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Title: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 26, 2007, 09:54:50 PM
That I kid Tammy about burying my mad money where she cant find it just before I leave on vacation...

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/money_jar_hole.jpg)

Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: sawguy21 on March 26, 2007, 09:58:00 PM
 :D :D :D :D :D That is funny.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: scsmith42 on March 26, 2007, 10:15:12 PM
 :D   :D   :D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: LeeB on March 26, 2007, 10:19:53 PM
She must of found it. Looks like she's getting a pool with it. :D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Furby on March 26, 2007, 10:27:10 PM
Naw, that hole is designed to let water out, not keep it in! :D
Da pool's around back. ;)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: woodbowl on March 26, 2007, 10:33:15 PM
If I remember right, that's right where the porta potty was sitting at the last pig roast.  :)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: chet on March 26, 2007, 10:40:45 PM
Dat's one DanG big hole fur such an itty biddy pipe.  :o
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Furby on March 26, 2007, 10:52:58 PM
Nope, da porta potty was behind where da camera person's standing.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: LeeB on March 26, 2007, 11:11:10 PM
I ne'er said what kinda pool.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: WDH on March 27, 2007, 12:03:37 AM
If'n she did not find it there, there's gonna be more holes a'coming' :D.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Furby on March 27, 2007, 12:05:15 AM
Quote from: Chet on March 26, 2007, 10:40:45 PM
Dat's one DanG big hole fur such an itty biddy pipe. :o
Wouldn't want to use a bigger pipe.............. there wouldn't be anything to do before the roast. ;)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: isawlogs on March 27, 2007, 08:59:03 AM
 I am glad she took the initiative to dig this prior to the roast ... but ... where is daa snow ???    ::)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: woodbowl on March 27, 2007, 09:10:00 AM
Quote from: Furby on March 26, 2007, 10:52:58 PM
Nope, da porta potty was behind where da camera person's standing.

But the camera person is standing in the hole, no tellin how big that hole is! I figured that Mrs. Wildflower got all excited when she read about Jeff and me wanting to dig up DanGs outhouse to look for  treasure and decided to dig da yard up over there where the porta potty used to be.  ::)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: crtreedude on March 27, 2007, 11:10:28 AM
Now, just got to see what Jeff is up to now...
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 11:26:14 AM
Fred, its not as interesting as it may appear. Think Flush. :D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: crtreedude on March 27, 2007, 11:41:44 AM
Think leach field? What happen? The health people said that for the FF get together you have to have something better than a latrine?!
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 11:43:37 AM
Our Drain field crapped out after 23 years.  :D 
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: crtreedude on March 27, 2007, 11:45:16 AM
You have been waiting for a long time to use that line... but frankly, it stinks.  ;)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 11:54:13 AM
Even ice is impressed with the size of this hole.  I told Norm, the guy that is digging it I could use one 4 times the area and twice as deep on our property in the U.P. to have a pretty good fish pond. This one is 6 feet deep in places. It dont look it in the photo though.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/ice_hole.jpg)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Larry on March 27, 2007, 08:33:29 PM
Why is the hole so BIG?
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Dan_Shade on March 27, 2007, 08:44:27 PM
maybe it's because Jeff is full of it  :o
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 09:09:33 PM
Our house is a berm house. That makes the tank down deep, as well as the old field was deep. The codes changed and now they wont let us fix or replace the old field. We had to move it to the east where it was lower and less fill would be over top. It also had to be a minimum of 1000 square feet. The top of the tank is down over 4 feet, so the bottom is way down there. a trench had to be dug from the tank to the new field to a spot where the new field had no more then 24 inches of soil over top.  I guess the old one, that had 4 feet over it that worked for over 20 years must have been a fluke. :-\

Luckily we have a friend with a hoe. The whole shebang is only costing 1500 bucks. I'd say thats "dirt" cheap for all the digging involved, not to mention the extra materials needed to put the filed out that far.  The inspector comes tomorrow to let us know if we can stone it now.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 09:09:55 PM
Quote from: Dan_Shade on March 27, 2007, 08:44:27 PM
maybe it's because Jeff is full of it  :o

That could be it too. ;D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: SwampDonkey on March 27, 2007, 09:24:09 PM
I remember times like this around grandfather's place. Grandmother had to send him off fishing or something for a week so she and uncle could get new siding on the house, new drain tile and septic tank installed and new shingles on the roof.  Not all at once, but a little bit at a time. See, nothing was going to stand in the way of fishing or buying a new outboard motor, new boat or fishing pole, maybe even a new truck to haul all the loot. ;D :D :D :D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: thecfarm on March 27, 2007, 09:39:36 PM
I would like to know where the snow is too.If this was being done here we would have a swimming pool and one BIG mud hole.My driveway is all set now,but can't do anything off the gravel.We still have snow around the house.Hope to burn 3 brush piles this week.Make room for more.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: SwampDonkey on March 27, 2007, 09:50:05 PM
That ground sure looks dry for digging in March weather. I was walking on bare lawn today and was like walking on cement with the frost. They are talking cold air coming from the north again.  ::) But, i did see a killdeer today, so robins will be here by the weekend.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 10:15:37 PM
The land we live on was purchased originally to become a gravel pit. It turns out the vein of gravel was only 7 foot deep through here and would not be lucrative enough for the gravel, so it was subdivided. You cant make a puddle on this property.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on March 27, 2007, 10:16:42 PM
We had 2 foot of snow just 3 weeks ago.
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: SwampDonkey on March 27, 2007, 11:05:04 PM
We did to, but ours wasn't as fast to melt yet. :D :D
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Jeff on June 04, 2007, 01:30:53 PM
I finally, finally, got all the fill and top soil raked out on this big mess. I was going to get it done yesterday but got rained off. Good thing I didnt put seed down as we had some torrential rain that would have floated it all to the edges. Finished up a few minutes ago. Waiting for some puddles to dry up in the center where I raked once so I can rake that again, then go seed and rake in. I expanded the project a bit by having some road gravel brought in to fill a low spot on the edge of the lawn where our forum friends always bottom out trying to haul their R.V.'s in. They have a nice smooth entrance now. :)
Title: Re: This will be the last time
Post by: Dave Shepard on June 04, 2007, 02:42:15 PM
$1500 is a bargain, around here the average system is $15k, and there have been some in the $60k range :o :o :o, we have some huge houses around here.


Dave