My dad’s tool proverb was “The poor craftsman blames his tolo.s” Oh, I remember being fascinated with our posthole digger, too! When Dad and I would dig holes for posts, I was impressed that you could cut cleanly, straight down into the earth, and remove the dirt to leave a neat shaft. They work generally quite well in the rich, black, soft soil of Illinois. (Of course, our yard, where farms had been for generations, was full of a subsurface layer of cinders. Remember that, Hagiograph? What was it with all the cinders?)