Dan seem to me you have a nice little team working fine and doing what you want. We have difficult time digging and not just because I'm getting on, we don't have many open ground burrows which are no problem digging. Most are hedges and a lot are Black thorn banks with wire of all kinds (How I hate wire) burrow run deep in a lot of them, I know we would lose perms if we started breaking down hedges digging cutting roots etc. A mate lost one permission this year just for climbing over the wire to get inside a hedge. I run Gills usually try small ones in if they can't shift one try the larger o