A WELL DRILLING BUSINESS

Image Gallery [1] Piper Hydro's Explorer 21N well drilling apparatus.

Would you like to live in the country... provide a vital yet economically priced service...work as little as a week...and make over $26.000 a year? Then consider this unique chance to get into...

Folks, if you've been waiting for us to come up with the perfect, rural-based, "be your own boss" business-one that might be right up your alley-be sure you give this article a darn good looking over . . . because we've discovered an inexpensive way to get into a one-person well drilling business that may just be one of the best home enterprises ever!

Now, anyone who has ever seen a conventional drilling machine will probably feel it's unlikely that an individual could set him- or herself up in this business for a reasonable investment . . . and there's good reason for such skepticism! After all, the rigs most well drillers use are massive ten-wheeled trucks-loaded with 30-foot towers, giant engines, and heavy equipment-that can cost as much as $300,000!

But suppose (just suppose) that you could purchase a completely functional, hydraulicpowered, domestic water well drilling rig that would fit on a small trailer or the back of a pickup truck, be capable of boring a hole eight inches in diameter and 600 feet deep . . . and yet cost a relatively affordable $7,500? Furthermore, suppose that the fellows who made such a miracle earth piercer were willing to provide a two-day training course in using the device (even if you weren't at all sure that you wanted to buy it)?

Sounds pretty good, huh? Especially when you consider that owning an inexpensive well drilling machine would enable you to charge less for your services than the "big boys" do (thus giving your customers a moneysaving break) . . . yet still clear more profit-and get more customers-than does the competition!

Well, it's all true! A couple of tool-happy New Mexicans named Gailard "Skip" Piper and Roy Proctor have-entirely on their own-invented the Piper Hydro EXPLORER 2000: a unique well drilling ma- chine that actually accomplishes everything described above! And MOTHER can assure you that the small but hardy :rig does, indeed, do the job . . .because we've seen it perform!

HOW WELL DRILLING WORKS

Before we can describe the specific functional virtues of the EXPLORER 12000, we'll have to explain a bit about well drilling in general. To begin with, there are two principal techniques used for boring domestic water holes: cable and rotary drilling. Cable (or "pounder") rigs hammer out a hole by repeatedly dropping a 1,500-pound "tool string" onto an earth-cutting bit. Any driller using such a rig must stop every few feet and - with water and a long bailing bucket -clean out the bottom of the hole. You might imagine that all the required pounding and bailing would make for some pretty slow progress . . . and, in fact, cable rigs can take up to two weeks to drill a household well.