How Do Oil Pumpjacks Work?

Here after the Landman tv show

POV: you been watching Landman and are curious about how oil wells work

Renewable energy, what a joke

Landman with Billy Bob Thornton brought me here

I've wondered about this for years! Can anyone tell me what the actual purpose of the horse head is? And how do they install the standing valve to start with?

Theoretically, how would you sabotage one?

Oil Derrick sounds like a Magic Mike support character...

I love oil. I love gasoline. I love diesel. I hate electric. I don't care about the climate.

I’m here from Landman

These Lufkin units are the best in the world. From a business perspective, the only threat to a Lufkin pumping unit was another Lufkin pumping unit. I built these things for almost 2 decades and globetrotted pretty regular. I received an order to design and replace the wooden walking beam for one that was 80 years old. It was normal to see a half dozen imported units in various stages of repair and one old Lufkin unit among them just pumping away.

Thanks for this... Have seen and heard these things over the years... The rising and the falling of the engine as the head goes up and down and the weight goes around...

Not one person ever has called this an oil derrick. You lose.

I'm currently enjoying "land man " with Billy Bob Thornton. My wife is from west Texas. She likes to inform me on how and where she grew up. Time for a new windshield.

Back in the 50s and 60s there were hundreds of these south of Long Beach.. They look somewhat prehistoric.

Roji

Can't wage war with out oil now days. I like the term Dipping Donkey.

Since a kid, they always made me think of a chicken pecking in the ground. We'd stay at a relatives farm on vacation in Oklahoma that had these type of rigs out in the fields. When I'd go to sleep at night the distant sound of the engines making the rigs work was like a lullaby with the distinct popping sound.

When I was a little kid, I used to call them oil well handles - the walking beam and horse head moving up and down kinda reminded me of a handle being pumped up and down.

Good 'splainin. Thanks 😊

Who's here from Landman?

Interesting,thanks

It's not called a riding valve, it is called a traveling valve!

Those are never called oil derricks. Get your stuff right doiii

What about screw pumps ?

I can’t believe 1.5 million people care.

This is never called a Derrick. It's a pumping unit or , pump jack

“Tommy!!!!”

As a teenager in the 60's and 70's, I was fortunate enough to spend the majority of my free time in Northwestern PA. Forrest, Warren, Venango and Crawford counties. We called these rigs grasshoppers.

Ugly thing. I like wind turbines more.

As long as crude oil is economically feasible to extract it will be consumed.

this is super easy to understand, and it is explained very well you deserve more subs

grasshoppers

substandard graphics

Always thought they looked Interesting!

NOT derricks. Pumpjacks. “Horse’s head” at end of walking beam.👍

I used this video for a presentation for my chemistry class, thank you so much! (I put the link to this video in the presentation)

Thanks!

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Land man anyone?

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We used to call them "grasshoppers" growing up.

Watching Landman brought me here. lol

I still don't get where the oil is going from the ground to the pump? There seems to be a tiny little faucet, but nothing more

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I'm here in 2025 because of Landman

Who came from Landman?

Thanks for this! Growing up we called them grasshoppers. Still see them on the side of the roads and in fields between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. There was, maybe still is, a rig pumping in the middle of University of Alabama campus.

"oil is here to stay..." The oil WILL run out! What will our wasteful society do then?