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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

We've rented those 2 man augers in the past, both here and at the city
house and they are simply hard to use even on non-rocky soils.  I think
the single person augers are actually easier.  Around here, there is one
guy with a big JD tractor that has enough umph on his auger to drill
holes for fencing. Two others have augers, but their tractors (MF and
Mahindra) just don't have the power to drill out rocks.  They do fine
down in the valley bottom , though.

Lynda wrote:
> 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.
>
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