Rent vs buy

[atsah]

Fixed your post.

:laughing:

LOL...

 

[MossRoad]

Harbor Freight's is $214. I think I've seen it for less than that in an ad that I have at home. I'll check later this evening.

With that said... your soil is pretty soft, isn't it? I've got a hand operated post hole digger I use pretty often. I've seen them at Ace Hardware on the south side for less than $50. Burried a lot of pets with it, too. Goes through our sand and muck in a hurry.

Pay a kid $25 to dig your holes. :laughing:

Here it is. Price good through Oct. 31.

$179.99

 

[atsah]

Here it is. Price good through Oct. 31.

$179.99

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They can keep that thing...

 

[MossRoad]

I might buy it and put my ice auger bit on it! :laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

All joking aside, I wonder if there's any way to mount that to a SCUT or maybe a GT. Be kinda cool to attach it to a BH or FEL in place of the bucket if there was any way to do it safely. Sure would be nice instead of buying a $700 3PT PHD

 

[atsah]

I might buy it and put my ice auger bit on it! :laughing:

I watched Stan use one on mountain men in the ice, he was holding on for dear life and he is a strong guy.. But he gets his water from the river with it, hope it isn't leaking two stroke in his water.. It's a river so it would run down stream anyway to the next village..LOL

 

[MossRoad]

I watched Stan use one on mountain men in the ice, he was holding on for dear life and he is a strong guy.. But he gets his water from the river with it, hope it isn't leaking two stroke in his water.. It's a river so it would run down stream anyway to the next village..LOL

I have a gas powered ice auger, along with 4-5 others. If he was hanging on, then it was probably sharpened at a bad angle and made it bite too hard. It should shave the ice.

 

[atsah]

I have a gas powered ice auger, along with 4-5 others. If he was hanging on, then it was probably sharpened at a bad angle and made it bite too hard. It should shave the ice.

That was my guess, the thing was too sharp and taking too much of a bite..

 

[QRTRHRS]

While HF is a good option vs renting on some things, gas engines do not do that well with occasional use where they get put up "wet". That is the issue with my HF compactor that I bought maybe fifteen years ago. Where as the HF electric jack hammer I bought maybe close to 20 years ago to do an occasion fence post in rocky ground was still going strong. I sold it at the flea market this year. The weight along with a 3 foot point was getting to be too much for me.

 

[MossRoad]

That was my guess, the thing was too sharp and taking too much of a bite..

It's not that it's too sharp. It is the angle. The things are surgical sharp. Will slice you open like a razor blade. But if it's sharpened at the wrong angle, or the blades are tilted wrong, it can just drive down into the ice like a chipper instead of a shaver.