Mobile Drill Intl

The company was founded on the age old concept of ‘solving a problem’. In 1947, 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. However, 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 where modifications were made to enable it to go to 50 or 60 feet deep. That summer, his drill was taken to the property to be put to work. While traveling to and from town, he was stopped by the Tennessee Roads Department to inquire about the strange looking drill. After an informative conversation, George left with an order for several units and Mobile Drill International (MDI) was born.