I looked all over the web and found only commercial Augers (none home made), this is the first one made by an Engineer in his home. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your folks's knowledge.
Busque en toda la web y solo encontre hoyadoras comerciales (ninguna hecha en casa), esta es la primera fabricada por un ingeniero en su hogar. Felicitaciones y gracias por compartir el conocimiento de tus familiares.
Look across the web and only found commercial hoyadoras (no homemade), this is the first made by an engineer at home. Congratulations and thanks for sharing the knowledge of your family. Thank you for the comment. Am glad you found it interesting.
+Mike Nestle Good question. No problems to date. Just keep it clean/dry after use to avoid rust. I was worried about the welds on the auger, but they were apparently good enough. I would focus on those more next time. I would also make it 4" or 5" rather than 6" because the job for 6" holes did not materialize (for small cement pilings) I just don't need 6" holes usually and that means more work. I did cut the handle down so that it's shoulder width. It was more, but it was unnecessary and forced you to back away every half turn. This design was modeled after one my father had that came from his great-grandfather. It held up for 75 years before rust got one of the blades (they were originally riveted, but he welded back on and I think my brother still has it). So the basic design is well proven.
Hi I was wondering what was the angle you had welded the auger plate at for optimized digging , too steep would make it hard to turn and dig out the dirt so i am guessing it is a relatively shallow angle ?
Grego d This plate is from a telephone guy wire anchor. The one my father had did have a very shallow angle. This one is steeper but OK. The front edge is just an inch or two above the tail end of the other plate. If the angle is too shallow it gets stuck on small rocks, so that's one tradeoff.
Yes it does. And it's much more efficient (less tiring for the amount of work) than a "jabber jaws" or other methods. My father had one he got from his grandfather. I found a pic of one in a old catalog from around 100 years ago. It's still the best way to dig a post hole or similar.
emt conduit probably would not hold up. ridgid electrical conduit is almost the same as black iron water pipe.. might even be the same stuff.. but the stuff in your vid looks extremely similar to the ridgid conduit I installed on many industrial machines... even did some stainless heavy gauge conduit that was about that size as well as some jobs that requested all aluminum conduit of a heavy gauge.. .about 3/16" wall thickness if I remember correct..
I looked all over the web and found only commercial Augers (none home made), this is the first one made by an Engineer in his home. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your folks's knowledge.
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Busque en toda la web y solo encontre hoyadoras comerciales (ninguna hecha en casa), esta es la primera fabricada por un ingeniero en su hogar. Felicitaciones y gracias por compartir el conocimiento de tus familiares.
Look across the web and only found commercial hoyadoras (no homemade), this is the first made by an engineer at home. Congratulations and thanks for sharing the knowledge of your family.
Thank you for the comment. Am glad you found it interesting.
It's been a while now - how's it holding up? What would you do differently?
+Mike Nestle Good question. No problems to date. Just keep it clean/dry after use to avoid rust. I was worried about the welds on the auger, but they were apparently good enough. I would focus on those more next time. I would also make it 4" or 5" rather than 6" because the job for 6" holes did not materialize (for small cement pilings) I just don't need 6" holes usually and that means more work. I did cut the handle down so that it's shoulder width. It was more, but it was unnecessary and forced you to back away every half turn. This design was modeled after one my father had that came from his great-grandfather. It held up for 75 years before rust got one of the blades (they were originally riveted, but he welded back on and I think my brother still has it). So the basic design is well proven.
Thank you
I built one and it works great
Thanks for letting me know. Where did you find the auger / screw part? That's the hard part.
tsbrownie that wasn't a problem, i cut 150mm square plate, so i got
6 inches auger. with 4.5 inches grinder it takes about 20 minutes.
I thought about cutting one from plate, but was not brave enough. You are good!
haimfitoussi to where can i send a pictures?
haimfitoussi
You can post on youtube and send me a link or post your e-mail (you may get spammed) and I will respond.
Hi I was wondering what was the angle you had welded the auger plate at for optimized digging , too steep would make it hard to turn and dig out the dirt so i am guessing it is a relatively shallow angle ?
Grego d This plate is from a telephone guy wire anchor. The one my father had did have a very shallow angle. This one is steeper but OK. The front edge is just an inch or two above the tail end of the other plate. If the angle is too shallow it gets stuck on small rocks, so that's one tradeoff.
looks like my dry wall mud mixer and i mix with heavy drill motor
does it work?
Yes it does. And it's much more efficient (less tiring for the amount of work) than a "jabber jaws" or other methods. My father had one he got from his grandfather. I found a pic of one in a old catalog from around 100 years ago. It's still the best way to dig a post hole or similar.
Sylvester Stallone eres tú?... Usaste esa para hacer los túneles en last blood
Sim. Mantenha em segredo.
can this be made using plastic?
I do not know any plastic strong enough that would not break.
tsbrownie ahh thanks but would plastic work for maybe grinding up compost?
Maybe, but I am not sure.
tsbrownie ahh well thank you so much for the help
Clever!
And in most soil types it works MUCH better than jabber jaws or other.
ES HERMOSO!!
Beautiful. ?yo o la maquina? ;) (I or the auger?)
Gracias!
thats electrical conduit.
Heavy gauge water pipe. Electrical conduit would not hold up.
emt conduit probably would not hold up. ridgid electrical conduit is almost the same as black iron water pipe.. might even be the same stuff.. but the stuff in your vid looks extremely similar to the ridgid conduit I installed on many industrial machines... even did some stainless heavy gauge conduit that was about that size as well as some jobs that requested all aluminum conduit of a heavy gauge.. .about 3/16" wall thickness if I remember correct..
Bought this stuff from a plumbing supply house. Heaviest gauge they had. Maybe a bit of over-kill, but if it's worth doing it's worth over-doing! ;)