Ending and Beginning

I dug a hole by hand down to about 4′, then I put in my sand point with one 4′ length of pipe attached and started driving it down with a sledge hammer. It was going very hard at first, then seemed to stop altogether. Then I noticed that it didn’t seem very tight in the ground, so I pulled it up, and up it came without the cast iron point! The threads where the point attached to the screen were all bunged up also, not fixable.

So now the tip is 5′ or 6′ down, probably not retrievable, and I probably couldn’t fix it even if I could get it out. Very disappointing. I haven’t thought of any options yet other than filling in the hole.

Why did it break? I don’t know. I know there’s plenty of sand underneath us here, but I wasn’t into it yet. Maybe there was just too much resistance. But how do I get that hole deeper before starting to drive the sand point so that I do get into the sand? I dug as deep as I could with a shovel and a post-hole digger — maybe get CR to come over here with the auger attached to the back of his tractor. I wonder how deep that will go? I wonder how deep I need to go?

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