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Bruce, glad you are staying inside the parameters set by your cardiologist.

Those power augers are nasty beasts. Thought I broke my pelvis when we hit a tree root digging holes for my sister's fence in San Jose. Turned out was only chipped a little, fortunately it stalled. That sucked
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If you do it when the ground has been really wet, but not super-saturated, it's possible. The hardpan turns into a non-newtonian fluid, it's a PITA, but it's doable. A couple weeks ago I put in a small tree in the front yard and had to use an air chisel to dig the hole.
Patient of mine planted a lot of the olive trees along Fair Oaks Blvd. They went to Emigh hardware, bought dynamite and used that to make the holes. Probably easier to get an air chisel nowadays.
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