Huge Hole
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We were out in the woods at a party one night, and before anyone showed up, we dug a little mud puddle out so it was a foot wide and two foot deep trench, running all the way across the entrance to the clearing. Then we sat back and waited. People we liked, we ran out and warned. People we didn't like... well you get the idea. My truck stayed busy pulling neons and cavliers out that night.
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From: Mesa, AZ.
As a child 10-12 yrs old my sisters and cousins built and underground complex on my grandfaters farm in Utah. The sand was very fine and easy to work with. I can't come up with any hard numbers but several rooms were big enough for 3 or 4 of us kids to crawl into minimum 3 rooms with connecting tunnels. It was large enough that my grandpa made us fill it all in because he was worried about his cattle falling in.
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From: Pleasant Hill, MO
our hardest part in missouri is all the clay... it's so thick. the topsoil only goes about 4 inches deep. that's right, one scoopful
monday sucks guys... monday sucks...
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From: New York
One summer when I was 12, two other kids and I dug a hole about 10' x 10' and 6ft' deep, we then got some 2x4's and some roofing sheets for the barn, made a ceiling and covered it with dirt, at the time, I was able to stand in it and my taller friend had to hunch over. It took us probably around a week of not too hard work as it was farm land. Well, long story short, it was a dry summer, but not too long after we finished the hole, it started to fill in with "water" and the yard started to stink. Turns out we dug the hole in the leech field. That was a smelly job filling it back in lol.
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From: La Tech University, La
Last October, me and some coworkers, had to find some articles buried underneath some dirt. the area was about 50x100 feet, and the stuff buried underneath it was about 5 feet deep. 10 of us. we had the entire thing dug up in about 2 days of good long days.....looooooong days...back then I was digging alot. did you know it takes roughly 1 hour for a 135 lb guy to dig a 4x4x4 foot hole? that is 64 cubic feet...and it weighs ALOT.
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From: South Carolina
I met a guy one time that mad a small lake on a creek by filling up 275 gallon totes with water to use as a dam. He would fill the totes with buckets, cover them with tarps, and stack another course on top as a dam. Did it three different times before he figured it wasn't strong enough. Neighbors down stream called to complain about his totes washing up on their property after big rain event. Technically not a hole but still a heap of work. He had fourty or fifty of these things.
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all great stories... now, we still have a substantial amount of water floating around in the base of our pond. does anyone have an effective way of moving it besides syphoning? We rigged up a hose that runs down the bank, and has a lip at the top so we can dump our buckets down there without walking all the way to the dam. this isn't terribly effective, so does anyone have any ideas?
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From: Calgary Canada
Originally Posted by FghtinIrshNvrDie
Me and my buddies, on the NOT so rainy days, syphoned a pond about 45 feet long, and 25 feet across. We used some dryer hose, and ran it down the bank till we got it low enough to get the syphon effect. Anyway, that's not the bulk of the story, that's how we got it drained.
You see, the pond wasn't deep enough to keep a whole lot of water, and got very small in the summer months from the heat. We decided to drain it, so we could dig it deeper. We got it done(and flooded the neighbor's yard in the process...)
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We started in the middle digging a couple of feet deep. Well, about a month later, we scooped ourselves a hole almost 8 feet deep, and 10 feet across. It was the coolest thing ever. we had a spiraling staircase going around the sides into the bottom.
You see, the pond wasn't deep enough to keep a whole lot of water, and got very small in the summer months from the heat. We decided to drain it, so we could dig it deeper. We got it done(and flooded the neighbor's yard in the process...)
.We started in the middle digging a couple of feet deep. Well, about a month later, we scooped ourselves a hole almost 8 feet deep, and 10 feet across. It was the coolest thing ever. we had a spiraling staircase going around the sides into the bottom.
Aren't there any chicks, sports, hunting/fishing, dirt bikes, 4X4s, etc... around there?
I was wondering if anyone can compete with the massiveness and awesomeness of "The Hole." Anyone have stories about digging? No heavy machinery allowed... We only use spade shovels around here. The machines take all the fun out of it.
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a pump would work if it weren't for the hose we're using.
problem 1: The pump would more than likely collapse the weak hose we're using. It's just a dryer hose. it would take a lot of pressure to suck the air out.
problem 2: pumps are expensive. we're out behind a field, in another field/treed area.
problem 3: No power. The only power we have is from our trucks.
if ya'll are interested, we'll post pics soon.
problem 1: The pump would more than likely collapse the weak hose we're using. It's just a dryer hose. it would take a lot of pressure to suck the air out.
problem 2: pumps are expensive. we're out behind a field, in another field/treed area.
problem 3: No power. The only power we have is from our trucks.
if ya'll are interested, we'll post pics soon.
Last edited by FghtinIrshNvrDie; Oct 20, 2004 at 07:37 AM.