Oilfield Pranks

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Permalink Reply by Drilling Ahead on April 20, 2010 at 6:30pm

Yep...I remember all those...man i'm old! A newer one shared by JBird on the www.oilfieldtalk.com site was to empty the GoJo hand cleaner can and fill it with Polymer! LMAO...I can see guys at relief after tripping all day in a hurry dipping their hands in that stuff!
Oh don't forget on the newer rigs w/90' mouse hole, always fun to fill that stand with water for relief (we run thread protectors on the pins) let me see if I can go find that old thread.. Well, I didn't find it, maybe someone will look around over there and post the link. I did find this though..

"THINGS YOU WON'T HEAR ON A DRILLING RIG"

They really are good for a laugh. Here is that link

Permalink Reply by Scott Mathis on April 20, 2010 at 8:15pm

I always like the 2 turtles f@*^&ng! And when the welders come out, grab some of that 7018 rod about 5 sticks to see how strong the worm is, take all 5 have him see if he can put them directly behind his neck and bend them, all that flux gos down the shirt, and I can tell you from experience IT ITCHES! Especially when they start sweating! Or checking the water table at the crown, make sure they carry a bucket of water up in case its low, they'll look all day for the cap that resembles a radiator!!! Oh man thats good stuff!

Permalink Reply by louis' polk...peewee on April 20, 2010 at 8:28pm

Can't have no fun anymore some lil sissy will call HR.......but i'm likin ND its a little more like the old days,you can actually tell a hand to sack em an kick rocks you don't work here no more.and not have to get permission,but they just transfer them to another rig still

Permalink Reply by Justun Huston on April 20, 2010 at 10:12pm

How about a cat head licking contest. Tell the worm that you are gonna have a contest to see who can hold their tongue to the cat head the longest. When he puts his face close to the cat head, you take the dope brush and slap a big ole glob of it on there. The worm gets a facefull of dope.
Or handing the worm a light bulb and telling him that the pusher wants him to go down and change the light bulb under his desk.
I've had most of these that ya'll have told about pulled on me but I wasn't the worm that fell for all of it.

Permalink Reply by Jim D. Bural on April 21, 2010 at 8:25am

Here's a good one. We filled the exhaust hose on the air hoist with water. The 1 " hose was about 20' long. Then we tied it up and aimed it right at the spot you have to stand to run it. We waited on our victem. Unfortunatly it just happened to be the company man. When that stream of water hit him in the a** I thought he was gonna leap over the hoist. Boy was he PISSED !!!! After he cooled off he thought that was one of the best ones he'd ever seen.

Permalink Reply by Jack Chambers on April 21, 2010 at 7:55pm

Telling the worm to go to the pusher's trailer at three in the morning to get the key to the V-door. Almost got me fired for pulling that one.

Permalink Reply by Overshot on April 21, 2010 at 8:32pm

"Three man lift?" Haven't heard of that one b4.

Sending the worm to go get left handed 36"

Sending worm into the motor house on top of the chain compound w/ a grease gun to go grease the muffler bearings on the prime movers, again and again and again, searching for all 10 of those hidden grease zerks.

Doping the back side of the first joint on the first couple stands out of the hole to slick up an ornery derrickhand's pull back rope.

Backfire prank: Being sent up the derrick with a bucket of water to check the water table when I went to work for Montgomery Drilling. Walked out on the A-leg girt to just above the dog house and hollered down for the driller to come out and tell me what I was to look for again: splash one driller! He was ready to run me off until the toolie came up and started laughing at him, asking who was the worm in this incident. Couple beers later that night and it was all good.

Not really a prank as such, but sure was roughneck tomfoolery at it's best. Caught a gopher in a joint of pipe as it was being rolled onto the catwalk. Capped that joint off so the critter couldn't get away. Got a bottle of propane and a empty mud sack for wadding, pulled the pin end thread protector off, pulled the joint off of the rack so it was elevated to point off location, chasing the gopher down to the mud sack we stuffed up in the box end. Thread protector back in the box end and let the propane fill about 6' of pipe. One wooden match later and there we had it; Gopher Cannon! Good for a 150 yard one shot gopher.

Permalink Reply by Drilling Ahead on April 26, 2010 at 10:29am

That's Just Wrong!- Please tell me the Gopher was not harmed in this incident?

Permalink Reply by Drilling Ahead on April 26, 2010 at 11:33am

hahahahahahahaha

Permalink Reply by Overshot on April 26, 2010 at 12:51pm

Ok Curtis, just to satisfy you, I'll tell you the gopher wasn't hurt! I can also tell you that I'd never lie about such a thing. H3ll, I'd tell it to you 4 or 5 different ways before I'd out and out lie about it!

As I said, it was a one shot gopher, good for ~150 yds...and not much else afterwards (except coyote bait)...

Permalink Reply by Overshot on April 26, 2010 at 1:02pm

Literally LMAO!

Permalink Reply by Overshot on April 26, 2010 at 12:58pm

OH! JT, that's just too good! Gotta add that one to the list...gotta herd of worms comin' up from out of state soon to my neck of the woods, will have to test this out on them.

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