Yeah. My soil is basically hard clay as it is, here in East Texas. One of my posts rotted at the base and broke so I was going to replace it. I recently replaced another post in another area of the yard and that was a bear but I eventually got it. Anyway, this seems much worse.
It's basically like slamming into rock with a post hole digger. A few half inch roots right away at the top. Once I did get 1-2 inches in, I hit concrete from the old post that sheared off just for good measure I guess. There's no definitive chunk of concrete to try to work out. And digging around it, presuming theres is a discrete concrete chunk, would create a very wide hold defeating the purpose of a fence post hole that needs to be deep and narrow. If I even can. I have slammed at it with the pickaxe a bit to little avail. The posthole digger seems useless as it just clangs off the ground/roots/concrete? No way to get any purchase with it. It is kind of a cheap model, maybe thats part of the issue.
Yeah I really dont know what to do except pay pros that quoted me 4500 for replacing I dunno 120 feet of fence in two sections to replace the whole fence which could use it. And I left the gate out of their estimate so figure north of 5k.
I really dont know what to do, it seems literally impossible to even consider going 24 inches in this ground let alone a reasonably narrow hole. On the web they said pouring water on it may soften up the area, so I will try that. My only other thought is buying an gas (but I'd go for electric) auger off Amazon? They seems decently inexpensive like 200 bucks, probably cheaper than renting and 10x less hassle plus future usage. But would they make any difference? Right away I assume they aren't going through any concrete, right? Not that I really see solid concrete, but a couple small chunks definitely came up.
here is a pic after 20 minutes of hammering at dry unforgiving ground to get about 2 loose inches in. using a trenching shovel, pickaxe and post hole digger. yes the fence sections are kind of in the way i can probably move them fully but it wont be easy so i've been putting it off. i have been attacking it from the side so far.
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It's basically like slamming into rock with a post hole digger. A few half inch roots right away at the top. Once I did get 1-2 inches in, I hit concrete from the old post that sheared off just for good measure I guess. There's no definitive chunk of concrete to try to work out. And digging around it, presuming theres is a discrete concrete chunk, would create a very wide hold defeating the purpose of a fence post hole that needs to be deep and narrow. If I even can. I have slammed at it with the pickaxe a bit to little avail. The posthole digger seems useless as it just clangs off the ground/roots/concrete? No way to get any purchase with it. It is kind of a cheap model, maybe thats part of the issue.
Yeah I really dont know what to do except pay pros that quoted me 4500 for replacing I dunno 120 feet of fence in two sections to replace the whole fence which could use it. And I left the gate out of their estimate so figure north of 5k.
I really dont know what to do, it seems literally impossible to even consider going 24 inches in this ground let alone a reasonably narrow hole. On the web they said pouring water on it may soften up the area, so I will try that. My only other thought is buying an gas (but I'd go for electric) auger off Amazon? They seems decently inexpensive like 200 bucks, probably cheaper than renting and 10x less hassle plus future usage. But would they make any difference? Right away I assume they aren't going through any concrete, right? Not that I really see solid concrete, but a couple small chunks definitely came up.
here is a pic after 20 minutes of hammering at dry unforgiving ground to get about 2 loose inches in. using a trenching shovel, pickaxe and post hole digger. yes the fence sections are kind of in the way i can probably move them fully but it wont be easy so i've been putting it off. i have been attacking it from the side so far.
