Wildcatters and dentists

Usage examples of drillers.

After Drillers came Ace's and Ate's, where we would sit sipping gimlets and playing backgammon, trying not to listen to disco.

M, 3," 16," 42, in the alley behind the Drillers Club, a bar located in the city limits of Beaumont, Texas.

The squad cars surrounded Drillers, officers blocked the front and rear exits.

Consequently, drillers began to deliberately formulate "drilling muds" for use in areas where the local materials were inadequate.

However, to operate a combination rig, you usually need a pair of drillers, one with expertise in cable tool operation, and the other knowledgeable in rotary drilling.

Oil drilling might be a tough life, but the drillers obviously believed in doing themselves well in their off-duty hours.

It didn't worry the drillers, their ten-day tour of duty was paid from the time they left shore till they set foot on it again, and it didn't worry me for it was to the working deck I was going and the absence of all traffic that I'd find up there would make my task all the easier.

Other drillers and several guardsmen raced toward it, throwing cables and stone-nets.

And they have this huge effort, drillers, miles of pipe, everything.

The drillers were continuing their tedious dry cut deep into the red world's crust.

The drillers had finished the second well hole, half -a mile from the first, and Manue noticed that while the testing was going on, the engineers sometimes stood atop the building and stared anxiously towards the steel skeleton in the distance.

By July, he was working in the quarries-he was often the signalman, but his father apprenticed him to the other quarrymen: the channel bar drillers, the derrickman, the dynamiters.

All the quarrymen-the signalman, the derrickman, the channel bar drillers, and the dynamiters-and even the sawyers who had to handle the rock before it was cut down to monument size .

In the fourth stall the visitors are introduced to an assortment of machines operated by former muckers and drillers, which on the one hand give caustic-scoop-moth-degraded materials an additional tearing, subject them to searing heat, and mark them with oil, ink, and wine spots, and on the other hand cut the now fully degraded materials to pattern, line them, and stitch them up.

Our head foreman, the worthy Herr Wernicke, will bear me out when I say that muckers and drillers, who have been working in the mine for twenty years, are inclined to find hell anywhere on the surface, but no proof of hell below ground, not even when the ventilation is poor.