He can turn a new shaft, wire a 40,000 volt transformer, build a hydraulic press, overhaul an injection pump, and a dozen other things, but a GoPro baffles him. All is right with the world.

Nice job, 102 years old well still producing, run by an antique pump jack. Way cool Zach, thanks again for sharing.

Hell yeah Zack! This is just what I needed right now. Always nice to watch you work on this older equipment and explain to us how it works. It's definitely relaxing for me anyways!

These unit repairs and work-overs are a favorite of mine. Thanks for bringing us along Zach. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.

Another most excellent video! Two friendly comments: 1.) Thank you so much by not boring us with endless video facing off the work (which you didn't do anyways). 2.) Next time you are at the swap meet, there's always that guy selling assorted wrenches for two bucks each. Buy some dedicated wrenches for that lathe!

Zach, you are one heck of a machinist!

Very neat to see a horizontal mill in action.

Great video. Like seeing videos like this. My dad was a pumper for Chevron for 30 years. Watched him for years doing maintenance like this.👍

Thank you, Zach, for taking the time and trouble to share this. Really appreciate and enjoy it!

There is no better anywhere than Texas Patch Engineering !! Thanks for the update ... and you stay in touch and we will, too ... Just keep on pumping that Texas Crude !!

Good for another hundred years!

Back in the day, I would align the belt sheaves with a long 1/2" or 3/4" fiberglass rod laid across the grooves in both sheave wheels for good quick belt alignment. I keep the rods under the seat of the service truck. I enjoy your video much!

Awesome job, Zach!! Love the old equipment and to see someone keeping it running and producing... Not just scrapped or sitting in a museum.. Wish I had that skill and life... Look forward to seeing future progress in your fields

Love watching you working the wells

Excellent repair! I enjoy your videos, in the field very much.

Thanks for keeping this piece of history working, and showing your machining skills as well. Here in Western Pa you still see some old wells randomly appearing on the hillsides of a pasture with big pvc barrel hooked up for anything that may get pumped out. Other times if youre just driving through the backwoods you may find a derelict well mostly hidden in the trees - covered in rust and moss. I also remember when I went camping to Wyoming for a few weeks back in 2008; how on the drive there I would see some of these on the plains working in rhythm .... up and down up and down. It sticks in my mind because I wasnt in a rush and wasnt driving on the interstate at the time; so I had pulled off to the side of the road to check my maps and have a quick lunch. One side of the road had this massive farm field... no idea any more if it was corn or wheat; and on the other was just regular plains with the wells.

I really like your logic for just make a whole new shaft. No pun intended job WELL done.

I can see these making a comeback seeing how expensive new ones are.

This is what its about. Keeping them running. Stay safe my friend.

My buddy Walter turned off a coil 66ft off a piece of 4140 went across his shop and curled up on his dry fridge for his welding rods till it broke he was loooooooooooooook that many times LOL .

Enjoyed the Heck out of this video, thanks Zach....PB

The oilfield maintenance and repair videos are my favorite. This one was especially good! 👍👍

I'm working on a Parkersburg 114 saddle bearing, the grease worms ate the hell out of it, looks like I will have to make one from scratch.

bet you don't have trouble falling asleep at night .keep up the great work

I can see where the machining tools and the knowledge to operate them would be essential to running an operation like yours. I would think your long term exit plans would include finding the next generation operator who can multi-craft and is hands-on. Outstanding video!

hi Zach, cheers from Orlando, FL...Paul

I'm an old guy worked heavy equipment for around 45 years . Looks to me this guy could build anything ,repair anything ,keep it running!!!!! Great job on that shaft!!!!!

When I’m notified of a new @TheZachLife video, immediately stop down to watch it. Thanks, Zach!

This is the only guy I have ever subscribed to, he's not fake like other shows, he does it his way and to bad if you don't like the way he does it, not trying to impress the arm chair oil men out there

I love these videos! I have oil and grease for guts.

Zach was born in an oil field and raised in a machine shop. ❤❤❤

Good job Zack, love your videos, and you say it how it is. I worked in the Oil Field for 40 years and know where you are coming from.

From a loggers perspective why don't you have a service truck, nothing fancy, mine is a one ton so over loaded as to be called "the road slug" and as l age l find the luxury of the small crane on the back very agreeable with my back!

Being a boiler maker down here in Australia it's nice to watch someone else do the work for a change. Yahoo buckeroo

Nice to see ya saving big bucks doing your own machining. That's got to save absurd money and time besides getting exactly what you want. Knurling a shaft is an old timey repair so it may have been done long ago. It seems odd for an old US manufacturer to knurl an undersized part (though it lasted many decades) when it's so quick to machine another simple shaft like that one. Knurling was also a common way to make piston skirts a closer fit in worn cylinder bores and to make stock OD valve guides fit a loose guide hole in an engine cylinder head. (Do not confuse that with the much more common knurling the INSIDE of valve guide.) Knurling a bushing can improve a press fit too , like the common cheap spacer bushings pressed into riding mower idler and tension pulleys.

The label on your jeans looks like the labels on my Round House jeans. If so, in my experience, these are good jeans. Made in Shawnee, Oklahoma near where I grew up.

Impressive how precise old machine shop equipment is.

Zach, that’s some good machinist work in this video. As someone who went to school for it, sure there are some speeds and feeds that could be better but overall goes to show machining isn’t rocket science by any means

I've worked on a bunch of old Hit & Miss well engines and stationary engines doing machining and restoration for guys, never a dull moment!!

Go pro's are evil! (just like trucks) They are part of the master plan to see we stay aggravated. I don't make You Tube videos and they managed to aggregate me. Well the one I had did and it's gone now. Nevertheless great stuff as always Zack, looking forward to your next repair adventure.

A little TLC goes along way, your a good mechanic/business man.

That video working on this well from 5 years ago got me to sub to your channel

Always happy to see a new video from you showing how things are done!

I'm wording the answers to your questions out loud, and guess what? My girlfriend thinks I'm smart😋🥰. Thanks, Zach!

Zach, if you had been listening…, I was yelling at you even, that the measurement was 14.5inches…, hahaha..! Excellent video, I don’t know “jack” about machining, but watch many channels here with that content, I love your step by step narration(s), and description(s). Thank you sir.

You got about as beautiful of a Feb day in OK you can get. Feels good to be out working in the sun. Love the machining skills!

Zach you are amazing 😊

You are better machinist than I expected. Well done. BTW, the problem with your GoPro is that it is a GoPro. They pretty much suck these days.

Watching you do your work is kool don't know why but is kool to see you do your thing. Thanks for the video

another cool video

Thanks for the quick lesson, nice t/o see you use your space and beautiful antique tools. Cheers from Calgary, Canada.

You inspired me to get an oil field job up here in canada. Am a painter by trade, so i got a coatings job on the new LNG plant that canadas building up north! Not quite the same as what you do but excited to get my foot in the door.

I worked at a sawmill for 8 years and have taken out of the bolts from a split bushing and used them to pull out the core ; it made life much more easy to remove the pulley and replace it with one that might be better .

All that machine work you did was pretty darn Amazing to watch Zach. Funny how some of the oldest tools in the shop tend to be the best. Great work sure enjoy your content

Adding a snap ring groove on open keyway shafts helps

Hey! That was a great video Zack! Refreshed my memory on running those machine tools also. Keep those oil wells pumping that black gold. From Iowa.

Easy call to scrap shaft. Seriously impressed you can machine your own.

Thanks for the educational vid! Outstanding!!!!

Thank you Zack. I wonder If the electrical fields around your machines mess up the cameras. Old machines are not shielded.😊

I worked at a Oilfield Pipe & Supply in the early 80's and we put jackshafts on many single reduction pumping units (it was hard at the time to get any pumping units) We used I beam and pillow block bearings. I wonder now how long any of them lasted.

Awesome rebuild ! 👍

Hey Zach, glad to see your back out in the oil fields. I love that old dinosaur pumping unit! It amazes me how long those pools of oil can produce with proper maintenance. I take it that it produces sweet West Texas Intermediate. Hopefully you have a good producer there. It's great that you can do your own maintenance on these units. Your pumping experience is awesome, so glad to see you enjoy your work and sharing it with us KZfaqrs. I know I speak for all of us that we appreciate the time you take to put these exceptionally interesting videos together. Always a pleasure to see.

that is one hell of a tail stock on that lathe. Damn son. I've seen bigger, but I don't know that I've seen bigger with that bed length. If I can find you a new wheel for your saddle would you be interested, on my dime.

Thanks for the video Zack and thank you for speeding up the slow parts.

This was awesome. Well done!

The corrupted files could be magnetic disruption maybe the device or card is getting too close to metal, or an electric motor, or some type of coil. I really enjoy these videos!

Thank you for these videos! I was always fascinated by the old oil pumps in southern Ohio and always wondered what was inside. Now i know. Thanks! Please keep up the great videos. I do a lot of the same things you're doing. 😀

Zach, I’ve been watching your videos for years. I know it’s a pain in the ass to make these videos when you’re busy but thank you so much!! I think you’re the fucking man.

As a fellow Texan trying to learn 3D modeling and such, I wish I knew what you forgot.

I wish you had that autio file at the end, I love to hear those old pumps run.

Nice work and thanks for taking us along.

Keep up the good content, that was pretty cool to watch

Nicely done!

Im with you i can make parts and fix old junk but cant get along with technology great video

Just found your channel, great content.

I absolutely love your videos! Don't worry too much about the GoPro trouble you managed to get around it just fine.

Respect for your knowledge!

Gotta love straight forward equipment. As for gopros, everybody with gopros has trouble with them, for the price you'd think they'd be less buggy. If it was any other piece of equipment people would likely call them a knock off camera with a high price tag.

GREAT JOB KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS 😊

Great Job. Sorry about the Lufkin Engineering being bought out by GE and they closed it down - I believe the shaft balancing unit is in operation. Foundry gone as is engineering. Sad but the drop in business forced the issue with aging owners. No one could buy it but GE stepped up then crashed them as GE got into trouble.

You ain't lazy 👍🏻

Great video Zach

10:25 A mystery guest! You know she must be pretty good looking because she can stop him mid-sentence when she enters the room.

Common sense and old school though process for the win. Life gets in the way of keeping up on everything

Really interesting thanks.

Excellent work ,

1921... Amazing year in history if you follow American Coins.

I like the oil filled humor

How much is one of them shafts from the supply store?

Hey just wanna say i love your vids man have a good day

How often do you have to replace belts on these? It seems like they might last longer with a guard to shield them from sunlight.

Great content, reminds me of me, just gotta get stuff done!

Zack a lot of tubers are trying the DJI equipment. And for the bearing , couldn't you put it in a oven and heat it to get a interference fit ? 😊

The keyway is a machined out section on the shaft and a woodruff key is a highly machined piece that fits into the keyway.

You brock the shiv ?

Awesome!!!

I'd feel at home in your shop.

Good job!

Harbor Frightening Tools to the rescue. Yes, they are disposables. Nice work Gasman, thanks for the oil!. You might find this funny, but I use 140wt gear oil on electric fan bushing and bearings. Shop sized or bathroom heater sized, they wont squeak for a VERY long time after a load of 140wt. 1921 - The first radio broadcast of a baseball world series game.

The center drill is sixty degrees, otherwise known as a Morse taper Zach.