been lucky never had to dig that deep don't know if I could now my last outing I had to dig a few times and at the end of the day it was one of those should I or shoudint I enter the ferret I did and ended up with a dig of about three feet and this was hard enough with no help from the lads that I was with I say lads but between the three of us the total age is 196 years with all the ailments of bad knees and hands etc .so Vin if you drop me your mobile number I will give you AND YOUR DIGGING TEAM A BELL NEXT TIME iam stuck Well done and thanks for write up.