mark.r
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I bought a new PD65 w/ 12" auger this past spring since we had a ton of fencing to get in. The replacable cutting blades have lasted aprox. 80-90 post but a few weeks ago with only few more post to do that weekend there was a significant drop off in "cutting" performance. To finish out the last few post I was able to flip over/move around the red replaceble cutting edges. That said, for the next batch of post I knew I needed to order brand new cutting edges so this is what I did. Well acutally I ordered two new ones and kept one of the old ones as the PD65 uses three and the blade located in the inner most position sees very little wear so I reused it. I did not however replace the bit . . . and this is where I am concerned my problem maybe. We started our new batch of post this morning. The first hole seem to go fine, without issue. However the next three were terrible. The auger would only go down about 6-8" and then it would simply stop. It would seem as if there were some type of rock or roots in the way but we confirmed by digging down by hand. We ended up finishing those three holes by me having to stand on the 3pt and put weight on the auger (something I wouldn't normally do).
So my question is. Does any have any experience with replacing the bit portion from a Woods auger? I checked mine before replacing the cutting edges and it "looked" pretty good but perhaps I wasn't looking at it close enough. Yes we are dry and the ground is rather hard but this PHD should still dig a bit better than I'm seeing today. I hoping that I just screwed up and should have order the tip with the cutting blades rather than having to wait till fall to finish up this fence due to hard ground.
So my question is. Does any have any experience with replacing the bit portion from a Woods auger? I checked mine before replacing the cutting edges and it "looked" pretty good but perhaps I wasn't looking at it close enough. Yes we are dry and the ground is rather hard but this PHD should still dig a bit better than I'm seeing today. I hoping that I just screwed up and should have order the tip with the cutting blades rather than having to wait till fall to finish up this fence due to hard ground.