Post Hole Diggers

   / Post Hole Diggers #11  
Sounds like the pipe solution might be as good as a down pressure kit at next to no cost, great idea! Does your auger have a screw point and then the flighting has two removable/replacebale/sharpenable blades? Thats what I have and it works fine in anything but solid rock. You must have some really hard clay out your way, glad I dont! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 
   / Post Hole Diggers #12  
What is the cost on a good used one. When an auction this weekend and they had one that seemed to go very high.
 
   / Post Hole Diggers #13  
got to tell you in clay add water no hose use a big bucket pour it in the hole then yell yeehaa
 
   / Post Hole Diggers #14  
Recently, I too have experienced the "non digging" auger. In my case it is a Befco M2 9" auger without any downforce kit. I've become very suspicious of the replacable auger point. As a test, I removed the auger point and I was able to dig down another 6" right away (until the middle was so compacted with dirt it stopped). I don't think that my auger point is a very good design. It looks kinda like a large wood screw. However the threads of this screw are very wide, in some places over .5" thick. These thick threads (and the blunt tip) really cut down on the downward pressure that the auger can generate. It's not much different than trying to push a smooth cone shape (point first) into the ground. I'm going to see if I can modify the auger point so that I can put some sort of replacable cutting edge on it. Maybe two flights bolted onto the tip at angles...

Peter
 

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