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Another quick, easy and very secure way to set a wooden post is to fill the hole with small pea gravel. We used 10 -12" diameter creosote posts for our corner and brace posts. You cannot budge a post after setting it this way and there's no need to tamp.

Speaking of driving 100 posts in a day....when we were setting posts for a new fence, years ago before buying our 3-point digger, I asked this older gentleman, who helped us a lot on the farm, how many post holes he could dig in a day. He said a good man could dig one hundred post holes in a...