Life in the Oil Fields

long hours, you are exposed to all weather conditions, you will drive on roads that by all rights would be closed anywhere else. rain sleet snow, glare ice that you cant even walk on. almost nothing stops the oil feild from moving. when you have been running for 18 hours its 3 am and you spin out climbing a hill and just get stopped before sliding backwards all the way back down, yup your driving in the oil feild. when its its -10degrees plus a 40mph wind and your chaining up at 3am. you driving in the oil feild. when your getting pulled up a muddy hill by a bulldozer, your driving in the oil feild. when your on your way to the truck stop to buy some food and get a call to turn around and head to a frac site in the middle of no where you end up sitting for 48 hours with your in the oil field.

 

Haha gotta love water haulin', we have a few sites right now with this weird warm temps we've had lately that are bulldozer pulls because of muddy hills.

 

Someone got a Bulldog to play the rollover trick.

 

Is he gonna teach him how to fetch next ?? His headlights are off, is that like playin' dead ( batteries ) ???

 

Thank you all for sharing your secret slice of life!!!!!

 

I was renewing my H2S ticket and saw this picture in their booklet.



Get a load of where the driver is...

And the righand, or swamper, or...


What could possibly go wrong?

 

Well while it's not exactly safe it is the way it was done. They are chaining the tool to the truck as there is nothing to hold it back when the let the truck down to the ramp and if they didn't chain it the draw tool would run over the cab killing the driver. Just another reminder of how far we've come as now we use two winches when a ramp is used. Most often now though we just get a crane. I'll have to see if I can find a picture I have of what it looks like when a tool runs over the cab.

 

Yeah, that was kind of the purpose of my post. I have been around rig moves since the mid-60s.