We used them on road construction projects to plant concrete right of way marker posts in inaccessible locations that a tractor mounted digger couldn't get to. When you see a two foot tall right of way marker, there is four feet of that marker in the ground. Obviously, you don't dig the entire four foot deep hole, then contemplate lifting that miserable thing out to clean the hole. You dig down just a little, then lift to clean. When you're starting the hole, the top of the engine is above your head, so it's like a team bench press. Everybody has to work together. Tree roots are your enemy.
Those diggers are interesting. I remember one in particular that had a disabled dead man switch. The engine had been replaced with a larger and heavier version. It was a two-man digger, so it had four handles, and the larger engine required a man on each handle. One of the handles had a prominent bend in it, and we always assumed that somewhere there was a laborer with a matching bend in his ribcage. We always joked that we needed a shotgun to kill it if it ever got away from us. They are a young man's machine.
I know you aren't talking about a monstrous digger like we used, but your question brought back the memories.
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