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Round near me is gyproc not the hardest stuff I've dug but when there's fractures in it and your quarry knows it like back of there paw don't take long to be 6.2 on box that's when you know who your m

Back in the sand and stone tmw, big place first light. Wales Saturday, so more rock breaking. 600 odd miles this week. Wouldn't swap it for any thing.

Sharptooth seems to break-up chalk and flint easy. It couldn't touch the cotswold stone i seen, graft made work a little easier but was still hard-work. Wouldn't want to go any more than 4 foot deep i

Sounds heavy work but sure you get out what you put in you'd be super fit guys keep on digging

You don't actually have to be fit to be doing it there....1 break 1 scoop it's not a fast digging country. Herefordshire and Shropshire is a different story you can go like feck in 90% of that part of the country

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Sounds heavy work but sure you get out what you put in you'd be super fit guys keep on digging

You don't actually have to be fit to be doing it there....1 break 1 scoop it's not a fast digging country. Herefordshire and Shropshire is a different story you can go like feck in 90% of that part of the country
my mate from wales reckons were spoilt lol there s plenty bad places if u know the ground
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I travel all over this wonderful country, short of the fortresses in the lakes, that are totally undiggable, the Chilterns/Cotswolds consistently have it for me. " like I've said before" a super fit animal able to work for hrs and hrs is needed here. Regularly 4/5 hrs for 1_1.5m digs. GREAT STUFF!!!!

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Does it not spook the quarry more with all the banging going on above them?

It can do mate.It can also be a bit unnerving for a young dog on its first dig or 2.I remember having a couple of lads down from Wales a few years back and after a couple of gruelers they reckoned if their digging permission was the same as mine they'd stick to the lurchers.
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Hard hard day today, three digs 1.0m to 1.4m took 3 of us nearly all day. My gym membership, will have to wait. Come home looking like a ghost, chalk was hard and the flints cut me and my clothes and the tykes to pieces. God loves a sinner!

That is character building ground!!!!!

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