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Setting posts with a gas auger beat hand digging in this limestone, did 18 holes in 3 hours yesterday
Spent 2 days last spring fighting a spud bar through rock for a 60 foot run and yesterday knocked out the same footage in one morning, so if you're still hand digging in hard ground, what's actually stopping you from renting one?
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the_rowan2d ago
What kind of rock are you actually in though? I ask because a gas auger in true limestone is just gonna spin and smoke, and you'll burn through bits fast. Around here we hit a lot of shale and clay mix, and yeah a power auger eats that up, but pure rock ledges still need a bar or a rock bit on a breaker. So it might not be stubbornness stopping people, it's that the tool flat out won't cut what's under their feet.
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