This sounds straight out of a horror movie I grew up around these things, you'd see fields with them, they reminded me of dead metal horses in the field
I took all these clips myself long ago in the Bakersfield (California) area with a really old semi-pro video recorder. I just drove around on roads like Highway 33 or China Grade Loop or Round Mountain Road or 7th Standard Road, etc., and stopped whenever I saw a pumpjack I liked (I was often trespassing so I had to do it quickly). I put the best clips into this video. I did it all ages ago now, back in the tape era!
Does anybody remember Ozzy Osbourne black rain and what that song was about the song is about the irac war in 2001 the Americans invaded irac because they wanted to steal there oil but instead of saving it irac blew up the oil pits and the oil burst out of the ground and came raining down like rain
What, more of the same?! Hmmmm 🙂. Maybe one day (I've kind of moved on from them for a while). I guess I am tempted to revisit the oilfields with a camera again in a few years when things look sufficiently different. We'll see…
People sound like we are all going to need one of these in our back yard, but things in the Middle-East are not so bad that the price at the pump should jump.
My great grandma used to have a ranch out in the pandhandle. Nothing but wilderness for miles around, but these pumpjacks were scattered around the place. One was directly across the road from the house she lived in. I have wonderful memories of that place, walking around and hearing these.
I've always loved these. Especially with the little noise. I wish I could just have a prop version in my yard! Haha it's just so relaxing to watch and cute.
Thanks Charles! I should have done a better job of notifying people, but I thought this was going to be a preliminary version rather than the finished version. Oh well - here it is!
Thanks! But I'm no artist, being more an engineer by trade and training. And I've had a lot of trouble finding the time to do any sort of video work over the last couple of years…
Relaxing indeed, having worked for, as nbc and the demoCRAPS would call it 'a big mean oil company', I can enjoy the compounding effect of $2mm of petroleum stocks, with annual dividends just a hair under $70,000. Life is great and that is the only thing 'bite me' has made better in my financial situation. In the process he and his libturd greenies have destroyed the rest of the economy. America's wealth is sitting under our feet, but a load of socialist control hunger bastards are keeping us from using it to our advantage.
It's funny because us kids (back in the 60's and 70's) thought they looked like giant ants working. To me, they still look like that! I've got a good imagination. 😁
