Skynyrd77's Thank Godamighty , Finally My Own WOPL Build Thread!!

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So was swamping and driving winch trucks on rig moves, no springs or suspensions really, 16" stack on the front axle, solid box beams on the tandems that also avted as the walkin beam, no give plus the reat ends were blocked to only allow 2" of upward travel then they were solid on the frame. Couldn't have side to side slack, things would tip over...

and we used to put in 100+ weeks in those things, with mostr of that time turned half way around in the seat looking out the back window. All twisted up for 16 hours a day and bouncing off the ceiling and other rancid shit...
 
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Lol that sounds terrible ... YouTube a song called 18 wheels and a crowbar by BR5-49.. If you listen to the words I guarantee you will be like yeah no shit ... Lol
it isn on spotify a couple of there CDs are but not that one. The band had a fallen out. So either YouTube or I can burn you a cd. Nav or we police if you see this hoe do I put a cd on my computer in flac??
 
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Skynyrd77 said:
Lol that sounds terrible ... YouTube a song called 18 wheels and a crowbar by BR5-49.. If you listen to the words I guarantee you will be like yeah no shit ... Lol
it isn on spotify a couple of there CDs are but not that one. The band had a fallen out. So either YouTube or I can burn you a cd. Nav or we police if you see this hoe do I put a cd on my computer in flac??
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http://youtu.be/9oUIoyG1tQg

There's the YouTube link
 
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LOL....There were a cpl of guys we worked with that would constantly just go pass out at the shop.....so when everyone else got there we could wake them up. Did that once or twice,myself......
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Yeah it was a hell of a landscape team lol some of us were really good at what we did but most were in the way lmao
 
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Jase, over the road trucking is for pussies, oilfield winch truckin is a whole different world. All loads are set in bobtail with a big ass pipe on the back that rolls called a tailroll, The loads are skiddedd and are suked up and over the tailroll with a bigass winch just outside your back window. Most of your time is spent lookung out the back window because if you aren't setting a piece you're backing up to another one to bed it. Then there are the gin trucks, they have two poles that come up from the edge of he tailroll and hook together at the top with a snatchblock for the hoist line and another for the 2 line so you can raise and lower your poles. That's what I did....no business like pole business.... the gin trucks loaded pipe, walked the derricks on and off the floor , pulled the draworks up the ramp, helped the bed trucks set their loads, and whatever else it took to finish the move. held onto the A-legs as they raised the derrick, everthing happened with a gin truck hooked to it. Ya have to see it to understand it, but let me put it this way. We could swarm location at 6 am, tear down, move 50 miles, rig up and have that rig spudding by dark.....a 25-27 load rig, 12,000 foot rated, and that's splitting the derrick and putting it back together. Sometimes we didn't have to split the derrick nand we would put a truck under each end of that 170 foot son of a bitch and boogie. One truck going forward and the other backwards, BADASS lookin load going down the road.24 feet wide and 200 feet long and doing 60MPH.. A good sized derrick would wigh around 100,000lbs, draworks from 80,000 to 130,000 and that's just the load, then add for truck and trailer. The lead gin hand always hauled the draworks, the most expensive piece of the rig. Everyday I was right around 210,000lbs on 6 axles......road truckers couldn't hack it, then do it chained up in the mud or the snow , get pulled in and out of location with a D9 or D10, that was truckin. And do it for 16-18 hours a day for weeks on end, one or two days a month off.....
 
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Skynyrd77 said:
You should hear our greeting to each other via phone call or txt. It's so bad I won't even put examples lol. They would put me under the cave lmao
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LOL this thread hasn't reached cave status, yet =).
 
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