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Don Croft
Tue 11 Oct, 2011 22:42

Re: Earth Pipes Bust Hell
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I purchased one of those drills and bulb augurs, Gene--three years ago but only used it once for EPs--ground is almost always too rocky but my technique is to 'profile' the ground to find spots that are less likely to have stones, then the hammer ends up being as expeditious as the drilll, after all.  The edge of a pond or slough is almost always soft and rock-free, for instance.  I did most of the EPs around Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, that way last month.  It's evidently the place where the US Air Force directs their deadly tornado assaults on the US population.   I really need to post a report of our gifting excursion in September, since Bear Claw is probably also doing Tornado Alley targets.

An exception to hammerable ground for us has been Florida, where the packed sand of most of the southern part of the peninsula is plenty deep but is so hard that it wore me out to pound the pipes in.  In that case the drill would probably have been better--we'll see when we return there, next year grid willing.  LOTS of nasty stuff underground, there!  I want to focus on the Everglades, where the draconians evidently still have a massive base but there's no trouble finding soft ground in a swamp, of course.  The only problem is to have a shallow-enough boat to navigate through there.  Jeff and I tried to get in there with our Zodiac (rigid inflatable boat, 21' long) but it was too big.  Maybe my new little Zodiac inflatable (ten feet long, goes on teh back of the car with the 5 horse motor) that I used to EP around Montauk Point last month would do?

Lots and lots of underground targets where you are, too, Gene, so please remember to post about the ones you're doing, for the record, okay?  Most of us have the impression that we don't need to report our gifting or much of it but this is the only credible site in English that has the reports, for now, so more is better.

Thx,
Don