Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:12pm:


As I said.
My son in law swears by them.
Everything from torches to lawn mowers.

He is not really a handyman by any sense of the word.
And all of his tools( except the mower and whipper snipper) look brand New .
But to each their own.

My son is DeWalt, but he treats his tools very badly.
Leaves them in the rain, mud and I even found a drill under his house once fixing some plumbing.
He said he lost it months before and it was laying in the mud where the leak was.

It actually worked, but the contacts of the battery were stuffed and the chuck was rusted solid.
He is very hard on tools.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:49pm:


He is a farmer.
Lives on over 100 acres of dense bush and paddocks.
Every day is another day of hard work and aggravation.
He spends about 50 days of every year fixing fences that either the goats, sheep or cows knock down.
Even electric fences are only partially effective.

His horses never cause any trouble at all,

He uses tools to their mad and then gets dragged off one job to fix something else.
I couldn't be a farmer.....ever.

He gave me his old post hole digger as the carby packed it in.
I have a new carby on order, so when I get it I'll have myself a post hole digger.
Don't know what I'm going to do with it, don't dig many holes.
But he brought his new one down to help me put up my new fence a few weeks ago.
25 metres of fence and digging all the holes took him all of 10 minutes.
I have a small cement mixer so the 14 bags of concrete were mixed easily.
We had the frame up in under 2 hours, ready to install the sheeting the next day.

The sheeting took us 3 and a half hours and wevwere done.
We were quoted $5,000.00 for the fence.
I bought the materials including concrete for $1800.00.

I must admit though, the post hole digger does intimidate me a bit.
Digging a 250mm dia hole 800mm deep as fast as you can lower the auger is scary..