00:00Hello there. Today we're going to look at augering, earth augering actually, mostly used for fence
00:17posts. Now the holes can be augered in any number of sizes. The particular pieces of equipment I
00:23got here today are ones that have been around for a fair length of time and this is your standard
00:29hole auger. Sometimes you could call it a one-man auger because only one person could use it but
00:35in the way back days it was hard to imagine that this is all we use to put fence posts in. The
00:41biggest size usually is eight inch. Some are adjustable, some are not. This one here is
00:47adjustable for six, seven or eight inch holes. Now mostly used maybe when you're only going to do
00:51one post, maybe for a sign, maybe for a laundry post, possibly to clean out holes from when you've
00:59used the power augers but this is what you sometimes will start off with, certainly the
01:04most economical but also the hardest to use and uses the most physical effort. Another hand type auger,
01:10this one is also used for digging holes but in this particular case we call it a clean out auger or a
01:18clamshell auger only because of its shape. This one here you have to drive down in the ground, scoop the
01:25soil and bring it out. Now you can certainly do augering with this auger as well but its primary
01:33use would probably now to clean out holes. After you've done them with a power auger you may want
01:39to get the dirt out that's down near the bottom, you may want to make it a little bigger, you may
01:43want to make it a little deeper but in this case at least you can grab the soil and pull it out and it
01:50provides a good accessory to using it with the power augers where some of the dirt that's loose will
01:57get down to the bottom of the hole and you might want it a little deeper. So those are two type of
02:02hand augers that you could use only with maybe a few holes. Now as time has progressed of course we all
02:11want it easier, we want it faster and here we have two types of power augers, both being hydraulic as opposed
02:20to belts and gears and everything. These are all run by hydraulic pumps. The augers come in various sizes,
02:26mostly the common size now to do six by six posts is a 12 inch auger which this one is, has very
02:34aggressive teeth on it. You can add in an extension to go a little deeper, four feet if you want to go
02:40down the four feet. You can also use smaller augers, eight inch augers which you'd use for maybe a four by
02:47four. You have to remember if you're using concrete around your post to measure the diagonal across from
02:53corner to corner of your post, not just that it's a four by four and use an eight inch auger. You don't
02:58have and then you don't have all that room to put a lot of auger, a lot of concrete and you don't want
03:03it to crack around the corners where the water can get down in. So pick a auger of suitable size and also
03:10accuracy of where you drill. You have to be pinpoint accurate if you want to have exactly that post in the
03:15middle. A little bigger auger can give you a little more room when you're augering. This particular auger
03:21here is excellent. It can be towed with a tow bar accessory as well. The handles can be moved. I'll
03:31just move this out of the way here. The handles can be moved up or down. They're always in the back
03:39position for towing but in the front position when you're using the auger. The head can be locked and
03:46unlocked so that it swivels to be used on a on a grade, different grades. It also, this head portion
03:54can be loosened off and swivel when you're on a slate grade or a hill or anything so you can always have
03:59your auger floating straight up and down. It's easy to move around as well and when you're using an auger
04:14on this particular one you have two levers, one for forward, one for reverse. This is the big thing with
04:20hydraulic augers is everybody has reverse but you've got to remember you should never really need reverse
04:26unless you wrap your auger around a rock or a root or a piece of wood or something. If you're using
04:33them right, you have them at your engine running at full speed, have the auger running at full speed
04:38and go up and down and get out of the hole. Go down maybe five or six inches, pull it up, get rid of the
04:43dirt, go down another five or six, get up, get out of the dirt. If you just take it and screw it down like
04:47a corkscrew in a cork on a wine bottle, you may not be able to get it out and reverse may not get it out
04:53especially in some heavier soils, the heavy clays and if you can't get it out reverse, guess what?
05:00You're digging with a shovel to get your auger out and that's not a catastrophe because you can always
05:06have a bigger hole, put a sonotube in, backfill it and use that for your post. So this particular auger
05:13stays in one piece as you see it and towed usually if you have to go somewhere. Another option is this auger
05:22which is fairly unique, it's only made by a couple of rental houses and this one will all come apart.
05:30If you're in a situation where you're in town and maybe you have to drive a fair bit and it weighs
05:35away and you don't want to tow it on the road, maybe you don't have a tow bar on the back of your
05:41vehicle, this one here is a hydraulic auger as well. The same principle, it can be can go in forward
05:48and reverse. The handle can swing around to get up against a wall or an area where you you're trying
05:56to butt it up right against something else and the handles also go up and down when you're putting an
06:02auger in and you have to have an extension on and then this can be moved up so that you're not trying
06:09to lift the auger out of the hole. The only way you can put an auger with an extension on a lot of times
06:14is to drop in the hole and then hook up your auger to be you doing your digging. So in this case this
06:21portion of the motor can be taken off with quick connects which can be detached, this can be taken
06:27off, the wheels can be taken off, this is just a carriage, this piece of the arm can be disconnected
06:35and then you're only dealt with this part here with the arms swing around and so it becomes a very
06:41compact unit. It can be put in an SUV, we've even seen it being put into cars although you've got to
06:48be well aware that some of this here is going on your seats. So most of the connections with the augers
06:55are are very easy quick connects, slide the auger in, lift up the collar and drop it down and in this
07:03particular one it's a little different whereas you put a pin in. You can't quite see the pin in the
07:09bottom here, this one you pull the pin and slide the auger on and put the pin back in.
07:16So that gives you a couple of ideas as far as fences. These are certainly the most common for using
07:22around the around the home for fencing, for doing any smaller jobs but you can do quite a few posts
07:32fairly quickly if you have the right soil. After that you can go into other items which we'll show
07:38you in other videos regarding going into doing it quicker, easier and maybe larger augering.
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