As you regular readers understand, I’ve been writing about problem jobs I’ve encountered in my career and the solutions to these problems. As I think back, it seems I encountered more problems with pumps and water conditioners than with wells I drilled. This is probably because I, and my father before me, did more pump work than well drilling. He got into the industry as what we would call nowadays a pump installer while working for a farm implement dealer. He later bought a well rig, the first of several, and this led to well repair and true well drilling.
I also remember that many of the difficult jobs (and I did not have a huge number of these, thank goodness) were due to the attitudes of my customers. Following are my memories of two different jobs, one with a very unreasonable customer and another with a fellow who was really quite easy to work for. Both of these jobs occurred many, many years ago.