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Post hole digging
I'm going to take another route here on the auger thing.
Not many mechanical things scare me too much, but a three point mounted post hole auger scares me to death. I bought one used it once and couldn't sell it quick enough. The little gasoline powerd ones like EW used aren't too scary, but will either make a real man out of you or kill you from all the pulling, lifting, etc., did that too.
There is a fellow in our neighborhood who has a post driver on his skid loader, he does custom fencing.
After the tractor mounted auger scared me out I hired him to pound eight inch, eight foot long woooden posts for a new cattle yard fence. It didn't take him long and they were still rock solid after twenty years when we sold the farm.
Frank.
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EW;
OK now, it seems I have to splain everything to yous any more. Do you have trouble tying your shoes too, sometimes I do, but back to the fraidy cat thing on augers.
My first and only post hole auger was a no name elcheapo from TSC or some fleet store, not sure I remember where I bought it.
This death trap machine had a long handle that was meant for the operator of the tractor to use kinda over his/her shoulder to guide the auger where you wanted it to drill the hole. That worked out about as good as the Edsel, so you then turned the handle backward so a person standing behind the auger used this handle to guide the auger in and out of the hole to clear the dirt. It wouldn't drill a hole and auger the dirt up at the same time you had to lift it out several times per hole. The only safe way to bring the auger up or back in the hole was to stop the PTO which didn't work real good because without the auger turning it wouldn't come up out of the hole without bending the frame of the machine. So here stands this person behind the running auger with dirt flying all over with the auger flopping about and oh my get rid of that thing before someone is killed, which I promptly did.
Now remember this is the only auger I ever was exposed to so there likely are much better and safer ones built than I had.
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KT;
After the fact I now understand that my auger was at the bottom of the quality scale, there were many much better ones built, but I went for cheap, so that's what I got.
The hydraulic drives have the reversing feature, a blessing from above when roots or gravel rocks are involved. The "Thing", I'll call it that I had was shearpin city to say the least.
I do remember somewhere seeing an ad for an auger that had a very safe look about it. Somehow there was a sort of supporting frame that sat on the ground and the auger went straight up and down within the frame without anyone having to hand guide it.
Frank.
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