I borrowed this tool from a friend, and man it works great! The only problem is I do not know exactly what it is called! I cannot seem to find one in any hardware store around.
If anyone knows what this tool is named, or even better where to buy one, I would be forever grateful!!! I promise!
I have heard it called "some kind of auger" , and a "widowmaker". Those descriptions have not led me to finding one to purchase.
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Most of the ones you can buy now have a much shorter pole and I suspect the one pictured was altered with the length of pipe so deeper holes could be made.
I would suggest a farm & fleet kind of store.
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Hey Coop. I've got one of them things. Used to use it to dig post holes, but later learned that the damn thing was actually a "rock diviner". Get set to dig 4 holes in a straight line, and the first three would go smooth as silk. Get to the 4th hole, and sure enough, this tool would unfailingly find a rock...even in a 100 acre field. Usually that rock was also the "first cousin" of the one that the aboriginees worship down in Australia. There would be no way to break up the heemongous rock that this tool would find, so you had to re-locate and re-dig. Eventually, I just gave up on using it, because it was sooo good at finding rocks.
I sure hope you have better luck with the one you've got.
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Posted by coop (Member # 504) on :
Ken, since you don't use yours any more, want to sell it?
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! "If you keep doing what you have been doing, you'll keep getting what you have been getting."
Most of us use the clam shell type post hole digger rather than the auger type.
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Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
Hey Rick, when you say "Most of us" I think you mean "You" I decided digging holes was best left up to my two brothers. (plumbers) Unless its a real easy dig I am only to happy to cough up 20 bills to: have delivered, use, and have collected - a one man motorised post hole digger. Those blisters make it sooooo hard to hold a brush (or use a keyboard for that matter) Enjoy, David
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Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
"Right on" David! I have a "clam shell digger" and haven't dug a post hole in years! I tell my customers "$50 per hole, or you can use my digger and do it yourself for free"
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Posted by Ken Henry (Member # 598) on :
Sorry, Coop. I've checked the tool shed, but can't seem to find that old rock locator. My wife tells me that her brother "may have borrowed it" back some time ago when he was putting up a fence. If I do find it, I'll gladly sell it, but it does come complete with it's own curse.
In the meantime, you can probably pick one up at a farm supply type store. As I recall, that particular type isn't real expensive. I think I paid about $ 40.00 Canadian for the one I had.
Have a great day.
------------------ Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail kjmlhenry@home.
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Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
It's a "Hand Auger" you can buy them at most Ace Hardwares (but you will quit singing its praises when you hit "sandstone" or small rocks...great in that black topsoil where you live tho! Drive out of town a ways and try it in that red "gumbo" Oklahoma's famous for...then do a follow up post hehe... see ya!
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Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
Coop I have been using one of those for years, My father-in-law gave it to me after he dug his well with it, he used water pipe to add on the the end and dug a fifty ft deep well to water his garden. its a hand auger, and I bought a small one from true value for digging 2x2 holes. A local realtor borrowed the 2x2 one though, and moved away, never returning it. Try True Value or Lowes, maybe even wal-mart Bill PS I now have a power driven auger, two man one that my son and nephew run when I need any holes
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Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
Hey 'Heads! I use the clamshape type, if its what I call a mortarless install,(temporary or small stuff) some times I neeed an awl-pick to loosen rocks, if you are going to set the posts in mortar you might as well use the best tool for diggin' ... a spade shovel! dig a nice big hole, set in some 10"-12" consrtuction tubes, set the sign in and fill the tube with rocks and concrete, you can level and plum your posts first then pore your 'crete so you don't have to sit and hold it while it sets... I feel for you guys, I think my tools are rock magnets too, I live in Massachuetts, translated loosely from the native american "big rock in on water" we have it pretty bad, it usually goes: a layer of top soil, a layer of sand, clay, then rocks! big rocks! lots of them!
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Posted by John Deaton (Member # 925) on :
My dad had one of those when I was a teenager. Caught him gone one day and I hid it in a place never to be found again. I hated that dang thing. DOn't care much for the new ones, but gotta dig them holes somehow.
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