What Is It?

Don't have any clue what this is, or if it's tractor/agricultural related. I just figured one of you fine people could tell me. This is the only pic I have, as my friend sent it to me after he took the photo.

Pump jack. Used in place of windmill or pumping by hand. Looks to have had electric motor on it since by lite pole. Also ran with gas engine. I have IH LB 1 1/2-2 1/2 HP that was taken off one.

Yes a pumpjack. Every farm around here had one.

Pump jack.

I lost my left index finger to the second joint in exposed gears on one when I was 16 months old.

We had a pump jack on the well when I was a kid,
beat pumping the handle. Seeing as you didn?t
recognize what it was, just saying it is a pump jack
doesn?t really tell you much. The reciprocal action of
the pump jack going up and down, with the rod that
had been previously fastened to the pump handle,
how fastened to the pump jack. Lifting and lowering
the rod, the same way the pump handle did. The
rod of course runs down the well pipe to the pump
cylinder, forcing water up to the spout. Beautiful in
its simplicity, and saved a lot of sweat pumping
water to fill livestock troughs

To bad you don't have a JD pump jack to go with your engine. Nice setup though.

I see a temporary power pole and a hunk of rusty equipment - could be part of a broken ???

power poll meter box and fuse box with pump jack on pump

Your question asked if it was
tractor/agricultural related. It most
certainly is. And it most certainly is
related to anyone in the past who needed
water. Still see plenty of these setups on
farms around here. Most don't get used
anymore. Grandpa finally took his out a
few years ago. He's 81.

But the picture in itself is very nice.
Lots of color and the grass in the
foreground gives depth.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Had to see what it looked like. If you want I will take it down.

Nice setup, my question is does the pump handle go up and down when run by the motor or does it get disconnected.

Pump handle is disconnected. Some pump handles had a fancy spring loaded pin for easy disconnect and reconnect to the jerk rod.

can not find enough good ones to meet demand for use. The Green Giant that is totally enclosed and runs in oil are most desired. Others in that style and size are wanted. The open side models will be used if the run in oil models cannot be found. But they are not worth neer the price of a Green Giant. Just the long arms are $10 a pair if I can find any, that is the steel ones, the wood not interested in or a full open gear moder or a worm drive type like the JD is, something about being hard to mount. I have bpught as many as 5 on one bid at auction. This was choice with option of taking all. I know some thought I was paying too much and thought I was after just one of them and they would get one they wanted for less, supprised there were none left. And when they actually got to market at an Amish store the price was 4 timers what I had paid for them. Some years I got over a dozen for him but getting very hard to find. I got 2 so far this year and dealer is wanting more as he is getting short on them. Now if you find a Myers vertical pump jack in top condition that is like finding gold. $200 or more for a good one. First pair of them I saw I let go for junk price because I did not know what they were. If I had known I would have been able to make $200 on them. Win some loose some. If they are what they want and one comes up on a sale others might as well forget abouy buying one of them. They don't need or want the very big units designed to handle a 2-300 foot deep well as there wels are not normally over a hundred foot deep. The older units I let the collectors get. They want a unit that will work for them 7 days a week to pump water for the horses and other livestalk. The new pumps to work with them are easy to get but not new jacks. And complete new windmills for pumping water easy to get as well. Any Green Giant I can find at a flea market-swap meet for les than a $125 I take home.

In the black-and-white photo the windmill in the background is more apparent. The electric pump-jack probably replaced it. The pump may have come from the old windmill.