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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You are describing how we dig caliche. 'so hard you can't dig with a 
pick-axe, but throw on the hose for a day, and turn it with a spade, 
barefoot. It is a wonder anything can grow roots in this hard*ss 
stuff.....................

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--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> This adobe is a little tougher.  I wet a spot and using a
> pick cut a small
> depression then filled that with water.  I could get
> sometimes as much as
> two inches that way but usually less.  The best time to dig
> is after some
> rains but I did not have the correct timing nor the time to
> do 1200' so
> power was the way to go.  Still it took two days to dig the
> post holes.
>