Hole digging technology

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I can't sleep because my mind decided to tackle the challenge of a better way of digging holes. Is sloooowly scooping up a tiny bit of dirt with a shovel or a slightly bigger but still tiny amount of dirt with an excavator really the best we can do? We can drill and insert explosives to clear out an area slightly faster, but that's dangerous in most cases. So how do you take dirt from the ground and make a neat rectangular hole more efficiently?