Oldihtractor
Well-Known Member
Heard thru the grapevine that there was a Privy opened up in the great city of philadelphia on a construction site.. so we went to investigate...
Got to the site to find it torn down and bricked over fenced off!! Now what to do.. 8 am no pit to dig.. We talk it over and off to another part of the city... we hike a couple of neighborhoods and find a good looking area.. Ask a local guy sitting on his stoop for permission and were in.. but can't find a pit in his small yard.. ( now we know where it is and it must have a giant arch over it too..) so we jump yard s to the abandoned house next door...
Bam we find a big ol brick liner.. open it up and find a huge arched top with 3 foot of air space.. ( I will have a pic of this when my diggin budy emails it !! )down we go.. I am in the pit and my fellow digger say we gotta go... trouble.. so we cover the pit with boards throw some dirt over it in hit the street.... Maybe another day!!!!
Not so good thus far... we cruise to anther neighborhood with an old permission where the pits go about 12 feet deep.. @ 11 am (raining hot n sticky) and figure we can dig it n be home for dinner!! Yeah right!!! we hit 12 feet still no layer still no bottom.. so we do what you should never ever do.. Lets half it down nice hard clay fill should hold up ok!!
Now we are halved down about 7 feet over the person in the pits head.. I watch in utter disbelife and scream LOOK OUT !!! as the halfed wall gives way and falls on my Digger buddy... some how it stayed in one piece and just pushed him against the wall.. How lucky is that!! ( Note never dig half over your head) The guys next door building a foundation tell us we are LOCO and hope we get paid a lot for what we do!!! HA!!!!!!
I really thought we were gonna make the news... We pull him out take a break regroup and go back down to pull out all the cave in @ 18 feet deep now its 7 pm Do you know where your digger buddies are !!! We clean it out and go 22 feet with a layer of maybe 2 feet and pull some meds a couple smooth base suaces a hazzard drug store squat shaped bottle and in the last little section some english fruit bottles... And lastly A quart A.R.S quart fruit jar with a kline stopper Plus some other philly local bottles!!!!
Fill it in and home by midnite!!!
We return Sunday 7 am to the trouble pit remove the boards and dig down to about 14 feet the probe telling us there is layer @ 18 Minding our own biz being very quiet.. in an abondoned area.. and we hear hey boys!! The neighbors say there is something wierd going on back here !! Pack it in and level Your dirt off... NO WAY not again!!! Board dirt on top here we go again!! Some day we will get to the bottom of this pit!!
Got to the site to find it torn down and bricked over fenced off!! Now what to do.. 8 am no pit to dig.. We talk it over and off to another part of the city... we hike a couple of neighborhoods and find a good looking area.. Ask a local guy sitting on his stoop for permission and were in.. but can't find a pit in his small yard.. ( now we know where it is and it must have a giant arch over it too..) so we jump yard s to the abandoned house next door...
Bam we find a big ol brick liner.. open it up and find a huge arched top with 3 foot of air space.. ( I will have a pic of this when my diggin budy emails it !! )down we go.. I am in the pit and my fellow digger say we gotta go... trouble.. so we cover the pit with boards throw some dirt over it in hit the street.... Maybe another day!!!!
Not so good thus far... we cruise to anther neighborhood with an old permission where the pits go about 12 feet deep.. @ 11 am (raining hot n sticky) and figure we can dig it n be home for dinner!! Yeah right!!! we hit 12 feet still no layer still no bottom.. so we do what you should never ever do.. Lets half it down nice hard clay fill should hold up ok!!
Now we are halved down about 7 feet over the person in the pits head.. I watch in utter disbelife and scream LOOK OUT !!! as the halfed wall gives way and falls on my Digger buddy... some how it stayed in one piece and just pushed him against the wall.. How lucky is that!! ( Note never dig half over your head) The guys next door building a foundation tell us we are LOCO and hope we get paid a lot for what we do!!! HA!!!!!!
I really thought we were gonna make the news... We pull him out take a break regroup and go back down to pull out all the cave in @ 18 feet deep now its 7 pm Do you know where your digger buddies are !!! We clean it out and go 22 feet with a layer of maybe 2 feet and pull some meds a couple smooth base suaces a hazzard drug store squat shaped bottle and in the last little section some english fruit bottles... And lastly A quart A.R.S quart fruit jar with a kline stopper Plus some other philly local bottles!!!!
Fill it in and home by midnite!!!
We return Sunday 7 am to the trouble pit remove the boards and dig down to about 14 feet the probe telling us there is layer @ 18 Minding our own biz being very quiet.. in an abondoned area.. and we hear hey boys!! The neighbors say there is something wierd going on back here !! Pack it in and level Your dirt off... NO WAY not again!!! Board dirt on top here we go again!! Some day we will get to the bottom of this pit!!
] Glad you guys got some bottles.
