Digging a hole 😉

[Bijela]

So I want to dig a big hole, but before I start. The question is where the heck to I get rid of all the earth ? I don't have the land space to spread it out, plus it's all clay 1 inch below.

[Frnc]

It's gonna be hard digging if it's clay. How big do you want the hole to be?

[PreppingSu]

Well, as they’ve added a to the title of the post, I think they might be digging a bunker!

Anyhow, clay is tough going. First of all, use some to make a wood fired clay oven. Another source of cooking.

Then order a skip or two or bag it up and make several trips to your local tip!

[Bijela]

All depends as the shed is fulI. I thought I could start with the aim to make the slab path to the shed into hinged lid with carboot hinges and gas struts. Then, have a 2mm or 3mm sheet steel box under that. Maybe larger if its not a nightmare removing the clay. Just experimenting/mulling over the idea.

[Nurseandy]

You may be able to shift the topsoil if it's any on Facebook marketplace. Free to collect type thing.

[Nurseandy]

Also, presumably you want to keep some to cover over the metal box? If it's clay it's probably pretty good at blocking radiation.

[jennyjj01]

So I want to dig a big hole, but before I start. The question is where the heck to I get rid of all the earth ? I don't have the land space to spread it out, plus it's all clay 1 inch below.

dig another hole to put the spare earth in. It'll need t be twice as big, of course, so you've got somewhere for the earth from the second hole.

Or more seriously, give it way on FB marketplace.

[korolev]

[Medusa]

Just do what the people we bought our house from did, pile the soil into a mound, add some stones and call it a rockery. We got rid of the stones two weeks ago, the holes aka ponds got filled in when we moved in due to the children 26 years ago