Stuck Auger

Not really a gardening topic but close. I need to dig alot of post holes for some new fence so I finally pulled the trigger and bought a post hole digger attachment for my tractor. I drilled a "practice" hole and everything went great.....a 3ft hole in literally a few minutes vs. about an hour or more of digging with the idiot sticks. I started drilling the first hole on the fence line and it got bound up and could not be lifted out. I finally disconnected the auger from the arm and started digging by hand.
This picture was early on in the rescue process. I eventually had to dig all around the auger and even then it wouldnt come out. The auger had ground up some white shale type rock and mixed with a little clay type soil, created a "mortar" that cemented itself in the ground.
I ended up banging it back and forth and side to side with a sledge and then was finally able to reverse it out of the rock by running a steel bar through the mounting holes and having my son help me twist it inch by inch until it came loose.
It took about 4 hours of digging, prying and hammering after unhooking from the tractor. Some of the words I said during this "learning experience" cannot be repeated on this forum:d0 (26):



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Blow it in place to prevent it's possible recovery and use by the enemy?