Roughneck ROU64549 Heat Treated Digging Bar with Long Chisel & Tamper 1.75m(69in) 17lbs/7.5kg

If you're putting in posts or digging realtively narrow holes, this is the tool. I've got a post hole digger, pick axe, mattock, spades, etc but this is just so good at breaking up the soil and stones to allow you to loft them out with the post hole digger - reduced my times to about a third of previous (yes very stoney soil). Then, opposite end, great for tamping down around posts - allows you to tamp right from the bottom of the pole - big difference. Its solid, heavy, and well made.

Good strong robust product. I was looking for something a little lighter but couldn't find anything suitable.This however does the job well

Most impressive tool I've yet purchased, makes digging post holes around existing trees and hedges a LOT easier. Can't fault, well built, solid and heavy but not too heavy. Can't recomment enough. The compactor at the other end works well. This is a well thought out product.

Great item

I had bought a similarly priced Spear and Jackson compacting tamp which has about a 120mmx120mm head but a hollow steel handle. After two days occasional use the head twisted off as the weld broke.This however is all solid. The blade now has a few dents which I could sharpen out but it still can be used to neatly cut turf around a post hole and lever the earth lump out depending on size. Steel toe cap boots are a good idea!The other end is about 60mm in diameter which is ideal for tamping stone back in around a fence post, or wacking down bigger stones. A bigger tamp means cutting and digging a bigger post hole.It is heavy so is tiring to use but I can't see how I would break or bend it in normal use.The fact this is free postage too is amazing.Awesome. 6 out of 5. Every home should have one!

Just goes to show how effective something that is simple and well made can be. Just finished digging twenty holes for roses that I found had nothing but bricks, concrete, tiles and other rubbish one to two feet down. Nothing I had in my large garden armoury would get through this stuff including the soil which was wet heavy clay. This powered through. It's very heavy to use for any extended period so you need to be reasonably fit and strong. Have now gain extra muscles as a side benefit! The long shaft is very strong so it's great to be able to leaver out stuff from the ground.

Ok it is very heavy but for digging out post holes this does the job. I also bought a new spade and a landscaping and fencing post hole digger (the one which has a scissor action to dig out earth). However this and the spade were the only useful items. The spade works well to a certain depth and than the roughneck takes over. Breaking up roots and breaking up the clay. It is very effective.

My new favourite tool!It's heavy, but then every review has said that, but it's not so heavy that even me, as unfit as I am, couldn't use it to break through various layers of rubble the kindly builders had left in the garden. Also really helped to break up compacted soil for lifting, especially on the gate posts which needed to be 4ft deep.I can honestly say that it at least halved the time taken to dig posts - in fact, I'm not even sure I'd have been able to dig some of them at all without it.