Thank you so much❤

Plz tell me ur joking ..

You goddamn right! By hardcore real world old school old guys, that worked in the shit their whole lives!! Tough bunch back then that worked their asses off in all kinds of weather and all kinds of situations. 24/7!

6 years 😂😂 man you must not be really good .. specially in todays time where everyone is soft .. i broke out in 2004 and was drilling by 2006, pushing tools 2009, internacional 2011, deep water driller 2013.. company man 2018.. drilling superintendent 2022...better get on it hand !

It’s a medieval thing

You wouldn’t say that if it was YOUR hard work getting to a Master’s degree and the right to don said hood. Hell, yes! I want every regal distinction I’m entitled to l. Cords, Stoles, Hoods, Medallions. I don’t want my Masters gown to look exactly like my Bachelor’s.

@@puffeiffer oh, I’m not saying that, I graduated college during lockdown and never got to walk, I took whatever regalia they were willing to give me when I got my masters. They just didn’t explain how the hoods worked very well

I broke out after having gone to college and doing the whole corporate thing for 6+ years. Just got bored of sitting behind a desk. Still haven't been injured *knock on wood* but have had some very close calls. Those close calls, though were the result of either inclement weather or somebody else's mistake (The day I broke out, everything had frozen over. This was TX and we don't have wind walls or anything like that as you know. It was about 10 degrees and every surface was covered in ice.) I slipped leaving the rig floor one day. Ended up at the bottom of a flight of stairs and could easily have fallen from however many stories. I had fellow floorhands slip while we were moving heavy equipment and it narrowly missed me by millimeters. During rig down on a separate rig, a floorhand was up in the manpad and didn't tie off the sledgehammer. He dropped it from the rig floor height. It landed on the BOP which was laid over and ricocheted landing inches away from me and the safety guy who was there to oversea the operation. We had hydraulic lines burst and the top drive drop another several feet. We had our Driller forget that our motorman was tied off on top of the Top Drive when doing some form of maintenance and raise it back up. Injury usually comes in the form of some kind of negligence. or lack of communication. I found that things got sketchy when the "experienced" hands did not communicate well. It wasn't about school education vs not it was about people rushing and not communicating what they were going to do. I'd ask a question and my lead floorhand would literally just grunt and then go try to muscle something by himself.

Sounds like you’re gonna be happy when all land rigs become fully automated

@@kevhogan3846 Will never happen ! It's still going to take a crew to make it work !

So you're a "driller" and you've dropped blocks, buckled derricks and had multiple rigs burn to the ground? And you're blaming some ambiguous "bookworm" for it when you have control of the brake handle? These things are not a normal occurrence, most people MIGHT see one of those things throughout a career. To have not only seen it but been on the brake handle for multiple catastrophic accidents is suspicious.

@@Ballstavius LMAO ! Re-read what I wrote there Scooter ! I said I have seen these things take place, which means I wasn't the one drilling ! Back to mommy's basement while you suck on your bottle !