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anbhurst
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 Posted - 04/15/2007 : 01:13:41 AM
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Thursday's progress includes the removal of a large area of concrete floor.
Below is the BEFORE picture taken from our newly finished
second room:
Note(above) the temporary beam support.
During the process of floor removal, we discovered that using a track-jack, leverage-bars, and a sledgehammer actually
produced very little dust in comparison to using the jack-hammer. As you can see below, it was difficult capturing Greg
in a still pose, . .once he begins, he doesn't let up 'til he's finished:
The use of track-jacks gave us outstanding results:
During Thursday evening, all available floor was removed. We will now be able to connect the two rooms.
Below is our AFTER picture:
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anbhurst
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 2:25:56 PM
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FLASH! . .This* just in from Monday night's mole session:
Just a quick note to let every one know that at 10:05 pm Monday night, I got a little curious  how big a particular rock was? So I started
digging and prying around this newly found rock.
Greg decided to join in the fun as well, and this is where the story literally goes sideways(as in moving the rock sideways). The rock itself was
not that big(a two-man rock); we have seen bigger ones.
More importantly, was what the rock was sitting on top of. You see, my noodle(a six-foot pry bar) is now sitting in the bottom of a deep
SEPTIC TANK, and it is going to be a real pain in the neck to get it out of there.  You should have seen Greg’s face   when he
let go of the pry bar and it just disappeared into the ground under this rock.
We are now the proud owners of a good start on either a tunnel to China or of a two-story basement.  On the brighter side, it looks like
we will be able to stuff two+ yards of dirt into it and that will be two yards that we won’t have to haul out of the basement. 
*Written by Andre & edited by Allen
Monday night's intent was to clean-up concrete tailings and to fragment the bolders below:
Above, the one under Rick's right foot fragmented nicely, but the other one was a bear! Greg was able to remove a 50 pound fragment from
it before giving up for the night.
Moments later, curiosity gets the best of Andre as he probes and shovels:
Even Greg couldn't believe it:
What's this! . .A hole! . .And right in front of our thoroughfare:
More pictures to follow
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Dutchman
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 2:58:20 PM
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Allen, I hope that it is an "out-of-use" septic tank!
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anbhurst
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 3:07:53 PM
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Yes-sir-reese-sir, . .It's a beeeg deeep one! 
The entrance sits just below our proposed floor level.
Who shall deliver this noodle from its hole
Stay tuned for the conclusion to this exciting mole saga! BTW, I understand this episode is being blamed on a certain Steve who is currently
on loan to(visiting) Australia.
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LVRALPH
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 4:44:01 PM
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Unbelievable!
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MarkF
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 5:45:19 PM
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That is incredible, but I'll tell ya, before you go filling it in, you guys might want to try to get someone to tell you what that is and why it's there. I for one would be curious to here the story!
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amdaylight
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 8:15:20 PM
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Well in a past life it was a septic tank, probably belonging to the house that sits in the front of the property and when city sewer service came through 30 or 40 years ago this thing was just buried and forgotten. The building that we are digging out the basement in was probably built over it with out any one knowing that it was there, none of the members that were in the club when the basement was dug out the first time knew it was there.
We have come up with a new plan today at lunch, Dean and I were brain storming (it takes two of us, because that is the only way we can get two brain cells together) and he got the great idea  that we yard the lid to this thing over and out of our way and entomb the lid under the new floor. With the thing now wide open we take that dam rock that we have beat  on with very little success and give it the old heave ho into the pit along with any other rock that crosses our path till fill it up and then we throw crushed concrete and any thing else we can fit till it is full. The beauty of this is that all of the rocks that we have we don’t have to move out of the basement. Gravity will take care of them for us!
Andre
Thanks Allen for the nice edit of my e-amil.
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elwoodblues
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 9:34:15 PM
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Good job it hasn't been in use for a number of years. I'd hate to have the smell in the basement if it was still in use  
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Rick A
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 09:37:01 AM
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Last night, I talked to a former member that was the foreman (for lack of a better term) of the original excavation project, which I was also a part of. Prior to us excavating that basement back in 1986, he was told that there was a dry-well buried somewhere under that building and that we may come upon it. We did find a metal tank or barrel, since it was below our intended floor level, we used it as a dry well for rain water run off, he thought that was the buried dry-well.
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MarkF
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 12:05:42 PM
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Well, looks like someone way back when did you a big favor and saved you several trips hauling debris outside! Since it's no longer in use, it's probably not only convenient, but probably a good idea to fill it in.
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LVRALPH
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 1:30:44 PM
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Before you do that, Can I push Mark in it and cover him up?
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anbhurst
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 1:20:28 PM
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For those of you who may be interested, four sets of plans have been submitted. The pictures didn't come out very well,
but if you have time, I'm sure our club would appreciate your comments.
The first set belongs to Rick A.:
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I will have Rick give you a description of his plan.
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MarkF
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 7:30:02 PM
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It's hard to make out the details Allen, but I do like the benchwork configuration. Very different, but looks like a long main line run!
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anbhurst
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 10:02:28 PM
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Mark, . .I was just wondering if you caught the enlargement feature in the lower right-hand corner? If you click on that, you should be able to see a little more detail.
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It's hard to make out the details Allen, but I do like the benchwork configuration. Very different, but looks like a long main line run!
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Tim Kerkhoff
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 11:18:23 PM
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ALLEN, All this work is incredible.It almost seems that it might have been cheaper to build new.
A lot of back breaking work.
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