Took you all's advice. Craigslist to the rescue! Paid some guys to help me dig this 8" wide x 24" deep (to frost line) x 65' long (length of fence) for retaining wall foundation and to remove the old fence post concrete foundation. "no problem they said... 8-10 hours". Well, 5 days later....complete! 3 guys, electric jackhammer, lots of swear words...and done! They never seen such huge fence post footing before (16"x16" and 24" deep). The compacted hard clay could not be done this year with digging bar alone so electric jackhammer did most of the work.
This would of taken me til the end of January to do this solo, with a dislocated shoulder and broken leg.
This would of taken me til the end of January to do this solo, with a dislocated shoulder and broken leg.
Now, I gotta throw in drainage gravel, aligned retaining wall blocks, add in French drain, fill in gravel behind the retaining wall, install those SDS1 fence post bases.... and THEN build a fence like this:
