CountyLine Post Hole Digger- BX25D-1

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I stay smilin!

...........someone should come up with a reversible gear box for those emergency corkscrew situations

It would make life much easier. I'm sure it's possible, but would probably be really expensive.

I have only done the long pipe wrench with helper pipe once , so careful use in clay is a must now.

That's what I was referring to!!
Travis

 

[CobyRupert]

Smile ...........someone should come up with a reversible gear box for those emergency corkscrew situations , I have only done the long pipe wrench with helper pipe once , so careful use in clay is a must now.

Has anyone ever tried turning the PTO shaft backwards so that you get the mechanical advantage of the gearbox?
Is this possible?

 

[wawajake]

Never crossed my mind, but probably would need to make a habit of running the post hole digger without the plastic sleeves on the driveshaft , so that one could easily find a spot on the driveshaft (triangle steel) to put a pipewrench and try to use the mechanical advantage of the gearbox by turning drive shaft in reverse. I would hate to try to use the end exposed parts of driveshaft (with plastic sleeves on) because those are the universal type joints and I would be afraid to break something there....but maybe there is a way ?

 

[mikecrom83]

Smile ...........someone should come up with a reversible gear box for those emergency corkscrew situations , I have only done the long pipe wrench with helper pipe once , so careful use in clay is a must now.

I'm curious as to what this means?

 

[coldsteelva]

If you bind the auger bit in compacted soil, you can't pull it out of the hole, you have to manually reverse it like a corkscrew in a cork. PTOs don't spin backwards.

 

[ning]

I'm curious as to what this means?

Disconnect the auger from the rest of the unit (ie, move the tractor away leaving the bit stuck in the ground). Use a long pipe wrench to turn the auger backwards.

I don't think you could use the the gearbox to your advantage because not only would you need to turn the PTO shaft backwards (like, get a splined socket and crank it while supporting the PTO shaft; or disconnecting the shaft completely and attaching something like a T-bar to the joint where the PTO connects to the gearbox?), but you'd also still need to counter the torque like the PHD frame does - without the frame, the gearbox would spin on top of the auger instead of the auger spinning below it. You may be able to do this perhaps by parking a truck or tractor next to the gearbox perhaps after clamping a long board to both so that the gearbox is essentially fixed to a large object, which would force the auger to spin instead when you turned the crank.

Bolting a long bar, maybe like a 2" square tube (or a chainlink fence end post, though round), to the top of the auger and having 2 people turn it by hand is probably the simplest and quickest way to extract a stuck auger.

 

[scdeerslayer]

I don't think you could use the the gearbox to your advantage because not only would you need to turn the PTO shaft backwards (like, get a splined socket and crank it while supporting the PTO shaft; or disconnecting the shaft completely and attaching something like a T-bar to the joint where the PTO connects to the gearbox?), but you'd also still need to counter the torque like the PHD frame does - without the frame, the gearbox would spin on top of the auger instead of the auger spinning below it. You may be able to do this perhaps by parking a truck or tractor next to the gearbox perhaps after clamping a long board to both so that the gearbox is essentially fixed to a large object, which would force the auger to spin instead when you turned the crank.

I think they mean leaving the auger attached to the tractor, disconnecting the PTO shaft from the tractor, then turning the PTO shaft backwards while lifting on the 3 pt. I would imagine you'd have to turn the pto shaft with either a long bar through a u joint (probably not a good idea) or with a wrench on the shaft itself.

 

[mikecrom83]

I think they mean leaving the auger attached to the tractor, disconnecting the PTO shaft, then turning the PTO shaft backwards while lifting on the 3 pt. I would imagine you'd have to turn the pto shaft with either a long bar through a u joint (probably not a good idea) or with a wrench on the shaft itself.

Thanks... I got it now.