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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.
Preparing the area for planting fruit trees at Ballysillan Community Garden and Allotments. North Belfast.
Photo: Helen Tomb
30 May 2001: Step 2 - we have not got our building license yet, but encouraged by assurances that it is "any day now", we called in Spiros Mavrias and the JCB to dig a hole in the sand for foundations.
There was a lot of noise below our bedroom this morning as a large and noisy crew were digging a hole in the road in order to supply natural gas for heating to the house next door.
Our North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy tweeted this photo of the National Hole Digging Championship in Japan.
They're trying to beat the record of just under four metres deep in 30 minutes.
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30 May 2001: Step 2 - we have not got our building license yet, but encouraged by assurances that it will be issued "any day now", we called in Spiros Mavrias and the JCB to dig a hole in the sand for foundations.
The long arm of the excavator digs up to 35-feet deep to help contain the underground fire. Once the barrier wall is solid, excavation of the burning material will continue to be excavated and mixed with a clay-sand slurry to extinguish the fire.
Tormod and his nephew Uilleam had gone to the meadow to dig the mid-season potatoes. It wasn’t the best crop they had grown, but young Uilleam seemed to be enjoying the opportunity to be playing in the fresh dirt.
After huge winds in the storms of the past few weeks, Bayshore residents and property managers begin the gritty task of digging out. Sand blows like snow on the Bayshore spit. It just doesn't melt.
Archaeologist Vasilis Tsamis searches for the Iron Age farm at Huntsworth.
Find out more at the Huntsworth Prehistoric Farm website.
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There was a lot of noise below our bedroom this morning as a large and noisy crew were digging a hole in the road in order to supply natural gas for heating to the house next door.
January 2014
On 7th January 17 people started digging on the site next to Carter's House at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. They are involved in the important task of preserving the tombs in the Theban Necropolis. An exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun will open to visitors next spring.
The project has been funded by Factum Foundation.
More information: goo.gl/Eb6M29
Several years ago we purchased a wonderful piece of land in the untouched hills above the city where I was born. Summer days are sooooo hot here and the sun is strong so this year during our visit to Montenegro we decided to try to find water and build a well.
I was surprised to learn that my high school math teacher is also a well-known and successful “water-finder” in the area. He uses the principles of radiesthesia. First he surveyed the lot with the brass dowsing pendulum and then he used two L-shaped brass wire rods. He managed to locate about 7 “water spots" and then marked the strongest one for us to start digging. www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://diviningmind.com/stor...
At that particular spot he estimated that there are 4 water runs that are meeting at depth of 7-7.5m underground. So we started digging.
The mines, as deep as 50 meters, are dug by hand by men, women and children.There are always ropes for the buckets of ore but not always for the boys who scrabble up and down the pits finding footholds and hand holds in the dirt walls. Losing grip here could be fatal.
A snow plow works at clearing streets in London Ontario, Canada on November 24, 2013. The city and region received more than 60cm of snow in the first major snow fall of the year.
View from the hill above the south bank of the Coquille River showing the Knife River crews digging new tidal channels and filling agricultural ditches.
You are free to use this image with the following photo credit: Roy Lowe/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.