FaithfullDIGPOST Post Hole Bar with Chisel End 17Lb 60-inch x 1-inch

Used it to dig holes for fence posts. The ground was riddled with hardcore, bricks and rocks but with effort all holes were dug to their required depth. It is heavy but once I hit clay it's weight was enough for gravity to do most of the work.

Due to its " Chisel End " this post hole bar does a far better job than the normal round pointed ones. I had an old fir tree stump which I couldnot shift with the old crowbar but the DIGPOST moved it in no time. Excellent bit of kit and highly recommended.

I knew I'd encounter tree roots [mostly my nieghbours :-( ], when installing new concrete fence posts, I was going down 3ft into mosty sandy soil. The chisel is too blunt for very thick roots of the type encountered near the surface (when a swaw or axe work best) but is great for the thinner roots (say 1cm thick) encountered a couple of feet down and more. The post chisel deals with these very easily. Had I encountered larger roots low down I'd probably have sharpened the chisel but it wasn't necessary. It was certainly worth the investment for the dozen 9ft fence post installed.

This tool is great for making fence post holes, especially where roots of bushes & shrubs are likely to be a problem.I would use a standard pointy one for breaking through stones and concrete, rather than this one, but at least you can simply re-sharpen the chisel end using an angle grinder if you do blunten/abuse it...Nice and long, and a good handy weight to it, to be useful at penetrating dry clay soil.

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My Husaband ordered this to do the fence posts in our garden and he needed to dig quite a long way down so he orded this tool to do the job and I have to say that his opinon of this item was excellent and done the job in question very well.. he would recomend it to anyone..

This has to be the simplest tool yet my favourite in the garden simply because it has saved so much time.We needed something to create relatively narrow but deep holes to insert poles for a fruit cage and this was perfect. Also used it to create holes for round fence posts for stock proof fencing. Had previoulsy used an auger which was slow going and generally ended up with a hole too wide for the post. This bar soleved that problem and sliced through our hard and stone filled soil.You do need a bit of strength to use it, but it is not tiring like a manual auger.Highly highly recommended!!!!

did a really good job of breaking up and digging in soil with a lot of slate in it.Would get 5 stars if it had a rubberised grip as shaft is narrow