Just back for two days, then gone again.
Not THAT busy, but PD doesn't have enough guys to get the work done... almost every rig is short handed. Come on, send out your 20something sons to the patch... learn work ethic, and discipline!
Anyways, things you hear / see out there:
1. Sask farm boys know how to run a rig right.
2. Kids these days are lazy and brain dead.
3. The pay has to be better (coming from a driller taking home 6K every two weeks).
4. Lots of older hands (consultants... pushes.... etc) retiring, and not enough new blood to fill in.
5. Work has gotten too easy. Some of these new hands don't even know what pulling slips and making tongs bite means.
Now, for some stupid $h*t that has caused me to smack guys' hard hats this year:
1. "The glycol is frozen" (it's stored in a heated shack... and it's... um... glycol... - hand didn't know to take the plug out the bottom of the tank).
2. "We'll make the electricity flow the other way if we put the breaker in upside down" (referring to making power flow from a steam boiler to a diesel-electric power plant"
3. "Hydraulics... that's like.... oil in a tank, right"? (Coming from a motorhand - the rig mechanic).
4. "Is that a drill bit?" .... "No. That's a spade with a broken off handle".
What is this world coming to?
I know, not ag related really, but still something curious.
Not THAT busy, but PD doesn't have enough guys to get the work done... almost every rig is short handed. Come on, send out your 20something sons to the patch... learn work ethic, and discipline!
Anyways, things you hear / see out there:
1. Sask farm boys know how to run a rig right.
2. Kids these days are lazy and brain dead.
3. The pay has to be better (coming from a driller taking home 6K every two weeks).
4. Lots of older hands (consultants... pushes.... etc) retiring, and not enough new blood to fill in.
5. Work has gotten too easy. Some of these new hands don't even know what pulling slips and making tongs bite means.
Now, for some stupid $h*t that has caused me to smack guys' hard hats this year:
1. "The glycol is frozen" (it's stored in a heated shack... and it's... um... glycol... - hand didn't know to take the plug out the bottom of the tank).
2. "We'll make the electricity flow the other way if we put the breaker in upside down" (referring to making power flow from a steam boiler to a diesel-electric power plant"
3. "Hydraulics... that's like.... oil in a tank, right"? (Coming from a motorhand - the rig mechanic).
4. "Is that a drill bit?" .... "No. That's a spade with a broken off handle".
What is this world coming to?
I know, not ag related really, but still something curious.
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