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  • From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] digging lots of small holes
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:24:12 -0700

Weld a short bar across the top of the wedge and use your foot to make the
holes. You should be able to do the whole job in a hour.. Bob.

--- rrobinson AT nasw.org wrote:

From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] digging lots of small holes
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:23:32 -0400

In a few weeks I will be planting about 300 Christmas trees. For the past 7
years, I have been using a planting bar, essentially a wedge on a stick,
which is the common way to do this chore. But every year my arms and
shoulders are ruined for about a week after, and this year I am going into
the season with a damaged shoulder, and am hoping to avoid using the planting
bar. I have thought of a gas-powered post-hole digger, but have never used
one. For those of you with experience using them, how practical this would be
to use to dig 300 holes 10-12 inches deep in sandy loam? Is it likely to be
as onerous in its own way as using the planting bar? Anybody have any other
ideas for tools to do this?

--
Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/

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