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<blockquote data-quote="Hunting the yellow" data-source="post: 601499" data-attributes="member: 68"><p>i batch my trenchers if they're deeper than half a meter generally when I dig them I'm standing upright with a pick picking away at the face if in Rocky clay mixed soft earth. And yes I have been digging away and have had small slides happen when I'm deeper than a meter even after batching the sides there's not much you can do about it really so I let it go and once it's all slided into the trench it usually never happens again in the same spot i find silty Rocky ground with no clay the worse to dig in as it's like digging in a sandpit. Old miner's referred to it as running ground. the clay is good because it helps holding the sides of the trench. So far I've opened up 8 different fully blocked Up adits some are duds only go into the hill 10 metres and just stop other's Go for hundreds of metres before you get to the end of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunting the yellow, post: 601499, member: 68"] i batch my trenchers if they're deeper than half a meter generally when I dig them I'm standing upright with a pick picking away at the face if in Rocky clay mixed soft earth. And yes I have been digging away and have had small slides happen when I'm deeper than a meter even after batching the sides there's not much you can do about it really so I let it go and once it's all slided into the trench it usually never happens again in the same spot i find silty Rocky ground with no clay the worse to dig in as it's like digging in a sandpit. Old miner's referred to it as running ground. the clay is good because it helps holding the sides of the trench. So far I've opened up 8 different fully blocked Up adits some are duds only go into the hill 10 metres and just stop other's Go for hundreds of metres before you get to the end of them. [/QUOTE]
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