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[Daniel cain 42,892]

Can be..If its baked dry...helps when you got the right tools and a few good lads on the spades,a good test for the dogs imo-its noisey old stuff and rattles the quarry to try and push past the dog.atb dc

[leethedog 3,071]

You should come to kent plenty of that white shit about ours is full of flint too was there much flint in that chalk Dan

[Daniel cain 42,892]

Some places there's lots of it Lee.atb dc

[dillydog 8,417]

Dirty white that DC, I've seen it as white as the driven snow. I hate the stuff, i never did get used to digging in the crap

[Rabbit Hunter 6,608]

What type of ground does it compare to DD? I bet it's surreal to be digging in it when it's so white.

[king 11,664]

Dirty white that DC, I've seen it as white as the driven snow. I hate the stuff, i never did get used to digging in the crap

I was working in Kent on the channel tunnel railway they were boreing a tunnel through a big hill.the whole site was white chalk like snow.

In bright sunlight you had to wear sun glasses as the glare would make you look like a jab holding your eyes half closed.and a hell of a headache.

I found out how greasy it was when the frost had melted.

When i slid 60ft down the ramp in a 40 ton dumptruck.

Straight into my mate skip who was parked at the foot of the ramp.

The truck was well smashed.

They sacked me then lol.

[king 11,664]

And just to add the cut was 60ft deep.and the 360 was taking out another cut of 25ft so that was 85/90ft of pure white chalk.

And coming from the slag tips of south Wales to the land of white it was like being on the moon lol.

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[dillydog 8,417]

What type of ground does it compare to DD? I bet it's surreal to be digging in it when it's so white.

It doesn't compare to anything we'll see in our day to day lives RH. Go and have a day in it, it's a nightmare to get your head around, I'm sure someone will let you see it in the flesh

[chilli 368]

I'd rather stick to the shit I know rather than dig the white stuff

[Rabbit Hunter 6,608]

The dog in the 1st pic is a nice thing Sweeper. And the last pic has got to be JP!

[leethedog 3,071]

Luckily the only permission I have that is chalk if for ferreting took 4 hours to dig to a ferret this season not funny when you have to take a heavy bar ferreting

[rob284 1,678]

Luckily the only permission I have that is chalk if for ferreting took 4 hours to dig to a ferret this season not funny when you have to take a heavy bar ferreting

do the tubes run through the chalk or do they run underneath it in a seam of softer ground?

[leethedog 3,071]

Straight through the chalk mate . I don't know about the bellman gear but chalk and flint does funny things to a debben mk2 signal