nberrington Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 This may be a redundant question for those of you on Scaleforum, as I posted this there too. I have a goofy question. The Southern Railway installed thousands of concrete fence posts along the permanent way. While considering the Scalefour Diorama Challenge, I got thinking more along the lines of a vignette (i.e. a really tiny diorama I can put in my carry-on luggage.) A crew inserting said fencing was a thought - I nice opportunity to model some departmental wagons and paint some of those lovely Modelu figures. Now this might sound like Eccles speaking - but "how did they dig the holes?" I imagine a hole digging device like one uses to plant poles? ( A pole with two rounded blades on it ) - Something akin to the gizmo they use on the golf green to cut a hole? Or did some poor sod literally use a shovel? Like these: https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/ ... -pro-tips/ Any thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 I doubt if they had those hole digging gizmos back then ......... but I'm sure they would have had an auger for the purpose. If you don't get a better answer, you can build a diorama of the guys removing SR concrete lamp posts ! : - Hayes : 7/8/83 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted February 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21 https://www.screwfix.com/p/spear-jackson-post-hole-auger/3911K?kpid=3911K&cm_mmc=Google-_-Datafeed-_-Outdoor and Gardening?kpid=KINASEKPID&cm_mmc=Google-_-TOKEN1-_-TOKEN2&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6s3j8Lu8hAMVbptQBh2HFw4-EAQYASABEgJW2fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21 Did tractors have a power-take-off in those days? I have no idea. But if not, then Mol-PMB's link is to a tool that is simple enough, and seems likely to have existed in times past. I have two of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 An auger only works where there is nothing hard just below the surface, a pick-axe would probably be defeated by granite or slab slate but not much else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium fulton Posted February 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21 (edited) I suspect the Southern Railway fencers dug their post holes exactly the same way you would manually do it today, using a post hole digger, sort of two grafts fixed together, a graft is a type of spade/shovel for heavy digging and a post hole chisel bar, good for getting through rock, stone, light concrete, on site we called the post hole bar, a pin, they were 5' long and weighed at least 20kg. Edited February 21 by fulton spelling 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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