Topic: 10 Pimped Pump Jacks Give The Nod To Urban Oil Art

[sam]

http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/21/10-pimped-pump-jacks-give-the-nod-to-urban-oil-art/

Mechanical “nodding donkeys” have been grazing the surface of uninhabited oil fields for many decades but in urban settings they can look, well, crude. Making these horsehead pumps look certifiably “citified” often involves local folk art projects that produce unique and even surprising results. Pimp my pump jack? You know the drill.

[Simon]

 

[Clive]

That's brilliant!  I love those nodding donkeys.  Wish I had one in my back garden!   

[sam]

see them all of Alberta. Tis a little strange - you think you are just looking at farmland and then you see one...

[Simon]

That's brilliant!  I love those nodding donkeys.  Wish I had one in my back garden!   

Won't it worry the sheep?

[sam]

haha - do you think he keeps them in his own garden? Oh no too obvious.

[Simon]

Surely they have to be quite close at hand, should he get the urge?  Can't afford to waste an opportunity at his age!  

[sam]

maybe he keeps them in an underground bunker then.

[Clive]

In Wales you are never more than 6" away from a sheep.  

[sam]

 

[sam]

Remember the first rule of sheep club is...

[Simon]

Make sure you don't get one that talks?

[sam]

well that helps 

[Clive]

Make sure you are wearing large enough wellies.   

[Rik]

And a pair of shinguards.