On 5/27/20 4:15 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
Same problem here for a 589, but in clay so there was a lot of soupy
sloughing, a deeper hole, and water at 5ft. Maybe your soil is more
friendly. I put a small 120 volt utility pump ($50) in the hole with a
garden hose and pumped continuously then we poured the concrete. Put
the pump in a bucket with holes and surrounded by gravel as a filter.
(There is more to the story when we (K7LXC and me) encountered two
abandoned septic tanks).
Abandoned "infrastructure" is the bane of excavators. Especially if the
infrastructure is sufficiently old- see the recent news story about a
Roman mosaic floor in a vineyard, or any of dozens of stories where
bones are discovered.
Most exciting around my location recently was when they were digging in
someone's yard and found what appeared to be leg wires from a blasting
cap (and potentially, an unexploded charge from who knows when). They're
quite distinctive, and if you've ever seen them, you know exactly what
they are. Turns out it was a lazy blaster years ago that didn't gather
up the wires after a shot.
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