Kantwebefriends wrote:The way to dig heavy clay soil is to hire someone else.
I have heavy clay. Wet or dry a small rotavator makes pretty short work of it. Still a bit tiring on the arms mind you.
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Kantwebefriends wrote:The way to dig heavy clay soil is to hire someone else.
quelquod wrote:Kantwebefriends wrote:The way to dig heavy clay soil is to hire someone else.
I have heavy clay. Wet or dry a small rotavator makes pretty short work of it. Still a bit tiring on the arms mind you.
quelquod wrote:Kantwebefriends wrote:The way to dig heavy clay soil is to hire someone else.
I have heavy clay. Wet or dry a small rotavator makes pretty short work of it. Still a bit tiring on the arms mind you.
There is no way I could have installed sufficient land drains to deal with the wet areas and moved the many tons of sandy soil I used to lighted the clay.
brightncheerful wrote:...it took 'Capability' some 10 years for his (Mr Brown) workmen to dig out by hand to create the 1¾ mile long river topped with a lake. To help maintain water level for the river Brown constructed several coverts to feed rainwater from adjoining land. Mind you that's how Capability Brown made his fortune, the plans were akin to loss-leader: the big money was un the excavation and planting.
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