Looks like I'm going to frac tech........

I do not, but I can try to find out. I got friends there in the field and office. Somebody should be able to tell me.

 

First I couldnt reply to you pa musky. something about not enough posts, sorry. FTS Inter. pays the sand haulers $12 a hour but you might be on pad for 20 hours straight.As a EO you will drive very little but thats not what a frack hand does. Be Very careful and do a real good pretrip. Pick the truck apart before you leave the yard.The DOT is know to sit outside of lease roads and pick you off. They love FTS trucks. As a mechanic there I saw some of the best mechanics and some that couldnt figure out the end of a screwdriver to use. DO NOT drive a acid tube.period. They will push you to drive over your DOT hours but tell the treater to F off. You will not be fired. The pumps are at 108,000 lbs so if you are driving one be mindful of what you are doing and who you are following. Once they stop on a uphill they are hard to get moving again. Most of the drivers there are new and will miss a gear uphill(sometimes downhill but thats another problem) on a regular basis. We had driveshafts on stock because they busted so many. Good luck there. Let me know how its panning out for you.

 

Their trucks are the same here in TX. But they don't need to invest in huge engine for occasional hill on truck that is going to go sit most of it's life. Lot different when you are buying 500 vs a handful. The money goes into the V12 and 16s on the back that produce the pressure and the money.

 

No frac hand is swinging any sledge that many hours a week. LOL Show up. Rig up and screw off about 75% of the time. Then they sand it in and watch the coiled tubing for 24+ hrs doing zippo getting paid. There is some work involved=but don't buy this BS that it is super hard. Drilling is hard and dirty. Fracking is no where near that labor intensive.

 

I guess we should all just get off the road and let you have it to your self. Don't buy this crap. If you have to slow to those speeds turn on your 4 ways and do the best you can. The whiners and the others with the Petes/Cats/18s like me will just have to wait till we can get around. The morons and losers will be cursing you on the radio and talking tough. The drivers will know you do what you can with what they give you.

 

Why not drive an acid tank?

I say do it ALL, because most likely your not going to want to be a frac hand your whole life but the experience you take away may pave the road to a much better job.

If you can pull acid tank, Oversize sand kings and heavy pumps, flatbeds, etc...Do it all.

 

Hey BigDuker, I was stating what a hazard that guy posed. 35mph on an interstate isn't safe when the flow of traffic is 60 plus. The road was not covered, although it was snowing, and by no means am I the supertrucker type, I moved here from Florida for god's sake so I'm the first to know when to back it down, and I also can spot someone who hasn't a clue what they're doing out here, and this guy didn't have much of a clue of what he was doing. My point to PA Musky was to be confident in what he's doing, working up here and driving up here isn't for everyone, but it shouldn't take getting someone killed on the interestate to realize this!

 

That's the second time of heard that fracing is easy on this site and both times it was from somebody who's never done it. Come work on my crew for a week and tell me how easy it is. You watch those guys running sand while your unloading and think its all a cake walk and it's probably a lot easier at other companies but were I work I usually don't sit down all day. Me and one or two other guys do a set of valves and seats and five holes of packing a day at minimum and change out pumps and swap iron. When were not doing that we pick up trash and clean. After we get all that done and as long as its not the end of a stage we sit down. We only do zipper fracs so we never wait on wireline which means we never stop.

 

I've watched the maze of steel piping go together for cementing and I've never thought it looked easy, or very fun in the frigid temps of PA. I don't envy you guys.