Since taking over the family drilling business in 1992, Danny Flynn has watched Flynn Drilling Company grow from just over 20 employees to around 50. His father started the business with just one drilling rig and a pump truck back in 1954, in Troy, Mo., hoping to take on water well drilling and pump installation. Now the company runs five rigs every day on average and services across the state of Missouri include: water wells for residential, commercial, irrigation and public water supply; geothermal drilling, pump sales and service; mechanical piping for water treatment plants; directional boring; televised underground surveys with downhole cameras; well cleaning; and commercial well inspection.
Flynn says his two stepsons, which he prefers to call “bonus sons,” help him run the company and are taking it to the next level. The key to growth and success up until now has been diversification. “It’s an old saying, putting all your eggs in one basket. I spread it out to where if we’re slow in one division the other division can carry it and we don’t get ourselves in a financial bind,” Flynn says.