Auger recommendation for use on TB016 and possibly Avant 860

[6feetdown]

As description anyone have any recommendations, I'm assuming the Taki will be man enough.
Holes would be for fencing.
Only thinking at the moment as not usually our work but.....

 

[doobin]

Auger torque or digga. One to suit the avant flow will work fine on the 1.5t, plenty of torque just slightly slow. I run a digga PDD2 on all my machines from e10 to multione 8.4

 

[6feetdown]

Auger torque or digga. One to suit the avant flow will work fine on the 1.5t, plenty of torque just slightly slow. I run a digga PDD2 on all my machines from e10 to multione 8.4

Yeah looked at augertorque on Digbits

 

[6feetdown]

Yeah looked at augertorque on Digbits

Do you look for work with it or find work comes to you?

 

[Storrsy]

Yeah looked at augertorque on Digbits

I've had augertorque for 12 years on my tb016 then the 216. Decent gear and no issues from the drive unit although some of the flights have bent ever so slightly when pushing past a large boulder. I saw a flight from one of the local utility boys that was very thick looked just the job but not sure who made it.

X2500 model I have which runs off the 2.8t too but not vastly different regardless of what machine it's running off

 

[bobthebuilder]

Yeah looked at augertorque on Digbits

try paul peake ,hereford ,
auger torque dealer ,cheapest around when i bought mine

 

[6feetdown]

try paul peake ,hereford ,
auger torque dealer ,cheapest around when i bought mine

Just looked now 1395 plus vat del inc auger 100 to 300mm

 

[Storrsy]

Just looked now 1395 plus vat del inc auger 100 to 300mm

Depends on what hitch you have with it too. If you plan on tracking around a bit with it I'd recommend the cradle hitch. Stops it swinging all over the place and makes it easy to position it before drilling

 

[V8Druid]

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damn is he still about ...... known him 40 odd years but not seen him in the last ten or more ... Paul is quite a character ... could tell a few stories -- Serge me genny man worked for Paul for years ... used to run a tool hire op. in Aber. -- Gwent Tools (known locally as the Gwent Fool) .. which he could be, but I always got on well with him and liked him ... he must be pushing 70 now
pass that address quite regularly ... will have to pop in next time and wind the ol' bugger up a bit ... AFAIK he still lives in Grosmont

yep thats him ,he delivered mine as he was in the area ,mad as a box of frogs ,but proper nice fella

 

[6feetdown]

Had a price from local dealer today ....
Paul Peacock now 1500 plus vat inc hoses del drive single pin head and auger up to 300mm

 

[doobin]

Try digga. Farols are usually pretty competitive, I’d be surprised if they were as much as that.

 

[bobthebuilder]

Had a price from local dealer today ....
Paul Peacock now 1500 plus vat inc hoses del drive single pin head and auger up to 300mm

my x2500 was 1350 with one auger.about 2.5 years ago,so not too bad

 

[Storrsy]

Had a price from local dealer today ....
Paul Peacock now 1500 plus vat inc hoses del drive single pin head and auger up to 300mm

I don't think that sounds too bad at all to me. Which model is that. Think I paid around that for a x2500 plus auger and cradle hitch back in 2014. Had an x2000 before that which I had for 4 years and sold for £100 less than I paid for it.

 

[6feetdown]

my 2500t was 1350 with one auger.about 2.5 years ago,so not too bad

I guess like everything else the bs has pushed prices up again

 

[6feetdown]

Done

 

[doobin]

Done

What model?

 

[Storrsy]

Nice one. Same model as mine, very good it is too. Still think you should have gone for cradle hitch though

 

[6feetdown]

What model?

Auger torque only reason they do a couple of attachments too.
The Digga 1 was slightly more expensive

 

[6feetdown]

Nice one. Same model as mine, very good it is too. Still think you should have gone for cradle hitch though

I did contemplate but they didn't have any in stock as he said they make to order.

 

[Mick-the-fitter]

We run Digga on the hire side, have one in for a bearing refit at the moment, but it’s 15 years old, and at best very abused!