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HAS YOUR SHIP SAILED? H Is your company suffering because . . . It appears most of us are in a cocoon state these days; not sure whether to turn right or left ~ move forward or backward. So actually, since that is NOT the way HUMAN BEINGS live, we aren’t living at all. We are existing and doing nothing, waiting for someone else to do something - perhaps that will get us all moving again? “Well, I gotta tell ya” . . . as my dear friend John says (and yes, John, you know who you are) . . . That ain’t getting you anywhere and YOUR LIFE is whiling away while the few of us who are actually doing and moving are trying to get you to understand - NO ONE ELSE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. YOU GOTTA DO IT FOR YOURSELF . . . No, the Government will not! Remember in the proverb, “If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime”. And even before all this mess started, we weren’t dependent on anyone but ourselves. To me that felt good. 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Veronica I. “Ronnie” Jones, 850-547-0102 ronnie@worldwidedrillingresource.com 6 MARCH 2022 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Featured Articles for March - Hammers / Bits / Tooling Continuous Flight Auger Method in Marshy Soil........25 Tricone Bit Bearings Explained....................................15 What is a Pitcher Sampler?..........................................17 Blasting Equipment, Methods, and Tools.....................18 Routine Wire Rope Inspection......................................38 Tools to Address Geothermal Challenges.....................7 Hammer for Geothermal and Conventional Wells......19 A Rectangular Tunnel Boring Machine?......................40 X-Ray of the Earth.........................................................26 Ron Peterson Discusses the Downhole Assembly.....12 Let’s go Fishing with a Downhole Camera..................24 Hammer Makes Easy work of Tough Formations.......27

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