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14 hours ago, miguelito said:

Are the pool noodles your air supply system?

the lumber that rests on the angle iron is meant to resist lateral pressure. Often the gap is so large they can shift. The noodle (or spray foam) keeps them in place. That's probably going to be in a technical addendum to the Idaho Dept of Mines handbook.

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On 1/1/2025 at 9:38 PM, miguelito said:

Are the pool noodles your air supply system?

I would think a battery-powered speaker hooked up to your phone would be the best way to listen to "All Out of Love", but I don't know what the acoustics are like in the hole.

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18 hours ago, Mack Tripper said:

How many cats do you have? The amount of cat litter buckets you have is almost as crazy as this hole. 

I have one and my mother has one. Actually she moved to assisted living and then to memory care in the past few months. Very stressful, means Ive needed some good hole therapy sessions. And said cat (a very lazy, 16-17 yesr old lovable orange lump) is in need of adoption. He could not stay in memory care and my cat does not get along with him (her problem, not him IMO). He is great at the litter box, and just wants food and snuggles. No health issues, no meds. He comes with a dowry, to a good home. I think he'd get along with other cats, but he will eat all the food like a labrador and our cat is a dainty thing that browses all day. Not a great combo. He's living in part of our house, but he deserves a family to love on in his final couple of years 

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message me if you want a cat. I can throw in a bucket of hole dirt.

Hoping to go up this Saturday. Around Thanksgiving it was just under the third set. My goal is to have half 48" below that before the snows.

 

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I have a cat that showed up during snowmageddon. I am very much violently allergic to cats, I have always hated cats. I hate this cat. This cat loves me....dammit, I love this cat. I love my dog more but dammit this cat has decided I am his dude. 

Not looking forward to digging a hole for the murderous asshole cat that I love.

Sorry for the aside. 

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On 1/19/2025 at 8:55 AM, CleverNickname said:

Sent up on Saturday. I was about 4" under the third set (each set is about 48" from center of 4x6 to the next 4x6, although the top set rests above ground. But for simplicity, 4 ft per set). 

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I have a ladder, so I'll need to move it to get the whole bottom. As a reminder the inside dimensions are 30"x48", so the full hole is ~40" (30+3.5+3.5+1.5+1.5) by 58. Realistically I need space to to push threaded bolt down and tighten nuts, so I usually go down ~54 inches before I put in a new set of lumber. It seems quicker to jump up a set and pull up a bucket in 4 ft increments rather than use the hoist. I save the hoist for lowering and raise the hammer drill, as it's awkward to climb a ladder holding it. 

The handheld hammer drill is great, but it does struggle a bit when I get a shelf of solid rock. Next time I may use the full size jackhammer. The handheld is really great at embiggening the walls. I have a tendency to want to go deeper and then have to spend a trip or two getting the width right. The last 2-3" have been pretty hard. Usually it's partially calculated caliche (my heat guess I was a business major) where the rock comes apart fairly easily (resists a shivel, but a rock hammer splits easily). This layer had actual quatz:

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So prettty tough stuff. Mule is in shop for its first ever annual maintainance, so I didn't haul off the bigger rocks and gravel. Next time I'm up I've got a good dozen buckets of abiut 1/2 to 3/4 gravel that I'll spread out on "road" and another half dozen buckets of larger rocks I'll throw down a ravine.

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My aim is to build it up enough to drive the mule across. That's the property fence line, and my current path cuts down a hill. This route would be more gradual. 

 

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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

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When I find the answer, I'll let yall know. I'm pretty sure I just need to go a little deeper. 

https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/the-masculine-urge-to-dig-a-tunnel-an-investigation

I dig not because it is easy, but because it is hard

https://youtu.be/JomxJqKRa1M?si=Z9C0RhJisa2UbBEY

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3 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

When I find the answer, I'll let yall know. I'm pretty sure I just need to go a little deeper. 

https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/the-masculine-urge-to-dig-a-tunnel-an-investigation

I dig not because it is easy, but because it is hard

https://youtu.be/JomxJqKRa1M?si=Z9C0RhJisa2UbBEY

Keep digging and I'm sure you'll find the answer.  We have faith in you. 

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