Here we go again...

[Coastie dad]

This spring we ran about 2/10 mile of fence and used the auger for the wood corner posts. You may not have this problem where you are, but I have rock teeth on mine. If the teeth break through a large flat rock and the auger bites like a screw......
You will have your front end in the air quicker than you can react. Then the REAL bitch is getting unhung from that mess.

[Inor]

This spring we ran about 2/10 mile of fence and used the auger for the wood corner posts. You may not have this problem where you are, but I have rock teeth on mine. If the teeth break through a large flat rock and the auger bites like a screw......
You will have your front end in the air quicker than you can react. Then the REAL bitch is getting unhung from that mess.

Rocks are a problem here too. The first thing this morning, I broke a shear bolt on the auger hitting one. Even worse is the hardpan. I got down about 16-18 inches and hit hardpan and even the rock teeth would not cut through it. We are soaking the holes now. We drilled as deep as we could, then filled the holes with water. Tomorrow I will fill them again. Hopefully by Sunday the water will have loosened the hardpan enough to get through it.

[Coastie dad]

When you hit hardpan have you tried pulling the auger out and using a pinch bar to chip a notch in it for the teeth to bite? That works here often.

[Inor]

When you hit hardpan have you tried pulling the auger out and using a pinch bar to chip a notch in it for the teeth to bite? That works here often.

That works if the hardpan is not real thick (and I am motivated enough to pound on it for a while with the bar). Water seems to work about the best, but it is slow. When I was digging the irrigation trenches I used my pressure washer to blast through it. That worked great. Unfortunately, my pressure washer gave up the ghost and I have not yet replaced it.

[Slippy]

That works if the hardpan is not real thick (and I am motivated enough to pound on it for a while with the bar). Water seems to work about the best, but it is slow. When I was digging the irrigation trenches I used my pressure washer to blast through it. That worked great. Unfortunately, my pressure washer gave up the ghost and I have not yet replaced it.

Inor, reckon their might be some Illegals around that you can hire?

I'd loan you some of mine but I'm afraid you'd pay them better than me and I'd lose the little brown burrito eating bastards!

[Coastie dad]

Think of how fortunate you are to experience these things. Some city dwellers and office cubicle troglodytes will never know these joys!

[Inor]

Think of how fortunate you are to experience these things. Some city dwellers and office cubicle troglodytes will never know these joys!

I spent 30 years of my life working my ass off in an office 70-80 hours per week to be able to afford to come out here and spend my days digging holes and shoveling shit. What a fool I was! I could have been perfectly content coming out here at 25 and spent my whole life digging holes and shoveling shit. I probably could have dug to the other side by now if I had put my mind to it!

[Prepared One]

I spent 30 years of my life working my ass off in an office 70-80 hours per week to be able to afford to come out here and spend my days digging holes and shoveling shit. What a fool I was! I could have been perfectly content coming out here at 25 and spent my whole life digging holes and shoveling shit. I probably could have dug to the other side by now if I had put my mind to it!

And at the end of the day all have is a bad back and bunch of holes you can shovel shit into.

[Big Ken]

Think of how fortunate you are to experience these things. Some city dwellers and office cubicle troglodytes will never know these joys!

I've never owned property where this type worked needed to be done but growing up I worked on some horse farms, it was a never dull and it was dusk till dawn, always a fence to repair or install, shoveling manure, feeding and watering, then when winter hit a whole different work schedule, to me the most strenuous was when it was time to get the hay out of the fields, it always seemed to be 90 plus degrees, throwing that hay on the wagon, hay chaff getting everywhere I swore I'd lose 10 pounds of sweat and when it was all loaded you get to go stack it in the barn, next day, repeat.

[Inor]

Inor, reckon their might be some Illegals around that you can hire?

I'd loan you some of mine but I'm afraid you'd pay them better than me and I'd lose the little brown burrito eating bastards!

You're supposed to pay them?!? Huh... Who knew? When they came to me with their hand out I thought they just wanted to wash off the brown. So I handed 'em a bar of soap. Oh well, serves 'em right for not having the courtesy to speak English...