Sizing a residential water system involves several considerations. You will need to know the amount of water required, the vertical distance the water must be lifted, how much pressure is needed to overcome friction and more.
My father, Porky Sr., was a tool pusher – a drill supervisor – when I was young, and I went with him almost everywhere. Where you saw him, usually you would see me ...
Even as a child, I loved digging in the dirt. In our hometown of Covington, Okla., my best boyhood friends, Calvin Redwine and Joe Rouser, and myself loved to dig tunnels ...
It looks like one of the strangest winters I
remember finally is coming to an end. It started late, and we all hoped it
wouldn’t interfere with drilling too much ...
In normal mud rotary drilling, it is not unusual for solids content to approach 20 percent of returns during fast-hole drilling. This is good; it means fast penetration and thus, a quicker, more profitable hole. The trick is to get the solids out of the mud before it is returned to the hole.