Clarified this in the rules. It cannot start in the drill but finishing in the drill is fine.

One could hire 10 drills to get rid of pencil removal time after every pencil.

No. Smallant already said that you cannot start in the drill.

Well, the wr for drill 10 pencils doesn’t start with the pencil in the drill, nor in the sharpener do I suspect not.

i think you shout be able to start in the sharpener if it is not clarified