Super Steve
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Does anyone use say a 5" auger then use a loader to push a 6" post into the hole? Do then "setup" very well? I need to get a 5" auger for a project but don't want to be stuck with it with no other use for it.
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rustacres sd
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Co-worker that also farms, he uses a 6" auger bit and the pushes a 7" POINTED post into the whole. Beleive he might have used a smaller pay loader. He says that is the best anchor posts he has done.
that will work, we pushed 3 inch pipe poles into the ground with no holes to a depth of 4 feet using one of the company excavators, but thats cheating the excavator weighs 100 thousand lbs and can use more than half its weight to push, umm... we did bend a few pipes... but the posts are rock solid you would think there in cement to try to make them move
the tractor vet
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We use a 4.5 inch rock bit on the skid steer and then pound the post in with the Shivers driver mounted on one of the tractors. Also have done it with and excavator with no hole drilled .
Super Steve
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Glad to hear I won't be tossing a few hundred $ away for the few holes I need this bit for. Our loaders do have down pressure and our bigger loader (70hp) has a 7' high volume bucket so if I need the extra weight I could grab a bucket full of sand to help.
I pre drill a hole on all of my corner post. Usually a six inch hole and then drive an 8 inch post in it. They go in much easier and they always go straight. If you are drilling a 5 inch hole and putting a six inch post in it then you should have no problem. You might have to have the bucket full of dirt/gravel in hard ground but it will work.
I just pushed some four inch post in the ground yesterday with just the loader for some temporary electric fence. I did not dig them at all. I used a JD 6400 with a JD 640 loader.
I just pushed some four inch post in the ground yesterday with just the loader for some temporary electric fence. I did not dig them at all. I used a JD 6400 with a JD 640 loader.
read all the answers here & must add, take these as true for the soil conditions that the poster had at the place/time AND remember that soil conditions are NOT the same all over this earth & not even the same in the same spot at any given time. Reader beware!
Bryan inIowa
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I recall someone on here selling posts that cam ewith predrilled holes . 
Dean Olson
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My post hole digger won't drill a straight enough hole for that. To much slop, to old, cheap, or something. I use a 12" bit to drop 8-10" corner H racing in with and run 4 t posts then a 6" post.
I pd to have a fence put in with all wooden posts. They had 2 skid steers 1 drilling holes and the other putting them in the ground.
Looked like an 8" on the corners and 6" bit on the line posts. Posts looked the same size as the holes. That crew put in 1400' of woven wire fence in 2 days.
I pd to have a fence put in with all wooden posts. They had 2 skid steers 1 drilling holes and the other putting them in the ground.
Looked like an 8" on the corners and 6" bit on the line posts. Posts looked the same size as the holes. That crew put in 1400' of woven wire fence in 2 days.
Steve, Here in Central Texas, The norm is 12 in holes, drilled 4 + ft deep for corners, and line post about 2 ft deep. People will bell out the bottom of the hole then hand tamp wood post in. If using steel pipe either set the pipe in the hole just like a regular wood post OR then drive 3 + feet into the bottom of the hole then concrete half of the remaining hole. Then put soil the rest of the way to the top.(ie... pipe post corners done this way will need to be about 12 to 13 ft long to account for the 3 ft driven in the bottom of the hole, line post, 2 ft shorter.) . Corners done this way here just don't ever move at all. Don'' see what keeps the fence post tight, in a method as you described.
Fences are just not done that way here at all, 9 in and 12 in are the usual auger sizes.
Even the pro- fence builders here are not that good to keep a hole that close on a line. Soil condition vary too much, the auger will move around due to rock ledges, tree roots and the like. Hope this helps.
Later,
John A.
Fences are just not done that way here at all, 9 in and 12 in are the usual auger sizes.
Even the pro- fence builders here are not that good to keep a hole that close on a line. Soil condition vary too much, the auger will move around due to rock ledges, tree roots and the like. Hope this helps.
Later,
John A.
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Sharpen the posts and shove them in with a loader bucket catch a wet time and you won't need to drill a hole.Red clay ground
Anonymous-0
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I sell predrilled holes, on Craig's list. $6 for a 6" X 36" deep hole, 30 hole minimum plus travel time. Them holes is heck to strap down, on the truck, if one should roll off, it could become a pothole in the road!
Seriously, Best auger I have ever owned is what I have now: Rubber tracked loader with a hyd powered (with down pressure, and push button reverse) auger, with bits from 3" to 36"
Seriously, Best auger I have ever owned is what I have now: Rubber tracked loader with a hyd powered (with down pressure, and push button reverse) auger, with bits from 3" to 36"
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