Over the years, I have drilled in areas of the world where water wells provide dependable, but very low yields. I have come up with a simple design where homeowners can get by with these low-yield wells quite well.
A Master Ground Water Contractor (MGWC), known today as a “Green Jacket,” is a person who has met certain requirements and passed all of the National Ground Water Association certification examinations on drilling and pumps, as well as the Master certification examination ...
My father, Porky Sr., was a tool pusher – a drill supervisor – when I was young, and I went with him almost everywhere. Where you saw him, usually you would see me ...
Even as a child, I loved digging in the dirt. In our hometown of Covington, Okla., my best boyhood friends, Calvin Redwine and Joe Rouser, and myself loved to dig tunnels ...
In 1958, I was hired by Ward McGinnis Oil Co. in El
Dorado, Kan., to go from Chanute, Kan., to Beaver, Utah, to core drill for
uranium in the mountains with an Acker drill mounted on a jeep pickup ...