New Post Hold Digger and how do you use yours?

[k0ua]

If you've seen the pics of my horse barn project, you'll see mounds and mounds of it, James. We've got close to a foot of topsoil, then clay, and finally a bit of gravel waaay down there.

Sean

Yaah, I saw a few pictures on here of a guy in Louisiana with a new backhoe, had dug a huge hole and all that come out of it was beautiful black dirt. I nearly wept.

James K0UA

 

[Chilly807]

Yaah, I saw a few pictures on here of a guy in Louisiana with a new backhoe, had dug a huge hole and all that come out of it was beautiful black dirt. I nearly wept.

James K0UA

Yep, his great-great grandfather likely brought it with him when they were expelled from here in 1755..

 

[MossRoad]

David, look at the back of the person with the green shirt. Up on the boom,there are two sticks that are long with a small L at the bottom. Middle of the picture ,left.

Thanks!

 

[woodlandfarms]

I dug another hole today and the stop and lift method worked great.

Now working on my Floating L's and how to mount them...

Carl

 

[k0ua]

Yep, his great-great grandfather likely brought it with him when they were expelled from here in 1755..

Them Wiley Cajuns took your dirt with em? WOW..

 

[xtn]

Just kidding, we dont have a post hole auger here in Branson, as I have never found a place around here you can dig more than a foot deep without hitting a limestone shelf rock. Unless you truck the soil in. Same with a backhoe. I would have both if they were of any use to me.

We use a bigger hoe and a meaner bucket.

 

[J_J]

If you want to auger holes in rock, you might try these.

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I dug another hole today and the stop and lift method worked great.

Now working on my Floating L's and how to mount them...

Carl

Glad it worked. On my Lienbach I mounted it under one of the screws that holds the gearbox together. The pto guards are mounted the same way. Once bolted in place I just bent the stationary leg to tweak it to be parallel to the auger. It's good to check it regularly because it will occasionally take a hit and go "out of calibration".

The top pivot for the level is just a 1/4" bolt with 2 nuts fixing it to the stationary "L" and the pivoting "L" captured loosely under the bolt head.

One other detail, the bottom of the pivoting "L" on mine is made out of lighter sheet metal because I was worried about it not hanging very plumb against the other piece. It will probably be okay to make it one piece and the horizontal length can be reduced if necessary to make it hang straighter. The horizontal parts are important as visual indicators. The level works quite well even while the auger is digging.

 

[Bornfree]

Well, project is done.

Grand Cost....

$300 for the steel
$50 for bolts and paint
$200 for Wheel Motor
$150 for hoses and connectors
$250 for dual flight digger medium duty
950 Grand total (UGH!!!!!)

But it beats the $2200 that PT Wanted.

So I wanted to spend $500 on the project. I planned initially to buy a used 3 point and install a PTO Motor on it. But the motor and hoses would be the same cost where needed wether I made my own or adapted. And I probably would have spent money on steel as well just fabbing up a motor mount. Still, in deep dutch with the wife. Need tp put her fence up around her new garden and all will be well with the world.

So.....This bad boy is POWERFUL. Crazy powerful.

But it begs questions for those who have one. How do you use it. I seem to drill holes off center, I guess I need to roll back on the tractor as I dig. But I wondered how you guys did it.

Hello,
I realize this is from a very old post, but I was hoping you may still be able to help.

I am going to build a hydraulic auger for my old IH 404 with Pippins Front loader and backhoe.
From what i can figure it has a roughly 10 GPM hydraulic pump which is driven off the front of the engine with a coupler to the crankshaft.

I will be installing about 30 - 4" fence posts.

What size hydraulic pump did you use and how did you figure what size you needed?

Thank you, Dale

 

[woodlandfarms]

Dale. There are some brilliant guys here that can spec you what you need. What I did was look at my wallet then go to the surplus supply website and look at their wheel motors (cause the are torquey and rotate slow) and buy the one that matched. Here is a link. When I did a quick search the 7.2 cu inch would be what I choose. Surplus Center