screwed 'er to the ground

ericlb

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it was finaly my turn to screw an auger to the ground even pulled the front wheels, [ i was on a 6 foot bar on the back of the auger] the odd part was what was in the hole, nothing! this one hole had the wettest, most dense clay i have ever seen, it wouldnt back out, so i carefully attacked my 12 ton winch truck to the auger and pulled it straight out, even set the truck down a inch or 2
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(quoted from post at 23:00:56 04/13/16) it was finaly my turn to screw an auger to the ground even pulled the front wheels, [ i was on a 6 foot bar on the back of the auger] the odd part was what was in the hole, nothing! this one hole had the wettest, most dense clay i have ever seen, it wouldnt back out, so i carefully attacked my 12 ton winch truck to the auger and pulled it straight out, even set the truck down a inch or 2
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nough experience & you will learn how to avoid that! :wink:
 
Eric........I did that with my 8N. Caught the flight (twisty part) onna hidden tree root. Didja notice there is NO reverse on yer PTO? I hadda jack the front end up so I could relieve the pressure on the drill and knock the safety pin outta the hub. I ended up diggin' a cone shaped hole so I could SAW the flight outta the tree root. I now use a hydraulic post pounder. Power UP and SPRING 'er down. I use pressure treated POINTED fence posts. Take an IRON breakin' bar to start the hole fer the point. Back-up the tractor to the post, hydraulically raise the pounder and release the hydraulic pressure. KERBANG!!! Shure beets diggin' hole by hand, eh?........the amazed Dell
 
wow you did a heck of a good job burying that digger auger.

I have a TO35 Ferguson with ground speed pto, have been told I could jack up one rear wheel, place the pto in ground speed and place the gear lever in reverse,

when I let out on the clutch the pto will run in reverse and unscrew the auger,

I do not know for sure if that is true, as I have never had to check it out with my digger, but I keep that knowledge filed.

I also understand the ford tractor with the select 0 speed transmission has that same option, to run the pto backwards, again do not know that for sure.

but it would be nice to have when you have your post hole digger auger buried,
 
(quoted from post at 20:00:56 04/13/16) it was finaly my turn to screw an auger to the ground even pulled the front wheels, [ i was on a 6 foot bar on the back of the auger] the odd part was what was in the hole, nothing! this one hole had the wettest, most dense clay i have ever seen, it wouldnt back out, so i carefully attacked my 12 ton winch truck to the auger and pulled it straight out, even set the truck down a inch or 2
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I wonder if there is a way to modify an auger bit that would at least help to cut through smaller roots... probably not or we would have seen it by now. Seems like the problem is that the root goes in between what I'll call the flutes and so would have to figure a way to add some sort of cutting teeth in this area that could at least cut the smaller roots before the auger kept getting pulled down further and further by the root to the point it's stuck.

Here's a few pics of our 9N with the factory Dearborn/Danuser posthole digger





 
im lucky i own this winch truck, it pulled the bit out, fairly easy with no digging, i just made sure to spread the pull over the entire auger frame, so i didnt bend anything first time ever ive screwed an auger to the ground, and ive done miles of fence lol
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The man who was going to sell me his digger changed his mind
but said i could borrow it even though I hardly know him. How nice is that -- I know, some may want to say, "how foolish".

Anyway, after reading and hearing about stuck augers, I've been racking my brain about potential methods of extraction of a stuck auger.

How about this:
Depending on how much is still sticking up . . .

Chain, cable or the right hitch knot of strong rope binding on itself, somehow first fixed to the auger as close to the ground as possible and then wound around the auger in a counterclockwise direction.

Then nudge gently on the rope with the tractor to see if it will start to unwind. It would have to be a delicate operation obviously, so as to not bend the auger. If it started climbing out of the hole, then drop your wound pull rope down to ground level again to minimize the chance of bending.

T
 
most times unless you have a truck like mine below, the only way to unstick an auger with a ford, is to remove the 2 shear bolts, then the tractor and frame, then using at least a 24 and a 36 with a 5 foot cheater pipe, or even 48 inch long pipe wrench, with a cheater, unscrew the auger bit,
 
(quoted from post at 19:43:13 04/14/16) most times unless you have a truck like mine below, the only way to unstick an auger with a ford, is to remove the 2 shear bolts, then the tractor and frame, then using at least a 24 and a 36 with a 5 foot cheater pipe, or even 48 inch long pipe wrench, with a cheater, unscrew the auger bit,
Put the tractor in neutral, take a three foot piece of rebar or a crowbar and stick it in the upper u-joint and turn to unscrew the auger. Let the gearbox do the heavy lifting. Pretty easy really.
 
not this time, i tried that first, the auger wasnt screwed to a rock or root, it was sucked down into wet very heavy clay enough to stall the engine which has about half throttle at the time,
 
I guess he trusted you to do the right thing,
If you break it, you fix it to normal or better condition,

I have let two people borrow my old digger,
First one, I later learned he hooked it to a 5000 ford diesel and was drilling holes in a woods lot to build a pole barn, I finally had to call him and
ask him to bring it back, a member of my church,

Second, good friend ask to borrow it to drill three holes, finished the job and was going to bring it back the next day, it was gone,
His son saw it out there in the barn yard, got it took it to his wife's dads farm and started drilling holes for a new fence across the farm,
My friend had no idea where it when, but finally traced it down and had the boy bring it back, it was hanging from the front end loader of a new
John Deere tractor,

That is the kind of crap you run into loaning a post hole digger, now I just tell them it is broken, if anyone ask to borrow it,
 
Maxwell,

I know what a crap shoot it can be lending stuff.

When I was young in '71 I was adding some leaves to the rear springs on my '58 Merc pickup. A friend was looking on and asked where I got the big trolley jack. I said old Bill Trelford at the Esso station had loaned it to me.

The friend says, "Wow, he wouldn't lend me anything!"

I was thinking to myself, that's cause I bring it back exactly when I say I will, and [b:ad58bde728]cleaner[/b:ad58bde728] than when I borrowed it. :)

T
 

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