By Dad, How Do I?
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Tool Tuesday – Post Hole Digger
**** Always check with your city before digging! *****
If you’re planning to build a fence, you start with the posts.
To set the posts, you will first need to dig the holes with a post hole digger.
A pry bar of some sort is also helpful for breaking up the soil, and getting through rocks.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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hey kids so i’m in my backyard
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and i wanted to show you how to use a
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post hole digger
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if you’ve never done it before if you’re
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going to build a fence you’ll need
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need this uh and i don’t need to build a
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fence but i actually do need to dig so i
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thought i’d just go ahead and show you
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um show you how to use one if you’ve
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never done it before so
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um but before i do that i have a dead
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joke for you
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so i can’t seem to get my dog to stop
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digging
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i think i’m gonna have to take the
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shovel away from him
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so anyway let’s get started okay so this
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is a post hole digger
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right it’s got those two uh meaty pieces
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of metal on the end
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shaped like a hole right so it makes it
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really easy and all you do is just put
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it down in the ground
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and then just work your way through it’s
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fairly fairly simple one of the things
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you want to make sure you have gloves
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because if you don’t
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if you haven’t had a whole lot of
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experience working with a shovel or
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working with anything like this
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you know you you go i won’t get any blas
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blisters but
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believe me um by the time you get done
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doing a couple of these holes
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you’ll get blisters so it’s good to good
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to wear gloves okay
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and then another thing that’s always
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helpful
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is i have this this big metal bar it’s a
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pry bar
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okay and that that helps because if you
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hit rocks
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it’s really helpful to get that down in
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there too so if you’re going to be doing
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a lot of holes
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i would suggest the the post hole
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diggers and then this
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uh pry bar too because it’ll make your
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life a lot easier
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believe me so um okay
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okay so i’m hoping that you can be able
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you can see me from uh
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from up there um so you can actually see
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me doing it
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um just one quick
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so this is i mean these are pretty old i
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built my fence
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uh about 20 uh
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probably 20 years ago so it’s helpful to
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have these marks they might actually
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come with these now i don’t know
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but it tells you so i want to get mine
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24 inches deep because i’m
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gonna buy i would buy a eight foot
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long post right and then i want to get
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two feet down
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so then the post would just stick out uh
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six feet right
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and so this is a nice little guide here
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so i can see how
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how deep it is right it actually shows
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uh
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i have it at 18 inches 20 inches 22 and
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24 i just marked that out
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so that as i’m going i don’t have to
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keep going at a tape measure right and i
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can just refer to that so
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all right so let’s go ahead and see
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just pound it in
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to get yourself started
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so this will be easier for you to see i
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just wanted you to see
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from back what it’s going to look like
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so here we go
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so now you just
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work it like that turn it sideways and
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just pinch them together
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and drop it there okay
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sounds like we hit a rock already like i
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mentioned so
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now you just use your your pry bar
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kind of break that up okay
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and i try to make my my hole fairly
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tight
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so that that post just fits right down
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in there and i have to use a whole lot
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of cement
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some people will make their hole pretty
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wide but then you have to add a lot of
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cement for that sometimes
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if you’re fighting a hole though and
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you’re fighting rocks
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big rocks you know you might have to
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work around them so let’s see here
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definitely hitting a rock
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just kind of rocks on both sides doesn’t
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look like it’s a big rock
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thankfully so there’s one
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there’s one on the other side
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there’s another one
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okay
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[Music]
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more rocks beautiful
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it’s always something right keep going
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see this thing this thing’s pretty heavy
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this bar but
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it makes it easy to
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get those rocks out of the way
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another one
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the smaller
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okay
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you just wiggle it back and forth right
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okay
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it’s pretty good exercise
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all right i think i’m still hitting
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stuff even if you’re not hitting stuff
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you can use this to
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kind of break things up
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another big rock down there thanks
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i hit the jackpot on the rocks i’m
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telling you
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okay
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i think there’s still a big guy down
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there
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remember when you’re digging always
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double check to make sure
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it’s safe to dig i did that on in this
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case i because we’re we’re talking about
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putting in some
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drainage back here so i did double check
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to make sure i could dig so you don’t
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want to
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you don’t want to hit plumbing or or
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wiring or anything like that right
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electricity
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i’m just definitely hitting something
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but you see that marking there so
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you can tell i need to get all the way
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to here
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all right
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as luck would have it
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took me a while to get this one out of
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here
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and this hole is just for just to show
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you kids
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so um anyway i was breathing pretty
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heavy
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so this thing was basically lying right
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across that where i
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managed to pick for this hole it’s just
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a random hole um but you know if you’re
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trying to do a fence line
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you got to power through these so i
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figured i’d just go ahead and
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power through it so anyway beautiful
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thing
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it’s a nice feeling when you finally get
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it out of there so
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hope they don’t run into any more okay
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okay how close are we ah we’re down to
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18 we just need six more inches so let’s
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see what we’re gonna hit here
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[Music]
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i don’t think it’s anything big we’ll
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see
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there’s a smaller guy
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yeah we’re getting there okay
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okay you can see that we’re really close
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now um so
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you can see so with my markings i need
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to get to there right
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so that’s pretty much it i think we’ve
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just about got i could be got a little
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bit more
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[Music]
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but i think we’re there
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so you just got to power through some of
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those
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some of those rocks so um
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anyway uh
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just kind of wanted to wrap up here so
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so that’s all there is to it um
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it’s a little bit of work you know you
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can you can rent
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tools an auger that’ll actually do this
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for you
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if you got a ton to do you know might be
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worth your
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your time you know they usually charge
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you a certain amount for four hours or a
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certain amount for the whole day
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um so if you’re gonna do that make sure
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you’re all set
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um right with with your layout and
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everything so you’re not wasting time
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when you when you actually rent it you
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want to get the best use
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of the time when you go to rent it so
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anyway i hope this was helpful for you
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and
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thanks for watching and god bless you
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