Dmace
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Is there water accesible at the site? I wonder if flooding the hole with some water and letting it drain a little would loosen things up and make it easier to drill...
Hole digger won't dig- ?
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I have a small one man post hole digger. When doing holes I put a little water in the hole afler it starts and it inproves the digging quite a bit. I put in the water about like drilling a hole in a drill press. big dan
bota7800
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I had good results with carbide teeth; cut through clay that the stock teeth would just polish.
I had one hole that I fought for a long time. It did not seem to have any rock in it. Finally gave up and dug by hand. Right square in the middle was a flat hard rock. The tip just spun on it.
I had one hole that I fought for a long time. It did not seem to have any rock in it. Finally gave up and dug by hand. Right square in the middle was a flat hard rock. The tip just spun on it.
Back when I used to struggle with a pto digger, we had a trick for getting it to penetrate into hard dry ground. What we would do is to take one of those round "wood grenade " wood splitting wedges shaped like a bullet tip, weld it to a piece of pipe of similar diameter as the thickest part, tall as your eye level, then take a fence post pounder, and pound it into the ground as deep as the length of the wedge(6-8"). Then fill these "dents" with water, and let sit overnight. Next morning, you could drill no problem. Whatever you do, don't get close to a pto digger or try the "Walt Disney" ride, standing on top of one, trying to add weight to the augur like I used to do! If you want to see how bad one of these things can mess you up, google search Charlie Daniels accident several years ago, when one almost ripped off one of his arms!
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Your neighbor said he has the same problem you described when the soil is dry. Have you tried adding a little water? Try doing that before you open the wallet.
drtydeed
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Rent a Dingo! You'll have those holes done in less time than fooling around with a tractor phd.
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Have you tried putting a seat on top of the PHD frame? Load it with Smarties and tell the local fat kid where they are.
drtydeed
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GinNB said:Have you tried putting a seat on top of the PHD frame? Load it with Smarties and tell the local fat kid where they are.
Well....I've seen it (almost). I have watched three guys wrestling with a 3pt phd to dig fence posts around a pool. One guy to run the tractor, one to put down pressure on the phd by hanging on it, and a third to keep the phd plum! I see this quite often and get a good laugh every time. This seems to be a common problem with my competitors. My suggestion is to simply rent the machine that was designed to do the job in the first place...takes only one person a fraction of the amount of time...
Anyway, I don't mean to rant...I think I'm developing a real bad case of cabin fever...
two-socks
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Get a five-gallon bucket of water and/or water hose and soak all the areas you want to auger over night. Should work like a charm