Not too many frost and freeze cycles in Boca Raton, Florida. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
AG Schnozz wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>
>>But I assumed it would be at least 6" down
>>and I only needed to cut down an inch or two. Nope. It
>>quickly became clear that the cable had simply been laid on
>>the ground and then covered with sod when the house was
>>built. Scrunch!
>
>
> Possible, but I actually suspect "float". Frost/freeze cycles,
> combined with vibration (nearby road, lawnmowers, oversized
> neighbors), will cause rocks and cables to rise up through the
> soil. In some cases, up to six feet over just a handful of
> years.
>
> We have a situation near where I grew up where a gas pipeline
> ran through very sandy soil and what was buried between four and
> nine feet is now pretty much sticking up out of the ground.
>
> AG
>
>
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