In 1947, Mobile Drill’s founder, George Dickinson, tried to find a Jeep mounted auger drill to drill the crop line of coal on his property on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, but no one made such a drill.  So, he bought a Turner post-hole drill on a Jeep and took it to a small machine shop, and made some modifications to enable it to go to 50 or 60 feet deep.  That summer, his drill was taken to the property to drill.  While traveling to and from town, he was stopped by the Tennessee Roads Department to inquire about the strange-looking drill.  George left with an order for several units and Mobile Drilling Inc. was born.
In 1965, Mobile Drill outgrew their facility and purchased a new plant and office in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Mobile Drill Intl still calls home today.  It was there that Mobile Drill invented the hollow-stem auger and pioneered the concept of "multipurpose" drill rig design.  By 1985, Mobile Drill had its product in nearly every country in the world.  Throughout the 1990’s, Mobile Drill changed ownership, but the quality product that so many had begun to rely on remained the same.  Mobile Drill Intl remains a recognized trade name worldwide and even today, many of the Mobile drills built in the 1950’s are still in use all over the world.

More Recent History

2010 has been an exciting year for Mobile Drill as we pursue ongoing research and development programs to launch new innovations and improvements, such as a new sonic drill to be launched in the fall of 2010.  Mobile Drill has always been about high production, low maintenance solutions for our customers drilling needs and we continue to build on that formula.
Mobile Drill takes great pride in its performance, reliability, innovation, and customer service.  When we sell a drill, we look at it as the beginning of the process, not the end of one.  Our focus is relationships and service which means a lifetime commitment to the driller and the drill.  This has been our style since 1947 and in that manner some things never change.  We look forward to another 60 years as a global leader in the manufacturing of mobile drilling equipment.