Well, yesterday was ground-breaking day! Finally....It seems like things go in bursts. We do one thing for a long time i.e. 2 months of clearing trees, then rest. Then another burst. So the new auger is a dream. Best money spent yet. Well for now anyway..but we were able to dig 29 holes in an hour. It would have taken us another 2 months to just dig the holes. But thank God for power tools!
O.K. So here is how this goes. First you mark out the 3 rings of post holes with pretty orange flags. Then you stare at them through 3 days of rain. Finally the sun breaks through burns off the fog and voila! They're still there. Well except for 2, which the dogs ate half of the flags, but the stick and part of the flag is still there, so no re-measurement necessary. Then you painstakingly back up to get right over the flags, and then pull forward, and then back up....well you get the point. By the time we made it to about hole number 20 we had the process down pat. I would flag him back, sideways, back then he would roll slightly over the flag. Park, which on the incline makes you roll forward just enough to land within an inch or two of the flag. Then he would hop off and trade places with me and then pull the PTO arm to exactly over the flag and then I would start on the controls.
He's so proud of his new toy!
O.K. So here is how this goes. First you mark out the 3 rings of post holes with pretty orange flags. Then you stare at them through 3 days of rain. Finally the sun breaks through burns off the fog and voila! They're still there. Well except for 2, which the dogs ate half of the flags, but the stick and part of the flag is still there, so no re-measurement necessary. Then you painstakingly back up to get right over the flags, and then pull forward, and then back up....well you get the point. By the time we made it to about hole number 20 we had the process down pat. I would flag him back, sideways, back then he would roll slightly over the flag. Park, which on the incline makes you roll forward just enough to land within an inch or two of the flag. Then he would hop off and trade places with me and then pull the PTO arm to exactly over the flag and then I would start on the controls.
You must lean all of your weight on the auger if you don't own weights, but still this is far less work than digging the holes yourself.
Then he flags for me to pull the arm up and it miraculously throws all the dirt and clay and tree roots out of the hole!
I will blog again as soon as we finish pouring the concrete in the oles which we are in the process of right now. As we speak the boys are working on this. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! We are on our way!
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