Pictures of work

[Mason]

Everyday working in the oilfield you see some pretty crazy stuff. I'd never imagine driving my truck on some of these location roads, let alone getting a tractor trailer or service rig up them.

I learned within the first three days to always carry a camera. We use dozers to pull/push trucks up and down hills routinely. Hell, one time when the trailer that had a track-hoe on it got hung up in a mud pit, we fired the track-hoe up and used the bucket pushing against the ground to pick the trailer up while the truck moved forward. Some crazy stuff.

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Big hill in Lewis County from the bitch seat of a Mack. There are some beautiful farms out there.

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Farm in Lewis County. That farmer must've known what was up. I love to see a well-kept farm. The fields brush-hogged and a tight fence.

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Your basic one-column service rig. This is one of the smaller rigs we have. It has a 60' mast and is 87,000 GVW. The majority of our service rigs are over 90K pounds. That's a water pit used in water fracturing to the right. That pit is 12,000 barrels.

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That is a picture of the elevators and block. You can see at the bottom of the elevators there is a hole. Those clamp around a joint of pipe and are kept from falling out by the pipe's collar. The block is necessary because when you're running 6,500-7,000 feet of 2 3/8" tubing, you're talking about 35-40K pounds of weight on that rig. Middle right you can see the power tongs. Man, do those make screwing together the tubing easier. They are operated hydraulically. Just don't get your fingers inside of them. My rig operator learned that when he was my age. He's missing half of his finger. Hydraulics don't give a fukc.

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Just a neat picture of the mast looking down from where the Walker arm is. The chain was taken apart because we were changing out some bearings.

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Get pretty dirty working as a rig hand. Plenty of Lava and Gojo used in this house now.

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NOTE TO FATHERS IF YOU HAVE TEENAGE BOYS: If you don't want your teenage boys to get laid, make them grow a mustache. I guess it ain't the 60's anymore and women don't appreciate a real man...

[jaykden]

:rofl:

i had a moustache, then after lois and i started dating, she "suggested" i grow it into a goatee.

had one ever since.

[vmtz]

I have always had a mustache and never had a problem scoring with the ladies.

Vince

[W.E.G.]

My guess is that doing that sort of work pays better than E2.

Save your pennies, and keep on keepin' on. Do it while you're young and strong.

I'm diggin' the doo.

[nightschneider]

hey man...nothing wrong with the 'stache.

I would grow one...but the stereotype cop with a mustache is just too much for me...

[Scott V2]

Mason,
Trim that stache and I bet the ladies would like it. Right now you look like a walruss. With as thick as that stache is, I bet you could grow a heck of a goatee. The wimmin are ignoring you because they want something a bit more presentable.:D

[cookhj]

mason, you look like the guy on mythbusters. :rofl:

[akajun]

Hey man, cool pics, I love watching drillers do their thing. They did a large derrick next to my house when I was a kid, never hit, but me and my brother would watch them. Drillers at work move like a well choregaphed play.

BTW drop me off some of that 2 3/8 drill stem when you wear it out. They used to give that stuff away, now they ask $1 a foot for it.

[Dirt1042]

Originally posted by cookhj
mason, you look like the guy on mythbusters. :rofl:


:rofl: He should put on a beret

[bykerhd]

I'm still looking for the "hills" ?
I see a bit of "roll" in the countryside, but that's about it.:biggrin:

[ruskiegunlover]

hey, what is the water pool for? My grandmother is having oil/natural gas pulled out of some of her creekland in kansas, and thats exactly whats on it. I just don't get what the water is for.....Kind of a shame, they ripped out quite a few trees for the rig....

[Mason]

There are a number of different uses for a pit. They use one when they are drilling the well, for the drill fluid to wash into.

EPA regulations say we have to put a thick, plastic liner inside the pit to keep the unwanted nasty stuff (what is eventually brought out of the well) reaching the ground water which would poison all the wildlife and stuff. After the liner is put in, water trucks fill up the pit.

The water pit that is in the picture above is used for water fracturing of the well. Basically what they do is send a shaped explosive charges down the well and blow them up at specific levels. Then they have these huge, specialized trucks that are used just for the water fracturing process. The trucks have ultra-high pressure pumps on them. They mix the water with extremely fine sand. They then pump this water/sand mixture down into the well. The water is only a means of getting the sand down the hole. The sand goes into the formation where they set the explosives off. The sand keeps the formation from collapsing.

akajun, we aren't a drilling service. I work for Arvilla Oilfield Services. We make well locations and roads, transport equipment, build pits and install pit liners, swab wells, fish tooling from wells, install plugs, run and pull tubing, rent and transport frac tanks and 500 barrel tanks, install meters and regulators, etc. Basically, after the well is drilled and the casing is installed, we go from there. AOS employs about 300 people. We have 13 (IIRC) water trucks, at least a dozen semi's, at least a dozen dozers (from Deere 750's to Cat D9's), track hoes, skidders, all kinds of stuff.

Tude, yes, when we run rods my operator usually makes use wrenches in lieu of the tongs. It goes a helluva lot quicker if you got two guys that know what they are doing, but it does suck. A hydraulic seal blew in the pictured power tongs last week. We had to pull 5,100 feet of 2 3/8" using two steel 36"s with cheater pipes. That was pretty much an all day escapade.

[AndyC]

The only part of the above which I understood was the bit about explosives - everything else was Greek to me :D

[dirtyrice]

I have a mustache too. DAMNITT!

[MACV]

Originally posted by AndyC
The only part of the above which I understood was the bit about explosives - everything else was Greek to me :D

Me too, I like explosives..... a lot