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Originally Posted by dd74
Would you do it? I would. One day, there might not be a choice for either of us. I'm not afraid of dirty work.
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In my younger days I spent a few weeks on a "work over" rig in Delacroix. Probably the toughest work in the oil field. 12 hr days, as it was explained to me on arrival, you can work 6 to 6 or 6 to 6. It depends on whether you prefer heat or mosquitoes. By the second day my fingers were swollen twice their normal size & the joints were bright red. I could barely hold a fork. Cleanup after work would take an easy 30 min, and you were still far from clean. You work rain, shine, lightening, whatever. Anybody there for a year had broken a major bone & probably saw somebody die. I likened the atmosphere to an Alabama prison farm. I'd rob banks before I'd go back to that.