 tickey01.jpg Marcum Oil properties along Tickey Fork of Cow Creek |
 tickey02.jpg Al discusses his operation with KSPG |
 tickey03.jpg Vacuum and power shed |
 tickey04.jpg Belt driven vacuum pump |
 tickey05.jpg Name plate on vacuum pump |
 tickey06.jpg Vacuum pump |
 tickey07.jpg Flywheels and drive belt on vacuum pump |
 tickey08.jpg 10-hp electric motor replaces boiler. Overhead belt powers vacuum pump. Axle exits shed and provides power for pumping up to 23 wells. |
 tickey09.jpg Shed with gear box for supplying power for pumping wells |
 tickey10.jpg Detail of gearbox and pitman (rotating arm). Open link hung on chain attached to cable ("shackle-line") is hooked to pitman to drive wells. |
 tickey11.jpg Pitman and cable linkages |
 tickey12.jpg Cable exits shed through hole showing years of wear. |
 tickey13.jpg Al explains swing post used to turn pulling action of cable around corners |
 tickey14.jpg Another method of turning gentle corners |
 tickey15.jpg Shackle-line (across top) is anchored by a short cable to a post |
 tickey16.jpg Shackle-line is routed from shed uphill to pump jacks (behind sycamore, cable hand rail in foreground is along path to separator tank). |
 tickey17.jpg A jones jack |
 tickey18.jpg Looking at the wooden tank in the woods. |
 tickey19.jpg Flow lines from individual wells empty into this tank where oil and water are gravity fed to larger tanks for separation. |
 tickey20.jpg A wench driven pump jack |
 tickey21.jpg Detail of wench |
 tickey22.jpg Bucyrus Erie service rig |
 tickey23.jpg Alternate view of rig |
 tickey24.jpg Abandoned equipment is rusting into history |
