Whats Your Worst Type Of Place To Dig? Sand,rock,peat,drains?

[perthshire keeper 1,237]

intresting stuff lads the only digs ove seen in ash and tips is in johny blucks books...but lets not go their! we have had a couple slip down running sand while not ment to and its real bad stuff! we trenched them to make it a bit better, you know that dune sand with that grassy stuff in it! running peat holes and drains are very bad, i was always told its ok to put a dog into some where were waters running out of but not where water runs into? what you all recon to that?

[dillydog 8,417]

Sand and gravel, tough as you're like but with the right tools it's all good, and not to forget clay, every shovel full out makes a good dent in it but again as hard as bell metal in the warmer months.

[BIG G wheton machine 1,594]

looks like sand is the winner, and id say more so because its so unstable and fragile its more dangerous for the dog as it collapses very easy. I wouldn't work my dog in sand earths, too much risk of losing the dog as hes a tad hard. and theyre usually deep as the digging is easy. but that's just me

[dogs-n-natives 1,181]

Ive lost more to sand than owt else, so voted for sand.. but had some real hard do's in the crags/rocks... a week on the hill getting a terrier back isn't the best, but getting 'em back alive is better than digging to a dead yin.

 

All the best for the rest of the season lads, stay lucky

 

DnN

[Rat face 1,655]

iv never dug in chalk I have seen it in book its looks a reyt tw#t to dig is it like clay? for the lads who have dug in the stuff

[marshman 7,756]

iv never dug in chalk I have seen it in book its looks a reyt tw#t to dig is it like clay? for the lads who have dug in the stuff

no mate its nots like clay . It's not exactly digging but more like chipping away . always seems to take twice as long , Well it does for me anyway ?

[OldNog 432]

Where i did its all flinty stone, hardly any soil. The shallowest digs take longer than they should and forever cutting your knuckles and slicing your arms. Dogs get rubbed raw as well

 

Ive not dug in clay to a dog, but ive been banging fence posts in all summer into clay ground and i may as well have been doing it into concrete. I dug 6 x 4ft post holes the other day and it aint any easier when its wet. Sticks like shit and very hard work.

Edited November 13, 2013 by OldNog

[Rat face 1,655]

it looks hard graft from the pics I have seen, just out of interest what parts of the uk are chalk?

[Molie1337 35]

Chalk isn't too bad with the right tools, ie pick/graft/bar etc, clay is heavy when wet and solid when dry. My worst dig so far has been in a farm rubbish tip, buried gates, barb wire and farm machinery don't shift too well!

Atb

 

Molie

[fireman 10,774]

Chalk isn't too bad with the right tools, ie pick/graft/bar etc, clay is heavy when wet and solid when dry. My worst dig so far has been in a farm rubbish tip, buried gates, barb wire and farm machinery don't shift too well!

Atb

 

Molie

Dug to a fox in a farm tip once that was sat back inside a washing machine drum,was just out having a mooch and the terrier just dropped in and i found a old spade on the tip to dig her out with as well ,here in Norfolk it's a lot of sand and clay and if your going to not dig in these your'll not get a lot of digging done that's for sure.

Edited November 14, 2013 by fireman

[Molie1337 35]

Double post

[tilfertilfer 706]

 

this neil lol http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/uploads/gallery/album_5626/gallery_65725_5626_449697.jpg

oh ffs tilf! soo go on did you?

 

sorry mate late reply sever went down again , yes mate thats where i train the pups that are going to stay with me

[jawn 449]

Solid rock is the worst I have ever seen. Dogs enter and sometimes are never heard afterword. We just lost our best bitch who was bred only a week before. Didn't even see where she entered.... only an area. She was a great bitch.... she will be greatly missed.

Edited November 14, 2013 by jawn

[MIK 4,754]

Ive got an old tip that been very productive over the years .....the ground on our hunt has a bit of everything on it and in over 5 years I don't think ive had an easy dig...plenty of shallow ones too but not easy and when you see 2mtr and above on the box you know your in for the long hawl ...some proper horrible stuff ....dug in the Cotswolds a few times or I mean chipped ...it wasn't much fun

[snizle06 202]

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Edited November 15, 2013 by snizle06