Bon Tool Post Hole Digging & Tamping Bar

Nice heft, does a nice job for gate posts or other deep holes. Also can be used for leverage like a very large crow bar. Was going to buy local but the big home improvement stores would have to order as well, so Amazon came through.

Plusses and minuses, but I would buy it again. I am a homeowner building a chain-link dog-fence. We had to dig down 30 inches. My fence-line is through rooty ground where cottonwoods recently stood. No rocks.I did and would use something else for surface and near-surface roots, but when the root was too deep for an axe, this tool was the root-buster. Like yesterday, the hole was a foot deep and my post-hole-digger hit a two-inch-thick root spanning the hole from side to side. I chipped at it to make sure it was wood. Then I hit it twice on each end with Blue Thunder. Then I reached in and pulled out the root.Minuses. None of these is a deal-breaker, but: (1) I leaned hard sideways on the top end and bent the tip. Can probably bend it back the same way. (2) It's heavy. Weighs 17 pounds and is 6 feet long. A real chunk to carry or lift. But that 17 pounds turns into an asset when you slam it down on a root. (3) It gets stuck. But what root tool doesn't? When it sticks, you fight the root plus the 17 pounds. (4) Sledge-hammering the top wasn't effective for me. It works better when the hole is at least several inches deep and you can chuck this thing down like a javelin.

Nice paddle. Wish it were wider though. Bent after two days of using. Just a slight bend, but it should be able to handle yanking on it. It's what it's made for.

I bent it

The uses are endless so don't loan it out....

The length is very important in a digging bar , to protect your back after the impact . Plenty of metal to hold the bar in various angles . Wide blade to cut large roots and dig deeper . The best digging bar in the market.

This is exactly what I was looking for. 72 inches 17 lb. I had to “loan” my 1970’s bar to my grandson for a project and never got it back due to more projects. So I went looking for a replacement. This bar is great, well made. Highly recommended.

not made in U.S.A. should be half price.

Digging bar is great makes digging holes alot easier ..

Good weight and worked great

It did the work I bought it for which is to set 20 posts four feet in the ground for a new deck/terrasse. However, this bar it quite heavy on the arms to use; so you are better be a strong person or having strong relatives/friends in order to work with it...My son is a bodybuilder!!! lol...