What is it?

Gary from Muleshoe

Well-known Member
Found this in an old barn I was cleaning out. What is it used for?
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I'm not sure what it's called, but pop called it a pump-jack. It was used to hold the pipe when you pulled the pipe out of our old hand dug well, with the windmill over it. Pop and my uncle would lift on the pipe with two large pipe wrenches and my job was to hammer the dog to make sure the pipe didn't slip out. Our's was about 4 1/2 feet across and 50 +/- feet deep, clay brick all the way down. I was down there once, kinda errieee.
Dan
 
Used in pulling/installing pipe wells.

Keeps the lower pipe from dropping back in the hole while you're screwing/unscrewing the upper pipe.

Allan
 

Neat. The local well guy years ago had two 2 x 4s which he clamped together around the pipe to be pulled from the well. Pipe was lifted up using two men and two pipe wrenches. When one joint was clear the bolts were tightened to hold the pipe in place. Upper pipe was unscrewed, process repeated until all the pile out. There is a pipe wrench in the old well today that the well guy accidently kicked in the well.

KEH
 
My dad had one and called it a pump jack. Don't know where the jack part come from because it just held the pipe, no jacking.
 
Gary from Muleshoe, Whatever It's name, it it a water well Pipe clamp to hold the pipe still in the well as you Come out or Go back in. The Collar would rest just above the "Dog" when in the closed position. thus holding the pipe "in the Hole" from falling through.
I have personally used one more than I care to admit. Looks like your is set for about 1in pipe, Ours was set for standard 2in Water-well pipe.
Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
 
To me a Pump Jack is a gear box that an electric motor,or gas engine, ran to pump water when the wind was not blowing to run the wind mill.

Dusty
 
This was always called a pump jack at home, They were used to pull the pipe up out of the well so you could rebuild the pump cylinder at the bottom of the pipe. When you got done and put everything back, if you did not have a windmill, then you hooked the other type pump jack to the pump so you could use electricity to pump the water. two different machines used to do two different things, but called by the same name.
 
In the oilfield, we would call them "slips" or maybe a "spider". Slips are wedges that fit into the bowl of the rotary table to grip the pipe so that it doesn't slip into the hole. A spider sits on top of the rotary table and incorporates both the slips and the bowl, and sometimes also has lifting ears so the whole assembly can be used as a "elevator" to pick pipe up out of the hole.
 
That is what a pump jack to me is as well.I try to buy any I can find for the Amish.
 

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