{"id":7183,"date":"2026-04-11T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:44:16","slug":"clay-transfer-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"Clay Transfer Completed!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in March I started shoveling the kaolin clay out of my old clay pit into the 110 gallon water tank, as the opening salvo of the great clay transfer. I blogged about that in a previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 1 we finished the berm that would border the new clay pit. The liner for the pit arrived a few days later. On April 7, I built a chute that I could use to carry the clay to the new pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anne and I started transferring the kaolin clay from the old pit on April 9. I also emptied the water tank into the new pit on April 9. I finished the transfer today (April 11).<\/p>\n\n\n

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I shot a bunch of video to document the entire process, and we got some photos along the way. I posted some video on BluSky and X. I’m considering posting a video of the entire process here, but I don’t have it ready, and it may be too large (probably be close to 10 minutes long). It’s not a high priority, since nobody here seems terribly interested in this project. Don’t worry, I made the new pit so I could shoot some sexy clips in it, so there is probably some sexy content coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I am very excited that the transfer is complete. That was an arduous task; partly because it involved lifting about 3 tons of clay out of a deep pit and moving it to another pit, but also because the clay in the old pit had thickened so much that I had to work it relentlessly and vigorously. I have lots of sore muscles from the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in March I started shoveling the kaolin clay out of my old clay pit into the 110 gallon water tank, as the opening salvo of the great clay transfer. I blogged about that in a previous post. On April 1 we finished the berm that would border the new clay pit. The liner for … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,53,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clay-pit","category-production-issues","category-the-back-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}