Edgewood, WA Real Estate Blog

I mentioned Edgewood soils in a recent post. I was discussing the post with my friend John who’s built a number of homes in Fife and Edgewood. He recounted some wild stories about Fife soils.

According to John, one of the first truck farmers converting from horses lost a bulldozer when the ground swallowed it up. It happened near the intersection of 20th St E and Freeman Rd. It sank and only horses and trucks were available to pull it out. Didn’t work and they lost it.

There was a more recent incident that occurred on the old Ambuel farm property. After the farm was sold, developers almost lost an excavator. A larger excavator was brought in to help remove the original excavator and it too started to sink as well. Finally a large Catapillar Bulldozer was hurried in and managed to pull the other two out.