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  • From: "Casey & Teena" <cm62547 AT windstream.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] digging lots of small holes
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:04:01 -0500

Could you shed some light on the size of holes you are digging? My guess would be that the reason the bar is causing so much trouble with your shoulders is because of the weight of it. The powered post hole digger would be even worse.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Robinson" <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:23 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] digging lots of small holes


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?

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

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