Hard red dirt
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What kind of digger/probe/popper ya using?
Dusty
Dusty
Dirty Money
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Assuming you have a Lesche or Predator digging knife, and can't get through the soil, about all you can do is wait for a light rain before you search the field again.
Thinking that the ball field is still a highly visible area, you don't want to be seen digging away with a shovel. Patience is probably your best tool for now.
Thinking that the ball field is still a highly visible area, you don't want to be seen digging away with a shovel. Patience is probably your best tool for now.
chad27
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wtfisthat
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Frozen
blkcloud
Senior Member
wait till it rains and go the next day!
eli
Senior Member
Try a rock pick/rock hammer to break up the soil around the target.
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This is what I use, it works like a charm and is great between big roots as a scraper. http://www.estwing.com/product.php?product_id=5000
You can also use a rock chipper or bricklayers hammer.
Eli
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This is what I use, it works like a charm and is great between big roots as a scraper. http://www.estwing.com/product.php?product_id=5000
You can also use a rock chipper or bricklayers hammer.
Eli
RaylandRat
Elite Member
Get you a good quality flat screwdriver, stout enough that it won't bend, with a comfortable handle. Not one of those great big ones, but big enough to give you some digging surface. File or sand the tip a little sharper and smooth out any other edges.
belliott
Full Member
Sounds like you may have to wait for a good rain or get permission to plow it
tabdog
Elite Member
A pick/rock hammer works.
A screw driver works if you know how.
I use my own design.
After surveying and digging up corners
anywhere and everywhere for over 30
years, I learned something.
I have detected and dug manholes
5' deep in the middle of hard compacted
road bed and through concrete and
asphalt surfaces.
This is what I designed.
It will not break and never needs sharpening,
But in the end,
it is the person that can or can not dig
in the hard stuff.
I learned by paying my dues,
A screw driver works if you know how.
I use my own design.
After surveying and digging up corners
anywhere and everywhere for over 30
years, I learned something.
I have detected and dug manholes
5' deep in the middle of hard compacted
road bed and through concrete and
asphalt surfaces.
This is what I designed.
It will not break and never needs sharpening,
But in the end,
it is the person that can or can not dig
in the hard stuff.
I learned by paying my dues,
RickO
"In Memory of"
I really like that tool Tabdog... you did a heck of a job on that one. Been checking yard sales for an old ratchet handle so I can make one...no luck yet... RickO
DirtyRob
Forum Supporter
Go for it...you say it hasn't been used in 15 years. Do like our new member here from Russia....crack out the garden tiller and go to town!
Silversmith45
Elite Member
I hunted an area like that last spring. Even my pick just bounced off. I ended up taking my shingling hatchet and chopping the outline of the hole and then pounding my 3-in-1 knife (Like the current Hori-Hori knife) into the cracks with the hatchet. I would have been afraid to try this with ANY other digger. Once I got through the top four or five inches, it wasn't as hard.
