Gas Drill anyone?

[Hay Dude]

Picked up a lightly used Stihl BT 45 gas drill today.
Haven’t used one in years.

Anyone else have/use one?

 

[MossRoad]

Isn't that an earth auger for planting flower bulbs? My employer has one.

 

[Hay Dude]

Isn't that an earth auger for planting flower bulbs? My employer has one.

No this is the wood boring one, I think its the same, without the side arm handle and the earth bit.

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

don't own but have used and seen them used.
Snowmobile clubs and winter road builders use to put stakes and sign holes into the ice and frozen ground. Stake in the hole and a little slush or water to set.
Arborists use to bore holes in tree trunks to place insecticide pac's into trees.

An arborist friend of mine switched to battery though.

 

[MossRoad]

No this is the wood boring one, I think its the same, without the side arm handle and the earth bit.

Either way, I saw a couple people plant a bazillion bulbs with one in an afternoon last week. Looked pretty darn handy.

 

[caver]

I picked up a NOS Ryobi gas drill/hammerdrill. https://tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/ryobi-gasoline-powered-drill-hammerdrill.445999/

 

[Hay Dude]

I have to drill a bunch of fence posts and the cordless 60v drill works, but changing packs constantly and the battery drill doesn‘t have the ”ass” behind it to keep your wrists & arms from flying around. This thing is bigger and when you drill a hole, it’s nice & steady.

I gave $200 for it. They are $799 new.

 

[groundcover]

Used to see them with the maple syrup guys but all cordless now.

 

[grsthegreat]

i had one used years ago to drill out houses for roughing in way before cordless drills came about. stopped using them due to exhaust buildup inside buildings. they were great though, had long extensions and i could drill joists 10' in the air while standing on the ground.

 

[Rustyiron]

I have to drill a bunch of fence posts and the cordless 60v drill works, but changing packs constantly and the battery drill doesn‘t have the ”ass” behind it to keep your wrists & arms from flying around. This thing is bigger and when you drill a hole, it’s nice & steady.

I gave $200 for it. They are $799 new.

As luck would go, I have a box of post holes that I was thinking about selling for $50.
You did good on that

 

[kydick]

i have seen rea linemen drilling holes upon the poles.

 

[Rustyiron]

It was the only choice besides air or hydraulic tools before the new batteries and tools came along.
Now there's battery ice augers for fishing.

 

[bradm64]

No this is the wood boring one, I think its the same, without the side arm handle and the earth bit.


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We had an Amish group build a storage building recently. They had a Stihl gas circular saw and a Dewalt compound miter saw with a 4 stroke Honda Engine. From discussions they have had someone fabricate the components to adapt the Honda to the miter saw. It worked well. not sure about the Stihl circular saw.

 

[Thunder chicken]

Our snowmobile club had a bunch, exactly as someone else mentioned.... we drilled holes to set stakes and sons in the ice on lake trails. They worked well.
The last 2-3 years we've moved to 20v battery drills.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Gas drills were all we used for drilling and framing poles that were not bucket truck accessible then Milwaukee came out with the Fuel brushless battery powered drills and the rest is history, no more gas drills.

 

[Hay Dude]

Gas drills were all we used for drilling and framing poles that were not bucket truck accessible then Milwaukee came out with the Fuel brushless battery powered drills and the rest is history, no more gas drills.

Yes, the cordless drills have replaced the gas. I’ll tell you this much, the gas drill is way more powerful and the size of it really makes a difference when bearing down with it in telephone poles. It just chews right through.
Battery drill kind of jerks around and the speed varies quite a bit.

No doubt cordless drill works great indoors and is lighter, but this thing has it’s place for certain jobs. It’s in my service truck to stay (but so is the DeWalt 60V drill lol)

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Yes, the cordless drills have replaced the gas. I’ll tell you this much, the gas drill is way more powerful and the size of it really makes a difference when bearing down with it in telephone poles. It just chews right through.
Battery drill kind of jerks around and the speed varies quite a bit.

No doubt cordless drill works great indoors and is lighter, but this thing has it’s place for certain jobs. It’s in my service truck to stay (but so is the DeWalt 60V drill lol)

We liked the cordless drills so good but when Milwaukee came out with a big impact with a 1/2 hex tip that takes our utility bits thats what we went to, the problem we always had with the gas drills started when ethanol gas became the norm, it caused us problems with all of our gas engines because nothing is worse than being 50' up a pole and the gas drill wont run since the next option was drag out an extension cord and generator, we finally figured out about ethanol free gas for our small engines but by then we had already switched out all the old gas drills.

 

[coobie]

i have seen rea linemen drilling holes upon the poles.

Me too..

 

[cqaigy2]

Real men use hand powered brace and bits. Don't have to worry about an engine puking or battery running out of juice. Though you might want to up your intake of spinach.

 

[nova3930]

Isn't that an earth auger for planting flower bulbs? My employer has one.

Oh I cussed one of those growing up whilst working for my grandfather. If we had a fence job we couldn't get the skid steer in to dig post holes we'd use one of those. Arm breaker if it caught a root and you weren't holding on....