Don't know they can this tiny, I mean I seen some really small ones they use in like the pine woods but this takes the cake


One guy posed one the restored....pretty neat

Shallow wells

Several around here that are small, but no tiny ones like you posted pics of

Wow!!!
Interesting!!

As Brian mentioned its for a relatively shallow water well , I've worked on water well that either had a windmill or pumpjack that were much deeper some had a brass cylinder with cup leathers or a working barrel that used a 5\8" fiberglass or 1 1\4" wood sucker rod to get water to the surface .

A submersible pump and a generator unless AC power isn't available works more efficiently with large stock tanks if the rancher was smart enough to listen to me . the main reason for them was in case something bad happened down in the well or a loss of power , or a wild fire and then a fire truck tank could be filled from them .

With the pump running to refill the tank again if power \ fuel is there to run the pump to refill the water tanks .

I have a couple of these pump jacks on shallow wells powered with gas engine. They work really well in remote areas.

Small ones like that scattered thru PA and NY on stripper wells.