Gas vs PSD
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It also helps us pass the time better by having something to do lol. 5 guys in the middle of nowhere for 8-12 hours at a time, you get bored. We used to take new hires and tell them we wanted to see how strong they were. So we would bet them they couldnt lift a 50 pound bag of drilling mud mix above their head and hold it for 10 seconds. They would think we were questioning their manhood, so they would jump up and pick it up and someone would come up behind them and cut the bag and then someone else would throw a 5 gallon bucket of water on them. When that stuff gets wet it does NOT wash off. So they had to work the entire shift covered in it
Or we would "pipe dope" them. Pipe grease is like tar. It doesn't wash off your skin for days. When the newb says he has to pee, you tell him to bring back the pipe grease with him. Naturally, he goes to pee beside the pipe grease bucket since he has to get it anyways. Once he finishes peeing, two guys grab his legs, two guys grab his arms and you hold him down. Then guess where the guy that put the sleeves on first has to lather him up with pipe grease.
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It's one of those jobs that one mistake can cost you your life(two people died last year from a mistake). So you want to know right off the bat if they are going to be able to work in the most extreme conditions, under the worst possible circumstances, and do their job correctly.
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Oh man, we do stuff like that to people out there all the time. Tell a guy to bend down and look at something on the well bore and then hook the hoist to his belt and lift him about 10 feet off the ground and leave him there. Catch a guy asleep and hot foot him. Grease the band on the inside of their hard hat. We were in the lab one time and me and this other guy wanted to haze a newb(office guy, not a field guy), so we told him we were going to see who could hold their thumbs in a vice the longest. Whoever lost had to buy lunch. I put mine in and acted like it was hurting and I could only take about 30 seconds. The other guy held it for about a minute. We put the newb in and then went to lunch
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The guys on the rig would have competitions to see who could go the longest without wearing long sleeves or cover alls. First one to show up in sleeves got ridden like you wouldn't believe. Since I am the "company man" they already look at me as being a sissy, so I had to join in to earn my "man points" too. We would have guys out there in november/december with no shirt on and it 15-20 degrees. We all showed up with cover alls, sweat pants, gloves, etc, on that day lol.
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194 pages. Hope that ain't a jinx.
Cold is no fun. But getting damp or wet is worse. I can tolerate 20 degrees and dry easier than 50 degrees and rain if I'm working in it. Wind chill really stinks.
Cold is no fun. But getting damp or wet is worse. I can tolerate 20 degrees and dry easier than 50 degrees and rain if I'm working in it. Wind chill really stinks.
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It cant believe that it has gotten this long. lol
Just say something derogatory about the V10, I will say something derogatory about the 7.3 and before you know it we will be at 200.
Just say something derogatory about the V10, I will say something derogatory about the 7.3 and before you know it we will be at 200.
