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I need to install 7 fence posts, I want to do them AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!

They are 9 foot posts

As I understand it I should aim to do a narrow hole as possible. But I have
also read I should stick some hardcore down there to help hold it in place -
doesn't this mean I should dig the holes a bit wider than the post itself?
or they just mean smaller rubble?

Anyhow, which tool will do it for me the quickest?

http://www.hss.com/g/62720/Post-Hole-Borer-Manual.html

Looks a bit small.....?

http://www.hss.com/g/50631/Shovel-Holer.html

Any good?

I also saw a digging shovel available elsewhe

http://www.triadsupply.com/products/...392_shovel.jpg

Thanks!


What ever you use to dig the hole do not concrete in the posts, they will
rot off at the top of the concrete in no time, a tanalised post with hard
core rammed down the sides will last far longer
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Posts delivered today, they are massive.

I think I will go for some sort of electric or motor powered digger because
manually digging the holes plus geeting the posts in will near on kill me.

Oh - come on - to dig an old post out and put a new one I only allow
an hour per post, in all of my fencing jobs, and thats only with a
ditching shovel and maybe a concrete breaker.

But the time you have messed around on the forums ( 4 days ) you could
have taken out and put in 28 posts.

Posts delivered today, they are massive.

I think I will go for some sort of electric or motor powered digger because
manually digging the holes plus geeting the posts in will near on kill me.

On Jun 8, 9:08*pm, "mo" wrote:
Posts delivered today, they are massive.

I think I will go for some sort of electric or motor powered digger because
manually digging the holes plus geeting the posts in will near on kill me..

Yep, 9' concrete posts are heavy.

BTW,

You'll need a string line long enough for a double line. 1 just above
the ground, the other around eye level, or just above (not below)
This help to speed up the checking on the leaning, in or out.

A spirit level

A crow-bar can be very useful

A measuring tape, to mark off depth on the posts level to the top of
the gravel board, unless the posts come with very handy marking

A wheel barrow can be handy too for either mixing the mix, or just
carting away the excess soil.