Wow! Is this an oil well?

Maybe it's a water pump of sorts?

Perhaps it's just modern art!

I think it used to be an oil pump, but now it is only an ungainly thingamy.

Yes, this is an oil well and yes it still is used to pump oil. There are many such small pumps here in Oklahoma

Also many such pumps still working all over Texas

Black gold - should Wadgy be interested?

They use pumps like this in Alberta too.

Sue, are you lucky enough to have that in your back yard????

We just had some removed from the center of what is now a nature preserve. I remember having called them grasshoppers. These are relics now they have a small machinery closer to the ground.

I recall seeing lots of them in Northern Pennsylvania, too.

Very interesting picture. Thanks for all the information, too!

puzzles

Isn't this what is called 'black gold'?

I thought it was Texas Tea.

I think this is sometimes called a donkey. It's 2:49 AM here.

Pasha Bulker, which has been stuck on Newcastle's popular Nobby's Beach, 160km north of Sydney, since Friday. This happened during a storm. But they got it pulled off the beach without any oil spill. I don't know what Friday but you can see this on the internet. I pulled it up. Just thought it was interesting.

1/02/08

Looks like a beached freighter on January 11, 2014