[Grasshopper]

Holiday Greetings, Everyone Here is a song tribute to the Roughneck, the one who makes the drilling rigs run, and works in all kinds of weather, and who will work every day or night of the year, including Christmas.
Have a listen, and raise a toast to the hard working Roughneck.

Roughest Neck Around
It's Track #9 on "Five Dollar Bill" by The Corb Lund Band, from Stony Plain Records out of Edmonton, Alberta. It's a song that has become popular in the oil patch of Canada, because it describes him so well.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I worked with those guys for years. Salt of the Earth. Very dangerous work. My job was running explosives downhole for drill stem testing. I'm hearing that oil patch talent is in short supply now that the drilling is ramping up.