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DarkLordMittens t1_j9qii27 wrote

My mailbox is a treated 4x4 about 4-5 feet down. It's been 3 years and still straight. My horse fencing was fresh cut logs 2 feet. No problems with the posts stoutness, some of the skinny ones broke at ground level when I tried to remove them.

May your dig be rock free.

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laika404 t1_j9twdz9 wrote

> May your dig be rock free.

I built a new garden last spring... Leveled the plot with a box blade and dug up all the rocks I could see. Then I drug a plow through it a couple times and pulled out every rock I could see. Then I dug the entire plot about 1.5 ft deep with an excavator, working through every scoop by hand pulling out every-single-rock. I leveled the ground again but somehow found more rocks. Finally, I tilled in a couple yards of compost, and managed to hit another bucket load worth of rocks... When I pulled up plants at the end of the season, guess what I found?

Planning on adding a fence this spring to the garden, and I fully expect to be digging out car size boulders that somehow appeared out of nowhere in the past 12 months...

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Aesopscorp t1_j9rhocw wrote

Hahaha 🤪 not anywhere in New England.

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meinblown t1_j9u5361 wrote

There is not a single rock in the ground in the mallets bay area. It is all sand here.

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