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May 4, 2025
I purchased this to plant shrubs and bushed in flower beds I newly created. My soil is especially hard past 3 inches because I have many mature trees on my lot. This post hole digger makes softening the soil very easy. It can also loosen baseball size rocks without any issues and tree roots that are less than an inch thick. I will warn, although it is not as powerful as a gas operated digger, it is still strong enough that if you hit obstructions you can injure yourself. Make sure that you stop every once in a while to remove loose dirt so you can see obstructions. Do not try to dislodge large rocks with this, use a shovel after you uncover them. And tree roots larger than 1 inch need to be cut to proceed.
mikegrok
February 13, 2025
I am a big guy, at 6 foot 6, and about 260lbs. My wrists were hurting at the end of the day, but no broken bones. On several occasions I drove it into the ground like a cork screw. There is no reverse on it, and if you try and unscrew it using the handles, the shaft just rotates. I have a farm jack that can lift 8,000 pounds. I used the jack to lift the auger out of the holes several times.I made a half dozen holes with this hitting frequent roots, If the roots were too large, I could angle it and take a slightly different approach. I got the one with a 4 inch diameter auger, and I also got the extension rods. I am sinking 10ft 12 gauge steel unistrut that is powder coated. 5 ft above ground, 5 ft below ground. I then backfill with concrete. I live on a converted army base that was built on top of an alabama swamp. My neighbor's Pressure Treated 4x4s rotted through bad enough that her whole fence fell over in 5 years. She put in another wood fence with all of the posts and pickets touching the ground. I put in a fence on my other property lines with the posts made out of steel, and the bottom of the pickets touching dry gravel.
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