So I wanted to dig litle hole

[pfrederi 21,020]

Have a few maple trees I grew from seed in 1 gallon pots sitting in the garden decided to plant some.  

 

35 minutes later I got one hole.  Note the rock pile that came from the hole.  I always get chuckle when I see your pictures of big gardens you rototilled no stones and the plow day pictures let alone a double bottom plow for a WH   

 

 

[adsm08 4,971]

5 minutes ago, pfrederi said:

Have a few maple trees I grew from seed in 1 gallon pots sitting in the garden decided to plant some.  

 

35 minutes later I got one hole.  Note the rock pile that came from the hole.  I always get chuckle when I see your pictures of big gardens you rototilled no stones and the plow day pictures let alone a double bottom plow for a WH   

 

 

 

The whole eastern half of the state is that way Paul.

 

My house in Northumberland had all sorts of rocks growing out of the ground, and this place, when they dug the footer for the garage, we hauled out a few loads of stone just like the ones you dug up.

[ebinmaine 80,203]

Our property is exceptionally rocky even for New England. 

At least you can dig a hole 🕳 

 

[CCW 1,518]

Where as I can did a 48 inch hole for a footing and not hit a single stone.

 

[JimSraj 585]

Mostly open shale here in Northampton County PA. Not a picnic digging in it either. 

[Handy Don 17,270]

I’ve come to learn that there are no “natural” parts of our 0.6 acre property. Most of it was the formal gardens for a large estate that had been heavily landscaped. At one point i tried to dig up a section of lawn for a rasberry patch and found what must have been a low spot in the original surface that had been filled in with stones and covered with 6” of soil. I still don’t know how deep the stones go!

[953 nut 68,372]

If I want a large rock all I need do is buy a plant in that size pot and ask my wife where it should be planted.              Guaranteed there will be a rock about the size of that pot.

[oliver2-44 11,676]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Texas)

My yard is a mixture of decomposed which is granite gravel/sand/clay.  I'm lucky there are just a few granite bolding balls randomly in it.  Some short distance under it is solid red  granite.

A few houses over - slightly down hill their back yard has a lot of exposed solid granite. 

This picture is the "backside of Granite Mountain where they have been quarrying granite (from the front side ) since the Texas Capitol was built in 1882.  One you get a way from the granite the Texas Hill Country is thin soil with limestone .   

 

They have been hauling thousands of truck loads of  roughly 3x3x3 chunks down to the coast for several Harbor breakwater projects at Galveston, Matagorda and Corpus Christi. 

Each semi- truck carries 3-4 chunks.

There are several quarries in about a 20 mile area that each have a different shade of rock from light pink to dark red. 

Back in the 70's and again in the 2010's An oil drill bit manufacture set up a drill rig and tested various experimental drill bits.

Rumor has it they went down over 10,000 feet of solid granite and never ran out of it. 

 

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[Wayne0 1,617]

In this neck of the woods it's like trying to dig in a barrel of bowling balls!

[ebinmaine 80,203]

Some o' you would het a kick outta this video. Some have seen it. 

 

The boulders in the wall are all from the base ground level. Notice that the front of the wall is about 3 feet tall and the rear is over 7.  

There's over 800 cubic yards of fill above the original ground level.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[adsm08 4,971]

21 hours ago, Handy Don said:

I’ve come to learn that there are no “natural” parts of our 0.6 acre property. Most of it was the formal gardens for a large estate that had been heavily landscaped. At one point i tried to dig up a section of lawn for a rasberry patch and found what must have been a low spot in the original surface that had been filled in with stones and covered with 6” of soil. I still don’t know how deep the stones go!

 

My yard is similar. The Dillsburg Brick Co. operated on and off for roughly a century. A house about 1/8 mile up from me was the main office. A 1/2 mile in the other direction is the quarry where they got the clay, on the ground of Camp Tuckahoe.

 

Best I can figure from the maps I have my yard was in the brick drying yard.