A hand post hole digger is the most common option for digging holes for fence posts, mailboxes, and many other projects. A manual hole digger works by thrusting the scoops into the soil and then ...

They're a vanishing breed, but in southwestern Wisconsin a few men dig graves by hand, moving thousands of pounds of dirt for $550 per hole.

The hand trowel boasts a big trove of features that can make your life as a gardener easier than ever.

After two weekends of ditch-digging and diverting rainwater away from daughter No. 3's house, the hope is that her basement will be dry as a bone.

Among the hundreds of jobs associated with farming and ranching, digging postholes by hand is by far my least favorite. Today, most postholes are dug by equipment powered by tractors, motors and ...

This story is about a tradition that dates back hundreds of years in a small, close-knit, family-oriented Irish community. In Wexford, Iowa, they still do something by hand that machines have been ...

ROCKINGHAM — Hand-cut square nails and small fragments from 18th century clay smoking pipes are the biggest clues found so far during a recent archeological dig at the Rockingham Meeting House.

The City of Boston Archaeology Program is looking at a space by the Pierce-Hichborn House for the first time. The house was built in 1711.

This week’s episode of House, “The Dig,” featured the return of Thirteen, who had been in prison for the last year or so. House had a martini in hand when Thirteen unexpectedly discovered ...

Workers digging at the Paul Revere house in the city's North End believe they may have found an archaeological jackpot--the Revere family outhouse.

Manuel Barrantes, fondly known as ‘El Hombre Topo’ or ‘The Mole Man’, has spent the last 10 years building himself a unique underground home. The 62-year-old Costa Rican did it all by hand ...

They're a vanishing breed, but in southwestern Wisconsin a few men dig graves by hand, moving thousands of pounds of dirt for $550 per hole.