It's actually not..I'm almost entirely on hardpack out here. Like really, really hard pack. When I had a sport bike motorcycle, it was no problem running down the dirt on it. Took a week of digging with a pickaxe and shovel to get enough of a hole to bury the mini septic for the camper when I moved in. Attempting with a shovel only meant I was getting about 1/4" down at a time.
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The ditch is actually a wash, but I figured people that aren't in/from a desert environment may not understand what a wash is, but would likely understand ditch. When I say cleaning it, I mean the debris and silt that gets washed down further upstream, which tends to be dead plants and grasses that get caught up in the trees that are already growing in there, along with some smaller brush type growths.
Depth is about 3 feet, about 10 feet across. If I don't have the mower deck on, my little Craftsman lawn tractor gets in and out of it with absolutely no issues at all. But there isn't any thing in there that I would consider mowable type things, and the brushes I would just cut down with a saw and dig the roots out. Even if it was a bunch of grass type stuff, I'd just as soon dig it out as well to avoid frequent mowings later.
I was thinking I'd be able to go across it with a FEL, down the sides, and scoop out the excess silt that builds up in there. I wouldn't expect any kind of well manicured look in it, I'd just be going for keeping it deep enough to handle the water flow when we get the big rains in the mountains. That's when it fills up quick, and goes back to dry again a couple hours later. It's not like the ditches back east that always had water flowing in them.
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