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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> >   try using a shovel to dig in clay 4' into
> > the ground
> > for more than 15 minutes at a time without someone spelling you off.

Four feet of clay! Wow. The only negative I see with that is drainage.

At Heartwood, the typical dig is one inch of soil and the rest of  
various-sized rocks from half-inch to eighteen inches.

The first garden fence, which became the outer fence of the chicken  
moat, was of cedar posts. It is highly likely that I will never set  
another wood post. Even driving steel T-posts can be a challenge  
necessitating withdrawing and moving to the side a bit.