Originally Posted by Rancho_Loco
I tried to put six posts in the ground for a new coop.. When I got to 10 lbs of clay hanging off of each boot, I decided it was Bloody Mary time.

2 days of good rain here, and not letting up. We needed it bad.


Will trade you clay for solid limerock. We don't use shovels here, we use a 6' steel pike with a chisel bit on one end and a spike on the other. Forget what that's properly called, was always a "Key Largo Shovel" to me. Weighs about 25#. Steel boots aren't a bad idea...


I am..........disturbed.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain