A WELL DRILLING BUSINESS

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If you do set yourself up in business with Piper Hydro's EXPLORER 2000 (or with the bigger 3000 model described in the chart that accompanies this article), you'll probably soon be in the enviable position of being able to charge less-yet make moremoney than your competition can! Skip, for example, charges $6.50 a foot for four-inchdiameter wells, while most of his Alamogordo area competition asks $8.00 a foot. (Before Piper came along, the local prices often went as high as $12.50 a foot!) Yet-while the other drillers have so many loan, insurance, upkeep, operating, and labor expenses that they operate on a fairly slim profit margin-Skip clears $5.00 a foot . . . after expenses!

Now stop and think about that figure for a minute. True, standard well drilling charges do vary widely around the country (our research shows that such costs range from as little as $6.00 a foot to over $20.00) . In addition, the depth of wells will differ from one area to another (with the average depth being around 200 feet). But if you can make the same margin of profit-where you live-that Piper does, then every time you spend a day drilling a 100-foot well, you'll clear $500! If you drib only one such well a week, you'll earn $26,000 a year!

BUT IS IT RIGHT FOR YOU?

So now you know why we say well drilling with the EXPLORER 2000 can be a great home business! But-before you hop on a plane to Alamogordo- check out your area and see just how open (or closed) the well drilling market is.

How can you find such information? Skip says, "Simply phone a few local drillers, ask what they charge to drill a well, and then find out if they can do it tomorrow . . . if they can't, there's probably plenty of business around."

Roy, though, likes to add some additional words of advice: "First," he says, "find out whether your area is experi

encing some domestic growth. For instance, the outskirts of expanding cities, or rural land that's being split into smaller parcels, will provide good possibilities for a new drilling business. Then call up your County Extension Agent or Department of Water Resources and learn the local ground water conditions . . . because-who knows?-you just might live in an area where people can't find water unless they drill to tremendous depths. Better yet, phone a local well driller and ask about the 'worst case' that he or she has encountered. You can be sure that conditions can't possibly be any more discouraging than what that expert will describe!"

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