Maintenance on a 101 Year Old Oil Well

"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting". You are the first person to get that expression right in the last 50 years.

My dad pumped wells here in Ohio. In the summer, when I was a kid, I'd ride around with him to all his wells. He always carried around a big cresent wrench and a grease gun under the seat of the truck. He had one ancient well with an old pump jack with a gas hit and miss engine on it. I remember him greasing the polish rod and stuffing box up, checking the oil in the engine, setting the gas or throttle and cranking the flywheel. When the engine was running good he would release a break that then would engage the horses head. He'd let me go up on the tank to check the oil level which was fun for a kid.😊😊

I just spent 20 minutes watching a video of an oil well and I don't regret a second.

I hauled crude oil, salt water, fresh water, diesel, methanol etc in the oilfields. I miss every second of it..god bless our oilfield workers. Keep it turning to the right

Most honest thingI have heard today, "I don't know why, but it seems too". Simple and too the point.

Great to see it working, we used to have a few working in Eakring. Nottinghamshire, U.K. There is a Bronze monument still in place as a tribute to the Americans Oilfield Hands that came over in World War 2 to assist in drilling the local wells

Grew up with them literally in my back yard. Fell asleep to the lullaby of a hit and miss popping as it swished up and down.

Awesome memories there. Pumped for 38 years. All I can say is that wrapped up belt came out way easier than a few I fought. Thanks for posting this!

Hey Zach, brings back old memories, in 1965 I worked on an oil well work over rig while attending Texas A&I college South Texas. It really gits me to hear all these tree huggers rasin hell about fracking, This fracking procedure in older than me at 81 years. Thanks for the videos, your a good man.

People with useful skills and a great work ethic make the world go round. My only criticism is that Zach can't be cloned, because we could use more people like him.

I'm grateful for the men who will do these jobs.

The interesting thing about folks that watch youtube videos and then comment negatively about the work you preform is they have never done the work you do, or have done the work but not in the environment that you work in or have never done the same work on the ancient old equipment that you work on. I used to work in the rail industry in the same area you are in and the companies that I worked for wanted three things, it to work right now, it to last forever when finished and it to cost nothing at all....... pick one because you don't get all three. What you do is amazing, how you do it is your way and that is pretty amazing too seeing that you are out in the middle of BFE, with limited tools, supplies and equipment and ALONE. Thanks for the ride along and making me miss working on old shit no one knows how to repair anymore.

Very interesting! I was born and raised in the oil field. West Texas and eastern New Mexico. I've managed to work in most every capacity from staking out where the wells were going to be drilled to drilling them to completing them to being a company man for several oil companies. I even welded both in the field and in rig building yards.

Love this! It's great to see the old equipment still going.

Interesting to see such an old pump still in action, thank you for the explanation.

It makes me happy to see you taking care of good old reliable equipment. I'm 54 and remember being a kid in southern California. We called those pumps Ya Ya's because they looked like big Grasshopper's nodding yes . Apparently some of the Oil worker's thought so too. They painted bug eyes on the head weight and welded curved rebar on for antennas. They have they own special sound . The newer pumps just aren't the same. I always found it relaxing.

Loved the shadow of the greasing process, I spit my coffee out, have a good day brother 👍👍🕶🇨🇦

Have watched 100's of these horseys pump on the hills of southern california, thanks for the rundown, amazing how we will run out of oil but thousands of 100 year old wells just keep pumping LOL

Thank you for posting this! I don't live in a area with these but always fascinated with machines

With the way things are today I sure could use a oil well on my property. Excellent video, thanks.