The Fairbank Well

This well is pumped by a wooden jerker line with power from the Fitzgerald Rig. The horizontal walking beam moves like a teeter-totter. The beam is connected to rods which open and close valves below which pump the oil to the surface. Above the well stands the typical three-pole derrick used to haul the pump rods and tubing out of the well. Once Petrolia was a forest of these black ash derricks. When the swamps were drained and disappeared, so did the black ash tree.

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l Imperial Oil Display l Boom Town Display l Technology Display
l Petrolia's Foreign Drillers l Gum Bed l Cribbed Well
l Spring Pole l Canadian Rig l Drilling/Fishing Tools
l The Fairbank Well l Holding/Separating Tanks l Field Wheel
l The Fritzgerald Rig l Brine Disposal Well