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POST HOLE AUGER

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MARVIN

04-25-2007 21:27:10




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HI ALL. has anybody built a post hole auger for there tractor ?i am looking for some info and pic ,any help would be great ,thanks marvin,




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Steve Crum

04-27-2007 05:38:15




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 Re: POST HOLE AUGER in reply to MARVIN, 04-25-2007 21:27:10  
I looked at building a post hole digger. Priced buying the 6" bit I needed, Stood back and looked at all the hassle. Even having a well equipt fabrication shop and enough neat junk around to build 10 of them, It was cheaper and less trouble to go to TSC and drop 500 bucks on a new digger and bit. Mine's drilled more than a hundred holes and still looks like the day I bought it. No doubt I can resell it and get back at least 80% of the purchase price. As if I haven't got that value back already.
Chances are that to sell a home built one, aside from the auger, wouldn't bring more than scrap value.

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KEH

04-26-2007 16:33:32




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 Re: POST HOLE AUGER in reply to MARVIN, 04-25-2007 21:27:10  

Yes, I made one from an old car rear end. To get the auger flights to fit on the shaft, the hole in them must be cut in an oblong shape. Try cutting a pattern out of a sheet of paper. Found a piece of tubing woth a flange for the shaft and welded pieces of steel with holes in them in a pattern to fit the lug bolts. The big issue was the universal joint. A car universal is not designed to turn as sharp an angle as is needed for the auger, and I kept replacing u joints. Was going to replace the car u joint with an agricultural joint, but never did. Dug quite a few holes before it quit. Bottom line, I don't recommed doing the project. For the time you would have invested, you would be money ahead buying one.

KEH

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