2&2 Slider To Leyritz
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Good luck. Best advice I have is to buy a breaker bar, which I had never heard of but is basically a 5-foot long weighted iron spike (like a javelin). That river rock is all over the place, so when I got to roots or rocks that the post-hole digger couldn't get through I would just have to repeatedly fire the breaker bar into the ground until it chipped away whatever was blocking me. You could try to use a power digger I guess, but I was too worried of losing control of one of those one the hill so ended up doing it all by hand.
ETA: also given your set-up something you may want to try: not sure if you can see it in my last pic, but just to the left of the dock piling is a white pipe that I have running down into the water. That goes up to a 5 HP pump under the lower deck, which I trenched up the hill and hooked into my irrigation system. Free water for the lawn all year round FTW.
ETA: also given your set-up something you may want to try: not sure if you can see it in my last pic, but just to the left of the dock piling is a white pipe that I have running down into the water. That goes up to a 5 HP pump under the lower deck, which I trenched up the hill and hooked into my irrigation system. Free water for the lawn all year round FTW.
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