I've decided to dig a hole

[CleverNickname 1308]

6 hours ago, JSB said:

That dude is something else. 

He's a smart feller, not a fart smeller

[CleverNickname 1308]

Another $50 gas to work half ass for 2 hours or so. At about 20" there is a fragmented shelf of limestone. Not so bad past that. Some fist size rocks, but all in all relatively doable.

Here's the work site.

Deepest point is now 36". I have left a step in one corner. Need to blow out the rest down to deeper point, and the step.

All buttoned up for the day:

Pondering a steel set system. It would be skinnier (lagging on the inside), more permanent, and when I get down as far as I want to, easier to pour concrete along the sides.

 

Edited May 28, 2022 by CleverNickname

[UT_OB1 2213]

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

[DaysOff 7946]

Post modern digging. Digging for the sake of digging.

[Lhorn 4909]

That probably overkill for a swing set. 
 

[davidg 4036]

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

Dudes working a low quality vein of caliche. Gonna mine shit by hand. Everybody’s doing it.

[Bookman 4638]

Son of a bitch is probably going to strike oil or find gold or something.

[mininghorn88 2277]

8 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

Digging for Lithium. We all know that battery power will be the wave of the future. Never mind on how to generate the electricity to charge the battery. Doesn’t the switch on the wall provide electricity?

[CleverNickname 1308]

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

(But if I find Padre Lopez's 15 burro loads of gold and silver, I'm keeping it.)

[Telegraph_it 3357]

i’d start collecting. 
 

 

[Horn_Spanker 524]

17 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

A place for it to rub the lotion on it's skin.

[AUinHsv 579]

16 hours ago, Bookman said:

Son of a bitch is probably going to strike oil or find gold or something.

or Jimmy Hoffa

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

....or perhaps salt. Then the artisanal marketing department swings into high gear-- a specialty salt with a username inspired clever nickname with which to rim your cocktail glasses. Something like Wholly Random Salt with the story of the hand dug hole on the label. Or WeDigIt Salt or Handdug Holy Shit Salt for your Daiquiri Twists and Margaritas. Might bring in some cash to replenish the shovel budget.

[davidg 4036]

When you finish your mine, be sure to leave some Carhartts or Duluth pants down in the bottom that might be worth something to a future mine explorer.

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28772]

[Da Fino 2772]

Are you building a pit blind?

[Baboontyme 2809]

Does this have something to do with Lalo?

[TexasEd 8066]

I'm guessing it has something to do with shit.  like a latrine or septic.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

I hope there is a weekend update. I'm wondering if @CleverNickname remembered to take a flare gun with him when going down the hole.

[Hawndoh 2386]

https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0

[CleverNickname 1308]

Lots of rain. May have to come up with a solution. 

[VABuckeye 2472]

 

 

[JSB 677]

I’m having a structure built in my backyard and the crew left the skid steer last night. Keys are in it. If it is still there tonight……

[JSB 677]

fuck, still there, but they moved it to the front yard and took the keys with them. 

[CleverNickname 1308]

High today was 105, so we picked up blizzards by noon. Noticeably cooler in the hole. But still pretty miserable. 

Half is down to about 40". I won't be able to go up for a week or two, but I think I'm going to build a ladder.

We put 2x8x16 blocks around the edge. Also got a nice sheet of treated plywood. Hopefully better next time I get a deluge.

From the road:

 

[Hate 20106]

Lol…it’s never raining again so you should be ok.

[AUinHsv 579]

Not sure how deep that is or how deep you may take it but you probably need to look at shoring up the walls - expecially since you have small kid helping.

[CleverNickname 1308]

2 hours ago, AUinHsv said:

Not sure how deep that is or how deep you may take it but you probably need to look at shoring up the walls - expecially since you have small kid helping.

Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so. 

[VABuckeye 2472]

On 6/11/2022 at 6:49 PM, CleverNickname said:

Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so. 

So…next year?

[Kennythetiger 9374]

The way you’re lollygagging around with them picks and shovels, you’d think it was 120*. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4974]

Can't be more than a hunert and ten.

[sidis 9822]

[JMFP 1120]

15 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

The way you’re lollygagging around with them picks and shovels, you’d think it was 120*. 

[Celery Man 20931]

 

[UTexasFight 9428]

Watching that was….oddly satisfying 

[CleverNickname 1308]

I tried leaving at 630am, but it was still hot as hell.

Deepest point is 50 inches. I blew out the step I had left and getting out is now a hassle. Next time up I need to clean up the sides. I have been lazy and need to shave a couple inches off the long sides. Ten year old for scale.

 

[Hawndoh 2386]

That's a pretty small pool.

[GringoSalado 1651]

TIL what a Mattock is.

 

I've owned one for about 40 years or so.

[deadshank 24652]

14 hours ago, GringoSalado said:

TIL what a Mattock is.

 

I've owned one for about 40 years or so.

I have two mattocks.  

Ya, two, bitch. 

[BabaYaga 15286]

On 5/11/2022 at 6:04 AM, Hpara759 said:

Nice....I've been known to drink at a couple bars in Angelo

We're near Coleman/Ballinger.  We go to Angelo when we need something from the "big city"....;)

[BabaYaga 15286]

On 6/26/2022 at 1:36 PM, CleverNickname said:

I tried leaving at 630am, but it was still hot as hell.

Deepest point is 50 inches. I blew out the step I had left and getting out is now a hassle. Next time up I need to clean up the sides. I have been lazy and need to shave a couple inches off the long sides. Ten year old for scale.

 

Late on this thread - what are you building?

[BabaYaga 15286]

On 5/17/2022 at 4:19 PM, davidg said:

Everyone should have a truck, tractor and hole story.  Rite of passage type thing.   One of mine involved a recently purchased jeep, the previously mention flooded big lake right after if had flooded our property, the little JD350 dozer from the tractor thread and my future wife.  Many years later my wife confided in me that if that would have been a first date, there wouldn't have been a second.  Nothing builds a relationship like burying a jeep tire deep and wading out of knee deep water and mud and then trying to come-along and dig for an hour or so before walking a mile or so to where your dad is pushing dirt to come pull you out.

Don't Jeep drunk....

[deadshank 24652]

"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

[Kennythetiger 9374]

38 minutes ago, deadshank said:

"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

If it wasn’t for you I’d be halfway to the Matagorda by now. 

[atomheartbevo 89623]

On 5/31/2022 at 7:13 PM, TexasEd said:

I'm guessing it has something to do with shit.  like a latrine or septic.

I was thinking something to do with the cheerleaders from the local high school, but still intrigued.

[atomheartbevo 89623]

OP should have looked at maps and found a privy from an 1850s girls college that is full of glass bottles, trash, and dog mummies.  Would be much easier to dig out.

 

[KaiserSoze 998]

12 hours ago, deadshank said:

"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

 

11 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

If it wasn’t for you I’d be halfway to the Matagorda by now. 

 

Well first man that comes along that can read Latin is invited to rob us as far as I’m concerned. I’d like the chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.

[RPM 26315]

Don't forget to take a left turn at Albuquerque!

[CleverNickname 1308]

I built a ladder. Should last me a while. Not sure when I'll get down to past 8 or 9 ft.

It's 28" wide so it can fit in the 30" narrow side of my eventual 4x2.5 clear set/lagging (so it doesn't collapse and kill me). I'll probably build the first set when I'm about 5 ft down and it's all widened out like I need it. Not eager to see the bill for that lumber and all thread concoction.

 

[sidis 9822]