Wood Pumpjack

[@k.c.lejeune6613]

I find this very soothing to watch and listen to.

[@thevacuumtubejunky9774]

K.C LeJeune : Almost like a tranquil fish tank in your living room!!!🤣

[@haroldsmith45302]

Thanks for sharing. Glad to see legacy technology still in use where appropriate and, I hope, preserved later after its retirement.

[@dieselscience]

That thing must pump at least 5 quarts a day....WOW!

[@cabletoolcowboy]

The stroke is about 6". It produces about 1/5 of a barrel of oil a day. there's a steel rod line that goes from the well to a big cast iron wheel out in the middle of the field that a bunch of others are hooked to, and then the wheel is hooked to a "powerhouse" where an electric motor drives a couple belts, pullies and gears with cranks on them.

[@thevacuumtubejunky9774]

cabletoolcowboy : What an excellent example of what life used to be like. Just curious what the operation costs are in comparison to the profit production is???. .."Income to debt" ratio. Would you know by chance?. Kind regards,Eric Dee.

[@moonjimunji7916]

how is there still oil there? i was told the oil would run out by the 1970s

[@illbeyourmonster3591]

@@moonjimunji7916 Like all modern 'environmentalists They are stupidly uninformed and lie, a lot. 🙄

[@notfromkanadea9720]

I've been watching tons of oil pump video for the past few days. Help

[@victoryfirst2878]

This just blows me away that something that old and made of wood still works and pumps crude oil .

[@ianhotson6057]

It might not rust out but it might get termites!! Very interesting setup

[@cabletoolcowboy]

There is a museum close by, but this is an actual well we still produce. There are still almost 400 wells like this in the area pumped by this system. I will get more videos up when I'm somewhere with highspeed internet again.

[@752brickie]

I hope someday to see it but doubt the governments will leave us ever be free again! I grew up hanging on the clamps of the temper screw with a 200’ cracker and 45’ 41/4” stem doing the double shuffle!

[@imautuber]

This is incredible, I'm amazed it works.

[@cabletoolcowboy]

the well was drilled in the 1860's, but the pumpjack is only about 30 years old

[@brodypullishy932]

So adorable :D

[@scottsherwood6250]

Lots of old "central pumpers" still squeaking in the woods of N.W.Pennsylvania. Make sure to visit the museum in Titusville, PA if you're ever close. Fascinating & fun!

[@adriangesin8414]

awessome i live in titus ville and have an oil business in warren fracing and i have about 25 rod line wells still making me $10,000 per month

[@Shaker626]

@@adriangesin8414 Still got the rod lines?

[@Renville80]

To think that when this well was drilled, my great grandparents were barely a gleam in their parents’ eye... and the journey to North America from Europe was still a few decades in the future.

[@richardgray115]

About the same speed as my lovemaking, and I also have all the squeaks and groans..... Sigh

[@bourbonfan1]

12" stroke 24/7 your a beast

[@bourbonfan1]

squeaky, like old folks bed springs. got wood!

[@NightMare86007]

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[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

As on Ontarian, I learn something new and a new place every day :D

[@752brickie]

Ontario is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen! What a beautiful county you have!

[@752brickie]

White oak beam I bet! Good old yankee know how and remember necessity is the mother of invention!

[@scrapcash2421]

It's Canadian, not American

[@752brickie]

@@scrapcash2421 ha ha ha I was including Canada in my thoughts. We are two very close nations. I love these old oil wells. At Drake Well Park in Titusville,PA they have the central power that shows how they pumped around corners,under the roads etc. These designs we made by men with an 8th grade education or less! Both of my grandfathers only went to the 8th grade but were the smartest men I ever knew! I grew up on my one grandfather’s cable tool rigs.

[@craigewing3054]

Certainly a matter of different strokes for different folks

[@cabletoolcowboy]

I actually just built another one the other day

[@cabletoolcowboy]

There's stll over 400 of these wood jacks working near Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada

[@pinga858]

Me too pump jack, me too.

[@ericdee6802]

Does this pump a teaspoon at a time?🤣

[@rarleyposting5546]

Doesn’t look like it pumps any oil for how little it moves.

[@cabletoolcowboy]

this one's just at the top of the hill coming out of oil springs on Gypsie flats road (18th side road?)

[@cabletoolcowboy]

hahaha Ben, not Lonnie, he's my Dad

[@jerthekillagameryt1777]

this things ancient!!

[@thevacuumtubejunky9774]

JertheKillaGamer YT : The interesting thing is... "It still works"...lol

[@crazyman1650]

When you bring freedom but you’re broke

[@LanternLooney]

I saw a newer one at a museum near Devon in Alberta.

[@bourbonfan1]

shiver me timbers

[@cregghead]

I saw this about thirty years ago.

[@Eric-zi1oz]

too cool

[@bbbasedali]

woww

[@mubarakf1kuw]

Very interesting profile

[@kellyharmsworth]

very cool

[@abandonedrailwayscanada3271]

Wonder how many people watched the whole video

[@Mike-01234]

Talk about low budget oil well lol.

[@masrafymortaza9455]

Vi pesona masin colsa na ke kaou tansa..Ha ta ra tari ka??

[@sw8741]

amazing......so basic! how old is the well?

[@thevacuumtubejunky9774]

sw8741 : drilled back in the 1860's. For this well to be still in production, there must me a massive reserve down below???.

[@digdug1978]

Whats powering it on the other end? Looks to be a pretty short stroke? I wonder how many barrels it produces?

[@illbeyourmonster3591]

At least 5 - 6 a year. 😋

[@scrapcash2421]

He said 1/5 barrel per day, or 8 gallons

[@erickellogg8532]

are the wooden pump jacks built with trees?

[@cabletoolcowboy]

Trees and used railroad ties

[@erickellogg8532]

actually bolting the wooden beam to the trunk using it as the Sampson post

[@icelineman]

You gotta be shitting me ... it still pumps?

[@omarcarbajal1813]

😎🇺🇲😎

[@royrice8597]

How deep is that well? Less than 80 feet?? Guessing.....👍👍👍

[@scrapcash2421]

380' according to the description

[@123raggaren]

What runs the machine? A mule?.....

[@tedbishop]

It is not making any oil. The polish rod is black. I pumped 22 wells for over a year. I can tell everything as far a I can see it.

[@kentkirkpatrick7953]

Look in the comments. It's still pumping oil. Get your eyes checked guy.

[@tedbishop]

@@kentkirkpatrick7953 You evidently have no knowledge of oil production. When the polish rod (the rod that goes up and down into the ground) is black there is not one drop of oil coming out of that well. You need to get better educated on the subject. I am 80 yoa. I spent my entire life in the oil fields of Texas and Saudi Arabia. So did my father and grand father.

[@douglabombard538]

This unit hasnt been made in almost 100 years

[@scrapcash2421]

He said it's 30 years old

[@lcdabest]

De de de de doe doe deda de de da de doe

[@romatrixwiper9354]

This is supper old ..... I think

[@caelanreeves9760]

Super* and yes, this method is very out dated since power is pretty much everywhere now, back in the day they didn't have power lines going that far out in rural areas so this was the most effective way to pump oil and make a better profit

[@jerthekillagameryt1777]

romatrix wiper yes it is REALLY old

[@dineshkd755]

Dai 2008 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@มานิตย์ภิลัยวรรณ์-ร8ต]

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