Quote Originally Posted by rlm98253 View Post
Having spent 17 years in the oil fields of West Texas, I am probably one of only a few in the audience who knows what a sucker rod is.
But this is the age of the internet, and it knows all.

Wikipedia even has an entire article devoted to it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_rod

and Google images will provide lots of pictures of the item.