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Oil Field Power House With Superior 35 HP Engine
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2013
- Very few of these power house engines are still being used to pump oil, but they once were the heartbeat of our county. The oil that powered our ships and airplanes in World War II was pumped out of the ground by rigs like this.
The sound of that big old single cylinder is crazy. Had to believe an engine can run at such slow speeds
I imagine sitting back after getting everything running. Being comforted by the sound of prosperity.
And then you realize you've been pumping your own septic tank
As a child in Oklahoma, I used to go to sleep hearing the sound of these old power houses. Really miss that old sound at night.
What a nice memory. I’ve never seen a rod line lease before, but in NE OK we did have some jump jacks that ran off of natural gas that were close to a friend of mines suburban neighborhood that could be heard when it was quiet at night
Been there a super place to see an old engine still doing work.
they are so brutally simple ... i love it!!!
You know what is still going to be running in 2100... things from the first half of 20th century , but technology from our era is going to be remembered just from pictures.
You're just experiencing survivorship bias. Everything that we have now from back then is fantastic, and will last forever. But they also made a lot of crap back then, it's just that it's no longer around for us to see, since, well, it was crap. 100 years from now, there will be stuff from this era, but the crap will have been filtered out. They'll say exactly the same thing.
@@nonenowherebye I get your point, but you can find pretty much any machinery, home electronics, cart, etc.from 100 years ago and restore it to working order. Sure there will be something left from our time, but it’s going to be either very rare or very simple in nature. If it has digital electronics in it, that makes it pretty much unfixable in the long run. Forget that things from nowadays break more often than yesterday’s stuff, it’s usually unfixable and people throw it away and just buy a new thing. You want to I don’t know restore an audio amp from 2020 in 2080? Forget it the proprietary silicon will no longer be made.
2021 these will. Come in handy when senile sleepy joe kills fuel industry. These engines self fuel well gas we have 2 setups like this in Texas 2021 still producing ... great video. This will motivate me to video our set up ... plus our model Y fairbanks morse power plant installation 1930 recently used as back
Up recently Texas snow storm at our family Ranch the oil sold on ranch paid for the power plant .. and 1931 second pump engine installation oil pump house great video thanks for posting
I remember those sights and sounds (and smells) from when I was a little guy growing up in 'Western NY.
Same for me in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
I`ve been there during the tractor show in Oblong . great to see this kept up ,and still doing its work. Great job at the video
Great video I am a big fan of oil pump jacks
Very cool... as a kid I would run into these in the woods of Bradford. On rare occasion, running. With no muffler, they are deafening and can be heard for miles. I found them fascinating. With nobody watching, I figured out how to link/unlink the rods. You can still see one operated at Moraine State Park in western PA.
There's actually still a couple Central Power Houses running around Bradford, one just west of Stanford St at Leigh St, but its electrified. South of there ANF has restored one in Corydon Township just south of Highway 59 on PA 321. There are also a few around Warren and Marienville too. You used to hear them 'popping' in the valley around Bradford early in the mornings (I'm from there too) after the gaugers would start them up. Good memories!
Very interesting, I love these old motors thank you for sharing this David + the history. :-)
In Taft California Dad would give my Brother and I Rags to grab the Jack lines and we would hang on and play on them
It's awesome seeing things like this preserved for the future, and still operating.
+Darrell Magby Machinery like this powered our ships and airplanes in WWII. It's hard to imagine today how much effort was required.
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I loved riding the rodline when young. I'd step on it while holding on to a bush or tree.
+Martha Cunningham I saw powerhouses and rodlines in Eastern KY forty years ago and have been fascinated by the old machinery ever since. I find remnants of old oilfield atrifacts in the woods in Southern Illinois occasionally. The powerhouses here disappeared decades ago, except for the little operation in the video.
I can smell it! Great
Nice Belts and Pulleys
I believe on a nice, cool fall day, that I could almost literally fall asleep beside that engine! Beautiful rhythm!☺
Cool old engineering.we have a oil museum in Brea CA.with working Wells,and a model T fire truck and other vehicles and equipment photos written accounts of the pioneers you should see it if you like studying our history.
One of my blog friends sent photos of the West Kern Museum at Taft back in 08. This old machinery has been a lifelong fascination for me. I worked in the Southern Illinois oilfield for six years back in the eighties, so it is more than just a hobby interest. Thanks for visiting and commenting! Here is the blog link with some photos. truebluesam.blogspot.com/2008/11/west-kern-oil-museum-taft-california.html
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Love this. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. DavidN
DavidN23Skidoo great video
GENIUS, AMERICAN GENIUS, THE MORE OIL THE BETTER, KEEP IT GOING, SOUNDS LIKE PROSPERTY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, HELL WITH DEMOCRATES
To a non American this is amazing! To imagine hundreds of such installations working 24/7 all over the country back in the day is incredible! Do these wells still produce?
It is still an active field. Drilling has dropped off with the low prices for oil, but producers are keeping their wells going.
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I would presume that the largest density of the, would be in Texas? Would really like to see some of them in real life, maybe on my next visit to the USA!
I recently stumbled across one of these buildings with a nearly complete set up. The owners want to restore and preserve. Where is this one located? They would like to take pictures and video that may help them restore theirs. I have a few pictures and it is located in Kentucky. Thank you.
I learned from another video that the oil field crews would make the exhaust sound distinct on different engines so they would know which ones were running, but i t wouldn't take me long to devise an exhaust system with a muffler so I (and the neighbors) wouldn't have to listen to that rasping racket.
There was an oil well 330 feet north of our farm on the neighbor, with a 118 Fairbanks. It had no muffler and that engine would pop and crack while the rods were coasting back down the well, then chug chug chug while it pulled, and bang bang bang again. I put a Cherry Bomb glass pack on it and that made life much better.
@@DavidN23Skidoo Good thinking! Old hit-n-miss with a glass pack. Neat!
whomever created this set up was a evIl geinus in mechanics .:) im in 2021 , is this place still going? i understand there is a central power house operation in canada with this type of operation but using a 5 hp electric motor.
So just how many wells are being ran off this one engine and how many barrels are they producin?. Is this kept going rear round and is the oil pumped into a pipeline or holding tanks like one that was pictured? Also curious how efficient are one of these old engines? I know lots of questions!
I didn't count the rods the day I shot this, but in the photos it looks like ten or more wells are being pulled at this house. There are two eccentrics on this unit, so it was designed to pull many more. These old wells are probably down to just a couple barrels per day, and a pumper would come around the lease and run the power houses for a few hours and then shut them down. They would have been run around the clock when the wells were new. Oil goes into tanks, where it is taken away by trucks, and then to a pipline facility. I don't know the efficiency of these engines, but when they run on wellhead gas, the cost of fuel is nearly free. Many wells you see around the oilfield do not produce enough gas, and they will have a propane tank to run the Fairbanks 208 running the well.
Where is this???
Near Robinson, IL. It's been a long time, and I would have trouble finding it again.
What does it use for fuel?
Oilfield engines usually run on wellhead gas (natural gas). You will often see a propane tank at well sites when the well head gas becomes insufficient.
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Hokey looking....but whatever works!😏
Isn't this balanced wrong though? Half the rods should go to the upper eccentric so that half are pulled while the other half are pushed, helping to keep the load on the engine steady so its governor isn't bouncing up and down like that.
I think the governor bounces simply because it is a single cylinder slow speed engine.
I do notice it seems to "cough" every once in a while. It sure is a noisy one!
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Who ever did the photography needs to learn how to show an overall picture too! Didn't see the overall turntable with the big belt, didn't see the overall site, etc.
I noticed that as well. Kept wondering how the took power off of the engine. Usually there's a pulley running concentric with a flywheel, though I never caught sight of one.