A Lifetime in the Drilling Industry with John Schmitt
Columnist John Schmitt has served the water supply industry for decades, first and with rig and hoist and later as president of the National Ground Water Association. He has written a regular column for The Driller for many years, sharing his expertise on cable-tool drilling, pumps, well construction and many other topics. Hosts Jeremy Verdusco and Brock Yordy paid a visit to Schmitt recently to hear wisdom from his years in the industry. It’s a special in-person Drilling In-Site, episode 36.
“The biggest thing I see is that, when I was a young man at 18 drilling that first well by myself, the industry had a lot of what you might call mom-and-pop operations,” Schmitt says. “In other words, a man, or two men — maybe a father and son, maybe a man and his nephew — that ran a drilling business. That’s just about gone now.”