missionman

um Missionman does this for a living.

Um that's good to know. Does this render my advice as not useful?

No, but chances are, he would have tried that, after putting in thousands of fences over the years.

Well, I thought it would be nice to try to be helpful on behalf of someone else's venting (I'm learning that complaining without taking action to make things better can be quite detrimental to oneself), and if my advice isn't useful to him, then no harm, no foul. Someone else could be reading this and take something useful out of it; I know that if I'd come across the idea of using a darn icepick instead of struggling in vain with a shovel last year, it would have saved me literally hours of labour, the icepick is that good!

My point is I've tried to be helpful, and your first comment was a bit of a slap. Maybe in light of MissionMan doing this for a living, my advice would thus be redundant (but then, maybe not), but how was I to know that?

Anyway, MissionMan, hope you're getting the rain you wanted, and that your fence-building is working out OK!

Talk about a slap.

yikes.

There is a DIY thread. Maybe you could post this helpful information in that thread.

Have a nice day!

There's a DIY thread? Awesome, didn't know that! Will check that out!

Thanks for having my back Nettie, but I got this.

She's right Mika. I've been digging holes for a LONG time, DECADES!!!!!!

I've dug holes using everything there is to dig holes with, using everything from a spoon to explosives!!! A pick axe, rock bar, hand diggers, people I pay good $$$ to dig holes!

The ground is hard due to lack of rain to soften it up. Even machines don't do a very good job but it does better than a human does. Long story....

The ground is hard and it's rough!!!!! But it HAS to be done! In the end, A beutiful fence is in it's wake.

It's a living.....

It sucks but it's what I do. WE NEED RAIN.......!!!!

(among other things I do)

Bills gotta be paid!