You will receive all 5 of these DVDs shown in the photos:

Antique Oil Field Equipment Running in PA is a one hour DVD featuring the last 5 oil wells powered by their original steam engines, built in the 1870's. Also a large Bessemer powered since 1920's on compressed air. Rod line wells powered with Reid & Olin engines, along with a "half breed" engine. Also an Evans powering a well at a standard rig and powering another well some distance away through a cable, too. Get a first hand look at how difficult it is to start these uncooperative engines!  Videoed in 1991 by Brad Smith. 

Standard Rigs, Gas Engines and Air Heads is 1 hour & 23 minutes long (these were our family "vacations"). Shows standard rigs using Patton Bros. Engines and a Reid in West Virginia Mountains. One engine backfires and reverses by itself & is shown on the video. A natural gas compressing station at Rockport, WV is shown with huge horizontal gas engines built in 1913 & 1924. These engines are shown being started, and in operation, with all their moving parts. A typical rod line operation is shown, using an Evans engine. Rods pass over a two lane road to get to the wells. Engines are now all gone; replaced with mostly electric jacks. 

Standard Rigs, Compressing Stations and Rod Lines in WV & PA: is 2 hours long videoed in 1992 by Brad Smith (of Gas Engine Magazine & Modeltec magazine "fame" - I'm his wife, so the fame part is debatable!). Standard rigs with pipe and angle iron derricks seen in the mountains of West Virginia and Pennsylvania powered by Reid, Bessemer, Ball, J.C., Superior, Franklin Valveless, & a "half-breed" engines. The starting and stopping of these engines is shown. Also shown are 2 shallow wells pumped by an International Famous, along with a Bovaird & Sefang engine on a power. 2 turn of the century airhead leases shown, featuring vertical bar cylinders to pump an oil field. 

Gas Engines: The Big Ones is a 2 hour DVD showing a Louisiana natural gas compressing station that existed with 16 horizontal Cooper gas engines that have flywheels that weigh 20 tons each. See and hear how these monsters run. In Texas, 5 similar, but older Cooper engines exist at this compressing station, which is now gone. These particular engines are called "eccentric engines" because their valves are opened and closed with eccentrics, like a steam engines. There are more moving parts and rods on these engines than on many steam engines. the governors are the flyball type, like on a steam engine. At Heath Station in Pennsylvania, horizontal Snow compressing engines are running. These engines were built around 1913 and still ignitors for ignition. At another a compressing station in Pennsylvania, a larger Snow engine is seen started and running. Last, is the 3 Cooper engine station in West Virginia. This last cut was shown in one of the other DVDs, but belongs here with the rest of the large gas engines. The engines on this DVD are engines that the "big boys" play with  - 50 feet long and 20 ton flywheels.


The Oilfield Engines of Illinois is a 70 minute DVD highlighting the big horizontal Superior, four cycle gas engines running rod lines. See Fairbanks Morse and Witte engines on individual wells, and the now gone pipe derricks. This equipment is quite different than the Pennsylvania oilfield equipment.

When we run out of the title printed DVDs, you will receive ones with title handwritten on them in a DVD case. DVDs are almost outmoded so getting anyone to make multiple copies for a price we can afford to sell them to you is becoming increasingly difficult!

Buy these DVDs for that engine nut in your family. Only place these DVDs can be purchased is here. Labeled DVD duplicated from the original. Great Christmas or birthday or Father's Day gift for that hard to buy for fellow.