martin wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:21:40 +0000 (UTC), "Liz"
wrote:

...Unless you have a bed of flint two feet under the surface. My simple
plan of putting a yard-high picket fence around a play area was
complicated
by a 3-d interlocking puzzle of massive flints which were impossible to
lever up individually. At which point I took the ground auger back to
the
hire shop and got a pickaxe and goggles. And two hours later, LOTS of
plasters.

and a deep hole?
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Put it this way - I sawed a foot off the fence post...

Liz