Legendary. I thought I was cool for hanging out in the dog house as a toddler on my dad's rigs, but there's the little baby in his stroller there... I can't compare.
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@worstofwrestling I work on rigs, my dad worked on rigs around the world for the better part of the last 40 years, and my grandpa worked on rigs 65 years ago, and if they have anything to say about it it's a shade better than it once was. My grandpa could barely remember a tower that the cops didn't stop by to pick somebody up off the rig. I always has been and always will be a rough industry, but the tolerance for unsafe practices and drugs is constantly dropping.
That rig is still out in the field. Big Dog Drilling bought that rig a few years ago. I worked on it for about 2 weeks. Too bad they couldn't buy any hands like that tho.
My Dad had a old Idaco which was a Bycyris erie knock off. He did this all the time this guy is setting tubing not drilling. I worked on my first well at 9 years old.
That is a picture of a man doing his job without all of the government oversight,undersight,and nearsighted 'ness ,not to mention all of the packrats that like to feed in the shadow of a real mans work.
this is the way of life here in west tex. If u live here u would know ur about thirty feet away from a drilling sight more often than yall dumbasses would know.
Pardon my ignorance, but it looks like there are wooden derricks, a more modern rig at one point (with a monkey board), and your truck mounted rotary rig. Talk about some technological overlap!
wtf has he got a kid out there for? fucking chain snap and take that boy out. H2S kill him and his seed. old timers talk about the good old days when they drank on the job and settle fights right there on the rig. ass backward ignorance if you ask me.
@Tonyokay87 you know what is backward ignorance on Youtube? Whiners like you. bellyaching over a video from the past. rather than consider the nostalgia you rip someone for doing what was socially acceptable in that day and age. Now, THAT kind of whining and bellyaching is backward and ignorant both!
Well wussn't they just some bad ass's back then! dayum now that look's like work! Tightent the dayum pipe with a hand chain! F-that! Prop's to this ole' boy he lived a hard ass life! His ole lady better had gave him a message dinner and ass everyday when he got home!
@hiltzie Technology is advancing, more people are living in the cities and farm work is getting easier. Thats how it is, humans keep moving forward. Hard workers aren't needed now as they were back then, we cant live in the past.
One of my best summers was being assigned to work a purchase of Huntington Beach Field leases. At the time I was working out of Bakersfield so an all expense trip to the beach was a welcome relief. Good oil town before the extremists ruined our great State.
Now that's a working man ! Gerald Ferris was drilling a water well by himself as he always did out in south west New Mexico when he tore his right arm off at the elbow . He used his belt as a tourniquet and shut the rig down before driving himself to a ranch house for help . No one should not do this kind of work alone no matter how good he is at it .
All I can say is WOW I saw an older guy in Ohio one time that had been doing that for awhile. By himself. Old Bob Crum. He asked me if I would come out where he was drilling to give him a hand for a couple of days out past Salt Fork because he messed up his hand. That man was one hellava worker. We all were back then.
Yeah, The one in the water looked like the one by delaware that had that goofy looking jack on it in the early 70's. The camera really throws off the perspective.
After staring at the shot for a bit I could see the stuff up at 17th and the dirt road running up there from the end of Alabama street, Also the pine trees in the field. My brother built a shooting blind in one of those. It was an interesting spot ot grow up in, It's a wonder we didn't get poisoned playing in that pond.
If thats the pond off Huntington Street I sank (or had sank out from under me) more than one raft in that pond. My frame of reference only goes back to 63 or so but that doesn't look like the area to me. You know which well he is working at the beginning of the video.
If you have any more videos or even still pictures of that area it would be cool to see them.
It was a well on the north side of the pond about 100ft from Huntington street, the camera angle was facing huntington st. with part of that small hill where17th and the RR tracks were (in the background), the well pumping at the end was close to Deleware in the same lake looking toward Hunington St.
thats riggin'. now a day's they got the push, driller, derekhand, and some ever have 3 rough necks now. and guys still bitch about working to hard. awesome video, cute kid to lol. post more
speechless,i'm 3rd generation oilfield trash.brings back memories.i used to play and eat lunches inside stacks of x-over spools! the only time i saw my dad was when i went to work with him.started cleaning bolts with a wire brush & diesel when i was 7 or 9? now i push tools on a bullshit rig.
Bravo! I use to drill by myself underground all the time. I could trip out of the hole faster than anybody else with a helper!
a2zhandi 3 weeks ago
do you know where there is some drilling rig parts to an a old lay down rig mostly need 17 in rotary table
bilpayne 2 months ago
Meow that's impressive.
snaatch5 2 months ago
Interesting clip, this guy was a one man Army.
kookaburrakookaburra 4 months ago
Legendary. I thought I was cool for hanging out in the dog house as a toddler on my dad's rigs, but there's the little baby in his stroller there... I can't compare.
ShackieChan 5 months ago
@ShackieChan lmao
a2zhandi 3 weeks ago
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gregjalbert 5 months ago
looks like LA in the movie 13th floor. rigs everywhere.
PrimeTargetSecurity 5 months ago
good old days...now every young bloke who spends 3 months on a rig thinks they need a pay rise coz they are experts
ig0r0t27 6 months ago
That's for that clip. It was cool to see!!
swbyrd 6 months ago
Should have his kid doping the pipe
TheHalfround 7 months ago
Before all the fucking high school drop outs and prisoners took over the oil field....
worstofwrestling 7 months ago
@worstofwrestling I work on rigs, my dad worked on rigs around the world for the better part of the last 40 years, and my grandpa worked on rigs 65 years ago, and if they have anything to say about it it's a shade better than it once was. My grandpa could barely remember a tower that the cops didn't stop by to pick somebody up off the rig. I always has been and always will be a rough industry, but the tolerance for unsafe practices and drugs is constantly dropping.
ShackieChan 5 months ago
THIS IS COOL, WITH KID THERE,,. THAT WAS A DIFFRENT TIME,..THAT WAS A ROUGHNECK FOR SURE.
pyperirvin 8 months ago
back in the Gold Standard! we get hard asses like that in the patch anymore!
swtxredneck 8 months ago
holy fuck using chain tongs for torque!! thats a fuckin roughneck!
mjb1014 8 months ago
that is called keeping busy
crudeoilsystems 8 months ago
this man ain't jacking around!!!
mta415 9 months ago
Any hand worth his salt could do the same.
ramrodrigpig 9 months ago
Holy crap he's not that good. I can and have done the same on a service rig.
ramrodrigpig 9 months ago
that one man is equal to all of northern alberta- a real o G
phillybluntsj 10 months ago
i heard you breathe throughout the clip!
izaatmusic 10 months ago
@izaatmusic haha! yeah i noticed, i should have put music or something to it.
californiacrude 10 months ago
BRANIF PERU SAC
juanclark1 10 months ago
That rig is still out in the field. Big Dog Drilling bought that rig a few years ago. I worked on it for about 2 weeks. Too bad they couldn't buy any hands like that tho.
brucetoddehrenberg 10 months ago
my question is, "how does his shirt stay so white?"
emigrantgap 10 months ago
i need a hand like that! hed be my ad the first day haha
southwestroghneck 11 months ago
My Dad had a old Idaco which was a Bycyris erie knock off. He did this all the time this guy is setting tubing not drilling. I worked on my first well at 9 years old.
MrSimonGirty 11 months ago
hes actually tripping pipe into a well that has already been drilled
antonioWiseGuys 1 year ago
That is a picture of a man doing his job without all of the government oversight,undersight,and nearsighted 'ness ,not to mention all of the packrats that like to feed in the shadow of a real mans work.
I'll bet his boots are still proud.....
woodnsteel19 1 year ago
@woodnsteel19 well said
adysdaddy2010 11 months ago
this is the way of life here in west tex. If u live here u would know ur about thirty feet away from a drilling sight more often than yall dumbasses would know.
slumster81 1 year ago
that's not just a lake, thats oil in the background!
slakkia 1 year ago
Pardon my ignorance, but it looks like there are wooden derricks, a more modern rig at one point (with a monkey board), and your truck mounted rotary rig. Talk about some technological overlap!
CoverMyMouth 1 year ago
wtf has he got a kid out there for? fucking chain snap and take that boy out. H2S kill him and his seed. old timers talk about the good old days when they drank on the job and settle fights right there on the rig. ass backward ignorance if you ask me.
Tonyokay87 1 year ago
@Tonyokay87 you know what is backward ignorance on Youtube? Whiners like you. bellyaching over a video from the past. rather than consider the nostalgia you rip someone for doing what was socially acceptable in that day and age. Now, THAT kind of whining and bellyaching is backward and ignorant both!
vutEwa 1 year ago
ha ha yeaaaaaaaaa now thats rough necking...
coleleo86 1 year ago
wow man fucking badass vid.
MEXICANnotmexicanTt 1 year ago
how does he do it without making any noise?
k77jones 1 year ago 2
Great Video!
robulus43 1 year ago
pulling units only need one person these are gay
nofear2118 1 year ago
Well wussn't they just some bad ass's back then! dayum now that look's like work! Tightent the dayum pipe with a hand chain! F-that! Prop's to this ole' boy he lived a hard ass life! His ole lady better had gave him a message dinner and ass everyday when he got home!
TeamTejas 1 year ago
Great Video! I like seeing the other derricks in the background.
tyoung317 1 year ago
Clone him and bring him out to the patch....he's a dying breed
hiltzie 1 year ago 13
@hiltzie Technology is advancing, more people are living in the cities and farm work is getting easier. Thats how it is, humans keep moving forward. Hard workers aren't needed now as they were back then, we cant live in the past.
KevJumbaify 10 months ago
aint nothing like ol school roughnecking!! super drill! hey check out mine look up jvrigman in the searchbox
jvrigman 2 years ago
jam up job hand. makes you proud to have a TRUE old school driller.
bradoe2003 2 years ago
Thats a Hand right there!
kylez1dad 2 years ago
that's what you call making a hand right there!
lvcoats74848 2 years ago
That thing is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOMADdaf 2 years ago
This is awesome!!!!! Thanks
luke12275 2 years ago
One of my best summers was being assigned to work a purchase of Huntington Beach Field leases. At the time I was working out of Bakersfield so an all expense trip to the beach was a welcome relief. Good oil town before the extremists ruined our great State.
calandman 2 years ago 2
did you work at the kern river chevron lease when you worked in bakersfield?
untillirott 2 years ago
Well that was a quick response! Tell him he's a real american.
RainJetSprinklers 2 years ago
This is the same guy that is in the video where hes talking about his Moreland workover rig, right?
RainJetSprinklers 2 years ago
WOW
photoskip 2 years ago
I loved the dog clutch.
JEMCO2008 2 years ago
At the end of the day he can afford to say " Man , this was a hard day of work ! "
birozsombor 2 years ago 4
Yes sir!!!!
That was bad ASS! He's a giant amongst men.
shmoab 2 years ago
That's a man.
rkdrillingrigsoil 2 years ago
Now that's a working man ! Gerald Ferris was drilling a water well by himself as he always did out in south west New Mexico when he tore his right arm off at the elbow . He used his belt as a tourniquet and shut the rig down before driving himself to a ranch house for help . No one should not do this kind of work alone no matter how good he is at it .
jodyandsteve 2 years ago
The well he drilled (this one) still producing?
RainJetSprinklers 2 years ago
Thats a mans man, men.
tjdionne 2 years ago
My hardhat goes off to that guy, all us next generation riggers should pay our respects to these men.
surrealismisabitch 2 years ago 2
My Hero!!!!
motors69 2 years ago
THAT man is what you call a "REAL AMERICAN"
DrMotorDude 2 years ago 3
All I can say is WOW I saw an older guy in Ohio one time that had been doing that for awhile. By himself. Old Bob Crum. He asked me if I would come out where he was drilling to give him a hand for a couple of days out past Salt Fork because he messed up his hand. That man was one hellava worker. We all were back then.
cbstout12345 2 years ago
is that 3" drill rod
deauzie 2 years ago
looks smaller to me!!
motors69 2 years ago
thats 2 7/8 tubing
tjdionne 2 years ago
Yeah, The one in the water looked like the one by delaware that had that goofy looking jack on it in the early 70's. The camera really throws off the perspective.
After staring at the shot for a bit I could see the stuff up at 17th and the dirt road running up there from the end of Alabama street, Also the pine trees in the field. My brother built a shooting blind in one of those. It was an interesting spot ot grow up in, It's a wonder we didn't get poisoned playing in that pond.
slarsen00 2 years ago 2
If thats the pond off Huntington Street I sank (or had sank out from under me) more than one raft in that pond. My frame of reference only goes back to 63 or so but that doesn't look like the area to me. You know which well he is working at the beginning of the video.
If you have any more videos or even still pictures of that area it would be cool to see them.
slarsen00 2 years ago
It was a well on the north side of the pond about 100ft from Huntington street, the camera angle was facing huntington st. with part of that small hill where17th and the RR tracks were (in the background), the well pumping at the end was close to Deleware in the same lake looking toward Hunington St.
californiacrude 2 years ago
Any idea what part of Huntington that site was at?
slarsen00 2 years ago
near Huntington and Utica streets
californiacrude 2 years ago
Bow Down..!
PalSimba 2 years ago
Wow!
godbod007 2 years ago
no fuckin way dude holy shit this guys a pimp
ptscao 2 years ago 2
@ptscao lol
vtnsx 1 year ago
Fuckin' eh. But how did he stab the pipe and lower the blocks at the same time?
spotandedgar 3 years ago
That guy is hard as fuck.
donmac55 3 years ago
thats riggin'. now a day's they got the push, driller, derekhand, and some ever have 3 rough necks now. and guys still bitch about working to hard. awesome video, cute kid to lol. post more
lanman09 3 years ago
HAHA This i great i alwasy told my hands i could clutch the rig and pull the slips at the same time this guy did it!
Awesome
mikeymaras487 3 years ago
how did he have to go for oil ?
deauzie 3 years ago
look at all that tubing that dude has to run all by himself...lol...
snowbiker111 3 years ago
Drill Drill Drill!!!!!
TuskAmerica 3 years ago
speechless,i'm 3rd generation oilfield trash.brings back memories.i used to play and eat lunches inside stacks of x-over spools! the only time i saw my dad was when i went to work with him.started cleaning bolts with a wire brush & diesel when i was 7 or 9? now i push tools on a bullshit rig.
oilfieldskate 3 years ago
this is some hardcore rigging here.....remind me not to cry next time i have to pick up 3 1/2 off a trailer by myself
V155 3 years ago
Lol we were picking 3 1/2 yesterday. Not the funnest thing I've done on a rig.
Aramaxus 3 years ago
Awesome vintage footage
AlbequerqeTurkey 3 years ago
thank you for sharing part of our oil field history.
misterchango 3 years ago
Wow, this is great... A real piece of history!
sabergrl 3 years ago 8