Found some pictures. The first two show another set of roots i dug up. You will notice the time stamp on them is a little off. LOL The third pic shows a soil core that was taken, notice the actual depth of the core was about 11.5 inches(distance from tip of probe to the clamp) where as there is only 9  inches of soil in the probe. Does that rule out compaction? IDK.
 Also that 11.5 inches is where there is a lot of resistance, as far as i know that's where the gravel layer begins. 

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100_1309 (full).JPG (168KB - 14 downloads)

100_1312 (full).JPG (194KB - 21 downloads)

soil depth (full).png (55KB - 15 downloads)