June 30, 20178 yr My property sits on a bank and some sort of digging machine is starting to cause erosion right where the land goes from flat and then drops down below. This isn't some small little hole, but something causing some serious sinking of the soil which I want to stop. If it matters, I am down in Phuket and not up in some farming community. It's tough to see in the attached photos, but the ground has sunk around 30 cm and the pile of earth dug out is quite large. What is a good repellant/poison to use to stop this?
June 30, 20178 yr Mollus giganticus ? To be serious I think it may not be a digging machine but rather a soil condition that is causing it or if there is any water pipe nearby it could be a leaking pipe causing erosion and collapsing the soil on the surface.
June 30, 20178 yr 12 minutes ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said: Mollus giganticus ? To be serious I think it may not be a digging machine but rather a soil condition that is causing it or if there is any water pipe nearby it could be a leaking pipe causing erosion and collapsing the soil on the surface. I would agree. Had the same when I bought my house, had to dig it all up at where the subsidence was and fix a burst pipe.
June 30, 20178 yr If it's an animal digging, the excavated soil should be evident. As a check you could put small, unobtrusive items in the excavation and check if they are disturbed. If there is no scattered soil, it's almost certainly subsidence, and you'll need to establish why. It's possibly a leaking pipe as already suggested.
June 30, 20178 yr Author There are definitely no pipes involved, and the new "mole hill" going down the bank is a different colour soil than the top soil. Soil is definitely disappearing below the surface of the land topside.
June 30, 20178 yr Think its probably a spiny ant eater . I just loved ' I want it to stop' visions of you stamping your foot! Get your your gardener to sort it out.
July 2, 20178 yr Loads of animals dig. From cicadas, frogs, ants, scorpions, centipedes, mice rats, cats, dogs and that is just in my garden. And as said, sometimes when you water heavily holes can appear - I tried to dig one out to see what caused it but stopped after 2 feet. Clay is hard going and didn't need to know that badly. I think sometimes old roots are eaten by termites and a hole can be left.
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