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That was me as a kid with my grandpa. Riding around these old leases.

My dad pumped several wells for two or three different companies and I went with him during summers. We were always changing packing, (Split donuts} or tightening them up. Changing belts, greasing bearings and oil the polish rods. Most of his wells were electric by the time I was around. A few were still the old Fairbanks Morse engines. What you call the hit miss engines. Some times the build up at the bottom of the well would cause the pump to hit and get slack in the cable on the saddle and we would have to adjust that. Every time I smell crude oil I think of him. Our polish rods were always brass, never saw a steel one. I've watched them pull wells and replace pumps and sucker rods and I've been with them when they lowered nitro down a well and touched it off to fracture the formation and I've seen Halliburton do it with there equipment. Those big ole trucks would start jumping and shaking. 24/7 job. Boy the memories.

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@@TheZachLife How did they lubricate the first oil well pump?

@@TheZachLife Could you do a video and go into more detail about the gear reductions and pulley sizes and the resulting forces, torques, etc? You understand it thoroughly, but a little more explanation would help those of us who aren't as familiar.

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@@TheZachLife OSHA would have a field day following him around. lol

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Bob, we never will run out of oil. As the pacific tectonic plate slides under the western shores of North America it takes with it millions of years of organic sediment in stratum that cooks due to pressure & heat. Are you aware of this?

@@diogenes5381 exactly , and theres more, many experts believe the earth makes crude oil continually by various cooking processes , it wants people to think its Only from fossils as they " thought" , this was just a marketing/ production scam to cover up the truth .

It's such a vast expanse. I remember flying across Texas, seeing the thousands of oil wells down below. I nodded off for an hour, looked back down, and there were still countless wells.

Fast, cheap, good. Chose two...

I've heard of that. That's pretty cool.

I've actually seen one working in Normanton, Nottinghamshire in 2010. I filmed it and used it as the tail end clip of a train video in2010- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtZhi6ejy7Wzpac.html . There were a few abandoned wells in the area, so I do not know if that one is still working.

Those areas of Nottinghamshire (and elsewhere) would be ideal for fracking, but our wonderful government set the ground vibrations so low that a semi truck (we call them articulated) driving by would set them off. All designed to prevent any fracking in UK.

The Allies floated to victory on a sea of oil. Our leaders today forget this important fact. My Dad flew in B17's and a lot of times their targets were oil fields, refineries and marshalling yards shipping oil and oil products. I just can't imagine electric powered tanks and fighters.

@@meadows408 I'm a big proponent of electric but in the right areas such as light vehicles. There is an entire industry that needs to catch up to be truly "green" but heavy vehicles and aircraft will not run on electric for some time if ever.

Out here in Wyoming they weld metal cowboys on the pump jacks

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Different strokes for different folks . . under the crown still here in Australia we have rights only two meters underground to an extent of leasehold laws called joking freehold etc . . further than that the Queen or more precise the 'London banks' precinct vampire bankers owns that underground not the mafia colony Australia . . more you know etc

How much oil on each stroke? How much do you get paid for it?

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Farmall H - the machine that time couldn't kill.

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I'm not surprised at all! All this old stuff lasts forever! Something got injected into America and it was really bad. It's a 4 letter word. Starts with J and ends with s. There is a w in the word too. We have all been terribly indocturnated our whole lives in lousy school systems to the point that almost everyone spends way more time in school than people ever did, but we are all way less educated than those people. Most people have a very poor command of the English language and know none of the stories of the glory and noble characters that are our ancestry. I was friends with these ghetto people in Syracuse, NY. They lived in the ruins of a great civilization with beautiful buildings and architecture falling down around their ears. I would wonder who were these people and where did they go? If you look at a history of Rochester, NY it is unbelievable what a prosperous, thriving city it was from basically about 1800! We had the first 2 story mall in 1827 and Western Union was founded at the site. Now the city is dead and filled with crime. The last thing any of these bad people I mentioned earlier want is you to know anything about history. They had no hand in the creation of this country, and they killed Jesus.

The Tories are unbanning fracking, so you might see one even closer.

One of the thing I find so interesting is that after all this time it still produces enough oil to supply about 100 people in the US.

@@TheZachLife that’s a good well

@@TheZachLife watch out old sleeping joe will sell it to China

Haha I must confess I usually use one of the pneumatic 35 gallon barrel areas pumps.

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But good money hopefully right?

@@josephmelton4721 Made the companies I worked for a lot of money. Wasn’t getting rich myself. If you decide to get in it work for yourself. You will need insurance and it’s expensive. One lawsuit and you’re ruined. If you work for a service company by the hour you want to ask for a percentage of what you bill the customers. If you just work by the hour you will end up old and broken. Believe me.

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Cost being the only deterrent on something that has a marginal payback on a CNC lathe making aircraft parts different story. Knowing next to nothing about this industry my guess any profit from this well is measured in hundreds of dollars a year if this gentleman was to be paid a fair wage there would probably be no profit whatsoever. During times like this oil brings good money and effectively pays the losses that have been accruing over the years although the costs have been shifted at this point to different areas. If oil is going for over $100 a barrel that means all of our enemies are fat with cash to buy weapons to harm us and our allies that is where the costs get shifted. But for most of you younger people you have no idea where things come from or how they came about what about all of us older men who worked hard to provide for you as children now only to be scuttled by you in your zeal for maximize profits and the like. I wish you luck and that you find a more hospitable retirement if you ever see such I know for myself my anger and bitterness towards our government and all you smart guys who just treat people like us like yesterday's garbage. And people like Barack Hussein Obama who have brought you to this point in our lowest point in this country's history and said things to us the older generation who provided for you a very good future how bad and evil we were for all we did using words like antipathy that worthless pile of shit I will have you know Is a malcontent a communist a destroyer of all things good he's a filthy pig of a man who has earned nothing our ire and disrespect that should go double for Michelle. These people have enjoyed the fruits of our labor as well as an Obama's case The very finest that could be provided him by his white mother and grandmother in a beautiful place Michelle has been equally well treated where they come up with this garbage but somehow they have been dissed or in any way held down they are now rich they have at the disposal anything everything they wish but it's not good enough to sit in their palace and leave us alone no they must interject they're bullshit their hatred they're disrespect towards us. Not enough that Joe bite me not our president he was the loser we were told a lie by the media the government and big tech to further there control over us. I hear Michelle is thinking of a run for president I can't even imagine I think she had no less than 50 servants at her disposal the last time these dirtbags occupied the White House. I commend this man for his work his knowledge and his sharing. God for those of you who do not believe I'm sorry but he provided for us that's just we have provided for you many things in our case he provided us with an almost infinite supply of renewable energy they don't like the words hydrocarbon or oil that means or provides us with freedom they deny us freedom by changing the meaning of words and destroying the moral values we used to hold dear. They go about destroying our heroes our values our hopes and dreams leaving us empty with nothing only slaves to a state and politicians that hate us they believe they can do without us they no longer wish us a slaves I don't know who will serve them but I think they will find someone I only hope that it is their captors that use them as slaves before God brings them back and his fold and hands them to the devil for destruction.

@@chauvinemmons what on earth are you talking about? I am simply pointing out a clear fact which he would actually benefit from. Belts are not cheap and likely running multi belts without matching shortens life by half.

@@eddiereichel9354 How did this even happen.

@@chauvinemmons I understand where you are coming from and your motivations, people need to start thinking for themselves and not rely on, or be suckered in by, big government. Big government is what sank the USSR.

Match belt numbers came from the same mold number used to make the belt.

Cool. Ive never been employed on a drilling rig but i've spent a some time around them. I plan on doing more of the oilfield videos as I finish up my RV.

@@TheZachLife Back to watch again... ready for more content!

I agree I love the old Iron.

@@TheZachLife Is that an American pump jack? Any dates or serial numbers on any of the components? Love to see the cool stuff!!

It did not have a date but might have had a serial # I'll look tomorrow.

Thanks. I uploaded a video a week or two ago of new well with an arrow engine.

@@TheZachLife There was a time not too long ago there was once in oil well out in Oklahoma that utilize the old Rod driven oil well technique it was powered by a Fairbanks Morse engine with a crankshaft which turn the wheel with all the rods going in all directions but as of the 2000 teens the well was removed by a high tech energy company and the oil pump jacks were donated to a museum somewhere in Texas kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q-Cbibmo2M_HaZs.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8V8ac2izuCvnnk.html

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Snubbing hands are a different breed, nothing but respect for that job- it takes competence, hard work, and balls of steel

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Thanks. I have zero experience with with the gas engine powered wells, however I've got a recently purchased oil well that i'm planning to temporarily put a 118 or a 208 on because it doesn't have power to it. I have just picked up 2 208's and a 118 and will have to make at least one run. That project will be coming up probably in the spring/early summer. I originally planned on the antique gas engines being a big part of this channel but the majority of my time has been taken up by the RV. I've made a deal on a 35 hp superior i need to go pickup.

@@TheZachLife Wow, a 35 hp Superior!!...can't wait to see a video of it, any chance of taking us along when you pick it up? What a joy to see!! and your 118 and 208s also...I feel like a kid at Christmas waiting for the next video. Thanks for your reply.

@@TheZachLife what state are your oil wells in? Would you consider be a consultant for a out of state investors?

@@GaHullbillyRanch I'm in north texas. A long story short I simply do not have the time.

@@TheZachLife thanks for the reply.

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Sure thing. I got some more on the way.

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