Posted by George Marsh on September 22, 2013 at 15:58:22 from (50.127.9.225):
Neighbor borrowed my PHD. He called me and said the PHD wouldn't dig a hole. So I went to take a look. Removed the 12 inch augar and the head would lower all the way to the ground. His ground was so hard, like concrete. I took my little terramite, put all the weight of the front bucket on the PHD, moved it sideways while neighbor rocked the tractor back and forth. The hard pan was a good 24-30 inches. After that, it would go down on it's own. One time I had to fill the front bucket with dirt, 1/4 yard, to get enough weight push it down. Neighbor wanted to fence in a few acres of a corn field so his cows could feed on the corn stalks.
The augar is almost new. We have had less than 2 inches of rain in two months.
I tried digging holes with backhoe to plant a few apple trees. Lucky to get a foot deep hole.
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