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digging bamboo progress

Nothing particularly pretty about these shots. There are rhizomes here so tangled I can't get a tool in edgewise, and so densely layered I can't cut through them either. Pick axes are liable to bounce off any piece of the cluster, so my method for ultimate destruction involves undermining the clumps. Rhizomes have roots, and the remnant of what looks like a timber type of bamboo here have root balls that sink like a mass of tentacles deep into the clay soil. When I push portions over I hear ripping sounds.

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Uploaded on February 6, 2011
Taken on February 2, 2011