After leaving Georgia Tech, we reformed Cutter and Dad Drilling Company in 1968 in Adel, Ga., and we drilled wells around the area for many years.
In 1980, we closed the company because Georgia local and state politics were making it more difficult day by day to drill wells and make a dollar. We moved lock, stock and barrel back to Enid, Okla., (our home) where I went to work for George E. Failing Co. To work for Failing, you could not be in competition with their customers. So I had to sell my drilling equipment. While I had the equipment for sale, several Failing employees had never seen a well drilled and they wanted a well.