When he was about 24 years old, Howard "Porky" Cutter and his dad had the opportunity to drill the first wildcat oil well in Minnesota with their Mayhew 1000.

He advanced the timing so that the engine would have little power and not knock. We were going to overhaul the engine when we arrived in Worthington. I followed in our 1950 Ford 1/2-ton pickup, towing 600 feet of drill stem, casing and a water supply tank on a two-wheel trailer. The day following our arrival, Dad said that we'd go ahead and drill the well, and then overhaul the engine before returning home. We ended up drilling the well and driving the rig home before overhauling the engine.