Among the hundreds of jobs associated with farming and ranching, digging postholes by hand is by far my least favorite. Today, most postholes are dug by equipment powered by tractors, motors and ...

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So there I was sweating away, making about $0.50 per hour relative to renting a power post hole digger, and thinking about the old dictum that sixty men can not dig a single hole faster than one man.