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I don’t remember learning to drive.

Most drillers, large and small, drill irrigation wells, and like many other fields of drilling, the market can be cyclical.

In my last column, I took a short detour from the subject of pitless adapters and wrote about changing a pump the old fashioned way.

There’s a special feeling that accompanies being part of something that’s built to help so many people.

What do you look for in a drill rig?

The Holy Grail is ”a sacred object … said to possess miraculous powers,” according to Wikipedia.

I want you to join me in giving a round of applause to the manufacturers that provide everything from the rig you use at the jobsite to the tooling that goes in the hole.

Many people make the following mistake: Never use a piece of metal, like a wrench, to measure the levels in a water well.

Some years ago I had a job as a drilling foreman for a large contractor. Sometimes when we would bid a job, they would ask me to go look at the location to see what we needed.

Readers, you will have to forgive me, for I am going to take a short detour from my series of columns about clamp-on pitlesses. I recently had occasion to pull a pump that I had installed years ago and, not having a pump hoist available, did it the way we used to do it.