"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"Malcolm" wrote in message
Farm1 writes
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message


Eh? That is a third of the effort of digging a standard grave.
It
is only shifting a tonne up by under a metre. Even I could do that
in
a day.

Well I dips me lid to you, you clearly don't spend all your time
behind a computer.

I've planted quite few apple trees over the years (both bare rooted
and potted) and a hole of that size is big. I can't imagine
digging
down another yard below the level of the roots of the tree.

There are several places in my garden where I couldn't do that
without a
pneumatic drill (or dynamite). And I don't think the drainage is
very
good in bedrock, either.....

I have an amateur radio licence, and I had to errect a mast in the garden to
hold the aerials, I had to dig a hole 6 feet deep and 2 feet square, this
needed to have an extension one side two foot wide sections two feet deep,
so the hole went six feet long and varied in depth, two feet, then four
feet, then another two feet, but that was about 30 years ago!

I'd have a job to do anything like that now!

Alan