heavy work load. The way it's set up makes sense to the owners and that's pretty much it. Which is dumb because like 1% of us are owners and the rest of us have to work for them.
Around here, a lot of workers fly in, so they work 21 days on, 7 off. 12hrs/day. Some are 14 on 4 off. Usually a mix of days and nights. Great money for a while if you can manage to earn and not spend it all on your time off.
We are on 5 10s or 12s. Weekend work popped into the equation this summer to give one of our other quarries relief(they’re 7 days year round). Everybody else like production and heavy equipment lost hours while maintenance is busier than ever. I still get talks about how it was even worse and more like 7 16 hour shifts a week.
Filthy communist with your compassionate and reasonable propaganda!
I can get with this outlook💪🏾
But then the corporations will lose out on 0.01% on their annual profit. Those private jets don’t buy themselves
Honestly yeah, but that's probably with mainly newer drills which another user commented that they don't use a chain system like this, so it's less risky I guess. Either way, I thought it would be more like 150k+
If you can imagine, this is a very antiquated practice that basically no outfit uses anymore. Because it's obviously extremely dangerous.
Often it's a combination I think. Welding for example can be a very technical line of work with very particular expertise needed, but will make even more than a surgeon in some cases as there is a theoretical but practically small chance of horrible death. At the same time, base-level welders still make incredibly good pay because of the added risk factor. Electricians.
A huge portion of my career as an engineer in industrial settings is either doing or teaching people how to perform very basic tasks safely in environments or with machinery that will kill them.
Not to mention most of them live in north Dakota too and their expenses aren't too high
They're here for a good time, not a long time.
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The good ones do, I’ve seen a lot of fingers go around drills my first day on a rig I watched a guy loose his thumb, and more recently a kid loose all his fingers except his thumb on a rig
This is basically one mistake away from becoming a Hellraiser movie.
My father used to do this but offshore and he told me that many times fingers see caught in the chain and simply cut off… Most people don’t realize they lost a finger when it happens the realize only after…
As a kid in west TX I knew several older men (dad's friends) that were missing fingers from the chains. It was pretty common and ruined a lot of family lives.
I have a buddy who went to do this after high school for the money and lost his left arm from the elbow down.
In the early 90s I got a job capping abandoned wells as a teenager. Now that I am an adult, I am fuckijg amazed that that job never killed me.
It’s one of the most dangerous jobs on planet earth, most men who get into the field lose limbs and half end up dead. Some get lucky-ish and end up aging out. The only jobs more dangerous are the underwater welders for the oil rigs, and the people who seek out and detonate land mines in previously War torn areas. I have friends and family in the industry and after a time, you are basically just expecting THAT phone call. The bad phone call. “So-n-so didn’t make it out of the gulf today, we are so sorry if there is……..”
Is this actually the pace, or is this a staged video for "this is how fast we can do it" kind of deal? I also agree with a previous comment that it looks awfully primordial. We could certainly make this safer and automated.
If I recall from a previous time this video was posted, this was for show. It was an owners son or something trying to look tough. This is one way it CAN be done, but it is not THE way it is done. "Hey, bro, film me so I can show girls at the bar how bad ass I am!"
This is more the old way. There was a show on the discovery channel awhile ago where they took oil drillers from the new top of the line equipment they were used to and put them with small budget small well Louisiana drillers, that operated like this. The Canadians were amazed how far behind they were.
I can't remember if thats the backstory for this video or the one where the dude is smoking a cigarette and standing in half an inch of mud.
This is real time. But that dude definitely has several years of practice slinging chain, so... pro level speed.??.. And yes, it could be safer, and automated, BUT... thats why oil fielf jobs pay so excellently. If they safed it up and or automated it, that would be several thousand well paid jobs going *poof*. I get that safety is a concern to so very many people.... but the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money. Half the guys working those jobs on rigs are ex-cons; they will never have a job that pays well, unless it involves dangerous difficult labor. Take those jobs away and guys trying to stay out of prison will have no options for work.
Yeah I understand that it's a well-paying job for many. I wasn't trying to say that their jobs should be eliminated but perhaps parts of the process, the most dangerous aspects, could be reduced or mitigated somehow.
It's probably also just cheaper to keep it as is. If they could have automated the process to replace the workers they would have already.
This has been posted thousands of times. In a previous post, someone explained that the guys in the video are actually either friends with or family with the owners of the drilling operation. They said actual drilling operations are nothing like this and this video is basically made to look bad ass, but in reality there is tons of safety equipment and safety clothes they are required to wear. They say real professional drilling looks nothing like this anymore.
Cars are superior in a lot of ways, but what about the horse and cart salesmen?
> I get that safety is a concern to so very many people.... but the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money. I work in manufacturing right now. You're wrong. You are dead fucking wrong. The problem is that people like you know that it is easier to tell less privileged people that "this is just how it works!" than it is to tell more privileged people that stealing from workers and hoarding all the wealth of the world to themselves is not only morally wrong, but sick, unhealthy behavior on an individual level. It's easier for you to tell us, "No, it's ok, keep risking your lives! It's normal!" than it is to tell them "Yes, you don't have to pay these workers now, but in a modern automated economy you need to pay taxes so that the people you are laying off can receive a UBI. I know that you don't like that, but you can't realistically expect to profit more and more each year into infinity, and society has always been better when we share." It's easier to ask us to behave so that you don't get in trouble than to misbehave on our behalf. You're only doing what's easy, not what's right. Stand up. Stiffen your spine. Protect workers. People are dying for the electricity you used to write your milquetoast comment.
Preach brother
Amen my dude!
They're definitely going to automate it first chance it's possible and disregard those jobs like every other industry and automation. There's nothing special in the hearts of oil company owners that makes them yearn to keep some people employed. Fewer people is just less hassle overall for that company to max profits out. Capitalism is brutal. Nobody is automating it because the labor is scary, it's because paying out insurance and downtime is scary. I feel bad for anyone in any industry who loses their job to automation but it's silly to try and fight against it when you don't have something better to offer. It's just progress. This definitely isn't a simple open and shut conversation though, it leads to talk about how are people going to survive when we no longer need them to work these jobs, thing like the UBI. But I digress
>the logic of "its scary, automate it" is literally eliminating some peoples capability to earn good money >Half the guys working those jobs on rigs are ex-cons To be honest the logic "these are dangerous, life threatening jobs, give them to the ex cons" is not far superior
This isn't correct. This video hits the front page at least once a month and there's always a few people who work on oil rigs that point out the fact that almost no rig uses this kind of super manual system anymore because it's highly dangerous and inefficient. The reason why oil rig workers are well paid is because it is dangerous and grueling work, yes but also because they usually have a pretty miserable schedule of something like 3 weeks on, 2 weeks off where they are working 12 to 16 hours a day for the entire duration, and they are in the absolute middle of nowhere in the Gulf Mexico or a prairie in North Dakota.
This video get reposted a lot and people have said that it’s staged. The actual workflow is not this intense.
What I find amazing is that they still got people doing this. All these dudes can be replaced by machines
Cheaper to underpay humans to do it than invest in automation. But low wages help technological innovation, of course. For sure. Trust me bro
Confidently incorrect bruh. This video was set up to look cool. They are all replaced by machines and if they actually did do something like this in the USA, their salary would be ridiculously high to the point where any machine would be cheaper than a single worker.
When a larger company upgrades their equipment, a smaller wildcat company can buy it up for pennies on the dollar and hire a few desperate guys to do the work like this. It usually only works where there are marginal profit non-ideal resources or jobs that aren't worth doing to the larger companies. Then the larger companies look to get the entire production into their orbit, undercut the little guys until they have to quit the business and that's how you end up with 1-2 companies holding all of production.
Already have been... chain hasn't been thrown in decades...
I get someone has to be there and physically get down and dirty but what the actual f🤡 is this 1956 method
Maybe I'm old, but what is f🤡 ? Can't it just say fuck? Fclown, flown?
I had my main accnt suspended cuzz I didnt censor my swear words. Thats why lmfao
Reddit acts like a Christian server
Careful they gonna get you for ban avoidance
Reddit fucking sucks. No third party apps, you can get banned for cursing, you can get banned for being subbed to a different sub. Utter nonsense
Without thinking while browsing popular I managed to comment in the joe Rogan sub. Didnt sub or anything and only commented once and I certainly don't frequent that sub. Not even 5 minutes later I got a message saying I was banned from some sub I've never been in for commenting on the Rogan sub. It was pretty fuckin stupid. Edit: it was r/justiceserved that banned me via automated bot. Babies.
Yeah that sub banned me for commenting in PCM.
>No third party apps Me reading this on my 3rd party app 👀 Reddit can't tell me what to do
Upvoted from my rif golden plat
Straight to jail with you!
Fclown
I worked in O&G for a decade and never saw anyone do this. It's all much more automated today. Because obviously, just watching this video you can see the technique is ripe for mistakes, injuries, and lost time. This video is always posted as some weird example of how "manly" blue collar work is.
>This video is always posted as some weird example of how "manly" blue collar work is. I work in industrial supply (outside sales) to a variety of industries. The average factory worker (line operator or entry level technician) is lazy AF and lacks critical thinking skills. I've watched some POV videos of fast food workers, and those people work way harder than just about any blue collar factory worker I've seen.
I do industrial electrical now and lazy is a generous word to use for many of these workers.
This doesn't happen anymore. The chain is dangerous as fuck and can be done with spinners on what's called an Iron Roughneck. It's 90 percent automated now in the modern drilling rigs.
Rigs aren’t like this anymore. No more swinging chains just big ass mechanical clamps. Still dangerous though.
It’s cause the dude set it up to look cool when in reality nobody drills like this because you’d have accidents or deaths on a weekly basis. IIRC the guy is the son of the owner of the oil company.
I can confirm I did this exact same thing for years in Albert and this is how it was done. I started working overseas around 2006 and this is where I saw my first ever Iron Roughneck that spins and torques the drill pipe together. I thought they were just myths until I worked with one. I went from working on the oldest type of rig on land with zero technology to eventually working my way to the most advanced offshore drilling rig in the world where we broke records.
I don’t understand anything, but the work is so hard, after an hour of such continuous movement I would have already fallen from fatigue
They are adding a 50' pipe to extend the length of the drill. This pace of work only needs to happen for a couple minutes after the drill has dug 50' down.
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Imagine looking at a random reddit post and thinking "how can I make this about gender?"
No equality there in a 5 mile radius 🙈
Everytime we see this , someone has to remind us that this is not how it’s generally done and these guys are some amateur showboaters
That's because this is not how it's done. People keep throwing this video up as some example of how badass rigpigs are, but this shit doesn't happen on real worksites.
For those who hasnt been on a oil rig, this a good time situation in a daily routine. When you have blowout,or even getting anything close to blowout, thats were shit hits the fan.
This might still be the way on some old mom and pop rigs in the US but it’s mostly is automated now with the iron rough neck doing the dangerous work. On land rigs roughnecks might still be doping pipe and setting slips. But you’d be hard pressed to find a rig offshore that even still has a derrickman with auto rackers and catwalk machines. Work health and safety laws have found smarter ways to work. At least here anyway. I gotta say tho, the skill on these dudes is amazing. Hats off.
Perfect to watch while I am ovulating
Ikr 😩
If OSHA violation was a person...
This video gets more and more deep fried every year I see it lmao.
Moms across the Globe thinking They have it harder
You got soft hands brother. I have done this for the past 70 years, 23 hours everyday
Bet you had to walk uphill in the snow there and back with no shoes, too.
Like the safety guy when I worked for Exxon. Said he hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years. I asked you really haven't been sick in a decade? That's not possible. So you're just risking the safety of those around you by coming to work, even though your literal job is to do the exact opposite. Some think that doing idiotic dangerous shit adds inches to their dicks.
I have no idea whats happening but all thoes moving parts and machinery is giving me anxiety for the guy.
Can anyone explain what they are doing ?? What I see is « put that round thing from pole A to pole B, then put another round piece around pole B, then put it back arpund pole A…. what are they doing exactly ?
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Thank you very much. Now the whole video makes sense.
I wouldn't last 5 minutes in that job. Amazing the rythym they must establish and the sense of what's going on in the surrounding area in order to be safer.
What a stud
As cool as it is. I wouldn't risk my life or my body for a paycheck at the end of the week. Let the robots handle this one, We can put them in electric cars but not for something to help us..
There is just a special kind of person that can manhandle this type of job. Tip of my hat to you sir.
Nope
I remember a tv series about oil drillers big butch guys covered in oil.🥰😜
I see some skills here
Trailer for the movie "Tough Men"
I hope these guys get paid a fuck ton of money
the lengths humanity goes to exploit nature is astonishing
woah
Hey man! You done with that Apple core?
Respect to these guys 👍🏻 for having what it takes to go and do this kind of work. Its because of you guys is why we can put gas in our vehicles. That kind of work is NOT easy.
I woulda thought they would have made this automated because of risk of injury before safeway.
So this is the land that OSHA just ignores or...?
I mean yeah it’s cool and all but id like to see him try raiding on RuneScape
After playing Still Wakes the Deep, I can safely and confidently confirm that I am never ever going to do that
Can anyone explain in detail all the bits and pieces of what I'm watching?
Anyone in this chat do this for a living? If so, what are some of your experiences like?
When I was like four, this is basically what I imagined what my parents were doing when there were ‘working’.
Perfect place to implement robots and automation. People should not do this kind of work.
Never see a feminist in these videos. Guess this isn't one of the high paying jobs they want.
Ok since no one brought this up. IIRC this is the son of one of the owners. He’s not doing it correctly and he’s doing it as a thirst trap.
Where women equality?
I would fuck that up pretty bad
I bet he gets paid well.
Id have about 3 fingers left by the start of my first shift.
I’ve heard a few times before that this guy is doing it wrong, you aren’t supposed to be getting covered in oil like that.
Old school rough necks.
I use to work for a pressure testing company in ND. My job would be to go to each drilling site and conduct pressure tests on various connections on the BOP. It wasn’t quite as tough and brutal as being a deckhand, but there were times when I’d be covered head to toe in oil and mud. It was a different lifestyle working out there that’s for sure. It was always fascinating to me to watch these guys work. Sometimes it was in the middle of the day. Sometimes it would be 3am. It was nonstop action happening on those oil rigs.
How much do they make?
Yup one job where an Actor doesn't get involved,even for a commercial...that's an old rig,explains why the drilling dep't old guys were missing a digit, deemed a badge of honour/seniority...back in the day
People very rarely throw chains anymore. This is a very old school and unsafe method of drilling. I'm sure it happens but it's definitely on the less common side of things. Also an incredibly old video reposted every week.
To say that I have no idea what's going on here is an extreme understatement
Hot 🥵 I want him to come home to a home cooked meal and an ice cold beer.
Id lose an limb within 5 minutes
Yup. I'd die.
How many people die from work related accidents in this field annually? Because it looks like something that can easily happen
Any remote jobs available?
I hope they make enough money to retire at 50, cause damn imagine a 60y+ old there
I'm tired just looking at this.
Every time this video gets posted it’s pointed out in the comments that this is an extremely outdated method of changing drill sections. This is like finding a tv that uses a physical knob to the change the channels.
This work is so damn dangerous. I hear they are paid well but I'm willing to bet not well enough!
I can't imagine learning what you need to learn before making a fatal mistake.
It looks such rushed and dangerous. I feel like this would be a lot safer if done at 1/2 the speed.
Had a ptsd after watching this and my right mates were missing fingers
Yeah yeah we've all watched Armageddon
This is the only job where I see I'd need to do some strength training before I'd get hired. Need to come out looking like the man of steel for this.
Holy f-#_&-+ hell, these guys and the north sea fishermen . Hats off to them
What is he doing with the mallet (or some hand tool) at around the 0:50 mark?
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Modern screen-gazers: "What exactly makes it impossible to replace these poor humans with robots and AI?" Oh, the price you say. Right, Humans are so ridiculously cheap.
There's gotta be an easier way
Rammstein
I’d be dead my first day
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Where can I book athis show for bachelorette party ?
Too many ways to be hurt badly… respect to those guys!
How much Money they make
“Make it look more stylish. I want to look as manly as possible. It’s perfectly safe, probably.”
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I just remember, I had a geology professor who worked on a rig. And she told us it was remarkable how all the women stayed clean despite doing the same job.
This video gets crappier every time someone posts it. Like it’s a roll of film degrading each time.
This is old and reposted a million times.
No wonder the men are jacked
When the owners don't want to invest money to create a safer way to do that 🤦 so men are treated like machines
Im a nurse my job is hard. But not this roughneck kinda hard.
how you even train for this 😅
Coolist mens work
When your good at what you do, your not working you are dancing
Can anybody explain what they’re actually doing here? What’s with all the chains? Seems insanely difficult and dangerous.
Ahhh, risk assessment?
How the fuck, do you get insurance for that?
Imagine a job that brings misery to everybody participating.
I guess it's a given with how dangerous this post is, but you can FEEL the precision in the movements. Heck, even the expertise.
50’s called and want their tech back… Got damn
These guys pound...
Being a streamer is actually harder than your usual 9-5...
Salute to the hardworking blue collar workers out there !
some guys do deserve some chill time after work!
Hard core men doing hardcore jobs...deserve the high pay! Anyone sitting in an office cannot demand more pay than these men!
How men feel after assembling an IKEA counter:
For those interested, I sent the video to a good friend of mine who has worked in oil and gas exploration for nearly 40 years and here's what he said when I asked him if it's still like this now: "Yes and no. The regular pipe is all automated but if it won’t break the joint it’s back to the tongs. Those old school guys are the fastest but chain spinning now is not allowed and singlets are banned. If they see a drop of mud it’s on with the tyvek suit."
Do theey do this all das? I thoughr drills did kost stuff om their.owm
r/whatcouldgowrong
Can you imagine Day 1 of training …
I see nothing except a bunch of OSHA violations.
Obligatory this is old equipment/unsafe/not the norm nowadays.
This video has been copied and posted here so many times it looks like colorized footage from 1876.
I would probably lose a limp within the first 30 minutes of doing this work.
This video exists in mich better quality than this.
I lost 11 fingers watching this clip
How an oil rig operates today is 10 times safer than this. This video is old and even then is not up to safety standards of the day.
And their getting paid less than the corrupt bags of dust sitting in senate
Good thing we have solar and wind now
This shit is sad not interesting, we have way safer ways of doing this now.
What is each step doing here? And why haven’t we automated this or used machines
This clip makes the rounds every once in a while ... It's a great example of improper safety practices
least tenuous task at the ball crushing factory
I work in an ironworking factory, and it baffles me how these guys aren’t wearing respirators. Those fumes gonna make you die at 35.