Billy, Back in the early 90s, I was working on a construction site down at Casilton on the Hudson, Catholic nusing home. We were digging the final haunches for the footings in that very solid gray clay, prevelent down there. We had a specially built 3' wide straight edge bucket with a single 8" wide tooth in the center to form a key slot in the clay mounted to a large Kobelco trackhoe. Part way across the lower haunch, we brought up a really big leg bone out of the clay. We stopped digging and our trackhoe operator and his ditch man, our forman, our site truck driver, and the site superintendant, and me, were the only ones to see it. I was on the dozer grading the spoils in the dump site. It was loaded on the site truck and transported to where I was grading the fill zone. If word got out, probably the whole project would have gotten shut down to look for more bones. That clay was so tight that when the backhoe tooth peeled out the key slot, it rolled spyrolls like big truck tires out that didn't break apart. Loren
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