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  1. J

    any insight on age? trying to navigate dump

    Ahhh good to know. Seems like i get down a foot and hit hard clay. Should i try to dig threw it?
  2. J

    any insight on age? trying to navigate dump

    here is a pic, couldnt get the whole pic to load. 8" tall x3 1/8 wide and a 1 inch mouth
  3. J

    any insight on age? trying to navigate dump

    So after i dug the eighteen foot deep hole i got an itch to walk the woods in back of my place to an old dump i used to go to and smash bottles when i was a kid. These are two of the older looking bottles i found. These were late throws by my guess but if theyre decent id dig a bit just to be...
  4. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    found an old pocket watch from around 1880 1890 area, believed to be from the railroad. pit bottomed out at about 16-18 feet. the first and last time ill ever dig that deep. well maybe.lol. nothing really worth a whole lot but its kinda helps me put a face or paint a picture of my house. would...
  5. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    well we thought we were about to the bottom, but found out today it wasnt bottom. we hit the roof of the outhouse at about the 12-14' mark. i am excited but also worried this thing is gonna be 30' deep.lol. only time and a whole lotta work will tell.
  6. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    if the hole isnt pumped for two days it will get four to five feet of water at least, no joke.
  7. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    figured u were.lol. just got back from the runion, gonna try to get some water out tonight. you game tomorow afternoon?
  8. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    well the concrete is about 6 feet and im down about a foot passed. we probed andit goes at least another five feet. the water dosnt smell bad. best thing i found was in the first two feet of the dig and it was a piece of a bottle from the 1870s. but all im finding is newer stuff. this is my...
  9. J

    privy keepsfilling with water

    havent had time to get into it the past few days, but the damn thing keeps getting about a foot or two of water in it. it is block walls for the first 6 feet or so and then looks like the rest was wood. it has been raining but when it wasnt i think it was ground water coming in. any ideas? have...

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