OJCar
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Onoff
In the land of the unfinished project I am King!
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Thanks but I can tap up the BiL to dig it if needs be.
I did dig an accurate 13m trench by hand for power to my gate. 13m long, 750mm deep, and just the width of a mattock / boot. Took some doing but a sense of achievement.
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But was it in the right place?
in the 80's a workmate was getting a big extension on the side/back of his house and to save money offered to dig the footings himself if the builder marked them out, we spent the whole weekend digging them by hand but on the Monday the builder said they were in the wrong place 
my mate said "you marked them out so you can dig them in the right place at no cost" (which he did)A much cheaper alternative is a bigger electric jackhammer with a spade bit on it.
I have had to trench across the yard for new cables out to the solars etc, and rather than get my jcb and rip a big trench across it with all the resultant destruction that ensues, I just put the spade bit on a 3kw electric demolition (jack) hammer (the type that take hex with a flat bits, and cant be used as a drill and weigh 40+ kg) and cut out a small clay spade bits widths channel to depth and laid it in a flexi duct as per regs.
The demolition hammer is also usefull to drive metal fence posts in with a post bit. I was expecting it to be pants for this but its surprisingly good at it.
Did you know that you can empty a wheelbarrow? You don't need to buy a new one every time its full!
