Air Hoist Use

What is the strangest thing you have lifted or strangest way you have used an air hoist?

For me,

We were about to leave the rig and noticed we had a flat tire and no one on site had a jack. So we pulled up under the v-door and used the air hoist to lift the car so we could change the tire.

How is that?

Jeff, Driller

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Permalink Reply by Leonard Rabin Sr. on June 23, 2010 at 5:35am

We were rigged up on a small location as usual and surrounded by mud. The casing crew showed up and while getting in position to back up to catwalk drove off location and got stuck. So i sent one of my hands down there with the air hoist and had him tie a half hitch on the bumper and pulled that big truck right out no problem. Hell I think I could have pulled them up on the rig floor if I had wanted too!!HA HA HA !!!

Permalink Reply by Adam Speights on June 27, 2010 at 8:34pm

Changing a tire, that's epic.

Permalink Reply by Eddie Sellers on June 28, 2010 at 7:58am

Adam, the epic part is a driller that goes to work without a jack. If you ain't smart enough to carry one chances are you ain't smart enough to be running a rig.

Permalink Reply by Eddie Sellers on June 28, 2010 at 5:34pm

Joseph, Do you go to the rig without a jack also?

Permalink Reply by Jeff Stoner on July 17, 2010 at 12:57am

That is epic, I have heard those stories, have yet to observe something like that.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Stoner on July 17, 2010 at 12:57am

bad night at the rig?

Permalink Reply by Jeff Stoner on March 27, 2012 at 10:49pm

Teamwork baby! Thats awesome.

Permalink Reply by Justin Thomas Hutton on October 13, 2010 at 1:37am

Bull

Permalink Reply by Zane Reese on April 10, 2011 at 2:05pm

Our derrick hand dropped the same stand of collars 5 times. Does that count?
Another derrick hand helped us on a trip and invariably dropped a stand of pipe. He couldn't believe how well choreographed we were pulling the stand back up to him. We had had LOTS of practice.

Permalink Reply by chase fulcher on June 27, 2011 at 4:27pm

going to work one morning me and the driller hit a deer me and the motor man run the air hoist over the hand rail to clean it

Permalink Reply by Jeff Stoner on March 27, 2012 at 10:50pm

That is EPIC!

Permalink Reply by Dustin Frazier on March 29, 2012 at 12:04am

Had to pull my truck back onto location one morning when I let my little brother drive and he decided to park off location after it had been raining all night, probably could have got out myself but I had a busted hub lock and it was back when we didn't have a forklift on location or we could have just used it. We was on a little Ideco scope up, mt driller swore we was gonna pull the rig over. LOL, if that would have pulled it over, we was in trouble to start with!!!

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