Posted by Mr.PG on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 00:49:41 :
In Reply to: Re: I am not so sure.... posted by M Fanoni on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 00:26:22 :
You should see some of the Coon a$$'s we have out here right now, drilling for gas and oil in western Colorado.
Go to any gas station in the morning for coffee and all you see is drillers trucks from, Tx,Ok,Ms,Al,La,Tn,Ky,Ar, and just about any other state in the south.
I was in a gas station the other morning and there was 5 trucks from Tx and 3 from Ok, and only 2 from Colorado counting mine. I walked in the place like I onwed it and said so they all heard me, What did I drive to Tx in my sleep!! They all starting to laugh!!! Thought it was funny.
Infact what is not so funny, as of the end of May I know longer have a place to live because some driller from the south just bought my house that I have lived in for 4 years, I never even knew it was for sale but the landlord said well it really wasn't, but we have a offer from a driller for much more then what it is worth. I didn't think that you could beat his price because you don't work in the oil field and that is where the money is.
The drillers around here can make as much as $1500.00 per day if you the tool pusher on a rig, and that is without any bonus's that they get.
I have a friend that has 4x4 shop 99.9999% of is work is hillbillying trucks for the drillers around here. Last week he had a brand new '07 dodge in there that he did over $18,000.00 worth of work to and that was just just in parts alone! The truck was brand new with 60 miles on it from the dealer to his shop. The guy that onwes the truck is from Tx. And that is not even the truck he uses for work, he said he wanted it just to cruise around in. His work truck is a '05 dodge and two months ago he had a 4 inch lift put on it drove it two weeks and had my buddy put a 6 inch lift on it, told to keep the 4 inch lift he had no use for it!!
So yeah they have that kind of money and more!
Matt
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