A HEARTBREAKING PRIVY DIG NIGHTMARE

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Loam in not "poop dirt", it's natural soil with approximately even ingredients of sand, silt and clay. Most alluvial soils are loamy and drain well. Our local soil is sandy loam, which holds together well, but all privies had to be lined with either brick or redwood.

this is a "LOAMY CONVERSATION".

Chris made up that word anyway so he should explain himself!
 

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a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials


Sounds like the typical use layer of a privy to me A sandy soil somtimes with some clay with alot of decaying organic material.

Chris
 

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it's poop
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I went back to the site, nobody was there, not takin the chances.
poop
 

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Get a small time lawyer or 3rd year law student buddy to write you up a waver/permission paper and have the owner sign after you sign. It will work on some touchy situations.

They call the soil around here Goldsbury Loam. I don't get it because it is like concrete and water just runs off mostly. When we have a bad rain for a week of so like hurricane season it turns into quagmire and you can sink to your ass real quick. Then you have to change your drawers.
 

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Night soil,loamy soil,poop layer,seed layer,whatever you call it,if I am wallowing in it I am a happy digger.How about Paydirt?

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Turns out my whole back bank behind the privy, leading down to the river is loamy. They must have just let it slide down the bank into the river. I just found my first strapside whiskey bottle shard, so I am getting down to the 1800's finally. Now it is pouring again. Oh well, tomorrow!
Joel
 

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