#probably ought to get a nice few inches of good topsoil in regardless

[theemperorsfeather]

Back to digging out the stock tank and I am displeased to find that in the dirt/rock mix I am digging out there are also lots of pieces of broken glass, fragments of plastic sheeting, AND a layer of asphalt shingles. Ok, maybe not a whole layer, but there's certainly a spot where there's a layer of shingles, though for better/worse I don't need to excavate that whole section. There is also some very, very rusted metal in there. Looks like perhaps it was a container of some kind that got flattened? IDK, it has not yielded to the mattock, yet, and a good portion of it is in the ground that I'm not digging up, so it's good and wedged in :| Also found a hefty metal ... thing ... partially sticking into the trench I'm digging, and I think I'm going to have to work around that, too. augh, ugh, etc