Oil company well

[bwftex]

Campbell had a kit for an old walking beam with a wood derrick. Walthers has a kit for a crank balance type that you would commonly see today or even 50 years ago. It can also be animated. Don't forget a pair of tanks and a seperator. Walthers has stuff you can make these with too. I don't know of anyone who makes a kit for beam balance type but these are also very common in the older shallower fields. If you want to build your own pump jack you can find line drawings and dimension charts at the Lufkin site. http://www.lufkin.com/oilfield/index.html

The well site should probably look shabby since your oil company is an independent operating on land. After many years of cheap oil and almost non-existent profits small independents even with today’s prices haven’t caught up. New wells are so expensive to drill only the few best prospects will make any real money. Got to be a big guy with offshore or foreign production to make the mega bucks or a broker peddling oil stocks to the trendy.

Bruce

[dgwinup]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Trainnut1250

AMB makes a great one...About $60.00 or so..

And you think GAS prices are high?

Darrell, quiet...for now

[Anonymous]

AMB makes a great one...About $60.00 or so..

[exPalaceDog]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mechanic

In honour of the oil companies recent price of gas "adjustments"
I have decided to add a oil well and company to my HO layout.

Why have just one. Old wells tend to occur in groups. And if you want some interesting animation, try modeling an old time oid field where the pumps are powered by rod lines from a central power house. Years ago, MR did an article about such a field near Bakerfield California. Similiar oil fields existed in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Have fun

[cacole]

I think I saw a walking beam oil well pump in a Walthers catalog, along with a motor to make it operational.

[mechanic]

In honour of the oil companies recent price of gas "adjustments"
I have decided to add a oil well and company to my HO layout.
I am going to call my fictional (or maybe non-fictional?)
company "Greedy Guts Oil Co."
Their motto is going to be "You've got money,we have pockets............DEEP Ones!
I was wondering if any company makes a oil well kit in HO scale?
Thanks for any input.
Eric