paccorti
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- Joined
- May 21, 2000
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- Tractor
- TC35D with 16LA Loader
The past two weekends my wife and I have been augering post holes. We are completely fencing in the yard. My best guess right now is 370 post holes. My problem? There is a serious degradation in performance of my auger from the first hole to the last (29 holes so far). The auger just dosen't want to dig! It just lays on top of the ground spinning around.
Now I've heard all about downforce kits and such. I'm sure that would help. But I think that the main problem is that my auger point and flights (those little removable teeth on the screw portion) are getting duller and duller. The auger point particularly bugs me. It seems to be cast metal. And the threads on the auger point are very wide (thick, whatever). The threads do not develop sufficient psi to break the dirt. Imagine ramming a steel cone into the ground. Spinning the cone would not really help, right? With the wide threads that's my situation here with the auger point.
Auger points are $25 from my dealer. Today's performance leads me to believe that auger point #2 is getting tired too. Is this the normal life expectancy? I'm sure that I can add a little edge to them to help them cut. I wish auger points had some sort of removable teeth like flights. Plus they should be made out of some super hard metal like machine cutting tools.
I guess it is time to go out to the garage and get the grinder running...
Peter
Now I've heard all about downforce kits and such. I'm sure that would help. But I think that the main problem is that my auger point and flights (those little removable teeth on the screw portion) are getting duller and duller. The auger point particularly bugs me. It seems to be cast metal. And the threads on the auger point are very wide (thick, whatever). The threads do not develop sufficient psi to break the dirt. Imagine ramming a steel cone into the ground. Spinning the cone would not really help, right? With the wide threads that's my situation here with the auger point.
Auger points are $25 from my dealer. Today's performance leads me to believe that auger point #2 is getting tired too. Is this the normal life expectancy? I'm sure that I can add a little edge to them to help them cut. I wish auger points had some sort of removable teeth like flights. Plus they should be made out of some super hard metal like machine cutting tools.
I guess it is time to go out to the garage and get the grinder running...
Peter