It's certainly as hard as concrete Jack when the dense clay dries out, looks like concrete too when dry with the salts in the soil coming to the surface.
Electrical cleaner works very well frizzen to clean the oil - grime away... I mistakenly grabbed an aerosol can of brake cleaner once to clean the boom on the old 850 & it took the paint off the cyls & wrinkled the paint on the boom.
Got a new employee for the Lil Giants Constr Co, his name is Ty
...a friend of mine's grandson, Ty's parents are ranchers running several hundred beef cows about 100km west of me, Ty is 12yo now, 4 more yrs till a driver's license & maybe then he'll become an avid regular to the quarry.
