Although you may not realize it, you are a very interesting storyteller in a way in which even someone who has no previous knowledge can learn alot from you !

This video is great because it shows real world work, and that is rare in today's virtual online world.

Driving across the country and seeing those oil wells pumping along the freeway I always wondered how they actually worked and processed oil. I just learned more about oil wells than I ever thought I would know. Thanks for the vid.

Ur videos make me miss the oil patch so much. Retirement sucks

Enjoy watching your videos. Brings back the 60's and 70's in the old oil patch. You are doing a good job of explaining how things work.

You explained that very well. That is the first time I ever saw oil that came out of the ground.

I have never worked on a oil well or even been very close to one but you made learning all about it very interesting.

Zach your livelihood is amazing to me! I'm a gearhead and have worked on cars and small engines 25 of my 40 years of life. Up here in the northern midwest oil isnt a thing. I wish it was! I can't think of a better livelihood than fixing, maintaining, and running oil wells! What an amazing family legacy you have! Wish I could apprentice a guy like you to learn the trade.

Watching the light diffract through that gas boiling out of the tank was something else. I learned a bit today. Always good to find out something new. Thanks man!

I retired from the Oil industry and move away from it. The best job I had was operating a water injection field. We had winch truck and we’ll service rig. Thanks for making these videos. I sure do enjoy watching them.

The boiling propane and then the huge spree of barrels it makes was such an interesting story. Science meets engineering meets economics.

My Dad worked for Haliburton in Michigan back in the early 80's so i grew up hearing stories of stuff out on drill /well sites. Your videos help to bring visuel to those stories. Keep them coming, your an awesome story teller/ teacher.

Really enjoyed this and the one with the 100 year old well. Grew up in the Rangely oil patch in the 1960's. While not affiliated with the industry directly, I have aways loved the old pumpjacks and still enjoy being shown how they work and how it all fits together. Oil not only "smells like money" to me, it smells like home.

I really enjoy your videos. They’re interesting I’ve never worked in the oil fields. But I’ve been around a lot of different types of industry and you do a great job of describing what’s going on and it’s not hard to pick up on the dermatology. I also appreciate that your language is real clean, not vulgar. Thanks great job

No one in this world can defeat a man with a box full of tools who knows how to use them.

Extremely interesting. One thinks he understands a system, only to find out there are several more layers of complexity to it. Thanks. Well explained (no pun intended).

I had an Army buddy who lived in Tyler Texas who had a well that was drilled and maintained by a company. He had no knowledge of how the well worked, other than when it pumped it pumped money. Thanks for explaining how the well worked. I ride in Michigan and they have some of these pumps where we ride. Now I know how they work. Also, my Wife's Grandpa, who lived (he is now dead) in Ky also had a well and they used the gas to heat with and cook. They used to use coal, which was also strip mined off his land. The whole area went from dirt poor and heating and cooking with coal (dug by hand from a coal seam) to relative wealth and heating and cooking with gas.

Strangely interesting, and quite mesmerising. I know there's a lot of these small wells all over the place, and yet when people talk of oilfields, I instantly think of the big pump jacks covering thousands of acres, and yet, these little machines still turn out worthwhile amounts of oil. Good luck, and God willing there'll always be a market for oil.

Great video Zach. Nothing requires so much thought and planning as working in the oil field by yourself. I'm certain the house nearby appreciates the polish rod lube box. Many times I see and hear a pump without one. Keeps the rubbers lasting much longer, but helps keep it quiet. Great to hear about this old legacy well. Build a frame for that spark plug your dad or his dad changed. If that could talk.........

Found your channel yesterday Zach. Been binge watching since. Great videos explaining the basics of oil and gas production . My west Texas oil career 1980 to 2015 was drilling services. Shallow 2000 ft to 29000 ft wells. They are all basically the same process. Your real time production teaches me a lot about completion and producing oil. Thanks for taking us along. I miss the oil patch small and big.

Really enjoy your videos. Worked as a roustabout in west Texas during summers in the 70’s. Helped me pay for school. More importantly, I learned how to work hard (for a roustabout), respect others and turn a wrench.

Funny how few people recognize how handy a gin pole can be. Amazing what you can lift and move with one if you can appropriately manage a sketchy sketch setup. You hardly ever see them anymore. Simple, cheap, useful for all kinds of stuff if you understand leverage. You can walk a house with one if you need to. Old feller by the name of Archimedes once said; “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ” Well I copied that quote but that aint what he said, he didnt speak English. Neither do I, but that dont stop me from tryin. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure English was yet invented in his day. I have freaked people out with a 10' 4x4 oak beam and a concrete block. A buddy was coming to the house and I was going to move a 62 Chevy Chieftan pickup, I think it was a 230 straight 6 in it. So I set up a lever. When my buddy got there I asked him to help me move that truck. Sure he says. He thought I was gonna roll it back but I told him to lift up on the bumper. He grabbed on and I pried the front end plumb off the ground with that lever. You shoulda seen the look on his face! LOL You literally could lift the front end, both wheels off the ground with one pinky finger. I have a knack for leverage cause dad started me real young thinking about what you can do with ropes and beams if you understand leverage. I had a 100 foot rope tied off to a telephone pole and drug the ass end of an 85 Sentra straight sideways across asphalt just by walking in to the middle of the rope until I got enough angle that I ran out of leverage. Even if you get out a napkin and a pencil to draw out some pictures and math, they cant believe their eyes. Nobody thinks that way anymore, just wanna go grab a machine and let Caterpillar and diesel fuel do all the thinkin.The one I still cant wrap my head around is how many yards it takes to fill a ditch. Cant be right, figure it again........

You have an exceptional ability to explain while keeping our attention. You would make great speeches or lectures.

You are the man Zach! I have learned so much from your videos. It's like I'm there with you. I would love to hang with you on the job for a day.

Enjoyed your interesting commentary always ready to learn about the ins and outs of drilling and maintaining oil wells. Thanks again.

Awesome video. I been pumping a 64 year old well in Kimball county NE for the last 15 years that consistently makes 10 bopd but what I think is really cool is that, not only does it make a consistent 10 barrels every day, but in it's 64 years in total, it's made 1.7 million barrels. Good ole girl. Not too many good ole girls like the one you have, and like mine!

I liked your spark plug story! I work quarries that have been in my family on my father’s side for six generations. I find metal “treasures “ that are from the ancestors. The junk or treasures make my day when I find their old tools, broken or just lost

Zach man your content is fantastic. I had a brief career on little single drilling rig in Drayton Valley, Alberta for about a year before the price of oil dropped and I decided to go into a trade. Ever since I'm always on the lookout for anything about the history of oilfields and oilfield equipment, the basics of how oil wells work and the nuts and bolts of the production process. Your channel is a gold mine and it wouldn't be half as good if you didn't have a great clear way of explaining things. First of all it should be required viewing for any oilfield green hand, seriously lol. Furthermore, I'd recommend that anyone working in any mechanical trade watch this stuff in order to pick up those little tips and tricks when it comes to pulling equipment apart, machining tolerances and other generalities like even a bit of old school safety wisdom. I hope you keep up with the channel, and just remember no matter how boring a little job feels when you're working on the lease there's probably lots of us who'd be interested to learn about it. Thanks!

WOW !! ... most entertaining and informative ... thank you and please keep these conversations coming our way ...

Thanks for the explanation. Growing up in Minnesota, I always speculated on how these worked. This explains why those pump jacks sometimes are shut off. Cool video

U are interesting to listen to, I have always wondered how the oil rigs and pumps work. Very neat that u can work on something ur granddad had too.

Hey thanks. I’m in Andover Ohio for the eclipse. Saw wells everywhere and needed to learn what they are all about. Now I know. Thank you.

Zach I really appreciate your videos. I’m new to being an operator. With no previous knowledge of the way things are with the RRC and everything else that goes with it. I’m learning from you. Every little thing you teach is very helpful to me. I’m also in Texas. Thank you for taking the time to teach what you do. I would love to work with you and be able to ask first hand advise. I need an oil field worker friend with lots of experience that is honest. I have met lots of people who just want to take advantage of every situation. I have some old wells that produce and some inactive wells. Stay safe.

I'm an old driller on spudders Zach, broke out on an "H" Cardwell truck mounted on an old Dowell frack truck back when they ran the Allison aircraft engines, talk about shake the ground with 2 setting side by side and us up on the 210 tanks making sure one didn't run dry before the other, 25 Walkaneers too and one old Cooper,,,,, Good times!!!! Great presentation spot on, wished I could remember all the pays (zones) names, Tar springs warsaw salem devonion oxvasis McCloskey,,,,,,,

i don't know anything about oil wells except what i have learned from your fantastic videos so far, and actually, that's getting to be much more than i thought. I am the first person in my last 2 generations of family to actually be self employed, everyone else works for a paycheck and cannot understand, or won't understand, the lifestyle commitment that I feel this is. Thanks for videoing some of your activities and perspectives. I was thinking maybe a remote for the winch? It is another point of failure and more complexity in the machinery for sure, but perhaps it can make it more efficient when you are working on the pumps.

Good explanation. I'm a geologist and chased drilling rigs all over the Permian Basin. Thanks, the general public thinks oil is in an underground lake and all you have to do is put a straw in it. It does smell like money. Thanks for the memories..

Reminds me of riding with my uncle who was a pumper for a company in Oklahoma. I always liked riding with him and 'helping.'

This is cool man...I grew up in the Ohio Valley and my family had some 1800's wells that were in the Big Engine sand. I spent alot of time with my grandfather pumping brine and finally we would get some good olive green gold lol. And, all the family had wonderful, free, natural gas. Pap-pap piped all the family on the hill into those wells.

Zack you missed your calling. Teacher I'd say. You have excellent videos. I spent 33 years in natural gas distribution welder twelve of those years. Now I'm learning the first phase of where natural gas comes from

Very cool explanation. Thanks for taking the time. Love the old 12 valve

I'm shocked and fascinated at the same time, thanks for sharing this with us!

Lmao!!! I haven't heard the term "educated guess" since my grandfather from years ago!!! Thank you for the reminder

Really interesting videos Zach. Thanks for taking the time to do them for all of youtube.

Grew up in the oilfields in Kansas. I went to work in it right outta high school. I worked on the subsurface pumps for like 3 years repairing them. Tubing and rod pumps. So I get most of your talk about here brother. Lol 👍

Bro!! I don't think people understand how dangerous starting this well up actually is. Volatile at ambient temperatures and atmospheric pressures are explosive on surface, especially in the summer. I was in the oilfield for 30+ years and can relate to all that you're explaining. An open tank of this wellbore fluid has the possibilities of being catastrophic with the gas vapors boiling off. The violent actions of a soft flowline, moving gas at surface, can cause issues. I'm sure this would be fun to watch from a distance and be on pins and needles trying to manage the start-up. Your explanation of the process is on point. Really loved this video...

It's great you've carved out a living doing this, I thought this was all done by huge outfits - this is good to see.

I really love the simplicity in oil production down there! Here in Frostbackistan a winch truck is a half million dollars and it take ten of them, four bed trucks and two million dollar pickers to move a rig across the yard.

We have the exact pump jack setup in the oilfields of Trinidad and Tobago. It's nice to see similar setups in other countries like the USA

GREAT "hands on" video ...... THANKS ! Love hearing how "regular folks" keep us going, even at 2 bbls a day ! Best of luck to a "salt of the earth feller" doin his thing in the oil patch ! Keep up the good work and best of luck to ya !!

Truck sounds great!

Watching this makes me miss my old pumping and roustabout days.

Bro my respect for this man talks very well salute brotha 💪💯🖤🛢️ shout out from Aurora Chicago IL

That well is a year or so younger than me, and it's still kickin' butt. I, on the other hand have long since seen the end of my butt-kickin' days! Great video, Zach!

Watching you hang the rods on the hanger bar without the door and come all the way off with the winch line gave me anxiety lol but there’s more than one way to skin a cat lol

Wow, Zach...awsome video!! I enjoyed every minute of this. Brings back so many memories of my grandfather and father's wells here in SW Indiana. I remember checking the tanks and hearing the oil splashing and echoing into the tank battery. Oh to only smell that raw crude again, absolutely love it!! On hot summer nights you can smell the gas in the air from the surrounding wells and tank batteries here. Many wells around here in the Illinois Basin still flare off the gas, really neat to see them glow in the night sky. Back in the 70s I loved spending time checking the wells and just taking in the mechanics of it all. Thanks for sharing your excellent knowledge, your passion for your work sure shows in your videos. I still drive around looking at the wells around here and over in White County, Illinois across the Wabash River. There is nothing like the oil fields. I can't get enough of your oil field videos, keep them coming please!! PS LOVE your winch truck.

Hey Zach; greetings from Colombia. Very interesting your videos; really enjoy your explanations even with my basic English; but you make it easy and I gotta say there's a lot of useful information and you show details which normally the People don't talk about in the middle of dayly tasks....Thanks a lot Zach. I already suscribed to your channel

I work in deep water completions but it is really cool to hear how other types of wells work around the world.

Great info, best well description I've seen

I was about to tell you how much I liked your winch truck but then I saw the homemade RV you built. I think that's going to be my favorite.

Best explanation I’ve ever heard.

Great explanation of how these type of wells work.

I sure do learn a lot with each video. Your explanations are terrific and appreciated!!!

Thanks for the video Zach. Larry

I was in the natural gas compressor business for almost 40 years and you did a good job of explaining the way the well works.

Absolutely fascinating stuff! I’m a software engineer and I’m realizing I’ve been in the wrong industry this whole time. Thanks for making these videos!

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Great video and excellent explanation that even a layman can understand. I spent a lot of time in OK and always wondered how these things worked. Please add more detail and material, ie. how the large and small tanks are used and how the oil is collected. Good stuff for sure. Thanks.

Zach is a damn good American, it’s my favorite channel. Great knowledgeable video.

My grandfather from Electra, Tx had a well like that. My father got like a $20 royalty check maybe once every so many years or at least did .I don't know anymore. But from the stories I can remember they had maybe 2 wells still running from the 50's I was just old enough to remember seeing them in the early 80's . I went to work for Boots & Coots Special Services (International Well Control) in 95 till they sold out to Halliburton in 2000. Not once did I even mess with a single well. I was contracted working on Union Pacific Property.

Treat... your oil well.. That's all I got. Try this -- go for a jog and burn carbohydrates, but go for a drive and burn hydrocarbons. Coincidence? Maybe... Excellent video, thanks for sharing.

When I was in high school I'd help my Uncle with his water well business in West Texas. We pulled windmills and changed leathers and pulled regular water tubing with electric pumps on the bottom. A lot of the equipment looks the same and brings me back to working on a winch truck with him. One time the wind wasn't blowing and I had to climb to the top of the windmill and spin it so we could see if the well worked. Good times. Really enjoying your channel!

Great video the truck sounds awesome

Fascinating explanation of the process mechanics and physics. You are are smart guy and I appreciate your talents.

I think this is great! Flipping old house's one thing...flipping old wells is another.$$$$

Just discovered your channel.....always fascinated by pump jacks since little kid (born in Port Arthur).....then played o & g game starting in early 1980's (Ada, Ok)....then sneaked into deals with Houston insiders...via local friend ensconced in River Oaks crowd......first well near Kirbyville...then on to Damon, Alvin, etc., etc.....probably 15 wells over 20 years....mostly SE Tx area. Read many books on geology and oil biz...was hooked bad......with juicy free flowing 'gushers' to inevitable dry holes.....playing the game was my goal.....a wild ride.....love hearing history of wells and details of their quirky production, etc. This well is in interesting location surrounded by trees and brush....but in sweet spot..still making oil after 70 years......thanks for sharing....btw, any interesting prospects in your area?

Great video. Thanks for sharing. "Smells Ike money...". Lol, I love it! God bless Texas!

BAD ASS truck... Plus the 5.9 cummins! Love it..

Yeah, excellent storyteller, no bullshit.

That was so interesting thanks, just found your channel and really enjoying seeing what you do.

Really Enjoyed this video, thank you !

good old Detroit baby so wild to see that well kicking like that.

Don't change a thing with your content or delivery. You can't beat teaching from the heart.

Recently found your channel. I really find it interesting. Thanks

Cool stuff Jack!

Borrowed phone. I painted tank batteries , worked at a internal coatings plant. Watched a paint crew make it snow tx in august. 4 tanks, equip, trees the ground rudolfs right antler had White tip.

Good stuff Zack, love old stripper wells.

Really enjoying your channel brother, just stumbled across it a few days ago and not knowing anything about the oilfield industry other than seeing it from the interstate in the midwestern states, you really opened my eyes up to what it takes to own/operate oil wells. Thank you for sharing and hope your channel continues to grow because you deserve it brother

I just found your channel and am enjoying what I see. I was born and raised in the oilfield and you got a good grasp on what's going on with these wells. I am going to watch some of your other videos because they are very interesting. Thanks for sharing Zach!

My dad worked like 25 years offshore for Conoco, Exxon and Halliburton out of Fourchon. Going to have to get some stories from my dad now. Your videos sparked my interest and great content as always dude.

Great video. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for showing me your well

Recently found your channel and absolutely loving it. I live in NW PA and only 15 minutes away from Titusville, PA which is home to the first commercial oil well. Drake Well was drilled in 1859 to a depth of 69.5ft and produced oil to 1861 at a rate of 12 to 20 barrels per day. Also not far from me is McClintock Well No.1 which is the world's oldest continually producing well. The well was drilled by the Kickdown method using nothing but leg power to a depth of 620ft back in 1861. It produced 175 barrels a day up to 1920 and is now only producing half a barrel a day.

Hey Zach, I am an old man and think I knoow a little of the world, BUT you have opened a world to me that I had no idea existed. Yes oil comes from underground but you make it interesting and informative.

"smells like money" Never truer words!

I love seeing the growth of your channel

Great explanation of how gas reacts to loosing pressure

Learned lots! Thanks from Alberta.

My grandpa always talked about how he used to go out with his dad as a kid and help him on the oil lease. He had lots of cool stories he’s told me. But seeing it in persons pretty cool since I never had the chance to go out and do anything like that. I believe the leases we have are in the same part of Texas as you are just by looking at the brush and stuff

Perty neat as he dropped back where it was....I guess 👍👍👍👍

Only found your channel today, fascinating. 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸