oil field equipment

[gocartwasher]

most of this stuff is well made,there a family using a 100 year old system in southren IL last summer they celebrated their 100th aniversy of this oilfeild power house,below is a photo of the 25 HP superior engine in the pump house,,they can run 24-7 and only need a rebuild every 60 years

 

[sharples]

Awesome

I love old engines, thanks for the post!!!

 

[hydralique]

Very Cool!

What a neat engine . . . look at that gargantuan old flywheel. What kind of fuel do they run it on? With a very low compression ratio I figure it should run on just about anything but I'm curious as to what is really used.

 

[tolivac]

From someone I know who used to work on these old "pumper" "horsehead" pump engines-they would run off the crude natural gas coming from the oil well.He mentioned starting them was you stood on the flywheel and jumpted off before the motor kicked over.He said it took some practice to do that without getting hurt.I would like to see that jumping start being done.In many oil well installations those engines were replaced by electric motors designed for oil pump use.

 

[petek]

There's a lot of oil history in this part of Ontario. The worlds first commercial oil well was dug here in the early 1850's prior to Pennsylvania in a little town called Oil Springs. Here's a link to the museum there which is quite interesting. While there's not much oil left there are still a few wells pumping away and still some of the old old wooden ones powered from a central powerhouse. The powerhouse turns a wheel which connects to "chain" of wooden logs each chained in sequence and suspended from wood supports throughout the fields. Each ends up at a wooden pumpjack and the to and fro motion of the swinging wooden logs or beams turns a small wheel on the jack to make it go up and down pumping.

http://www.lclmg.org/lclmg/Museums/OilMuseumofCanada/tabid/114/Default.aspx

 

[neptunebob]

What!! that's not what I learned in my Pennsylvania History class from high school!

 

[petek]

Well I guess they omitted some facts.