Getting a clothes line peg into ground?

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What's the best way to get this g into the ground? Sorry it's not a peg but a thing which pike goes into. It's going to hold a spinning washing line. Think the ground is stoney a few inches down. Lump hammer and wood?
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Arent they set in concrete usually -like doing a fence post.
 
I have always used a hole and concrete as banging into the ground always ends up with it squint.
A deep but narrow hole and postcrete
finish the concrete below soil level so the grass covers it
 
I used the biggest masonry drill bit I had to make a pilot hole into the soil.
Worked fairly well as removed a bit of soil (so less to be pushed to side by spike) and was able to check there were no large stones directly in the way before trying with spike.
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Seems like concrete then. I was going to use my heavy pole spike to dig out hole. It's used to smash through rocks etc when doing a fence post. Half a bag of postcrete?
 
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I've put one of these in clay soil before with a sledge hammer and block of wood. Held nice and solid for years. The one in my current house is concreted in though.
 
Just did it. Used my fencing spike to make hole. Then poured the postcrete stuff in. The bag had been left open for months though and part of it was a hard bolder so reached in hole and pulled it out. With the watery concrete mix on my arm. Then tried to put washing line in with level on it. Concrete on both bits so decided against that and yanked it out and rinsed concrete off it and hole in ground. Also put the soil I was digging out on lawn. This was technically a customer (neighbour who I told it was my first time to for £20). I guess should have put stones and soil from hoke in a bucket not on lawn. Anyway it all cleaned up well and fits and lawn was hosed down.
 

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