Life of a Derrickman

Watch how a Rig Derrickman does his job at the derrick/mast high up in the air in an offshore rig. Life is not that simple on the rig where anything can happen.

[@aimanchannel65]

For almost 10 years joining and working with Drilling Rig ENSCO and 10 years with TRANSOCEANS Team..i love Drilling job till now i still with a Drilling companies in deep seas Malaysia..i so my friend in this vedeo i miss all of them..Drilling team world is small soon or later will meet again round the world. Keep it Safety is our first priority. Working safe our family happy.

[@reyadnkom8106]

I want to work in offshore, please give me some advise

[@franciskochita7413]

My Dream job 😪

[@cryptogoodybag8230]

Plz sir what's their monthy salary? Why did you quit? How many days off? How many days of work? Is the job easily to get? Does it require special skills & certificate from school? Please answer am looking forward to see if I can join.

[@erockisfat]

@@cryptogoodybag8230 shut up already

[@engineersgottalent5618]

@@reyadnkom8106 What is your background?

[@STEVOLOVESTHAILAND]

I was a cement Halliburton hand for years, loved to watch those guys work, much respect

[@gazfisher7391]

Spent ten years in the 90's in the North Sea,Forties Field,UK. We ran free swinging blocks,rig tongs,and ran pipe a hell of a lot faster than that,no disrespect,that's just the way it was. When the North Sea winter wind, snow,and rain was coming in sideways it was no fun tripping pipe from the derrick I can tell you.

[@JB-wr2lx]

Things have sure changed since the 70’s , now almost anyone could do this . But back then not so much .

[@williamnorth5277]

I’m with you on that. This guy has to be a trainee.

[@geneautry2091]

It was always a challenge. Ate like a king and got 12 hrs good "workout". The comradery and teamwork on a drill or workover rig is unique. The synchronization is like a machine.

[@drewyoung3885]

Spoon fed these Days

[@ricardogilabertruiz8787]

Así es cualquier aprendiz puede sacar y poner un tubo, es mecánico...el asunto es abajo en los tanques de lodo, en las bombas y todo el sistema. Un viejo me dijo una vez...cualquier cojudo saca y mete un tubo...el asunto está abajo.

[@meoutthispiece9015]

Why you old timers always hatin on the new generation if technology makes things easier so be it

[@claytonlabeth9473]

I worked the gulf derricks, floors, motors ten great years I ain't never seen no shit like that gettin your latch rope hung up, making the drill stop the blocks, so many safety lines on your back it can cause you to fall. It look to me like a Roughnecks school video. But that's just what I saw.

[@patrickmckenzie9919]

No shit then the hand latches it up and then turns around and walks away without even tailing it what a joke.

[@rickeycaprieta]

Nice work used to love working on a drilling rig back in the day's work on a rig for 10years as a driller and floorman

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[@wolf-ic4bu]

I worked derricks in Kansas for 11 years. Drill over most of the western 2/3rds part of the state. The driller would run the blocks up fast enough but still had to think about crowning the blocks out on the crown. They were not triples but doubles. Sometimes there were anywhere from 50 to 85 stands in the derrick. Worked 8 hour shifts, sometimes having to pull doubles cause someone twisted off. We worked as fast as we could cause trip time was on our company, not the one who leased us out to drill a well. We worked 4 man crews. Driller. derrick hand. chain hand and backups. Yup, big rigs and offshore seems great but I got to go home every day and we always moved about every 8 to 10 days after the completion of the well. Never worked in the same place for longer than that. Change of scenery was nice. Just saying. Use to get stickers from our mud companies that supplied us with drilling mud to put on our bumpers saying "Oilfield trash and proud of it".

[@adriantomlin2902]

What's your name and who did you work for back then. My dad, and couple of my brothers worked for NL Baroid back in the day. I would go work part time for my dad, unloading bentonite out of boxcars and stacking in pallets. Then I would swamp on the trucks sometimes. Good ol days bro. 😎👍

[@wolf-ic4bu]

that was 1942

[@tedoychorizo6434]

My type of work, always like it

[@jimnowak3960]

My hat goes off to oil field works. Damn what a tough job.

[@engineersgottalent5618]

You’re right. Were you in rigs before?

[@ogderrickhand]

If I was having a dream about being on a rig when it fell over... this would be it. I always figured if I could get out of the harness and all that stuff before I hit the ground. First thing I’d look is water to hit. I know what they say but water seems like it would be way better to hit then gravel...

[@bigchiefin510]

as long as its moving water but if its still water than its just was as as concrete 😰

[@erockisfat]

if you fell out of any derrick on an oil rig you would not hit water

[@justinneill5003]

The Alexander Kielland capsized in 1980, anyone up the derrick would’ve faced the nightmare you describe but the biggest problem wouldn’t be the harness, it would be the steel framework around you, that you’d have to wriggle clear of to avoid drowning. Not much chance, especially as you’d probably be knocked out by a lump of steel on the way down; but that was a semi-submersible, and one of the pontoons had collapsed. Less likely on a fixed platform like this.,That being said, I did 2 years on the Piper Alpha & one of my crewmates was still on it when it was destroyed. He jumped and made it but the biggest danger apparently wasn’t the impact of the water; it was the depth to which they plunged, and the struggle to then reach the surface, fully clothed, holding their breath. I’ve heard they saw the surface was glowing orange as they came up, and had to duck under again pretty quick. If you’ve ever stood on an oil platform & looked over the railings you’ll realise what it must have taken to jump, but with the steel grid melting under your feet, I guess there’s no time to think. RIP to those lives lost on the Piper 🙏

[@gregorycameron4005]

When i did it i had to move a lot faster. The Derrickman was and is the hardest working MF on the rig. Its for young people.

[@mikedawson1907]

Doing this 12 hours a day myself !

[@randywolf604]

How do I get rig job ?

[@insan3world343]

@@randywolf604 ensign , hp, Patterson , and more are hiring like crazy! I’m just gonna say be prepared to work like a dog

[@johnnyvidal3154]

Whats best day rate atm?

[@dryan8377]

@@johnnyvidal3154 24-27 hour. my son just got hired at patterson.

[@KanyeKetchup]

@@dryan8377 thats shit money in Australia get paid more to drive a forklift and get to see pussy in the city

[@BZeober]

been doing this for a year... so much better than working floors.

[@Isaacsbased]

How’d you get on man

[@clintonmcgaugh7535]

I worked with Parker Brothers for 36 years and did it all in all over the United States;;

[@BZeober]

So much more to derricks than just working the board tho

[@heman8252]

Greetings from Parker Drilling Crews Indonesia

[@mervinescalona2290]

Como en cuellador que tiempos aquellos

[@scotty193]

As a Driller or a Tour Pusher that I was .....I would have been run off by the Client for stopping at the Monkey Board to throw a stand. Never seen that before Drive the Blocks straight past the Monkey board and the Derrickman better get it, you got the odd one here and there that was missed but that hazards of the job.

[@hamidkarzai7096]

cool story

[@freeman7079]

Huh?

[@joebowers6196]

Tell me how bails moved to Derrick hand when the blocks in the 1st larch were blocks spring hook and bails no top drive or hyd rams to do this ? Looked like same rig and bored did I miss something?!

[@robmorris3710]

Hahaha I was just wondering the same thing

[@DynamicSeq]

Two different rigs...Look at the toe board...

[@robertmacdonald6845]

The Derrickman is very slow. In my day the blocks never stop till Elevators we’re latched

[@geneautry2091]

That wanna be derrick hand couldn't do it old school. He has his hands full doing it that "snowflake" way. Hydraulically extended bails?! Wow. What a shame. I'd like to see how that wanna be would work with 10-3/4" monel collars 110'-115

[@fistofram5526]

@@geneautry2091 Yeah yeah you retarded boomers have this fetish for killing yourselves overworking. Get that crap out of here.

[@leonislima]

Isso sim é operação 👏👏👏

[@tedosmundson5620]

This is what the derrick mans job has turned into. No challenge running 3.5 inch pipe at dead slow. When I broke out those first few trips out of the hole ate my lunch... totally dehydrated and cramping up. After a while it was a great upper body work out and we were getting "ringers" all the time. Whats a ringer? Some of you know... its when you don't miss a stand of pipe when going in the hole. Think its easy when its 10 below and the wind is gusting to 45 to 50 mph? Think its easy when using diesel based mud and everything gets greasy? Your toes feel like rocks, your beard and mustache are covered with ice... the heater doesn't work because its to cold out.... yeah... it was miserable at times... The oilfield made me understand what work is... and I am grateful for the experience. It is amazing how much energy and force is contained inside the Earth... it can make all of mans tools turn to junk if people don't stay on top of changing downhole conditions.

[@cravenm.2295]

Were the cramps from ur period mrs osmundson??

[@tedosmundson5620]

@@cravenm.2295 Yes... I was the first "Transgender derrick hand in 1975! Anymore silly questions?

[@cravenm.2295]

@@tedosmundson5620 lol how big is ur juggz??

[@tedosmundson5620]

@@cravenm.2295 Big enough that you want to touch them, but, you can't touch this... What I miss is riding the elevators up to the board before all the stupid rules were made. Rode the Geronimo line one time just for the fun of it... How about you. .. did you ever ride it?

[@cravenm.2295]

@@tedosmundson5620 i use 2 ride the elevators through the crown buckeroo once i rode the blocks to outer space.

[@L-MehrabKhan]

Awesome man..music name plz?

[@nuub6197]

How to get this job

[@tonyhenthorn3966]

Wow that old man is as quick as a cat lol. Is that hoodie thingy they sometimes wear some type of fireproofing? I've watched videos of battleship gunners wearing similar apparel and always thought it was to protect them against flash fires.

[@rakshithashok810]

They wear a boiler suit which is fireproof to some extent bt it is radium fitted fr better visibility in dark fr coworkers nd cams nd during accident this industry lose easily 400 men a year

[@justinneill5003]

When I was roughnecking for Bawden on the Piper in the late 70s, the derrickman’s eyebrows got singed a couple of times when a strong wind in the wrong direction blew the flare through the Derrick. I’m guessing that’s why this guy has fire protection. In the seventies we didn’t have it, the derrickman wore the same gear as the rest of us. There was no CCTV up there either. It was a tough job up there but our derrickman liked it because he was out of earshot from the driller (who was a “Grade A” Twat.)

[@joelezekielbruce1060]

Yes did I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil.

[@kingligma9958]

Here in the states. I know that you wouldn't be able to do that shit so slow. Idk, I'm also in the Permian basin.

[@32zzo]

toontown corporate clash reference

[@robertmacdonald6845]

Back in the late 70s men we’re men working derricks.

[@davidlangley2722]

I don’t know if I could work derricks now after watching this, back in the day ( 70’s and 80’s) being a Derrickman was totally different and you manhandeled the pipe, there was no stopping at the board unless you were latchin collars or heavyweight and for damn sure the elevators didn’t come to you! I just know that after round tripping 18,000 ft of 51/2 pipe and 10 inch collars you knew you had put in a good 12 hours.

[@axemastersinc3269]

OK. Why are the blocks going in slow motion? Oh and can that guy climb any slower? That is some funny stuff.

[@danlilly9547]

Back in the 1970s, if you couldn't run at the very least a stand a minute, you were looking for another job.

[@angelinalawye4167]

Cool

[@BZeober]

Mainly floorhands work the board to assist the Derrickhand

[@kyleforbes5395]

Hahaha the slowest derrickman I've ever seen

[@alanproctor9316]

elevators over the monkeyboard & fingers to latch a stand lol pipe looks to be about 3"

[@justinolivar6302]

Weak ASF

[@scotty193]

No kidding when I was a Driller and Pusher I would run him off hahahahaha. Stopping the blocks to latch a stand no way. I had 12 years in Gulf of Thailand and thats the fastest drilling in the world.

[@Josef8080]

If this man isn’t the highest salary there is no justice on rig

[@russellalford5684]

Wiggins oil tool, Caser. Still have all my fingers...

[@joelezekielbruce1060]

Save energy no talking on Derek.

[@RIGLIFE]

Hahahahaha worms 🐛

[@feltonnative3443]

Fluff necks easy money tho🤣😉

[@kangnunung2angkutanalatber413]

Mantap 👍👍🤲

[@engineersgottalent5618]

Bagus…

[@williamnorth5277]

This guy’s a trainee right. I’ve worked from roustabout thru to driller and this is not how it works.

[@weipengzhang194]

Where are they? Slowest in the world.

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[@azeemkhoso9356]

Sir how from pakistan I know it's I have experience his works I want job

[@jairamragbir437]

nice,thanks for working safe cowboys.🙏💎🌴👙🥂🍾🇹🇹

[@JohnnyPruitt-dl2du]

Easy peasy

[@chrisrobertson4537]

Must be his first day moves like a snail. doesn’t even lean out

[@user-ky1ue4rk9g]

tell me how to get into offshore drilling on platforms ? I have more than 5 years of onshore drilling experience ! I am Russian myself and I live in Russia is it possible to get into the company somehow ! thanks

[@engineersgottalent5618]

Post your resume at indeed.com

[@azeemkhoso9356]

For almost 6 year joining and working with drilling rig National rig from pakistan

[@engineersgottalent5618]

Are you from Pesh?

[@umzicool5529]

Not a d/m looks like a roughneck first time on monkeyboard....

[@noorazman1360]

Yes… 30 yrs ago…

[@garydutrisac5047]

Latch that pipe on the run gonna take all day doing it like that

[@johnnypruitt832]

Hey C.W. I have an idea !!

[@josephcicero3762]

Don't be affraid of put out bud.

[@canuckdog]

Priceless

[@justinolivar6302]

No kidding blocks stop n shit

[@MrBobbyd45]

He would never make it in west Texas,,LOL

[@larrymasterspowerbuildingc4477]

What's the average age of a roughneck in Texas? You gotta be in shape to do that shit and a bit crazy.

[@jd.8886]

@@larrymasterspowerbuildingc4477 late comment but there’s people out here in WTX from the ages of 18-50 I’m 19, broke out a few months ago, still a little wormy but pulled back pipe my last hitch Bc Derrick man drug up. That little drill pipe looks like heaven compared to 4.5

[@jesusdelgado9142]

@@jd.8886what the starting pay for a newbie I wanna move out of California and work as a rigger?

[@rebelliousfineart8202]

And most guys from West Texas don’t make it here in ND

[@josebonalde4787]

Soy. Encuellador. Perforador con esperiensia en taladro petrolero disponible

[@toxictoons1374]

This should change to “Life of a Boring slow derrickman”

[@bwoodard907]

This has to be a joke! What company trips like this? Straight up bizarre and creepy!

[@matttracey2546]

Holy fk that slow would of got run off

[@mojavedesertsonorandesert9531]

Whatever they are paying these people its not enough!

[@cjonam]

Quite a tough n monotonous job!

[@mervinescalona2290]

Yo trabajé en todo los taladro de maritay en Venezuela

[@sawboneiomc8809]

Is the derrickman a senior job? The guy who’s been around? A popular job?

[@gregearle3176]

using the rope going in the hole WTF

[@user-if8bs4yv9e]

Why so slow? In the early 80's all of this happened as fast as the rig would run.

[@geneautry2091]

That's no derrick hand! He couldn't do it old school and gets his pipe rope caught in the elevator. That would be his last hitch as a wanna be. I was a derrick hand inland drill barges for 6yrs...3yrs double & triple workover...3yrs drilling (4 1/2" dp). I've worked Ideco full view, Lee C. Moore jack knife, standard (20stds/row). I've also worked Continental Emsco Suppermast 2,050,000# 14 line block 1- 5/8" cable. I could share 14 more yrs of my oilfield experience but I haven't time.

[@lonestarstate1981]

tell'em 😆

[@Nighthawk_Vandercock]

It's amazing you've found pants big enough to contain such enormous balls. Shut the fuck up..

[@rolfkrause7583]

The guys seem like apprentices to me!

[@brycedavis8773]

Not a frilen derrick hand...latch it on the run driller should never wait on you

[@roostercogburn809]

Slow motion...

[@engineersgottalent5618]

Too much careful probably.

[@roostercogburn809]

@@engineersgottalent5618 Meaning the new tech is slower than the old days of tripping pipe.

[@engineersgottalent5618]

@@roostercogburn809 The new tech is of course faster than the old days. It now comes into how fast or slow that man is.

[@roostercogburn809]

@@engineersgottalent5618 Sorry, new tech is much slower tripping pipe in or out of the hole.

[@Joseph-xv5pw]

Holy shit they stop for you? I latch heavyweight on the run lol fuck around and drop one might as well climb down and pack yo shit 🤣

[@sriakmalin400]

Derrickman

[@bluntsmoke1872]

Fkn hell really going to trust that shit lanyard?? No way in hell!!

[@chrissabulsky5291]

Stop and latch that’s no Derrick hand he dam near latched his rope in the elevator. Come work on my rig 4-5 gear double tie back

[@celsosu2992]

That’s fuky derricks aren’t use for nothing …. That shiet is not Heavyweight…. Se pintan las uñas y van al gimnasio … Son los “Quema pozos” esa no es la pesada …. No se necesita ni el mecate para la maniobra y estaba demasiado largo por eso se atoró…. Saludos aprendices…

[@whoispriest]

why is that guy wearing a mask, is he afraid he may get a spot of dirt on his face????

[@rajendraambhore7769]

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[@whoispriest]

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[@rajendraambhore7769]

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[@rajendraambhore7769]

Where r u from

[@whoispriest]

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[@scottstone948]

Wear cotton gloves so you don't lose your fingers.

[@wilfordgrimley4339]

Is this training or something? These guys are slow aa shit

[@larrymasterspowerbuildingc4477]

looked lik a training day

[@RedsBigRig]

I will never understand this shit. Over time you’d think they could make this 100x safer , 100x easier, if not 100% machine ran

[@urbanscopez5582]

Then it'd pay 100x less

[@gregerandersson958]

The Job looks Very Boring !!!! I would not do it!! I am in MLM and with a Big team I earn more money and have the freedom to work from which country I want

[@chrishoang8557]

Lol i didn't see any feminists over here

[@larrymasterspowerbuildingc4477]

Femininsts see shit like this and their brains can't compute it. Too real for them. AS it should be.

[@user-qn6ik3iu6h]

کار بسیار خطرناک و خسته کننده است

[@joelezekielbruce1060]

Yes let my country Inform Mr trump and his regime I was focked up locked up under his and Google administration.

[@brucekelsch5080]

Pretty slow. Actually way toooooo slow.

[@engineersgottalent5618]

Maybe they are just too careful.

[@z2k4ys7]

dawg why did u choose this corny ah music