Most stylish pump jack anywhere Zach. We enjoy Your sense of humor very much , thanks for sharing the efforts You spend on these videos. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
You are right about treated lumber. The new stuff does not last. The EPA forced a new formula for treated lumber. They removed arsenic and other chemicals which made lumber last decades in some cases.
The issue is usually the copper leaches away if there is salt in the area leaving no protection , you need to get Greenheart wood if you want it to last as it's poisonous
This is beautiful Zach! I have a pile of scrap metal in the corner of my garage salvaged from the dumpster of a local trucking company, and my wife always asks "Why are you keeping all that?", and then I'll find a piece to either machine or weld into something that I need to repair. Yeah, I'm a packrat. So what... ;) Your channel is awesome and I've shared it with a bunch of my friends.
Well Zach - You win the "Most cobbled up and yet fully functional" contraption of the year award! It probably came apart because of the wedge-shaped pieces ... Might wanna tack draw a bead between the wedge shaped weights to keep 'em from workin' against each other and loosening up the riggin'!
That's just art , the only suggestion would be a cutout of a cowboy riding it with the raised arm and hat with the arm and hat on a pendulum with a spring so it's at a harmonic of the stroke ,
I salvaged some pressure treated deck lumber in the 90's from a deck that was probably built in the 1980's. I have kept it stored in a pile outside. I still have quite a bit of it left that I have used for miscellaneous outdoor projects for almost 30 years now.
You must have a huge tee shirt collection because I don't recall seeing you wear the same one twice. "A salt with a deadly weapon" and "A penny for your thoughts seems a little pricey'. Where the heck do you find these?
The problem with the pressure treated junk today is that true CCA wood is illegal to sell in the US and thus the new "legal" formulas don't hold up as well as the old stuff.
Up here in Montana there's a fence that has a motor hanging on the post to keep tension on the wire so I've seen this before you do what you can with what you have.
Good video. As to the boards not lasting, I have heard that arsenic was used in the old days as part of the wood preservative. Now it is not, due to environmental issues. I read about a confederate grave being robbed in Kentucky. The corpse, except for the head, was so well preserved that the authorities initially thought that a murder had occurred and a modern corpse was in the grave with the confederate one. Turns out the confederate corpse had been preserved with arsenic and was in excellent shape after about 160 years. He had been shot in the head which explained the degradation in that area.
I dig it man. Going out and working for mom and pop companies just has a different vibe then the fortune 500 Co's that run the world... Pull a well with 4-5 rod overshot on the string that ya rip through the table in 5th gear wide open cuz no one told ya, rod rubbers eject out of the table and give ya a mild heart attack watching 10k go to 50k in a fraction of a second all because it's cheaper to buy the rig Co a new overshot than it is to pull the pump. I guarantee any rig crew that rolls up on that well is going to get a kick out of a small block motor on the back of walking beam for weight, headers n all
They took the arsenic out of the pressure treated wood so it dont last you save yhe enviroment so they can destroy it in other ways Being a carpenter it has certainly made more work for me
Your local lumberyard should be able to quote a higher concentration of treatment in the lumber to make it last longer. Many salt water deck suppliers would sell 2x6 decking and other material treated to 2.5 lb/ft3 CCA which is the same level of treatment as salt water pilings. The lumberyard I frequented would have Robbins Manufacturing treat whatever they wanted to the higher level of treatment within reason. Of the shelf lumber from Lowes for example is .15 lb/ft3 MCQ “Ground Contact” which is really a lie. If you want to investigate more you can look at the AWPA Use categories and go down the rabbit hole from there. I don’t know if this would be cost effective or if the boards you are using are already treated higher than residential and still failing. Personally I am cheap to a fault and would look at used railroad ties but their quality can vary and they only come in one size. There might even be used concrete railroad ties. Good Luck. TLDR: You should be able to special order higher preservative lumber or investigate a lumberyard that specializes in saltwater docs.
Look: I loved it and the reason was; it was one hell of an experiment. Cheap is time and time is money. It bought you the time so it was cool 😎😎 Now you are fixing it for good, lol 😆😆😆😮😮😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
You may also try to replace the wood slabs with precast Cement squares. Sometimes you can get them at a very low cost when someone wants to get rid of the old ones
Well, as I see it, if you can't have a bit fun every once in a while, what's the point in living? Otherwise, some folk might say "Yonder fella's a bit touched from being out in the sun too long". Either way, I say enjoy it while you can! 👍😁
The weights are doing the job so looks don’t really matter I just made a weight box for a homemade unit I have and it is filled with 3ft pieces of junk sucker rod it took a bunch because it is 2700 feet deep
I seen a referral to you using a crescent wrench, we called them a "Oklahoma speed handle" as they were used in many nefarious ways from track to theft of engines out of newer cars when poor folks used them for racing.... that is driving like hell to deliver "Shine" or white liquor, some just called it moonshine. There was no big wells in some of the states where coal was mined, but when the wife needed a washing machine for their ten or more kids, plus feed who ever showed up for dinner, I know for a fact that southern people took care of anyone who dropped by and was hungry. Not like now where in New York the illegal immigrant can receive food stamps which are now called EBT, too many abbreviations for letter shortened to mean many things that the voter no longer is able to know just what these shortened initials are for. Ask any kid for the large letters used for the president. You know it as POTUS, they think its a word describing a hate crime they might go to jail for. I myself at seventy four have troubles figuring out some of these short letter abbreviated letter assortments. Its time to call it what it is... make the whole thing unmistakable and see if those new voters coming along in our upcoming election can actually make a good call. There in N. York, kids were asked who the president was a few years ago, and they had no clue as to who it was and when someone said "Lincoln" I spit out what I was eating because of laughing so damn hard. Zach, I happen to love your content used for all purposes to just keep people wondering how you can come up with some of the eccentrics thought out and still hold a straight face. I do hope the Jeep is coming along just fine. A channel called "Low Buck Garage" is another fellow who will make you laugh in spite of being tired and trying to just break even. His last video was about using a few new parts from cheapest sources, amazon provided some and some came from local shops on his hoarded cash of old flat fender jeeps... primarily the transmission in his jeep was all rusty and poor condition so by using parts from china, his results were not surprising to you or me..... he showed the differences in the new against old rusty pieces and parts. Dang it Zach, give it a go on watching his channel. I love his attitude and the saying to his entro... "If your doing it and not having fun, then your doing it wrong" and that should apply to everything in life. Life does have some disappointments. My dad never was happy for me coming along, I just crimped his style, coming home from the bar drinking with his buddies was no fun plus making excuses to the wife was getting painful. He would sober up and promise to never do that again, and come next saturday come home, beat hell out of mom as the would argue and fight like cats and dogs, after a good beating, wind up in the bedroom and of course I need not explain that much further. Hells bells, everytime I make a comment to you, it winds up being a book review or some story of my past, like that crescent wrench or a million other old sayings used back in time. I do hope you check out the Low Buck Garage video... everyone needs to enjoy life... and this time I didn't fall into a political agenda... well not too much. Have a great day in the heat there in that heat wave you seem to enjoy or at least survive in. I sometimes wonder if there are small ponds of water like the western movies showed.... cowboy finds water just before dying. I'm old and western movies were what I grew up with. Who didn't like John Wayne movies. His last movie made me cry almost knowing that he really did have cancer and was thinking about the pain of death. Yeah I know, took another chapter in a book length comment to get rid of me.
Without any valve covers your going to get water in the oil...if it ever rains again. The roadkill gang would take it off put it in a MG and drive it to a bar on the way to the dragstrip!
Hell why not put a Small Block Chevy Engine on that pump jack, hell your pumping oil and gas so ya might as well throw a engine on it and make it look the part lolol. By the way when the engine was standing up in the air with the headers pointing skywards it looked like one of them Transformers off of one of them movies that was put out, Kick Ass Brother damn good job..
Instead of pouring slabs, could you use concrete parking blocks? Reckon they're wide enough to fit under the unit? If so, it be a helluva lot easier to use a pole truck to lift one side of the unit at a time and slide those parking blocks underneath.
Wait just a dang minute. I thought you had put the headers on upside down and backwards but then I thought the engine may have come out of a V drive boat.
That daggum wildcatter got a small block Chevy bobbing up and down in the field. That boy ain't right." lol
Aye, that Chevy is still in service all this time. :D
"that boy ain't right!" - he said while tightening loose bolts
Most stylish pump jack anywhere Zach.
We enjoy Your sense of humor very much , thanks for sharing the efforts You spend on these videos.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
You are right about treated lumber. The new stuff does not last. The EPA forced a new formula for treated lumber. They removed arsenic and other chemicals which made lumber last decades in some cases.
The issue is usually the copper leaches away if there is salt in the area leaving no protection , you need to get Greenheart wood if you want it to last as it's poisonous
1 piece rear seal SBC, not as old as it looks. Still my favorite pump jack.
They outlawed arsenic in pressure treated timber. Thats why they don’t last anymore.
Correct, it’s better to replace wooden structures more often for the environment.
This is beautiful Zach! I have a pile of scrap metal in the corner of my garage salvaged from the dumpster of a local trucking company, and my wife always asks "Why are you keeping all that?", and then I'll find a piece to either machine or weld into something that I need to repair. Yeah, I'm a packrat. So what... ;) Your channel is awesome and I've shared it with a bunch of my friends.
It's handy to have a stash of "raw materials"
Well Zach - You win the "Most cobbled up and yet fully functional" contraption of the year award! It probably came apart because of the wedge-shaped pieces ... Might wanna tack draw a bead between the wedge shaped weights to keep 'em from workin' against each other and loosening up the riggin'!
I love the counter weight. A little redneckery adds to the levity on these videos.
The power of time,,,,,good name for a song..
I love it! You should paint that block and put some chrome valve covers on it 😁
That's just art , the only suggestion would be a cutout of a cowboy riding it with the raised arm and hat with the arm and hat on a pendulum with a spring so it's at a harmonic of the stroke ,
I salvaged some pressure treated deck lumber in the 90's from a deck that was probably built in the 1980's. I have kept it stored in a pile outside. I still have quite a bit of it left that I have used for miscellaneous outdoor projects for almost 30 years now.
Just don't light it on fire. The smoke is very toxic.
I had. Mess of keesler AFB dock land on my house and yard in 2005 and that treated lumber is. Crazy robust
Seeing those headers going up and down looks like a bodybuilder flexing lol. Good stuff 👍.
Those headers definitely give that pump more horsepower.
"HEADER ART" Love it................... nothing half way................all the way artistic
Thats the best damn counter-weight Ive seen. Maybe enter that in an art museum.
You must have a huge tee shirt collection because I don't recall seeing you wear the same one twice. "A salt with a deadly weapon" and "A penny for your thoughts seems a little pricey'. Where the heck do you find these?
It is amazing how the simplest things make us the most happy
Yeah this V8 pump jack is the good old friend of anyone following this channel. It's the most MadMaxish thing ever done!
As a fellow Texan I dig the SBC weight good touch
The problem with the pressure treated junk today is that true CCA wood is illegal to sell in the US and thus the new "legal" formulas don't hold up as well as the old stuff.
The engine going up and down reminds me of the movie "Nothing But Trouble" with Dan Akroyd and John Candy.
Up here in Montana there's a fence that has a motor hanging on the post to keep tension on the wire so I've seen this before you do what you can with what you have.
I love it Zach, I was wondering how the SBC was getting along, looks great!
Good video. As to the boards not lasting, I have heard that arsenic was used in the old days as part of the wood preservative. Now it is not, due to environmental issues. I read about a confederate grave being robbed in Kentucky. The corpse, except for the head, was so well preserved that the authorities initially thought that a murder had occurred and a modern corpse was in the grave with the confederate one. Turns out the confederate corpse had been preserved with arsenic and was in excellent shape after about 160 years. He had been shot in the head which explained the degradation in that area.
Intersting.
The Mad Max oil rig ❤
I dig it man. Going out and working for mom and pop companies just has a different vibe then the fortune 500 Co's that run the world...
Pull a well with 4-5 rod overshot on the string that ya rip through the table in 5th gear wide open cuz no one told ya, rod rubbers eject out of the table and give ya a mild heart attack watching 10k go to 50k in a fraction of a second all because it's cheaper to buy the rig Co a new overshot than it is to pull the pump.
I guarantee any rig crew that rolls up on that well is going to get a kick out of a small block motor on the back of walking beam for weight, headers n all
They took the arsenic out of the pressure treated wood so it dont last you save yhe enviroment so they can destroy it in other ways
Being a carpenter it has certainly made more work for me
❤ your work and art. 😂
Admit it Zach, you were having fun with this counterweight!
We know from you laugh at the end! Love it!
Keep 'er turnin' to the right brother!
Lol
Down in S Tex we use railroad ties or bridge timbers for bigger units last15 to 20 yrs no problem
In memory of all of those dead bulls that tried to push that rotating counterweight around off of the pitman arm attached to the walking beam.
I think it is an excellent example of a symbiotic relationship
Love that American! I just got an American D10 for a yard ornament.
That engine weight is even more ridiculous with the fixed headers. I love it!
I'm totally convinced that America did not fly to the moon and back. 🤠
NASA did.
Love it. Gotta take moments for stuff like that, good for you, and good for anybody who happens to see it and also gets a chuckle from it.
I find your sense of humor hilarious. Keep it up Zach!
Great video 🇬🇧
Finally, a use for GM engines.
@@elcheapo5302 They also work well hooked to the anchor chains of cabin cruisers.
I like the make do with what you've got but I think I'd build a plywood form on the beam and cast a concrete weight onto it.
I agree with the silliness! That's why i watched yhe new Deadpool movie last night.
No one asked
Your local lumberyard should be able to quote a higher concentration of treatment in the lumber to make it last longer. Many salt water deck suppliers would sell 2x6 decking and other material treated to 2.5 lb/ft3 CCA which is the same level of treatment as salt water pilings. The lumberyard I frequented would have Robbins Manufacturing treat whatever they wanted to the higher level of treatment within reason.
Of the shelf lumber from Lowes for example is .15 lb/ft3 MCQ “Ground Contact” which is really a lie.
If you want to investigate more you can look at the AWPA Use categories and go down the rabbit hole from there. I don’t know if this would be cost effective or if the boards you are using are already treated higher than residential and still failing. Personally I am cheap to a fault and would look at used railroad ties but their quality can vary and they only come in one size. There might even be used concrete railroad ties. Good Luck.
TLDR: You should be able to special order higher preservative lumber or investigate a lumberyard that specializes in saltwater docs.
Yep, enjoying your content!
I spent last week in Vernon Texas working. It was like working in a furnace.
one of my favorite wells actually. it has personality
Use railroad ties that is what they used here in Ohio. When my dad worked in the field
Drive a couple of wedges under the front ...it only needs a half inch to clear the bumping.
You got to do what you can to keep your sanity
some lock tight or another nut might help keep it tight . header bolts never stay tight. treat the boards with used motor oil.
Best counter weight ever!
Instead of pouring concrete out in the field what about making a form at your shop and making pre made concrete rails with threaded rod rod?
Wonder how many hp the chebby added to that well pump ?😮😅😅😅😊
they stopped using copper arsenic in most pressure treated lumber and the new stuff sucks and it corrodes nails and fasteners.
Great video! I love your sense of humor!
Awesome!! The only pump jack with a 350 chevy
coolest pump jack around.
You didn't use gaskets with those headers. That exhaust is going to leak.
Dont question the Artiste.
Andy Warhol aint got nuttin on this guy.
Cheers mate👌
Best well design yet Zack lol
Look: I loved it and the reason was; it was one hell of an experiment. Cheap is time and time is money. It bought you the time so it was cool 😎😎 Now you are fixing it for good, lol 😆😆😆😮😮😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Zach, you're not working and having too much fun!
How about a precast truck parking stop Instead of the wood, to put under the wells.
Made my day!
awesome
Nice
I thought those angled weights that you had on there were hunks of firewood till I heard the clangs! 😂😂
that thing cracks me up
Shear greatness!
Zach - Please finish it and turn it into a sculpture
You may also try to replace the wood slabs with precast Cement squares. Sometimes you can get them at a very low cost when someone wants to get rid of the old ones
Well, as I see it, if you can't have a bit fun every once in a while, what's the point in living?
Otherwise, some folk might say "Yonder fella's a bit touched from being out in the sun too long".
Either way, I say enjoy it while you can! 👍😁
Next one has to be a HEMI or Hellcat :D
Just needs a set of horns and a cowbell now!
The headers are the horns. Look at the frontal shot. A cow bell would be a nice touch.
Great video.
Wow you really can LS swap anything.
Except that's a Small block not an LS???🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🧐
@@natevanlandingham1945it’s a joke referencing that people try to wedge an LS in anything.
@@natevanlandingham1945 Well a LS is still a small block. Don't step on the meme.
Sup brudda? Good to see a vid from ya as always. You are definitely Mr Fixit haha. Cheers
Those heads wouldn't happen to be Double Hump 2:02 by any chance???
Never know what you may run across
In Texas!!!
I appreciate the commitment to the meme lol
You didn't put a torque wrench on those header bolts. How do you sleep at night?
Amazing hahaha
Awesome!!!
That's cool!
The weights are doing the job so looks don’t really matter I just made a weight box for a homemade unit I have and it is filled with 3ft pieces of junk sucker rod it took a bunch because it is 2700 feet deep
I seen a referral to you using a crescent wrench, we called them a "Oklahoma speed handle" as they were used in many nefarious ways from track to theft of engines out of newer cars when poor folks used them for racing.... that is driving like hell to deliver "Shine" or white liquor, some just called it moonshine. There was no big wells in some of the states where coal was mined, but when the wife needed a washing machine for their ten or more kids, plus feed who ever showed up for dinner, I know for a fact that southern people took care of anyone who dropped by and was hungry. Not like now where in New York the illegal immigrant can receive food stamps which are now called EBT, too many abbreviations for letter shortened to mean many things that the voter no longer is able to know just what these shortened initials are for. Ask any kid for the large letters used for the president. You know it as POTUS, they think its a word describing a hate crime they might go to jail for. I myself at seventy four have troubles figuring out some of these short letter abbreviated letter assortments. Its time to call it what it is... make the whole thing unmistakable and see if those new voters coming along in our upcoming election can actually make a good call. There in N. York, kids were asked who the president was a few years ago, and they had no clue as to who it was and when someone said "Lincoln" I spit out what I was eating because of laughing so damn hard. Zach, I happen to love your content used for all purposes to just keep people wondering how you can come up with some of the eccentrics thought out and still hold a straight face. I do hope the Jeep is coming along just fine. A channel called "Low Buck Garage" is another fellow who will make you laugh in spite of being tired and trying to just break even. His last video was about using a few new parts from cheapest sources, amazon provided some and some came from local shops on his hoarded cash of old flat fender jeeps... primarily the transmission in his jeep was all rusty and poor condition so by using parts from china, his results were not surprising to you or me..... he showed the differences in the new against old rusty pieces and parts. Dang it Zach, give it a go on watching his channel. I love his attitude and the saying to his entro... "If your doing it and not having fun, then your doing it wrong" and that should apply to everything in life. Life does have some disappointments. My dad never was happy for me coming along, I just crimped his style, coming home from the bar drinking with his buddies was no fun plus making excuses to the wife was getting painful. He would sober up and promise to never do that again, and come next saturday come home, beat hell out of mom as the would argue and fight like cats and dogs, after a good beating, wind up in the bedroom and of course I need not explain that much further. Hells bells, everytime I make a comment to you, it winds up being a book review or some story of my past, like that crescent wrench or a million other old sayings used back in time. I do hope you check out the Low Buck Garage video... everyone needs to enjoy life... and this time I didn't fall into a political agenda... well not too much. Have a great day in the heat there in that heat wave you seem to enjoy or at least survive in. I sometimes wonder if there are small ponds of water like the western movies showed.... cowboy finds water just before dying. I'm old and western movies were what I grew up with. Who didn't like John Wayne movies. His last movie made me cry almost knowing that he really did have cancer and was thinking about the pain of death. Yeah I know, took another chapter in a book length comment to get rid of me.
Several sixteenths !
Without any valve covers your going to get water in the oil...if it ever rains again. The roadkill gang would take it off put it in a MG and drive it to a bar on the way to the dragstrip!
GREAT VLOG DOG!! YOU R AMAZING!! I USEDTA LIVE IN JASPER, WELLS ALL OVER. HOW CLOSE IS YOUR WELLS TO JASPER??
very nice
Looks awesome! 😉
Oh no my favorite pump jack 😳please fix her
Love it my friend
Hell why not put a Small Block Chevy Engine on that pump jack, hell your pumping oil and gas so ya might as well throw a engine on it and make it look the part lolol.
By the way when the engine was standing up in the air with the headers pointing skywards it looked like one of them Transformers off of one of them movies that was put out, Kick Ass Brother damn good job..
Cool counterwieght!!
put some red lights in the header collecton
Putting some old iron to good use!
Now thats really rigging a rig
Instead of pouring slabs, could you use concrete parking blocks? Reckon they're wide enough to fit under the unit? If so, it be a helluva lot easier to use a pole truck to lift one side of the unit at a time and slide those parking blocks underneath.
Fire it up let’s race!
quite an impressive counterweight....LOL
Wait just a dang minute. I thought you had put the headers on upside down and backwards but then I thought the engine may have come out of a V drive boat.
Well its counter balanced and making money thats what matters!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯💯💯💯💯