sherpa
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2004
- Messages
- 533
- Location
- North Carolina Mountains
- Tractor
- 2004 NH TC33D & 2014 NH Boomer 24
My neighbor called me to landscape the dirt around his pond. He had his pond dug out a couple weeks ago when it was very cold. Its been nice and warm 55 degrees here in NC for the past 3 days. As I approached the pond berm I lowered my bucket to push a path through the dirt, BAMM. It was like hitting cement! The dirt out of the pond had water mixed in it when the trackhoe brought it out 2 weeks ago and it was all still frozen. It was just like cement all the way around the pond. My backhoe would not even break it lose. I thought I could dig down 6 inches and it would be thawed. That was not the case it was even frozen harder. I thought to myself, what do you folks do in colder climates this time of the year if you want to dig in dirt?
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