2006-06-15 12:38:55 · 8 answers · asked by nascarjimbo 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
If you dig and put posts in at the full moon, you will have too much dirt. During the waning or a new moon you won't have enough. The moon controls a lot more than just the tides in the ocean.
2006-06-15 18:45:53 · answer #1 · answered by organic gardener 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
When you dug the dirt out it was near 100% compaction, but the digging broke it up (like sifting flour.) And adding a post partially fills the hole, that is why you can't get all the dirt back in the same hole. Usually i have found when i was short dirt for backfill was due to a loss of material in the landscape, for example trying to get the last of the dirt out from the grass where you put the pile.
2006-06-15 19:55:27 · answer #2 · answered by NubbY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question defies logic. When you displace the dirt with a post, the only reasons you might think you run short are in the packing, or that you didn't keep what you removed in close proximety.
In fact when you dug the hole you were digging compacted soil and when you put soil back it isn't compacted so you should have extra,,,but adding dirt below the ground level, soaking it with a hose to compact it then adding more is always the way I do it.
Rev. Steven
2006-06-15 19:53:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i looked at the other answers, OMG. when you dig a hole, you rarely put the dirt in a container. therefore, some of the dirt sinks into the grass or whatever else is around where you cant reach it. try laying a piece of plastic out, put all of the dirt you remove on the sheet of plastic, the dirt will fill the hole back up
2006-06-15 19:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by wanda s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dirt gets packed up and the air bubbles are taken out, and more dirt could fit in the hole.
2006-06-15 19:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by sean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if using small poles as post more dirt need to fill in, if using bigger post less dirt needed. and some holes deeper than others
2006-06-15 19:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by bill s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to do with moisture content and soil compaction. Others believe it has something to do with the sign of the moon.
2006-06-16 00:59:53 · answer #7 · answered by woodenwater1959 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
soil compaction theory. some areas have soil that is under greater hydrostatic pressure than others. Make sense?
p.s. THATS A SWEEEEEEET COBRA!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-15 20:57:58 · answer #8 · answered by D. Bronco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋