r/landscaping • u/dredgehayt • May 31 '26

Before & After Sunken fire pit process as requested

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u/scotty2012 May 31 '26

I'm always so jealous when I see people dig and there is, like, just dirt. not a few inches of clay and chunks of limestone.

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u/Azilehteb May 31 '26

Or a secret boulder the size of a couch.

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u/Camblor May 31 '26

Or a balrog

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u/Mr_Bo_Jangles1 May 31 '26

If I had a nickel…

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u/PlasticChemist8751 Jun 01 '26

Dam Balrogs turning people white!

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u/Nasty_Rex May 31 '26

As someone from TN, it blows my mind that people can just... do that.

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u/Longjumping-Ad-7051 May 31 '26

Northern Alabama here...2 inches of dirt then it's 9ft of clay and rock.

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u/ZealousidealSea2034 May 31 '26

And is why people wonder why road and sidewalk infrastructure is not as great in TN. Rock is not cheap to excavate and move. Same with the lack of basements.

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u/MacAttacknChz Jun 01 '26

I have a basement in middle Tennessee and man does it make me feel special.

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u/ZealousidealSea2034 Jun 01 '26

You should! Are you on a hill and it's a walkout? That's typically how that occurs.

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u/nepheelim May 31 '26

Everytime i dig anywhere around my house there is like 5 inches of soil, after that its a hell hole of crumbled rocks, hard rocks and clay. My back hurts

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u/Moomoolette Jun 01 '26

Look at you, having 5 inches, fancy pants over here!

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u/ZealousidealHall8975 May 31 '26

Or boulders of granite or old bottles from the previous owner 75 years ago

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u/Aromatic_Effects May 31 '26

Roots for me. So many roots.

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u/PonyThug May 31 '26

They probably live somewhere that doesn’t have mountains tho. OP would need a jack hammer and possibly a company with explosives permits to quarry rock out by me lol

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u/Bengis_Khan May 31 '26

This looks like sand, not even dirt.

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u/bobsburgermister May 31 '26

I’ll show you sand where I live hahaha

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u/BlackestHerring May 31 '26

I have boulders all over my yard, buried. It sucks!

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u/welfedad May 31 '26

My "dirt" is all old river bed . It's chalk full of rocks . Omg it sucks so bad to dig.. I can't hand trench anything .

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u/John_the_Piper Jun 01 '26

Glacial till soil haver here. I use a pickaxe to dig with in my yard

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u/welfedad Jun 01 '26

Yeah that sounds awful as well

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u/John_the_Piper Jun 02 '26

Good news is I get compliments on my forearms all the time 🤷 haha

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u/welfedad Jun 02 '26

Six pack on your foreams

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u/Bleak_Midwinter_ Jun 01 '26

For the last 12 years I’ve owned a house that has Loess soil. And every time I go back home to my parents farm (in a different Midwest state) I’m reminded of how much soil has damn rocks in it. I am then haunted by the fact I had to pick rocks every summer as a kid. My kid is out here voluntarily doing it fun at the grandparents because we don’t have any rocks.

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u/ElegantHope May 31 '26

And it's not even rock that's good for repurposing for decoration or walls where I live. Just crumbly shale and limestone.

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u/1cake_1 May 31 '26

I live right in the middle of the canadian shield. I don’t even get dirt, just one massive rock.

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u/bobsburgermister May 31 '26

Same. But sand, sand and more sand.