If you dig on working terriers long enough, you will find the dogs eventually go to ground on stuff that is undiggable, or very nearly so.Among the things I have encountered in the field, some of which I have worked around, and some of which were impossible and which required me to simply wait until the dog came out:
- Old metal roofing covered with dirt.
- Old asphalt shingles covered with dirt.
- Old tires covered with dirt.
- Solid (and big) shelves of rock.
- Old cow bones -- lots and lots of them!
- Downed trees blown over entire settes.
- Old trucks and cars (the dog in the ground underneath the chassis).
- Assorted farm rubble of every kind.
- Dirt mixed with old broken glass bottles and cans.
- Old fence posts.
- Coils of old barbed wire covered in dirt.
- A bee hive (digging to the dog only 12 feet away).
- Massive multiflora rose breaks -- solid stands 6 feet tall and better.
- An old asphalt road bed.
- The hard-packed floor of an old horse stable.
- The rock foundation of an old building.
- Bricks and field rocks covered by dirt.
- Old hog wire fencing covered in dirt.
- A stump dump.
- A collapsed barn.
- Sheet plastic tarps and old feed bags mixed with dirt.
- Masses of hay bail twine covered over in dirt.
- Concrete floors of barns and other outbuildings.
- Tractors in a tractor shed.
- A huge metal boiler.
- A porch.
- An old dam (the farm pond long since drained) full of rip-rap.
- Coal pitched down a ravine and grown over with Kudzu.
- Solid masses of roots so thick that a narrow saw blade could not get in.
- Stacked big round bales.
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I am making a mental note of that list in case I am ever reincarnated as a groundhog in Virginia. ;)
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