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> > In some
> areas a hand post hole digger worked after I wet the soil the first couple
> of inches then it hit rocks.

That's the trick I used in the drought hardened clay last year.  I wanted a 
second line of fence posts around the Center of the Universe garden so with 
hand diggers I dug six inch holes all around and filled them with water.  
Next 
day three more inches and fill them with water.  After ten days or so of 
that, 
just a little work each day, the holes were done.
\
James