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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Back in the dark ages, a friend and I rented a two-man auger to put in fence 
posts as her fences were beyond ancient and the posts were rotting off. 
Certainly not a way to keep steers out of the veggies!  I'd used them in the 
past and hadn't had a problem.  It turns out her little hills must have been 
one massive upheaval of stone from days long past!  We got down about 8" or 
so and the thing hit a massive stone.  Well, back then we were young and 
svelte and the auger stopped but the top/handles didn't.  We must have 
looked like a whirly gig <g>  The neighbor took pitty on us and came over 
with his tractor and sunk the rest of the holes for us!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <outwest4us AT yahoo.com>

> We're not messing with trying to grow anything in the so-called soil we 
> have around here!  We're having top soil brought in. We too have those 
> massive rocks everywhere.
>
> When we put up all the posts for the horse fence, we couldn't even use a 2 
> man auger ti dig the holes. Ended up renting a mini excavator.