Re: Best Way to Dig a Post Hole

Posted by Don in Ok on July 12, 2002 at 08:22:56 from (198.81.17.168):

In Reply to: Best Way to Dig a Post Hole posted by Sara on July 11, 2002 at 19:02:15:

I just put up about 10,000 feet of pipe fence so I will pass on what little I know.

Half the job is marking your staight line for the fence. If you use a good yellow mason string you can pull it very tight to get a good straight line.

I use orange parking lot marking paint to mark all my holes along the string with an x. It makes it ease to see when you dig.

As for the holes, if you dont have any one who can loan you a tractor with a PTO driven auger I would go down to the tool rental place and rent a bobcat with a auger. It mounts where the bucket goes and will dig a whole in about 30 seconds. If you need to do a lot of holes you can rent them at noon on Sat. and keep it till monday for the single day price about $125. If you have a need you can get a bucket for the bobcat and change it out with the auger to get two jobs done that weekend.

Good luck

Don

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