I just dumped in my yard waste over the years. Now, no more hole.
Two birds; one stone.
andreweater
Looks like you for a good start! Add some more rocks!
Building_Snowmen
More rocks
PrizFinder
Call Time Team. Looks like a Roman Fort.
un00nu
Order 5 yards of sand
also_your_mom
Take rocks out.
Climb in with torch.
adultagainstmywill
When was the house built?
Lots of yards 60’s to 90’s have pits where they buried trees and trash and debris when they cleared the lot, and it decays and makes weird sinkholes like this.
30yearCurse
explore? may gold from bank robbers.. long ago.
you should probably check it out a little more though, could be a rubble pit, could just fill it in, but kinda of looks deep.
ThrustTrust
Climb in.
shiftymom
If you live in the coal belt it could be subsidence.
Wrong_Toilet
Fine some large animal bones. Then call the police. They’ll dig up the ground for free, and then you can make a nice garden here.
barby_dolly
Is it structurally sound? It looks like it wants to grow up to be a major sink hole.
krumbs2020
Fill it with 3/4 crushed gravel. It will lock together over time; leave a 6” gap at the top to monitor settling. When it’s settled, cover with topsoil.
AccomplishedLet1889
@actionadventuretwins on YouTube would climb in that in a heartbeat. They’ll tell you whats in it.
kanselm
Put your weed in it?
Sweetquickle
If it were me. I would call the county extension service. Sure would hate to see that hole eat your house.
YankeeDog2525
What part of the country do you live in. Many caves in the area by any chance.
Shaman7102
Get a lot of Holy Water.
Shaman7102
Actually, is it a sinkhole?
canucks2424
If it just randomly showed up I would be concerned and be contacting someone with knowledge to take a look
Klutzy_Arm_7930
Stand very close to the edge and ponder life. If you are still posting updates tomorrow, it was ok.
germdisco
Check your attic for a treasure map.
dparks71
Those look like what we called “dinosaur eggs” on the railroad. When an old culvert failed, you’d throw bags of sacrete into the hole and it’d cure over time in the rain. Sometimes we’d even be allowed to go back and fix the culverts later.
Looks like erosion of a drainage ditch/gulley. Is this a low spot where water drains off the land? The soil type looks like alluvium (erosion sediments). Fill it back in with rock, dirt, and gravel.
MNgrown2299
My leg fell through my neighbors yard once. That half of their yard was technically city land so the good thing was they fixed it no charge to my friends. The bad thing is that it was an old root cellar packed with a bunch of really old antique bottles (no seam around the bottle, all one solid piece of glass) I asked if we could keep them but those city workers knew what they dug up, “nope sorry, these have to go to the city”.
YBHunted
Sinkhole, keep throwing in more stuff til it stops! (:
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If you find treasure can I have $10
I just dumped in my yard waste over the years. Now, no more hole.
Two birds; one stone.
Looks like you for a good start! Add some more rocks!
More rocks
Call Time Team. Looks like a Roman Fort.
Order 5 yards of sand
Take rocks out.
Climb in with torch.
When was the house built?
Lots of yards 60’s to 90’s have pits where they buried trees and trash and debris when they cleared the lot, and it decays and makes weird sinkholes like this.
explore? may gold from bank robbers.. long ago.
you should probably check it out a little more though, could be a rubble pit, could just fill it in, but kinda of looks deep.
Climb in.
If you live in the coal belt it could be subsidence.
Fine some large animal bones. Then call the police. They’ll dig up the ground for free, and then you can make a nice garden here.
Is it structurally sound? It looks like it wants to grow up to be a major sink hole.
Fill it with 3/4 crushed gravel. It will lock together over time; leave a 6” gap at the top to monitor settling. When it’s settled, cover with topsoil.
@actionadventuretwins on YouTube would climb in that in a heartbeat. They’ll tell you whats in it.
Put your weed in it?
If it were me. I would call the county extension service. Sure would hate to see that hole eat your house.
What part of the country do you live in. Many caves in the area by any chance.
Get a lot of Holy Water.
Actually, is it a sinkhole?
If it just randomly showed up I would be concerned and be contacting someone with knowledge to take a look
Stand very close to the edge and ponder life. If you are still posting updates tomorrow, it was ok.
Check your attic for a treasure map.
Those look like what we called “dinosaur eggs” on the railroad. When an old culvert failed, you’d throw bags of sacrete into the hole and it’d cure over time in the rain. Sometimes we’d even be allowed to go back and fix the culverts later.
Do a one-call, make sure it’s not some underground drainage system or mine. If you’re in [a karst topography](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/karst-map-conterminous-united-states-2020) region it’s probably a sinkhole and you just fill them in.
https://preview.redd.it/e1nmcns46f0h1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7a57e172e5d57818853f55d1f6e535834aabf96
Looks like erosion of a drainage ditch/gulley. Is this a low spot where water drains off the land? The soil type looks like alluvium (erosion sediments). Fill it back in with rock, dirt, and gravel.
My leg fell through my neighbors yard once. That half of their yard was technically city land so the good thing was they fixed it no charge to my friends. The bad thing is that it was an old root cellar packed with a bunch of really old antique bottles (no seam around the bottle, all one solid piece of glass) I asked if we could keep them but those city workers knew what they dug up, “nope sorry, these have to go to the city”.
Sinkhole, keep throwing in more stuff til it stops! (: