My little micro mini excavator came with one when I bought it. The excavator is only 19hp so cant have that much hydraulic flow but my father loved it for putting in 8in holes for a split rail fence a few weeks ago. Dosnt work well in rocky/root clay like we have but at least you have down pressure and reverse. I'm going to put 12in holes in for a wood shed in a few days. I have the same terrible shale/clay soil.
Anyone running a hydraulic auger on their FEL
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i just left a pecan farmers place... will probably buy his bush hog 2403 phd...
he has "moved up" to a phd auger that mounts to his front end loader arms... i reached to try to pick up the auger head... HEAVY>.. i only tilted it.
he uses it with an 18 inch or 24 inch auger and gives great report... he has very large john deere tractors... i didn't notice the models... but one of them was mowing with a huge bat wing mower. and all of his JDs are way bigger than my 56 hp kubotas.
he has "moved up" to a phd auger that mounts to his front end loader arms... i reached to try to pick up the auger head... HEAVY>.. i only tilted it.
he uses it with an 18 inch or 24 inch auger and gives great report... he has very large john deere tractors... i didn't notice the models... but one of them was mowing with a huge bat wing mower. and all of his JDs are way bigger than my 56 hp kubotas.
Can you be a little more descriptive of “doesn’t work well”. Must not have been horrible if he loved it and you are planning on using it for even bigger holes. Was it just slow, or did you need to resort to hand work?
I made my own from a barn sale hyd.motor. Made a cage for it that swivels so the auger is always vertical in all planes. Mounted off the sie of the bucket so I can see clearly where it will be starting to drill. Run it off the curl circuit and no problems. Nice feature is that it's reversible. run's nice from the joystick.
Dosnt work well meaning the type of 8in auger( for 4in posts) I have is a double flight and would move off rocks it couldn't pick up. Meaning lots of rock removal by hand and hole adjustment by hand. He said he would have came and got my 12in auger if he knew I had it. Lol. I guess this falls into the category or operator error or get a way bigger auger than you think you need.
We did sink nine 12in telephone poles 4ft into the ground and compact the clay back in this past weekend. This bigger auger seams to work alot better and could fill the auger very well. I have a video but I dont think I can post it.