As an update to this post (get it, post). After reading your responses, I called my dad. He gave me the same advice, just pack em in, no concrete. He did a fence in the same general area (about 30 miles from here) and it lasted a pretty long time. Anyways, then I went and bought 40 pressure treated 4X4's. I then went and asked a neighbor (who used to have a fencing business in the area) and he said that there are so many rocks in the ground, an auger would be pointless. Just use a digging bar. So far I have been able to dig out one old post in concrete, and set one new one in its place. Some of my fence line I am increasing the number of poles from what was previous. I shouldn't need to dig out the old concrete, just dig a new fresh hole next to it. But, there are sections that I will have to dig out the old ones. I am thinking about paying some of my scouts to dig 'em out for me. They need something to do all summer anyways. At any rate, I plan to take all summer and maybe some fall to finish setting all the posts. That should keep the honey-do list away for a time. Then I need all winter to hang the fence on the posts. If I am lucky, I can drag this out for a year. Wish me luck.
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