Posted by Determined on February 27, 2016 at 15:05:19 from (216.130.212.167):
In Reply to: OT - Quick Mud posted by Bill VA on February 27, 2016 at 09:24:02:
According to some geology maps of the area we live, thousands of years ago the land was part of an ancient sea bed.
Overall decent clay base but it has random small pockets and veins of sand.
One spot you can dig a hole straight down with a backhoe, move over 50 feet and you are in pure sand that caves in the size of a bedroom before you can get down 8 feet.
The entrance to one of the corrals had one of these sand veins.
I do not own a piece of equipment that has not at least once been miserably stuck in this spot.
It will look level and dry but as soon as one wheel catches the edge it would suck you in leaving you sitting on the oil pan with wheels dangling in a seemingly bottomless pit. I am talking about half an hour with a shovel just to get a chain hooked on to the drawbar stuck.
Finally went to get to the bottom of it so to speak this summer and planted my wheel loader so bad I had to get a neighbor with a 4x4 backhoe in to dig out the muck and backfill the holes with gravel before there was any chance of pulling it out. 5 feet away from me his wheels were not even breaking the surface.
Hats off to good/great neighbors with big toys.
Once we got it out I spent a day and a half digging out the sand down to a solid base before hauling in 23 tandem loads of gravel to build it back up.
Some of these veins are no larger than a suitcase others I don't want to find out.
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