Digging a hole..?

[k0ua]

In answer to your original question, Just start "peeling a layer at a time with your FEL in a trench.
Move over a few inches and peel again to make the trench wider so you have plenty of clearance for your tires.
Keep peeling the top layer and stacking it at the end. Watch your angles, make the ramp your are creating shallow enough that you can easily back up it each time.
As long as you don't hit rock that you cannot move, you can dig as deep as you need , but the ramp will just get longer and longer to keep the angle you can climb out of. At some point you will not be able to stack at the end, and must carry your peeled up dirt out backwards. This will further unweight your rear tires, and make the ramp accession backward more difficult. Be sure to have rear ballast. I don't see any reason to bury it very deep. What would be wrong with just burying it at surface level? Have a nice flat pad to use for something else.? I also don't understand the pollution angle on concrete slabs.. What pollution?

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

As James said, just keep working a trench the width of your machine. A tooth bar on your bucket would be quite useful as would a set of rippers on a box blade.

Start like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJTH7x7OLs

and keep going as deep as you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8mPB7A8uU

Be aware of where your water table is for how deep you can dig. I'll be doing similar but have to wait until the middle of the summer so it doesn't fill with water before I'm done. I see no difference in the environmental impact of a foundation of concrete 5' down vs burying the demolished slab 5' down.

 

[bigtiller]

When we were building the pad for my tin shed, we dug up someones buried rock pile. What a mess, we lost our footing and had to dig deeper and do more compacting work. We also found someone else's outhouse. That brought up a lot of glass bottles and ceramic pottery which was more labor to remove so nobody got hurt. Some previous owner of my property years ago said, "lets bury it here, no one will ever know".

 

[woodlandfarms]

We pushed in a concrete foundation from a previously burned up home. Then used fill dirt over top. The only real issue we have / had is part of the foundation was not buried deep enough so some of the concrete is now getting exposed due to normal soil erosion. The other part of the issue is settling / underground washout. We have a lot of water in our area and I feel that the broken up concrete has made a nice path for water to change direction in. There is some evidence of water leaking out, as well as the once big mound is now settling to a divot.

But then again, this was a 1500 sq ft house with a basement.

 

[Xfaxman]

And why am I not getting notifications of these posts. I used to, and I've not changed any settings..

I just looked and it still says instant email notifications..

Hmmmm

It is a TBN problem.

Here is a work around: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/news-feedback/348885-email-notices-post4352631.html#post4352631

 

[MH8675309]

Burying the concrete is not wrong or harmful but you do want to get it deep enough so it doesn't resurface. It can make a good base for a lane especially if there is a persistent low spot.

 

[Xfaxman]

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And I'm in the middle of nowhere and have 100 acres..

I would pile it in an out of the way place.

It will come in handy in the future.

I have a pile from a project last year and have used some already. :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

I would pile it in an out of the way place.

It will come in handy in the future.

I have a pile from a project last year and have used some already. :thumbsup:

Best idea yet. I had several concrete slab pieces left on this place when I moved in. I have used all but one of them for something.

 

[bcp]

You could use it for a wall, like this.



Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

You could use it for a wall, like this.

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Bruce

My father would roam the city in a VW van and bring home broken sidewalks and driveway anytime someone would be replacing one. He made many retaining walls and flower beds with broken concrete just like that. He even made steps down a 90' embankment down to the lake in our back yard with that. Something like 150 steps down. It looks really nice when done. He planted English Ivy on most of the walls. :thumbsup: