47c VIDEO POST HOLE DIGGING TOOLS

In this video I want to explain to you about the tools for digging post holes

So this is the kind of stuff you'd use if you're boring a hole for a cardboard form tube

or if you're setting some posts in the ground without some sort of form tube

The main tool that makes the job a lot easier is this gas-powered post hole auger

It's meant to be used by two people, so that's why there's handles on both sides

But essentially, it's just a great big drill bit and it augers through the soil

Simple enough, and I'm going to show you how it works. Now I'm not going to drill a full depth hole, but I'll just show you how it works

And then how to use these other tools too. You probably need this one, this scoop, and you may need this pry bar as well

So I'll just get the auger fired up here and show you how it works

So starting a rig like this is similar to starting all small engines

You want to make sure the ignition is on. That's the off position there

On. This one has a little priming bulb in here. Press that repeatedly and it kind of squirts a little bit of fuel into the carburetor

Now as I said, I'm not going to go down full depth because you get the idea

This tool is very useful for cleaning out the hole. You can see the hole cleans pretty well on its own

But to get full depth, you'll want to finish the augering. And then you use this, this clam shell scoop

I'm just going to clean out the bottom of the hole. You can dig a hole, a complete post hole with this if you want to

but I just use it as an accessory to help me clean things out

Now this particular ground has stones in it. And you'll know you've hit a stone with the auger because there'll be this thunk, thunk, thunk

And you'll feel the machine kind of hitting the stone and jiggling around

Now that may be a very bad thing or it may not be too bad

Most of the stones in this ground are fairly small. So if I hit the edge of one, I can go in with this pry bar and kind of find it

and pry it and loosen it and then pull it out with another scoop

So try this method. And if the stone is too big, if it's bigger than the hole

or even if it's just a little part of it showing, but it looks like it's some sort of a big stone to one side

then you're going to have to drill in another spot. Either that or dig a much larger hole so that you can get that stone out

so you can go down to the depths you need. Well, that's it. That's the process in a nutshell

And as I said, any deck worth building, in my opinion, needs a below-ground foundation

And these are the tools to let you do that