Parade | Rock Drilling Contest | Pinewood Derby | Battle of Bands Beard Contest |Golf Tournament| Classic Run/Walk | Govenor's Mansion Tour | Kit Carson Trail Ghost Walk | Mad Hatter Ball | Nevada Museums | Nevada Day Pow-Wow | Annual Chili Feed | Carson City Symphony| Silverstate Rumble | Train Steam Up | RSVP Carnival | Brewery Art Center Concert | Nevada Day BAWN Pancake Breakfast | Nevada Day Republican Ladies Pancake | RE/MAX Balloon Rides Annual World Championship The 33rd Annual World Championship Single Jack Drilling Contest takes place at 11:05 a.m. on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at the Carson Nugget west parking lot. Spectators watch for free, of course, to view the old-world contest of strength, skill, and Sierra White Granite grit. Single Jack Drilling contest chairman Fred Andreasen, former world record holder, with daughter Pam during a Nevada Day contest in the late 1980s. Photo courtesy Fred Andreasen.Contestants use 4½ pound hammers and as many as 11 bits of graduated steel to drill a ¾ inch hole in a 4,320 pound piece of Sierra White Granite. The contestants have 10 minutes to pound the drills into the solid stone, their only help from an assistant who runs water into the hole so the loose stone chips are splashed out with every stroke of the hammer on steel. The deepest hole wins. The world record was set in 1993 at 16.34 inches deep by Scott Havens of Elko, Nevada. The contest goes back to the Comstock mining skills of earlier times, when blast holes for dynamite were punched into ore bodies by hand. The attraction of a chance at a world champion title plus a total purse of $6,000 makes an entry fee of $50 seem small! The champion receives $2,000. Please check back in September. The application and rules are being updated for 2008. Nevada Day, Inc. or 1 (866) NVDAY4U [1-866-683-2948] |
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