Cranking Old Arrow Engine

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Carl starting an old Arrow engine which has not been started in many years. Bryan, Texas. 8/14/2008

Oil Pumper
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  • Using a friction Starter is cheating!

  • @LPV1974 being his age, I don't think he really cares as long as he starts the thing.

  • These engines are designed to run on the crude that they pump, correct?.

  • Natural gas.

  • These things are really fascinating! How do you crank them? Pony engine?

  • Either a hand crank or an electrical crank like Carl is using in this video.

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  • OMG, it so old ! I can see plants growing on the engine.Nice engine !

  • Houston we have a problem. I want to go and look for my filmpitch that is vanished from my tube channel. You dig?

  • It is neat to see some of these old old engines going. There is Huell Howser on PBS in California with an episode where they fire up a one of these oil pump engines and the pump has this really long big beam going up and down.

  • These thing can be a serious pain to start hand cranking! You gotta give it your all and if you don't get it on your first crank, you better get it on your second otherwise your going to be exhausted!

  • them things are the best to hear except for detroit gotta love them thing screammin good vid keep up the goodwork

  • Thank you for the post

    I grew up in the Fort Bend county area

    Blue Ridge Oil field

    and i loved to hear those engines

  • I've seen a few with small pony engines for starting..but sometimes just getting the starter engine to run is a big enough challenge! LOL :-)

  • I believe this American unit was built in 1957.

  • never seen an american unit that size

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