fred rosenberger wrote:
"The Hole Hawg, following its one and only imperative, kept going."
"[T]he Hole Hawg rotated with the stupid consistency of a spinning planet. "
When I was building a deck on my old house, I started digging the holes for the footings using a shovel and post-hole digger. It didn't take long for me to give up on that and rent a power auger, which is like a larger, gasoline powered version of the Hole Hawg.
It's a lawnmower engine with handles and an auger bit.
Numerous times while I was using it to dig the holes, it would hit a rock, and like the Hole Hawg, it would just keep going. And if that meant it was easier to slam its handle into my ribs and shove me around in the other direction than it was to move the rock, that was just fine with the auger. I told it to spin, and it spun, and if the bit wouldn't spin, then by cracky the motor and the handles and whoever was attached to them bloody well would.