Typical Ozark top soil

[dun]

 

[MikeC]

Looks like a great place to save money on graveling roads. :lol:

 

[dun]

Looks like a great place to save money on graveling roads. :lol:

If you took out all the gravel this ridge would be a 500 foot deep hole in the ground.
BTW, this is the good topsoil that doesn;t sit on solid rock 4 inches below the surface

 

[Bullbuyer]

I was afraid you was gonna say this is where a wild pig had been diggin'.

 

[jkwilson]

That looks like a hand-dug trench. Looks like work, to me. I dug a 2'X3' trench this spring that was too close to a building to do by machine. Makes my back hurt just thinking about it.

 

[dun]

That looks like a hand-dug trench. Looks like work, to me. I dug a 2'X3' trench this spring that was too close to a building to do by machine. Makes my back hurt just thinking about it.

Backhow on a bobcat. Trust me, you don;t hand dig trenches in this neck of the woods.

 

[buckwheat_87]

Thats a good looking trench, lucky you dug that far without hitting solid rock. Around here you would have hit red clay after the first inch.

Wish are top soil looked that good ! :roll: :roll:

 

[dun]

Thats a good looking trench, lucky you dug that far without hitting solid rock. Around here you would have hit red clay after the first inch.

Wish are top soil looked that good ! :roll: :roll:

At the other end of the tremch he hit red clay just under the surface. In another trench it was solid limestone right at the surface in a couple of places. What should have been a 90 foot trench ended up closer to 140 foot from going around the limestone

 

[Outrigger2]

not red enough for me

 

[cfpinz]

I know where you can find a good deal on a dump truck...

cfpinz

 

[dun]

I know where you can find a good deal on a dump truck...

cfpinz

Does it come with a driver to make the vroom sounds?

 

[cfpinz]

I know where you can find a good deal on a dump truck...

cfpinz

Does it come with a driver to make the vroom sounds?

It gets good gas mileage that way.

 

[Jogeephus]

If you find a rock in our dirt its probably an arrowhead or at least a flake.

 

[dun]

If you find a rock in our dirt its probably an arrowhead or at least a flake.

If you find any dirt in our rocks it's probably been trucked in

 

[Jogeephus]

If you find a rock in our dirt its probably an arrowhead or at least a flake.

If you find any dirt in our rocks it's probably been trucked in

:lol: :lol: That's good! :lol: :lol: I guess you'd go broke selling turning plows out there. :lol:

 

[dun]

If you find a rock in our dirt its probably an arrowhead or at least a flake.

If you find any dirt in our rocks it's probably been trucked in

:lol: :lol: That's good! :lol: :lol: I guess you'd go broke selling turning plows out there. :lol:

The big ticket here is rock pickers, machines not people.

 

[Jogeephus]

We got a thing called a root-a-vator. May be similar but this thing will go through new ground and pick up the roots and things to keep you from having to do it. Costs about $600/acre if you hire it done though. Never used one myself cause of the cost. But it does do a good job. Goes down about 18 inches and you can plant peanuts behind it.

 

[MikeC]

The big ticket here is rock pickers, machines not people.

How do you know when they are ripe?

 

[Jogeephus]

The big ticket here is rock pickers, machines not people.

How do you know when they are ripe?

I think their vine starts to brown up a bit and they make a thump noise when you thump em. But I might be wrong, we can't seem to grow em here. :lol:

 

[dun]

The big ticket here is rock pickers, machines not people.

How do you know when they are ripe?

We pretend they're commercial grown tomatos and don;t worry about ripeness, just so they get picked