Every year my wife wants a pool. Every year we buy an above ground pool we assemble and by winter the sun and rodents destroy it.
The rodents eat through the plastic liner to get to the water. The sun bakes it and it cracks.
So this year we are putting together a pool made out of a 9ft stock tank. Like usual nothing goes right and its been sitting out there filling with dirt.
I put some water in it to work on getting it cleaned out. When I drained it I noticed that the water was going down what I assumed was a squirrel hole and didnt think much about it. Assumed the water was going underground and disipating into the soil.
A few minutes later I walked into that area and my left leg fell into a hole all the way up to my waist!
Important fact is that My parents bought this house in 1974 from the original homesteader and we have never dug a hole in that area. It's also the only house ever on this lot. I can see the land on an old map site.
Also digging a hole that deep is a huge job due to the rocks and calèche clay.
The " mud" I stepped into was very soupy and had no rocks.
Nothing like our normal mud. Didn't smell bad.
Imo It's too far away to be an abandoned septic tank and on the wrong side of the house and uphill to be a septic tank.
Im guessing its an old outhouse hole from the days when they were building the house before it had a well and running water.
Quite a surprise to me though.
The rodents eat through the plastic liner to get to the water. The sun bakes it and it cracks.
So this year we are putting together a pool made out of a 9ft stock tank. Like usual nothing goes right and its been sitting out there filling with dirt.
I put some water in it to work on getting it cleaned out. When I drained it I noticed that the water was going down what I assumed was a squirrel hole and didnt think much about it. Assumed the water was going underground and disipating into the soil.
A few minutes later I walked into that area and my left leg fell into a hole all the way up to my waist!
Important fact is that My parents bought this house in 1974 from the original homesteader and we have never dug a hole in that area. It's also the only house ever on this lot. I can see the land on an old map site.
Also digging a hole that deep is a huge job due to the rocks and calèche clay.
The " mud" I stepped into was very soupy and had no rocks.
Nothing like our normal mud. Didn't smell bad.
Imo It's too far away to be an abandoned septic tank and on the wrong side of the house and uphill to be a septic tank.
Im guessing its an old outhouse hole from the days when they were building the house before it had a well and running water.
Quite a surprise to me though.
luck!
