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Originally Posted by simonkenton7
"stand of 8” from the board tryin to latch up".

"Saw a derrickhand come down the Geronimo line"

"Geronimo line" and "8 inch." Oil field slang. Since I haven't worked in an oilfield, I don't know what you are talking about.




It’s a whole new language and makes it easy to mess with green hands.

Once sent a guy from the doghouse to the pusher to the company man to the mud engineer to MWD to the DD and back to the co man trying to get a box of toolfaces that the driller had ordered. Everybody was in on it and just kept sending him in circles. Got him again a couple days later with the key to the v door.

Didn’t have the heart to send him to talk to the mud logger. Makin somebody talk to a mud logger is a step too far.

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Dad and I did location work...so we got around them some.


Musta been a completion or maybe it was a workover....I can't remember.

They had just repowered the rig with a new 60 series and a total fresh coat of paint.

Looked and ran nice.


The next day we went back and there was a kid cleaning the derrick with a pail of diesel and a stiff bristled brush.

Oil every place. It was still set up....he was way up there...swinging in the cold ass breeze.


Nobody wanted to talk about it.


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Originally Posted by Ducksanddogs
Originally Posted by simonkenton7
"stand of 8” from the board tryin to latch up".

"Saw a derrickhand come down the Geronimo line"

"Geronimo line" and "8 inch." Oil field slang. Since I haven't worked in an oilfield, I don't know what you are talking about.




It’s a whole new language and makes it easy to mess with green hands.

Once sent a guy from the doghouse to the pusher to the company man to the mud engineer to MWD to the DD and back to the co man trying to get a box of toolfaces that the driller had ordered. Everybody was in on it and just kept sending him in circles. Got him again a couple days later with the key to the v door.

Didn’t have the heart to send him to talk to the mud logger. Makin somebody talk to a mud logger is a step too far.

We had a mud room head honcho type.
Refused to move up the foodchain and get out of the mud room.
Didnt wanna be on drill floor as a AD or be A driller in the heat or have to work hard physically, treat his pumphands like schitt...
Pissed alot of roughnecks and pumphands off that were wanting to move up and gain experience as a pumphand or mud room head honcho in mud room ops.
All part of their carreer progression.
I used to get tasked doing bags in the mud room every so often.
Fugging hated that schit 12 hours of lifting and feeding, basically stationary the entire time...

Dude was about 50.
Looked like skeletor just released from Auschwitz.
Trying to sell amway and diet pills from some website all the time in the break area, smoke room, galley...
Was in their one time smoking, he comes in.
Bout 15 of us in their.

He starts in on his selling schit.
Again......
Everyone is talking prior and then we all go silent.
Get a hint dickhead your schitt is falling on deaf ears...
He just keeps on and on and on...

I looked at him and said give us a f uc king break we dont wanna hear your bullschit.
Hey says you are a just rostabout you cant talk to me like that.

I look at him and laugh.....

I say you are a prick who is lazy holding up young guys from moving up. why dont you transfer to another rig and get the f uc k off this one.
Bout a 10 second round of silence.
Priceless....

Then drill floor types just cut loose on his azz.
Fugging hammering him about staying stagnent on purpose.
All they needed was a chance for someone to break the ice on skeletor.

That dude was fughing hated on the DD II.
Only people he could start that selling schit on was new 3rd party people and they caught on fast also.

SOP was just go into silent Bob mode on him.

During morning pre op briefing.
He would get up on his little mud room brief.
Even when the mud room wasnt doing schit...
Everyone from toolpusher and company man on down would just go into f u c k me mode having to hear him.....
Not to mention hearing him over the PA calling out mudweights during drilling ops when he was in all his glory.






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roust·a·bout
/ˈroustəˌbout/
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noun
noun: roustabout; plural noun: roustabouts
an unskilled or casual laborer.
a laborer on an oil rig.
NORTH AMERICAN
a dock laborer or deckhand.


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Originally Posted by Pharmseller
roust·a·bout
/ˈroustəˌbout/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: roustabout; plural noun: roustabouts
an unskilled or casual laborer.
a laborer on an oil rig.
NORTH AMERICAN
a dock laborer or deckhand.

Thank you.....
I know things like this count ...


I spelled the word career wrong too.
Just noticed it.🤔🤔🤔
Leaving it their for you to pick up on I hope!!!

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Wanna know how much a lowly roustabout made 40 straight time after leaving the GOM and crossing the Greenwich Meridan line going international on the Black Sea???
1.5 and 2.0 thru 84hrs was pretty good also.....


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Don’t give a rip about the spelling, I just copied and pasted from Google. Didn’t know what a roustabout was, figgered others dint neither, so offered the definition as a service.


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Originally Posted by Pharmseller
Don’t give a rip about the spelling, I just copied and pasted from Google. Didn’t know what a roustabout was, figgered others dint neither, so offered the definition as a service.

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A jack of all trades from maritime to drilling ops.
3rd party work.
But also a API certified rigger on all things on a oil rig.
Assigned to deckpusher/crane crew was primary role.
From simple drill pipe to a 35 ton top spool.
Casing
Riser
BOP lifts.
Subsea infrastructure lifts.
And everything in between associated with drill op tools and 3rd party tools and resupply ops.

All a normal day, but always different.
Entry level job is what it is.
Homie did it for 3 yrs as a 49 to 52 yr old.
Making the youngsters look bad at times.
Was put in charge of fabrication projects COG,s for rigging and lifts on a 75 mil project when cutting off our Derrick in Palermo to get under bridge into Black sea at Istanbul and then putting it back on in Constanta Romainia.
Anything that went on and off that rig got my hands on it to fly.
None of the other roustabout,s wanted the responsibility of that or dealing with Siclian or Romainian dock or crane crews daily.
Or Norwegian or Danish bracing fabrication crews.
Not banging my drum, but alot more involved than just mopping the deck.
Paid off a schit load of bills .
Got financially GTG
Retired from civilian world at age 52.

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About 3 weeks ago Transocean sent me an email outta the blue asking me if I would be interested in employment again.
( hell no)
Homie is 58 now...
And dont need to work...


Told slumlord about it.

Mandatory C19 vaccination aside I decided to play a game.

Did their application
Asking for experience.
Blah blah blah
Just gave em my old employee ID number and reference DD II GOM and Black sea job evals.

Resume attachments I sent them this.

[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]


I schit you not ...
Their recruiter sent me back a email.
Said basically
All joking aside we have positions available to fill and you just need to go thru the hiring process again and go to the 2 week offshore course....

Sent him back.
All joking aside the C19 shot is pitiful and I aint running around with 20 somethings anymore.....
Have a nice day....


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Worked with a dude.

We’ll Call him “Willy”.

By the time i worked with him he was in his late 50’s.

He was a roustabout. Done made the rounds at other positions. By then he was on the down hill slide. Waiting out his time.

Original “legacy” hand with the company. 3 digit employee #.

Not him, but other hands would tell of back on the days of paper payroll checks he would sit on checks for awhile.

Longer enough the company’s main office would call him, “ Willy, go cash your Payroll checks so we can get our books right”.

Cool old dude. Help you any way he could.

More to him that he told though. I think he had oil / gas wells.
He was from many, la area.

One day we were talking about fishing. Shootn the chit.
Tolendo Bend came up.

Willy says I got a couple lots on the water over there... ain’t been to them in years.


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Enjoying the thread. I had a part time gig watching a work over rig 30+ years ago when the guy that had the job wanted to watch his son play basketball. I worked for the guy before when he owned a bowling alley/bar. It was easy money. I'd sit in a trailer, heat up my dinner I brought, and read a book. In the winter I'd have to start up the D8 and the rig engine every two hours and run them for 15 minutes. Worked out to the time between commercial breaks on the tv in the trailer.

Watching the guys work when they were running late, I can say they earned their money.

My younger sister worked for a fishing tool company for many years.


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Originally Posted by Morewood
Throwing chain


That is freaking scary.

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Oh yeah, and DJ. Driller extraordinaire. Well, for two weeks, at least. That was how long it took him to get bumped all the way back to floors.

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Originally Posted by Morewood
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My favorite was watching the boys who’d come up on the ST-80 trying to figure out tongs. One of the rigs I was on had a busted torque gauge on the tongs. Rather than fix it, we just called the pusher up whenever we had to use the tongs to “eyeball” it.

Another one of those situations where I always figured we’d back out of a BHA, but it never happened, surprisingly.

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Throwing chain


That is freaking scary.


Nothing to it..... there they were making up a joint. 30' drill pipe in mouse hole. Pull up the string, set the slips, break off the kelly, swing it over to the joint in the mouse hole. The chain is wrapped clockwise if you pull from the bottom. Pulled chain to screw pipe in mouse hole onto kelly and torque with tongs. Take lead tongs and put on tool joint of string, wrap chain counter clockwise, stab the joint you just made up, throw chain up on top, that will make up the pipe, torque with tongs, pull slips. Wash floor and get ready to do it again.

This is what it looks like when you trip pipe back into the hole....



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The title of that last video is wildly inaccurate.

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Originally Posted by Ducksanddogs
The title of that last video is wildly inaccurate.


Yep! But it's the best one I could find to show what it's really like, or how it use to be.


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I've got a niece and her husband is a driller for some company. We were talking about rigs and he said I wouldn't recognize a modern rig. No derrick man, a machine does it. 90' mouse holes, just about all top drives, power tongs all the time. Bits that last for weeks instead of days.


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