mr.fred
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That's exactly what i ran into Rick---clay---all i did was take a shovel full out--thinking it was at the bottom[]-------boy -o- boy- next time it won't happen--lots to learn---the trick is----take a little from all you REAL privy diggers--and apply it[]------wonder how many got away???[]----Thanks for the tips. Fred.ORIGINAL: RICKJJ59W
ORIGINAL: Penn Digger
Rick,
That area is not far from a large stream that runs through town (river bottom like). At around 5 feet or so you hit a bottom of mostly gravel which usually is very wet. When digging below that, holes usually fill with water back up to that level So it appears the privies stopped pretty shallow. The one wood liner I dug to the bottom of stopped there. I imagine it to be different at higher elevations. We'll see as we're still newbies to the privy scene here.
PD
PD
Yeah Tom we had pits where the water pooled heavy!,In those cases we bucket it out so we can see the bottles and dig easier .We use a small can and scoop it in to a 5 gallon bucket.As you get deeper the water becomes less and less.
Did you try and probe those holes when you were standing in them like that? Its hard for me belive that was the bottom. of those pits.A lot of time we get those hard clay caps,and to a digger just starting,they might think it was bottom.The probe will go through a cap no matter how hard it is.
I was just hoping you guys didn't miss bottles that might have been (deeper) Like I said,never dug a pit that shallow in my life. S.R