[ckissick]

If they're deep enough and strong enough, who cares how they got installed? They just don't look deep enough and strong enough.

In India, they have tried using elephants to compact soil. But they tend to step in previous footprints and leave the soil around the footprints uncompacted. How do I know this? I friend of mine wrote an article for a professional soil mechanics journal titled, "The Uselessness of Elephants for Soil Compaction."