slimpickens
Registered: 07/20/08
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And it ain't caps lock , lol. "BUT" there are numerous things that come to mind.
Number 1 would be waking up crew change morning and it's foggy after a week of crystal clear weather.
Or the new squirrel thats kin to the tour pusher and thinks he can pop off whenever.
How about the last guy to get oil out of the drum and leaves the bung off and then you can follow the oil trail to where he leaned the hand pump up against the wall.
Some worms helper coming into the living quarters with DIRTY GLOVES and BOOTS ON !!!
I could go on but i'm getting POed thinking of all the things that get me wound up...
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JBRD102
Registered: 07/29/07
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These new age roughnecks have no idea that gloves on a water can = ROMF
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aldbeir
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monito
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Dirty gloves every where, Keep dirty gloves out of my doghouse take them off when climbing stairs
Not putting cloths in the dryer when taking them out of the washer, I know they aren't your cloths but I would put your in the dryer
Dirty Bunkhouse at crew change
Nt taking care of tools remember when all you had was cresents and pipe wrenches now we got all this cool stuff and hands break them and loose like crazy only to ask for a new one all the time citing safety concerns if they don't get it.
Rounhneck who makes 60k or more a year and can't buy and keep a cresant and something to cut rope with in his back pocket on rig move.
I guesse just puffnecks in general.
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suparoo
Registered: 04/24/08
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Why would they shell out for crescents and a knife, Monito, when they can borrow yours, tight a$$ed or just saving the $'s for the bar??
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mikeshaw
Registered: 07/02/07
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Worms who cannot dig a bell-hole big enough for a well head package or a bell-hole deep enough to contain the returns to the mix tank.
Hands on opposite tour that hang their dirty wet clothes on the hook on your locker!
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slimpickens
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About 20 years ago i had a relief that would roll a swab for half his tour until i showed up and swear that "That swab just blew" not knowing that i could see the jaw marks on the rod.
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curtis
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Thats generally when a "Get Even" hand would shut the liner washers off for about an hour before relief arrives, then just as they are pulling on location, turn them back on again...I hear it really makes a cloud of steam when that cold water hits those hot liners, and it gives relief the opportunity to change all 3 before the days out....never done it, but have heard stories
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Yeah Suparoo, seems they always forget a Knife and Crescent Wrench or Safety Glasses, or even where the new location is, but they NEVER seem to forget that cell phone....
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curtis
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Ok, heres mine...
Hands that wear the "F***, Fight ,Trip Pipe" Shirts, always crying when its time to trip some pipe...never saw one that could fight either...Makes ya wonder how good they are at the third one? LMAO
Had a hand thats totally worthless, years of experience and absolutely NO knowledge about how to do the simplest things...but in his mind he is the biggest of stud roughnecks! Cant even make it to work on time...Anyways he tells me he has never seen such and such done like this before, having all I could stand I said,"
Son, what you dont understand would pretty much fill a book on all that their is to understand"
I doubt he ever even understood what i meant
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Hef
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Registered: 08/11/07
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Hands that can't read a tally sheet!!!! Walk up on the rig floor, ask the Driller if he has to lay anything down, and he replies.... wait for it, "Nope". Get all of our tools, sheaves, and rig up equipment laid out, get all tools calibrated, and lay down to take a nap while they finish POOH. Just about the time I nod off, someone comes beating on the window to clear the catwalk, so that they can lay down a stray joint, before they can start to stand back the collars. Some "hands" cant read a tally sheet, but want to argue that my depth is off, when he can't even tell how many joints he had downhole!!!
"Hands" that assume that because I don't work on a rig, that I rode the short bus!!! Had a moron on a rig working up here tell me that the only way to rig up on his rig was to tie our lower sheave chain around the A-legs because his rig has a "bulushabow" on the stack. I asked him what the heck a "bulushabow" was, he says "you must not have much time in the patch, if you don't know what a bulushabow is". I didn't have the time, or the heart, to tell the kid that I was climbing around diggin' rigs before he was born, and working off of them while he was in elementary school. After a quick trip down the stairs, peeked under the sub, I found what a "bulushabow" was... it is what have always heard called a birdbath. After watching "the waterboy" a few more times, I figuired out what goof ball was trying to say!!! Pollution Bowl... Just because you can pull the cute accent off in the bar to impress a few ladies, doesn't mean you ought to use your best Bobby Bouchet's Momma's voice to talk to locals in the field. (On a side note, if your last name is Hebert, please be patient with Okies and us Texans when we pronounce your last as He-bert, not A-bear; I had rather not go into the embarassing story behind this tale)
"Hands" that have 6 months experience and get discouraged that they haven't been promoted to pusher by now!!! Just because the driller was hung-over one night, and you made a connection for him, does not qualify you to drill, no less, push tools...
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monito
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Yeah curtis But try to get ahold of them on that cell phone when they get lost on thier way to the new loc and they always had no service. If they would just bring me a $1.50 sausage biscut from the store they stopped at I would be a whould be a happy camper. Hef I wish the wireline hands we get would come up and ask if we needed to lay anything down I have developed the habbit of sending a guy to tell them because if I don't they will pile the catwalk sky high. My fix for the creasant is to keep a couple of 15 inchers in the truck When they ask me to borrow mine I give it to them and then make a B line for the truck then I go back and retrieve my wrench and tell them to use this one all day. I hate it when we get to the new loc and nobody has any fall protection. I am troubled by third party hands who do not understand that the rules aren't the same at all drilling rigs, I do not care if podunk drilling lets you do that on their rig you can't on this one. It's not because I wanna be an arsehole it's because if I let you do that here it's my arse.
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mikeshaw
Registered: 07/02/07
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Derrickmen who dont own a stopwatch
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slimpickens
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Curtis, That would really be GREASY.
This is probably the one that P1ssed me off the most, In the Gulf of Mexico we would put roustabouts on the boat to hook loads and in between lifts to look down and see some worm sprawled out on a pallet of chemicals like he was on some beach in Florida, And i would be waiting and I would tear a strip from his and the crane drivers ass. This ain't club med boys.
And just remember,,, A mud shy roughneck is about as useless as a gun shy dog.
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Moondogger
Registered: 08/25/08
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When we are building a oil and gas facility or plant we take coffee at 10:00 am,lunch at noon,coffee at 3:00 pm and usually wrap up and leave site at 5:00 or 5:30 pm.I never have to remind the crew when it's 10,12,3 or 5 but I seem to always have to remind some guys when it is 10:15,12:30,3:15.Some one will say "I don't know what time it is"
Funny how that works.
Also having to remind guys of the most basic safety rules,eye protection,hard hats and fire retardant coveralls.Every once in a while I have to give the speech "you don't have to remind me to enter you on the time sheet every day so you get paid so why do I have to remind you every day about work hours,safety gear etc."
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oldmans_wife
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As a wife my biggest pet peeve would have to be thieves We are constantly buying new tools and slicker suits it adds up
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slimpickens
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The other crew,,THE OTHER CREW.
Has anyone seen THE OTHER CREW!!!!!!!!
I have a shotgun and if someone will point out THE OTHER CREW i will end all of our problems and things will run so much smoother, No more lost tools everything clean and painted So please someone, Anyone point out THE OTHER CREW !!!!!!
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mikeshaw
Registered: 07/02/07
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LOL, thats a good one!
My pusher is cool in the way that if you come up to him complaining about someone on another crew...this guy did this or did not do that, he will let you know that you yourself did not do this or you did not do that, and then send you on your way.
He also says that if you are complaining about somebody or talking smack and you cannot do their job as well or better than them, you need to keep your mouth shut!
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monito
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They are on days off. Old story at the rig the other crew lost it broke it or stole it. |
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ALPHAURSUS
Registered: 06/21/08
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I KNOW THIS IS TITLED "THINGS THAT GET UNDER YOUR SKIN ON THE RIG" BUT I AM NEW TO THE PATCH AND HAVE TO TELL YOU THE BIGGEST THING THAT HAS GOTTEN UNDER MY SKIN IS A COMMENT THAT MY WIFE MADE THAT KINDA GOES LIKE THIS.
WIFE- "WHY WAS YOU PAYCHECK ABOUT $200.00'S LESS THIS TIME?
ME- "BECAUSE THERE WERE SEVERAL DAYS THAT WE WORKED WITH BRINE INSTEAD OF INVERT, SO WE DIDN'T GET OUR USUAL $20.00'S A DAY INVERT PAY".
WIFE- WOW! IT'LL BE NICE IF YOU USE INVERT AT YOUR NEXT HOLE.
I AM SURE THOSE OF YOU THAT WORK OR HAVE WORKED WITH INVERT CAN IMAGINE THE UTTER LACK OF WORDS THAT I HAD IN RESPONSE TO HER COMMENT. NOT TO MENTION THE EXPRESSION ON MY FACE MUST HAVE BEEN PRICELESS AS SHE CONTINUED TO STARE INQUISATIVELY AT MY PAY STUB AND WALK AWAY.
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mikeshaw
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I hear ya Alpha, I dont even want to get into the subject of paycheck conversations with my wife, LOL!
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Murdock1978
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Bad relief,crews not putting tools back on the rack at the end of their Tower!My driller who is always looking in my lunch bucket |
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cato
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bigroughneckdaddy
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The driller before me not circulating and i get a packing off hole as soon as i get there
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MTRoughneck
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Worn out tong / slip dies not being changed out.
Mud volume run down and having to build volume all night.
Shaker screens not being changed out.
Empty mud sacks not hauled out of the mixing shed.
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