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wanderer
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I am a farily new digger :roll: and am working on a small inclined mud filled tube about 12 - 18 inches in diameter, and about 70 degrees from horizontal and at present approx 8 feet long (estimated about another 10 vertical feet to go to get to something other than mud filled hole). Does anyone have any tips or hints on excavating sticky mud from inclined holes?
At this stage the hole is not accesible head first so slow going by digging between legs (short legged diggers like me have a slight advantage) but removing mud is a problem as a bucket don't fit in hole as well as the digger. Best solution so far is to push spade in as far as possible then pull it out with mud stuck to it. Wondered if any one has come up with a better method for excavating mud vertically below you? (trenching tool would not work as well as a straight spade as there is no room to get the blade into the mud).
At this stage the hole is not accesible head first so slow going by digging between legs (short legged diggers like me have a slight advantage) but removing mud is a problem as a bucket don't fit in hole as well as the digger. Best solution so far is to push spade in as far as possible then pull it out with mud stuck to it. Wondered if any one has come up with a better method for excavating mud vertically below you? (trenching tool would not work as well as a straight spade as there is no room to get the blade into the mud).