Well yesterday we got the hole dug and the base unit set in concrete.
Starting the 30 inch hole (actually measured 36 at surface]
Here we are about 1/2 of the total depth = 3.0ft.”
We got 3/4 inch rain during the night so it was pretty wet, but I wanted it dug in and figured we could get that “skid-loader with attachment” in that far. the top was muddy and our soil here is really a lot of clay so it was balled up bad at start but mellowed out at 3ft… the loader made some terrible tracks as he had to back up to dump out the dirt then move back in to dig more, the back and forth on