Prairie Power
An oil well (or is it natural gas?) in the Colorado prairie near the Denver International Airport (DIA). I took this on the way to the airport -- going to the cheap remote parking. You can see the Rocky Mountains in the far background.
These pumps go by many names. According to Wikipedia they are called a "pumpjack, oil horse, oil jack, donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, grasshopper pump, Big Texan, thirsty bird, cricket, or jack pump."
Prairie Power
An oil well (or is it natural gas?) in the Colorado prairie near the Denver International Airport (DIA). I took this on the way to the airport -- going to the cheap remote parking. You can see the Rocky Mountains in the far background.
These pumps go by many names. According to Wikipedia they are called a "pumpjack, oil horse, oil jack, donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, grasshopper pump, Big Texan, thirsty bird, cricket, or jack pump."