Haitians rock when it comes to digging holes.
I would recommend them over a mechanical solution any day of the week.
Glad to read that!!
I asked my Haitian maestro if he wanted to rent a friend's small back-hoe to dig a 12 X 12 swimming pool for our new apartment and he assured me, "No, we dig it by hand--no problem!"
Since he and his mostly Haitian crew did an amazing job building the apartment (and I WILL post pictures of the apartment some day... ), I'm sure they'll do a great job with this project, too!