It's been a heck of a year for rainfall, especially where your at. Now that you know where the problem areas are, might be a good time to stratagise some drainage solutions for excessive rain. As always, good luck in your endeavors 👍👍
Gophers and / or moles. Water washed it out bigger with the unusual rain. Tree roots would be lower. It happens at my place too. Lpwes carries a yellow bag of mole and gopher repellent. I scattwr it aroundtwice a year and tbey go somewhere else. You'll never get rid of all of them. . Use repellent and send them down the road
Both areas were graded down by several feet, especially in the last shot. We pulled soil from there to build the house pad. A fella stopped by yesterday and he thought it was because of the harvester ants. I really think it is rotted away pine roots.
That would have been a very deep den! We moved at least 5 ft of soil to build the house pad! I am not sure how much was moved to build the road, what I do know is that when I got down to moving and filling with the tractor those two areas were like driving on jello. very springy, very freaky driving on the surface!
Wow that is some serious erosion your neighbor has there. Can't imagine the labor and money to fix that. Those holes you have are odd. I didn't see any tracks or signs of regular use by animals. I wonder if it's erosion related as well. Might be pockets of sand or soil not as dense as the surrounding and is washing away. Sure would be interesting to know exactly what those are.
It's been a heck of a year for rainfall, especially where your at.
Now that you know where the problem areas are, might be a good time to stratagise some drainage solutions for excessive rain.
As always, good luck in your endeavors 👍👍
Thanks for the tips and thanks a whole bunch for watching!
Gophers and / or moles. Water washed it out bigger with the unusual rain. Tree roots would be lower. It happens at my place too. Lpwes carries a yellow bag of mole and gopher repellent. I scattwr it aroundtwice a year and tbey go somewhere else. You'll never get rid of all of them. . Use repellent and send them down the road
Both areas were graded down by several feet, especially in the last shot. We pulled soil from there to build the house pad. A fella stopped by yesterday and he thought it was because of the harvester ants. I really think it is rotted away pine roots.
Looks like an old armadillo homebase, I've had similar on mine. Probably defunct due to development. Mine became defunct due to a 30-30.
That would have been a very deep den! We moved at least 5 ft of soil to build the house pad! I am not sure how much was moved to build the road, what I do know is that when I got down to moving and filling with the tractor those two areas were like driving on jello. very springy, very freaky driving on the surface!
Wow that is some serious erosion your neighbor has there. Can't imagine the labor and money to fix that. Those holes you have are odd. I didn't see any tracks or signs of regular use by animals. I wonder if it's erosion related as well. Might be pockets of sand or soil not as dense as the surrounding and is washing away. Sure would be interesting to know exactly what those are.
After the last rain two days ago there was another two feet of sand on the road. My poor neighbor is throwing money away working with that contractor!