American Directional Driller® 40 Foot Tape Measure Wide Blade Engineer Scale, Imperial Inch/Foot, Metric Bottom Hole Assembly BHA Tape Directional Drilling Tape Measure Class II

Awesome tape, awesome customer service getting me a replacement, if you’re a land surveyor give this bad boy a try!

Great tape for surveyors

It's a great tape measure with everything you need with a 40' span. Enough said

It’s heavy but is 40’ long. The tape itself is strong, was able to run out over 10’ with out breaking over. When compared to a major name brand conventional 25’ tape it only went out 8’ before breaking over. Overall good quality product.

Quality must have changed for the worse. I have purchased a few of these over the last 10 years or so. The first couple lasted 2-3 years. Other DDs had borrowed mine and bought their own as well, so these have circulated through our field for a while now. But now, with the same use, we are lucky if they last three months. The tape feels thinner and folds easily. The tape has a difficult time retracting and progressively gets worse after the first couple of uses. Until you have to push the last few feet in. The print also wears quicker, it seems to have less coating than it used to. Which this may be contributing to retraction issues, along with a cheaper coil. This is a collective review from our field, as we have all received multiple tapes that have the same issues, over these last couple of years. I am walking around with a foot or two of tape that won’t retract, sticking out of my bag. That being said, if you are going to use it inside a vacuum chamber, measuring pillow top mattresses, it’s probably okay for that. There aren’t too many 40’ engineer tapes to choose from, but I’ll be trying the Milwaukee 35’ engineer tape. My business is leaving this business, until I hear that they have returned to the prior quality we all appreciated.

Good strapping tape for the oilfield. Long enough for most tubulars you will encounter. It great for a directional driller. Strong recoil. If you keep it somewhat clean it'll last a couple years. 2nd one I've had.

As a directional driller for over 15+ years now I have wanted a tape measure that is 40’ long. We measure BHA components and nothing normally is longer than 40’ so this one is fantastic for what I need it for.

This tape measure does it all, big hooks to grab and catch, doesn't make you squint easy to read especially when you are as old as me. The stand out goes for ever without crumpling, long reach is awesome. Best tape for out in the field and in the shop. I'm so glad I bought this tape measure I even use it on home projects.

My guys like using this tape. I shall be ordering others.

I bought this tape measure twice and twice I was sent just one tape measure instead of two as it is advertised.