It's good to know it's in the first draft, though I'm glad it was removed - it's much better being hinted at. Plus, there can't be many clearer symbolic images of the hysterical compensation for fears about one’s manhood than a man who builds giant phallic objects that drill rhythmically into the ground, occasionally eliciting gushes of liquid… (Sirk’s Written on the Wind comes to mind as an obvious parallel in this respect.)