What else is a PHD useful for?

[DJ54]

I made an adapter for mine to run screw anchors in the ground. You will need to remove the auger.
A piece of pipe, approx. 6" long, that will fit your output shaft, cross drilled to pin to the output shaft. The other end was notched, so as to inset two pieces of 2" channel back to back, about an inch in between them.. Those also cross drilled so as to run a bolt through, and hold the screw anchor.

It sure beats twisting them in by hand..!! It is an idea to weld the top loop on the screw anchor, back to itself, as I have unwrapped one. Most of my tractors have live power, so I can kinda' ease it in to start with the clutch. Not sure how well it would work with a hydraulically engaged independant PTO like on my Massey.

I need to do a remake on mine though. Trying to run some 6" X 36" anchors Dad made years ago, and extra's on hand, into the dry clay we had this fall, pulled the the weld out of the pipe... I have a piece of drill stem that should do the trick.

And as Ken mentioned, in dry ground, unless you have the aggressive cutters (which I don't) It will more than likely bore through the topsoil, then just dance on the hard clay. My Super C has down pressure, and it would only lay the PHD over sideways. It took me 6 hrs. to finish setting that post by hand. Of course it was a 16" by 48" deep hole to accomodate the post, (14" X 9' pole butt end). I have a heavy 5' spud bar/tamper, even sharpened on one end. It would ring like a tuning fork when I would take a jab, and only go in about 1 1/2"... LOL..

Thanks goodness I bought that post driver last fall. But it was even too dry for it to drive the boughten 6" end/gate posts. And I sharpened it on the end, with like a 60ｺ angle. 20 licks with the driver, and it only went in about 8". A week of good soaking rain made all the difference. I'm now driving the unsharpened 5" line posts, and 6" corner/gate posts fairly easy.

And also like Ken mentioned, it really is a two man job, but I don't have that option... Just gotta' learn tricks, to do it yourself. A few trips off the tractor to get it lined up, sometimes I can move the tractor by hand, to get that last RCH of adjustment... But sure beats digging and tamping.

Got a pic here of my lightly used Shaver HD-8 all hydraulic post driver mounted on my little Ford 2000. It is the berries..!!

 

[Timber]

When I bought my Tractor the PHD was & still is the most important implement I own. It is the the only tool you can use to punch a hole that maintains the integrity of the hole wall. People make the mistake of thinking that a PHD is all you need to do the job and get a little bent out of shape when you hit a stone or root and maybe a little hard pan. The uses are limited to you imagination. But don't think a PHD is all you need to punch a hole, if you are going to work in the dirt you have to get it under your fingernails. A PHD will never let you sit on your *** to get the job done

If you paid $50 bucks for a used cheep PHD you probably paid to much. There is a big difference between cheep tools and quality tools & it is especially true with a PHD