Fence post holes
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Following on from an earlier post, what's the best tool for digging holes for fence posts. Need to go down a couple of feet in sandy\gravel type soil
Do I go with a corkscrew affair
https://tinyurl.com/ybxepwej
a narrow spade
https://tinyurl.com/y87avexd
or the double hinged spade
https://tinyurl.com/yad3mooj
Thanks
Do I go with a corkscrew affair
https://tinyurl.com/ybxepwej
a narrow spade
https://tinyurl.com/y87avexd
or the double hinged spade
https://tinyurl.com/yad3mooj
Thanks
ORRRR petrol power? will make light work of a rubbish job
https://www.powertools2u.co.uk/makita-bba520-petro...
https://www.powertools2u.co.uk/makita-bba520-petro...
Augers don't work very well unless in proper soil so I would rule it out.
What type of fence post,concrete,square,peeled and pointed,how big height and diameter etc.If it is just stakes or p&p posts I would just use a digging bar and knocker. If I was concreteing them in I would use a post digging spade or the smallest spade I could.
What type of fence post,concrete,square,peeled and pointed,how big height and diameter etc.If it is just stakes or p&p posts I would just use a digging bar and knocker. If I was concreteing them in I would use a post digging spade or the smallest spade I could.
I've just bought a manual auger in preparation for planting 40m of hedging plants - it works well in soil, but i can imagine in anything looser it will just crumble back into the hole as you pull the auger out.
It does cut through very easy though, and as I have 120 odd holes to create, it's got to be easy than using a spade.
It does cut through very easy though, and as I have 120 odd holes to create, it's got to be easy than using a spade.
It's 8' x 100mm x 100mm wooden posts with closeboard 6' x 6' panels
Only 11 posts but liking the idea of a petrol machine - £160 on Amazon and sell it on after?
https://tinyurl.com/ychtrjbx
Only 11 posts but liking the idea of a petrol machine - £160 on Amazon and sell it on after?
https://tinyurl.com/ychtrjbx
randlemarcus said:
I hired something similar to put fencing posts in. It was no better than “ok” and it ground to a halt at every decent sized stone. i use one of these for my fence jobs - utterly brilliant. beware of other versions without the knuckle protectors at the top of the handles.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/roughneck-fibreglass-po...
https://www.screwfix.com/p/roughneck-fibreglass-po...
I use the roughneck spade above plus a roughneck breaker bar and have put in literally hundreds of posts into tough chiltern chalk. Hard work but an excellent workout. Landscaping always beats the gym. :-)
Never seen it recommended in “men’s Health” but does the abs the power of good (and shoulders and quads). And they are real men’s tools
Never seen it recommended in “men’s Health” but does the abs the power of good (and shoulders and quads). And they are real men’s tools
I use a combination of a long handled post hole spade and a set of spoons. A friend of mine is a pro fencer and that is also what he uses. He doesn't bother with powered augers as in his words 'they work fine when the digging is easy (so just dig) and don't work for st when the digging is hard'.
S11Steve said:
I've just bought a manual auger in preparation for planting 40m of hedging plants - it works well in soil, but i can imagine in anything looser it will just crumble back into the hole as you pull the auger out.
It does cut through very easy though, and as I have 120 odd holes to create, it's got to be easy than using a spade.
Having recently planted a few hundred hedging plants back in winter and having lost the last two months of my life to fannying about keeping them alive in the mini draught, the only thing that I would advise anyone about to embark on hedge planting to do is to not dick about digging holes but to just quickly and simply run a trench with a mini digger. Anything else is a false economy. It does cut through very easy though, and as I have 120 odd holes to create, it's got to be easy than using a spade.
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