Post knockers, hit me

[Monkeybusiness]

When I got mine I met them at plantworx when it was at the airfield many years ago, they had it and I had a go, rob told me I would do 300-400 posts a day in sensible ground (I was otterfencing at the time so going in 1.1m) I laughed at him and he told me he would come to my site and show me, rent it for a week and get the full hire cost off of the machine if I purchased.
true to his word he did, then went to an old quarry with ground so hard (gravel haul road) it was snapping the bottoms off of auger flights and he came out with the rock spike and again proved how good it was.
when kit is good it needs to be said as we always quick to say why stuff is s**t.
also had a tracked protech and an awesome machine it was but so much easier set up with the auto guide.

I stood a load of telegraph poles up and placed them into sockets when they were building Bewilderwood (a kids treehouse-theme park) during Covid. The builders drove posts below ground-level with a 3 tonne machine fitted with what I now realise was one of these attachments (they put a galvanised socket on the top of these posts to receive the telegraph poles, to help avoid rotting (but I don’t think it has worked!…)).
It was a very good piece of kit!

 

[DaveDCB]

Venturing off subject slightly.., does anyone use augers much? I’ve a considerable amount of security fence to put up and think augering the holes out is the way to go(beats hand dig).. Digbits have the Digga ones with levelling lights on them now which looks handy. Thinking 300mm for the posts?

 

[hiluxman]

Venturing off subject slightly.., does anyone use augers much? I’ve a considerable amount of security fence to put up and think augering the holes out is the way to go(beats hand dig).. Digbits have the Digga ones with levelling lights on them now which looks handy. Thinking 300mm for the posts?
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I've done a fair bit with the auger now. If find you can start of as plumb as you can but as soon as it hits a decent hard lump then that's it your holes out of line.

You won't need a 300mm flight for palisade fencing either 200mm works well.

 

[Giles]

Those auto guides look good if doing river bank work etc not seen them before but used the vibrating pile hammers and there scarily good at sinking stuff

@DaveDCB augers are great I’ve had 1 15 years a digga and still going strong got full set of flights in 4,5,6,8,10, 12 and 30” there the important bit of and cat scan for utilities

 

[Steve]

I think you are pretty safe with either the Digga or Auger torque. Most difficult ground I find has 4” stones where the auger brings them nearly to the surface before they fall back in & push the auger off line.