This was another one of “those houses” that I had been spying out over the last few years… I guess all privy diggers have these. I actually got a permission on this house 3 years ago but I was not allowed to dig by the pet cemetery, and being that was on the back property [...]
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Comments(0) 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 [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) 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 [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) 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 [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Saturday rolled around at it was time to dig again. I had probed out a nice brick lined privy under my neighbor’s fire pit. No sod to worry about on this dig. The lovely Becky and Baby J came along on this dig. Becky and I started shoveling into center of the pit. We got [...]
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