About American Ram: Oklahoma City Gear Manufacturing & Machine Shop
American Ram delivers high-quality gear manufacturing and full-service pumping unit support from our Oklahoma City facility. Precision machining built for the demands of the oilfield and multi-industry applications across the Mid-Continent.
Founded in 2025, American Ram operates a pumping unit machine shop and gear manufacturing facility at 2836 SE 15th St. in Oklahoma City. We make herringbone gears and helical gears, handle complete gearbox repair, and rebuild pumping units for operators across the Mid-Continent, shipping parts and rebuilt units to customers in Texas, Ohio, New Mexico and beyond. See examples on our recent work page.
Our Story
American Ram was founded in 2025 around the acquisition of TRC Pumping Units, bringing an established Oklahoma City pumping unit operation and its people under a new name. Today American Ram operates a pumping unit machine shop and gear manufacturing facility at 2836 SE 15th St. in Oklahoma City, serving operators across the Mid-Continent and shipping parts and units to customers in states including Texas, Ohio and New Mexico.
Our Founding: TRC Pumping Units
TRC Pumping Units was a subsidiary of TRC Services, a sucker rod company that Bob Payne and a group of industry veterans founded in Oklahoma City in 1996. The subsidiary launched in December 2020 to sell, refurbish and deliver surface pumping units to the wellsite, and its acquisition in 2025 became the foundation of American Ram.
Its first leaders were industry veterans with Lufkin and Weatherford backgrounds. Bob McDonald was President, Buddy Moore was Vice President of Permian and South Texas Operations, and Brent Pickens was Vice President of Business Development. Brent is based in Oklahoma City and spent his career at Leamco and then Weatherford, where he helped develop the Maximizer III pumping unit.
The parent company, TRC Services, makes new and remanufactured steel sucker rods and Fiberflex fiberglass rods and provides rod string design and failure analysis. It runs four plants in Midland, Texas, two in Oklahoma City and a facility in Pleasanton, Texas.
Our Team
Ramiro Tagle, President
Ramiro brings more than 40 years of hands-on experience in gearing and oilfield equipment. Since 1974 he has built deep, self-taught expertise in gear design, reverse gear engineering and oil well rod design, and he has been a member of AGMA, API and SME.
Aaron Tagle, Vice President
Aaron has led operations at American Ram in Oklahoma City since September 2025. He has served as an operations manager since August 2008 and brings about 22 years of experience in total. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in manufacturing engineering.
Will Pickens, Business Development & Operations Coordinator
Will has handled business development and operations at American Ram in Oklahoma City since September 2025. Before that he was a workflow coordinator at TRC Pumping Units in Oklahoma City from 2022 to 2025, and he worked in car sales at Hudiburg Auto Group from 2017 to 2022. He holds a BBA in Management from Oklahoma State University and brings about 10 years of experience in total.
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