Man Saves Abandoned Oil Field Pump House From DESTRUCTION!!!! Part 3, COMPLETION!!!!

[@abcnz1]

Finished product - just beautiful!!

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!

[@abcnz1]

I know you're doing all the hard work......but I'm finding this very relaxing! Thanks

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!

[@stophate2023]

Thanks for preserving history. I know Fossil fuels get a bad wrap. But my grandfather and practically my whole family made a living in the oil fields in Oklahoma. Enjoy the video!

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Someone has to save it. Might as well be me!! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@blackfox1961]

Your carpenter skills amaze me, but then I can cut off a board twice and it's still to short. I like your work and love watching you fix those old engines. I have learned a lot about old hit and miss engines watching you, thanks. I have worked on a lot of diesel, gas, and jet engines, now I'm going to have to purchase a old hit n miss motor and try my luck.

[@MrOilcountry]

Thanx for preserving a piece of history!

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you! I'll do it as much as I can!

[@HeavyMetalEngines]

You did an amazing job! I like your comments about the happiness and sense of accomplishment you get from doing something like that, so true.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!! I have alot of things going on in life right now (mostly self inflicted) and I found this to be something to take my mind off of everything else and was very calming.

[@quagmiredavis4117]

We rescued and moved a pump house to new location to our place and just out of curiosity we opened old oil well capped in 1949 poured Concrete floor service everything Hookup everything from pump tanks everything and 3 weeks its producing oil This was in 2000 and still flowing 2022

[@markjohnston2675]

How many barrels per day? When the priced dropped back in 2018 many 1 or 2 barrel per day wells were capped.

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@markjohnston2675 3 to.4 It varies sometimes 2 to 3

[@markjohnston2675]

@@quagmiredavis4117 Nice...That could make a man look for more.

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@markjohnston2675 past 2 weeks 7 barrels a day But you will never see us use a Brigs and straton squirrel motor like I have seen in other videos .. its Fairbanks morse only and no excuse Not to keep using them only a lazy SOB would do this swap ..parts are still Available. We have many Fairbanks in use on family farm in Kentucky and Illinois Still pumping .. and producing

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@markjohnston2675 well at least sleepy Joe can't interfere with this oil supply I would have been one of the welders on the Keystone and inspecting welds but thanks to a senile Joe that job never happened

[@Nick-nw6zg]

So cool… preserving small pieces of history

[@johnkozero6842]

Very nice reminds me of the power house behind my grandma's house miss siting in it and listen to the motor run good old days

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Definitely the good ol days! Glad it brought up some good memories for you!

[@marine4667]

Can’t wait to see it up and running. Great job

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you! I hope to have it running soon!

[@sheep1ewe]

This is awsome! Great You even managed to salvage the upperpart of the oilwell!

[@gparry42]

Wonderful !

[@andrewjmcgee]

not sure how i wound up watching this channel, but it is fascinating.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you, I'm glad you are enjoying it!

[@thesmallenginekid]

cool project. We can never really answer that question of "Why would you build that", "why would you restore that tractor", "Why do you save old useless equipment."

[@bradleywhite9118]

Love your work!

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!

[@bunk822]

Good job 👍

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!

[@thomasboulay3309]

Very nice, you do great work!

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you!

[@jimamccracken5783]

I do believe that I would not paint it at all. It just blends it in a couple of years people will not see it until they re right on it. Here in WV The Hope Gas Company built small buildings in panels 4 seperate walls and two ends. They had a flat board right under the window so the well tender had a desk. And a box on the wall for his paperwork. The panels were bolted to gether as was the roof. simple and in a day it could be taken down and moved.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Don't worry. I won't be painting anything. I want this all to looks as if it's been here the last 100 years!

[@johnburgess9185]

Man far out I wood love to do something like that but with steam I am 65 now may be one day keep the videos coming

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

There will be move videos very soon!

[@timbrown9305]

LOVE IT!

[@deanlamberth0sbcglob]

Really nice

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you

[@sosuzguy]

Wow, excellent work! You did make a nice place to hang out and enjoy being outside. Looks like it's been there all along! You going to try to dig a hole, adding weights, to try to counterbalance the pump jack?

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you! Yes my plans are to make a short well casing that I can circulate oil into a drum and give the illusion it is pumping.

[@sosuzguy]

@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities That's really neat, I did that years ago in my teens. I had an old crank chemical pump attached to the pumpjack and just poured oil in it. It would pump the oil into the faux wellbore and eventually circulate to a tank. "playful things of destiny, probably they are!" - George W. Bilbo (a long gone resilient, dreaming Geologist)

[@paulcoulter7181]

Zack over at TheZacklife shows how to rebuild pump jacks

[@ruben_balea]

Actually his channel is *TheZachLife* I mean _Zach_ ending with _h_ instead of _k_

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you, I will have to check him out!

[@ruben_balea]

@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities No problem! I don't really knew anything about oil wells, but he seems like a really nice guy and he also knows what he's doing... I started watching his videos over a month ago because I've always seen oil pumps in background scenes in movies and TV series but I had never really seen one up close with all its components. And I suppose that seeing one was enough, but I liked his way of working and his ideas to build and repair things, so I subscribed and watched his other videos in my spare time, I still couldn't see all of them, now I also have to see yours ;-)

[@kevincampbell7276]

So did someone abandoned the well are they putting a brand new oil well pump in I just wondering because I heard you have it running and you said the oil is being pumped up hill

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

The well was sold to a new operator that is going to continue to produce the well as it is. The new operator wanted the building removed. Normally these buildings are just pushed over and out of the way. I was able to save this one and reuse it as you seen in this video.

[@whotknots]

I am amazed that folks can still suck dinosaur juice out of the ground more than one hundred years after the wells were drilled and the long slender rods on those pumps remind me of giant mosquito's.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

It's definitely a crude (pun intended) way of doing things!

[@whitesapphire5865]

Pardon my curiosity, but what happens to the pump and engine that used to live in the pump house? Have they been bought by someone else? Or are they still being used? - I'm just curious to know.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

They are still pumping oil daily with that equipment.

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

i'm surprised nobody gushed ''Hero'' in the comment for saving it...

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you, I'm trying to save as much of this old stuff as I can!

[@andrewklahold2880]

A capital engine is the highest valued engine that I know, that engine you have there is probably the second highest valued engine, I like messing with engines my self I am working on a 1957 D8 caterpillar r . And good friend of my father was Floyed Miller of York pa he has past away now 25 years but he was a collector he had a capital engine my father and him had gotten running and he was offered 1 million dollar and a tractor I help to restore sits in the Harrisburg air port building that was own by Dewight Eisenhower

[@lotharschiese8559]

Can't figure it out, every so often I can hear Woody woodpecker?

[@haroldparker3487]

What happened with the oil well?

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

The well is still being produced by the well owner I got the building from.

[@ruben_balea]

I hope it was a cheap hammer, my dad always tells me I'm ruining the hammer's temper when I hit it against my fingers 😅

[@ruben_balea]

That engine looks very similar to this other Mike fixed a couple years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXW0pqafnN96msU perhaps you can find some tips and tricks on his videos.

[@Cast_Iron_Curiosities]

Thank you, I will give his videos a look!

[@andrewklahold2880]

A capital engine is the highest valued engine that I know, that engine you have there is probably the second highest valued engine, I like messing with engines my self I am working on a 1957 D8 caterpillar r . And good friend of my father was Floyed Miller of York pa he has past away now 25 years but he was a collector he had a capital engine my father and him had gotten running and he was offered 1 million dollar and a tractor I help to restore sits in the Harrisburg air port building that was own by Dewight Eisenhower