MC Rider
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That's bigger than we need, but it's your house. I would not call it overly large. I wish we had a basement.
Looks like there are no rocks in that soil up that way!we dug in the first of 7 ground loops for the heat pump today.
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<ahem> look to the left of the trench.Looks like there are no rocks in that soil up that way!
I see, I was only looking at the walls of the trench. No glacial till? Only big boulders?<ahem> look to the left of the trench.![]()
I see, I was only looking at the walls of the trench. No glacial till? Only big boulders?
The property has two distinct areas. The lower elevation and escarpment represent the furthest wanderings of the Dungeness river.I see, I was only looking at the walls of the trench. No glacial till? Only big boulders?
That is a bit of forced perspective. I have not found a stone that the 120 would not easily grasp and lift. Now my friend's place in eastern Washington had lil' Nug-Nug. I could not clean that one, not with any reasonably sized machine. best we could do is roll it up out of it's nest.Much bigger and it might be time for blasting.
I grew up in Connecticut and built a house in the 1970's on three wooded acres. You couldn't get a shovel in the ground there. Rocks everywhere and all glacial till. There was such a huge rock under where the house would sit that we decided not to blast it into pieces but leave it there and build over it with no basement.That is a bit of forced perspective. I have not found a stone that the 120 would not easily grasp and lift. Now my friend's place in eastern Washington had lil' Nug-Nug. I could not clean that one, not with any reasonably sized machine. best we could do is roll it up out of it's nest.
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I'm not sure about clay quality. Some layers are close to good enough for craft work. It is not consistently super-slimy.
In CT the settlers in the 1600's built stone walls with the rocks they pulled from the fields they cultivated for crops. I had two of those walls bordering my property.I've seen crawl spaces like that, with ledge rock right in there. CT was the glacier's playground, as was WA.
We have these massive erratics that got dropped out here and there right on the surface.