I worked on pulling units in the Hobbs/Andrews TX area back around 1970. I worked my way through college doing that fun stuff. I ended up a derrick hand and made $2.38 per hour which included an extra 35 cents per hour for danger pay.
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Originally Posted by Worth1
Back in 1980's it was on a Sunday.
The day before was around 70 to 80F or so.
That night it got cold and I had to work derricks on a rig in Hobbs New Mexico in the middle of a dusty field.
The next day Easter Sunday it was well in the 20's and snowing so hard I couldn't see the floor 60 feet down on the rig.
The derrick was covered in ice and the wind was howling.'
Western acidizing and fracking was there and they had planned a big steak cook deal with one of their company cooking contraptions.
The guy that was supposed to do the cooking said he wasn't going to cook in a blizzard.
We said like hell if we have to be out in this blizzard then you are darn well going to cook in it.
We got our steaks. 
The guy was standing in the blizzard and all you could see was a shadow of him cooking it was snowing so hard.
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