Digging bar is indespensable for moving giant rocks
I knew that I would find a few rocks when I drove eight steel u-channel posts into the scrappy Connecticut ground with a sledgehammer. After years of promises, I was finally making good on my offer to build a kennel-wire compost bin for my wife. What I didn’t know was how many rocks I would find.
The first few were softball sizes, easily dislodged with a shovel. And then I hit something big about eight inches down. Fortunately, I had my five-foot-long digging bar. It’s a 20-pound, tapered, forged-steel shaft that begins as a one inch rod and ends in a wedge-shaped point. It’s five foot length gives you enough leverage to move almost anything. They cost about $30. Cheaper digging bars are not tapered and they have a section of flat bar stock welded on the end. Don’t buy one because it will bend, you’ll get bugged, and that rock will still be in the ground.
Posted by Jefferson Kolle | Categories: Yard & Garden | Permalink
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I believe that is a pinch bar and not a digging bar. Pinch bars used more for levering things about, sort of like a pry bar, that's why wedge end is offset. There is no reason it can't be used for digging, though.
Why not just buy a rock hammer or a giant sturdy pick-axe or something and blasts those giant rocks into oblivion? Problem solved, and you get to take out some frustration! :P