I've rented one of those little beaver style diggers. Just like in the ads for the general 2 man augers, look at the size of the dudes using them. I would rate the little beaver style diggers better than the single axle trailer mounted hydraulic one I rented last summer(motor on one end and auger on the other end).
Even with those it helps to have a helper. I did a dozen holes in hard clay one summer. It was a bigger model than the one in the picture. The head and the auger are still heavy. Because I drilled the first one in, you still have to drill a little at a time and clean the hole often. It does have a reverse so you can unscrew yourself or back up if you hang up on a root. It was hard work with no breaks but I got it back with 1 minute to spare of my 4 hour rental. I dig my holes to 39" or so. Put gravel in the bottom for drainage, paint the bottom and sides of my fence posts with asphalt foundation coating, and place them in 36" deep with 5' sticking up to add my cross runners for a wood fence. It is so windy around here with summer and winter winds at 30 to 40 mph common, I space posts at 6' so they stand up to the wind and also because this clay dries up and pulls back from the post (there are cracks in the ground you can stick your hand in) which allows the wind to let the post wallow out the hole so I back fill with sand to move with the dirt.
I've found that these augers, sewer roto rooters (you have to pull hard on the cable a lot), and jackhammers (you have to pick that heavy dude up each time you break through the concrete and move over a few inches) are so hard on you that I try to rent them for the weekend or the late saturday to monday morning rate.
Sometimes you want to get so close to the house or barn that you still have to use the idiot sticks cause none of the powered ones let you get too close.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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