I've climbed to the top of quite a few 150' derricks with nothing but a backscratcher, which is about as good as having nothing, but I sure didn't do it for fun, and when I hit 55, I decided I was too old to do that sh*t anymore. More power to those young ones who feel immortal. I stopped being bullet-proof at about age 23.
Posts: 13919 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
When I started in the oilfield the legends were the guys that would do anything, weren't afraid of nothing; wore flip-flops half the time, no hardhat, and no eye protection. We buried one employee a year for the first four years I worked. Luckily things changed. My last ten years, the fool that tried to climb anything without a fall-arrest was automatically fired when he got 6' off the deck, and he knew it. The heroes were the supervisors that enforced the rules. Saved a lot of lives.
Posts: 13919 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
