http://privydigging.com Travel back through the annals of time with me as I unearth toilet treasure Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I had lined up the brick in the head dig there was potential for another pit on the same property to so Sean and Aaron came along to hit this one. When we arrived we were all pumped because we were going to dig some glass, also Aaron hadn't ... http://privydigging.com/?p=775 Some of you may have noticed that my tried and trusted privy partner Tricky Dicky no longer appears in my blog.  Sometime last  year he upped and left this world and moved to Arkansas...Poor little fella. Anyway, I got a call from him recently and he  had moved again and was ... http://privydigging.com/?p=762 Upon one of my many scouting trips on the west side I had spotted this empty lot that was mowed and well kept, so I figured that I'd better not upset the neighbors by poking around. A year or so passed and I noticed that Habitat for Humanity was building ... http://privydigging.com/?p=756 I decided to hit a street which had not yielded much in the way of temptation before, but the 1886 Sandborn map said it was a go. So, I girded up my loins and went a knocking. It was to my great fortune that a home owner who had previously ... http://privydigging.com/?p=744 ...I have been pulling out my hair for the last 2 months because I have been unable to get out and do any decent digging. Work has been REALLY busy (which is a great reason not to dig) but I have 5 pits lined up for the next month and you'll ... http://privydigging.com/?p=720 Since I now have a "good " metal detector I have been taking as much spare time to take it out and see what it can do. The other day I was poking around  and I got a good signal but it kept skipping between dollar and quarter, it read ... http://privydigging.com/?p=700 I had lined up a privy to dig and my friend Drew was coming to help me dig it.  He had also invited his friend Sean, who metal detects but had never dug privies.   It turned out Drew had to work, but his friend Sean still turned up. We ... http://privydigging.com/?p=681 Work has been very busy this year and I was unable to get in any decent late-summer digging, but I always keep my eyes open for potential sites while driving around. This house caught my eye because of 2  chimneys that were tall and clearly old coming out of different parts of ... http://privydigging.com/?p=648 Whilst having dinner at a church friends house we started talking about privy digging (as you do) and I suggested they would have had a privy in their yard. I managed to locate it immediately and they agreed that I could dig it. So this month Paul the homeowner, and ... http://privydigging.com/?p=640 This was the second pit I dug with Ian and Izzy, I figured it would be the newer of the 2 and I was right. We were digging out plastic at 2 ft... never a good sign. However it seemed to have a solid layer (and I mean solid) at ... http://privydigging.com/?p=594