What's the Science behind digging a hole?

sdef · Dec 7, 2016

ustmd said:
To add to this quandary--I dig a hole for a tree that is in a 5 gallon pot. Put the tree in the hole and STILL do not have enough dirt to fill the hole back up level

Yep. Did that twice earlier this year in my very hard, clay soil.

teejk · Dec 7, 2016

sdef said:
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Really funny and is the only thing that makes sense in my experience. But I do like the waxing and waning moon stuff also

I was being serious! My guess is that it's the marketers of mole traps behind all this...see a mound, go buy a trap! I think that explains why I rarely catch a mole (yeah...they throw one in once and awhile just to give you hope and keep you buying traps...probably a mole that had lost his will to live I think). :laughing:

Wagtail · Dec 7, 2016

teejk said:
Somewhere on the other side of the globe somebody is wondering where all those hills are coming from?

BRILLIANT! :thumbsup:

Oldpath05 · Dec 7, 2016

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Two Kinds Of People - YouTube

prichard · Dec 7, 2016

MossRoad said:
When we dig a hole, then fill it back in, there's always more dirt mounding over it.... you have to account for the space the body takes up.

Love it

MossRoad · Dec 7, 2016

k0ua said:
That works great until the body rots down, and then you have a depression marking where you put the Revenuer.

Head first in a pine grove....

teejk · Dec 7, 2016

MossRoad said:
Head first in a pine grove....

taking notes (for a friend). Thanks!

MossRoad · Dec 7, 2016

Yes, I heard all that from friends of friends, too. :thumbsup:

k0ua · Dec 8, 2016

MossRoad said:
Yes, I heard all that from friends of friends, too. :thumbsup:

A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

2ndhalf · Dec 8, 2016

om21braz said:
One man says to his friend "Let's play a game. I'll ask myself a question and if I can answer it - you have to pay me a quarter. Then you'll get your turn." His friend, thinking this sounds like a strange game, agrees to try it. The man says to himself "How can a groundhog dig a hole without leaving any dirt outside of the hole? That's easy, he exclaims - the groundhog can start digging from the inside." "How can the groundhog start digging from the inside?" exclaims his friend. "I don't know, but that's your question." replies the man.

This is a very funny quote. GHs generally have two holes.. one is the starting hole the other is the finishing hole (no dirt around the hole) they all = your soybeans are gone.

Ken · Dec 8, 2016

k0ua said:
A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

James is this part of the triple S method. Shot shovel and shut up.
ken

k0ua · Dec 8, 2016

Ken said:
James is this part of the triple S method. Shot shovel and shut up.
ken

Yep...

MossRoad · Dec 8, 2016

k0ua said:
A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

First rule if you go to the dark side is never have an accomplice. Never.

Did I say never? I really meant never.

prichard · Dec 8, 2016

MossRoad said:
First rule if you go to the dark side is never have an accomplice. Never.

Did I say never? I really meant never.

Yes that would lead to needing a bigger hole and more leftover dirt.

MossRoad · Dec 8, 2016

prichard said:
Yes that would lead to needing a bigger hole and more leftover dirt.

It just never ends....

k0ua · Dec 9, 2016

MossRoad said:
First rule if you go to the dark side is never have an accomplice. Never.

Did I say never? I really meant never.

Well Moss, I was just kidding around. I have never buried any dead bodies... Well except for possums and such...

MossRoad · Dec 9, 2016

k0ua said:
Well Moss, I was just kidding around. I have never buried any dead bodies... ...

Live ones? YIKES!

teejk · Dec 9, 2016

k0ua said:
Well Moss, I was just kidding around. I have never buried any dead bodies... Well except for possums and such...

Yeah but you probably wanted to...some comfort in pretending sometimes...

BrokeFarmerJohn · Dec 9, 2016

k0ua said:
Well Moss, I was just kidding around. I have never buried any dead bodies... Well except for possums and such...

You burry little critters? I just throw them on the burn pile and the turkey vultures haul them off 1-2 days. No smell and nature gets rid of the evidence lol.

k0ua · Dec 9, 2016

BrokeFarmerJohn said:
You burry little critters? I just throw them on the burn pile and the turkey vultures haul them off 1-2 days. No smell and nature gets rid of the evidence lol.

Wonder how that would work out for larger ones?