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Digging is good exercise.
It's not so bad when you just need to throw the dirt just waste level but as I went down not to Babble on Babylon and Towers but I reached the point I had to shovel from pile to pile in a circle each time to a higher elevation to get it out the 3 by 4 opening and into the wheel barrow and out to the yard and I think it took a good two weeks to move out about ten yards of sand.
Every time I dropped two feet in the shaft I stepped in a wall and since I was closer to the clay I shot two lengths of 3 inch pvc at 45's on both sides and again filled them with cement and rebar and wove it all together as I went down then came back and poured taller walls inside to smooth things up and to square things up.
Again.
Digging is good exercise but you really can have too much of a good thing.
It took me 7 years to build the house although I did get quite a bit delayed when I hit my head, but I'm not sure I'd have the patience to repeat such a long process and in the back of my mind I am thinking of the sand quarry up the street where I get my fill and also cleaned masonry sand and I remember the barge and the gigantic vacuumed pulling sand from the bottom of a water filled pit of blue.
I have a 3 inch trash pump that I use to shoot posts into the ground when I'm building a dock or seawall you can drill a ten foot hole pretty quickly and get them sunk in the lake bed and I had already used it to make a few holes in the lake bottom around the dock for the fish to hide in so I figured if I could fill a pit with water and suck it out I could shovel sand into it and shoot the sand out at the same time.
I realize the chance of having both a concrete lined pit and an 8 horsepower trash pump are preponderous but these things happen and after all, I had a lot of time to day dream about this as I did redundant tasks building the house above.
It's not so bad when you just need to throw the dirt just waste level but as I went down not to Babble on Babylon and Towers but I reached the point I had to shovel from pile to pile in a circle each time to a higher elevation to get it out the 3 by 4 opening and into the wheel barrow and out to the yard and I think it took a good two weeks to move out about ten yards of sand.
Every time I dropped two feet in the shaft I stepped in a wall and since I was closer to the clay I shot two lengths of 3 inch pvc at 45's on both sides and again filled them with cement and rebar and wove it all together as I went down then came back and poured taller walls inside to smooth things up and to square things up.
Again.
Digging is good exercise but you really can have too much of a good thing.
It took me 7 years to build the house although I did get quite a bit delayed when I hit my head, but I'm not sure I'd have the patience to repeat such a long process and in the back of my mind I am thinking of the sand quarry up the street where I get my fill and also cleaned masonry sand and I remember the barge and the gigantic vacuumed pulling sand from the bottom of a water filled pit of blue.
I have a 3 inch trash pump that I use to shoot posts into the ground when I'm building a dock or seawall you can drill a ten foot hole pretty quickly and get them sunk in the lake bed and I had already used it to make a few holes in the lake bottom around the dock for the fish to hide in so I figured if I could fill a pit with water and suck it out I could shovel sand into it and shoot the sand out at the same time.
I realize the chance of having both a concrete lined pit and an 8 horsepower trash pump are preponderous but these things happen and after all, I had a lot of time to day dream about this as I did redundant tasks building the house above.
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