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| russ57:
Digging holes, but my post hole digger can't quite lift dirt from the bottom. You pull the handles apart to grab a handful of dirt, but the spread is too wide for the hole. So, buy a cheap one, get out the oxy, and... Now they open less, but can still grab from the bottom... Russ |
| russ57:
The blue are the original fully open, the green are the new ones. Not as good for digging but better for lifting. Russ |
| awemawson:
I have a pair of those, and neither have the weight for proper digging, but are ok for cleaning up a hole bored with a hole borer. I've borrowed 'proper' ones in the past where the 'spades' were made from a decent thickness of steel and with a lift and plunge action would even dig our heavy clay. The only 'mod' that I made to mine was to drill a hole in one of the spades so that they could hang handles downwards from a nail. Otherwise they fall on the floor like a drunken giraffe :lol: |
| russ57:
This is what I use for the digging bit at the moment... An aldi special, runs happily off my domestic air compressor. Russ |
| russ57:
I also have a borrowed powered post hole borer, but it's a two man job, preferably two men not including me. I have rocky soil and when it grabs it can do one an injury. Russ |
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