Archive for September, 2008

Trooper of a pit

 I had been looking at this house for the last three years and kept thinking that it could have a nice old pit but never got around to probing it, until last week that is. I set up my friend Scott to come and help me dig it one morning. Scott is a newbie when [...]

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Get Your Kicks On Brute 66

The guy who introduced me to privy digging had been bothering me about some lady friend’s house and how it needed digging. John ‘Doc’ Colteaux aka ‘66′ suffers with severe pain and is therefore unable to dig anymore, he talks about his one good arm and how he can probe for 10 minutes, but when [...]

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The Good The Bad And The Ugly

Today Tricky and I dug one of the leads that a friend of mine had set up. I had probed the house yesterday and found a nice looking depression on the back property line, but it was 1894 so I knew it wasn’t going to be good. But the number one rule of privy digging [...]

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