I tried drilling with the Dingo outside the radio room and what I thought was construction debris turned out to be bedrock - I tried a bunch of places and hit solid rock about 20" down in every place.
On to Plan B - I moved about 50 feet North and drilled a hole - wooo hooo! Smooth as a baby's bottom. Drilled four more just as easy. The sixth hole, I drilled and started to hear a hissing. Looked down the hole and saw a yellow plastic pipe and started smelling propane.
It seems the previous owner who built the house and outbuildings ran a propane line out to the DaveCave(tm) at one point but never hooked it up to anything. I sure found it! I had the propane people come out and locate the main line leading from the tank to the house but nobody knew about this spur - until today.
Got a call into the propane people for them to come out Monday - fortunately, the only thing running on propane now is the cooktop - the heat pump takes care of any heating or cooling. Photos later today...
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