Yet another "useless" job for a backhoe /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
County dropped off some "no parking" signs for me, as I told them I'd install them ... Had nephew hold up while I cupped them with backhoe bucket (then he moved). I used the hoe to push down. Slid into the earth neater than (insert a clever Wroughtn Harv saying here).
Best of all, since there was no hole dug with loose dirt around it, it was very tight from the beginning.
Some yahoos stole the prior ones that were out. I suppose they yanked them with vehicle, or worked back/forth by hand. The ones I put in using this method are currently bent up where same (?) yahoos TRIED to yank them out, but since they are stuck about 4' into the ground, they had a much more difficult time than when they were stuck 18" into the hand dug hole the county used.
Richard