Pump jack Compilation - Pump Jacks in California

Oil Pump jacks are machines which is the old day use to bring oil up from deep in the earth. Some common nicknames in the oil industry are: horse heads, pumping jacks, oil horse, donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, grasshopper pump, Big Texan, thirsty bird, or jack pump
Here is a link to one of our favorite pumpjack video shoots! kzbin.info?o=U&vide...
More information from www.sjvgeology.org/old_stuff/pumpjacks.html: The upright wooden post on the pumpjack above is called the "Sampson Post" and the rocking arm that pivots on top of the post is the "walking beam". On the back end of the walking beam is a counter weight, which is sometimes just a wooden box filled with rocks. The counterweight on the Taft pump jack above is a square block of white concrete.
Connected to the front end of the walking beam are "polish rods", or "sucker rods", that run through the "casing head" down into the well hole. These rods connect to the actual pump that sits deep in the hole immersed in oil. You can see the sucker rods on the left side of this pump jack, which sits in front of the Fellows Hotel exhibit at the Kern County Museum.
When sucker rods push down on the pump, a valve on it opens up so that as the pump moves down oil can flows into the space above the valve. When the upstroke begins, the valve closes and oil sitting above the valve now is lifted upward. At the same time, oil from the reservoir moves into the void beneath the valve, and as the downstroke begins the valve opens back up so that the cycle can begins anew. Thus, oil is lifted to the surface, one upstroke at a time.
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[@dallascrofton5957]

Very beautiful to watch it acts as therapy when you are low very good mervyn uk

[@randomdude440]

I just love looking at these things

[@SuV33358]

Wish NY had some of these. I think they'd come up empty though. They're so cool

[@find-me-at-Clumslay]

idk why i love these things prob of the oil smell, exotic engineering, and/or creepy sound, but this video has more like than dislikes these are my ppl!

[@find-me-at-Clumslay]

idk what exotic means but if its offending forgive me i ment a other word i cant find

[@stuartbensch8339]

The pump jack shown at 2:30 and a while thereafter has the counterweights on a specially-built frame on the opposite side of the main shaft. This means the counterweights actually REDUCE the counterbalance effect. The crank itself is too heavy, so they had to add some weight to the other side to compensate. I've never seen this with my own eyes before. This means the sucker rod is very light... very shallow well or very thin rod or fiberglass sucker rod.

[@BamaRailfan]

I lived in Midland Texas from 1981-1990 and have probably seen thousands of wells and that is something I've never seen either. Looks like a seriously oversized pump jack. I guess one explanation would be that it used to pump more fluid making it more rod heavy and this was a cheaper solution than replacing the whole unit as production diminished. Just speculation of course.

[@bourbonfan1]

fiber rods suck in deep wells

[@mechengineer4894]

Can I assume the 2.5 HP motor is what drives this thing? If so, kinda tells you how well balanced this mechanism is.

[@kaveman478]

(WITH YOU AND THE REST IS HIS)

[@jairamragbir437]

up and down is money.

[@christopherfarrell9539]

Love it man! Keep it up!

[@tractorstrainsandplanes3409]

+Christopher Farrell Thanks. I know your boy would love to see them all

[@dariusrucker7854]

These are some small units compared to West Texas.

[@electric7487]

Why are so many of them running in reverse?

[@hefley4]

When the pumpjack is running so the crank comes over the gearbox (at the back of the unit) moving toward the well-head, the pump is said to be running "toward the well." When the cranks are running over the gearbox in a direction that takes them away from the well, it is called, appropriately, running "away from the well." Oil pumpers are precision-balanced, but (beyond this), I don't know it makes much difference and suppose it is just to run the reduction gears inside the gearbox in both directions over the course of the pump's life to extend their operating time before they wear out.

[@davemexico260]

I'm uste four 3450 pound weights.

[@erickellogg8532]

what is that number on the walking beam abovevthe stabilizer bearing

[@bookyandtheboys2450]

My life goal is to find a Pump jack in California but i don’t even know where there at, Mind telling me where those oil fields are located?

[@srpwrd55]

Drive between the cities of McKittrick and Maricopa on highway 33. You'll be blown away at some parts. You can also drive down highway 65 heading North out of Bakersfield.

[@erickellogg8532]

who owns these units

[@kaveman478]

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