post hole borer

[Andy Gaffer]

Evening all,

Looking for a used post hole borer for my Jcb 8018, 25mm pins, anybody know of one or who's best to try?

 

[Komatsu]

Evening all,

Looking for a used post hole borer for my Jcb 8018, 25mm pins, anybody know of one or who's best to try?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........there was loads that have just gone through Euro!!....think @Dr pecker on here sells them or should be able sort you out

 

[doobin]

I'd look at new, second hand ones seem to be silly money.

Just bought a Digga unit, very impressed. £1400 for a PD-X2 complete with the link arrangement that lets it move (although I welded my own hitch plate) and 6" and 12" auger flights.

Runs well on a 1.7t machine, very quick on the 2.7t and slow but plenty of power on the 1.2t machine.

I'd say you want the one down from that (PD-X) as you will only be running on a 1.8t and it'll be a touch quicker.

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[Dr pecker]

Evening all,

Looking for a used post hole borer for my Jcb 8018, 25mm pins, anybody know of one or who's best to try?

Hi Andy,
I am a dealer for Digga equipment, you could put a PDD2 on your 8018.
Approx £1350 With a hitch and 8" MFT (hard conditions) flight, less your 5% forum discount plus the dreaded.

 

[Lynchy]

 

[Lynchy]

Fishing lol for one that nearly got away,cost best part of

£10k to fish that out

 

[Grahams]

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Might be a little bit overkill for Andy!

 

[fred]

I’ve got the Augertorq for our 3 tonner, have the stump planer for it also. Nice bit of kit

 

[Lynchy]

Might be a little bit overkill for Andy!

Yeah just a bit of random 'stuff' lol

 

[Andy Gaffer]

Thanks for that, I've a job that's coming up which requires around 200m of concrete posts to go in, may not justify a new one however I'd assume it will hold its money and as I get older and wiser it will be easier to bore them out instead of doing it by hand, dr pecker what are your contact details and I'll give you a call Monday.

 

[Brendan]

Thanks for that, I've a job that's coming up which requires around 200m of concrete posts to go in, may not justify a new one however I'd assume it will hold its money and as I get older and wiser it will be easier to bore them out instead of doing it by hand, dr pecker what are your contact details and I'll give you a call Monday.

Decent branded used ones are either not far off of new prices or just not for sale.
There is the Chinese or cobbled together units but won't have the power or more importantly back up of digga or augertorque if something did fail.

To be fair it would possibly nearly pay for itself just on this one job if it's 200 linear meters at 1.8m spacings you could be looking at 112 posts, depending on ground conditions if your lucky you could get 15 posts a day for couple of guys so 7.5 days - even if they managed to do 20 a day it would be 5.6 days. whereas with an auger they would probably struggle to keep up just putting the posts in the ground.

No idea how many you would be able to auger in a day but would imagine north of 30 easily. I borrowed an auger unit off a 2t machine on my old micro and managed to do 250mm X 1200mm deep holes through stoney ground in a matter of minutes, the 100mm X 700mm holes took well under 1min

 

[doobin]

My labourer had been digging a hole in clay for around an hour when I said 'f**k it, I'll buy an auger'. He'd got about two feet down, you know what clay is like, it won't break out. Came back two days later with an auger and we had that hole down to four feet in around a minute. Lowered it in, filled the flight, pulled it out, he held the shovel against it whilst I reversed it over a spot board. Repeat, hole done.

Huge difference and nobody tired. It'll last me a lifetime I should think.

 

[Andy Gaffer]

The last job I did Brendan I hired one in at a cost of £150/wk plus the transport so £180 in total, this next job we've got to do a bit at a time so could take up to 3 weeks or more, with minimum hire cost and my time if I pick up and collect it starts to add up, we are on day work on this job so I can recharge the customer for its hire.

 

[doobin]

They're cheap enough to hire, but nothing like having one when you need it for a few holes.

 

[Russell]

I had a 20-30meter fence market out and dug In a hour with a hired in one. Next big fence job I get I will buy one.
I bet they will properly destroy services though.

 

[T whiting]

The machine mounted augers are brilliant I did 50 holes by 11 o clock with one bit it was in very nice going

 

[doobin]

I had a 20-30meter fence market out and dug In a hour with a hired in one. Next big fence job I get I will buy one.
I bet they will properly destroy services though.

As we CAT scanned that clay job, my mate and I were joking about how, if we didn't scan, the first thing we'd know about it would be the cable snaking down off the adjaceant pole as it wrapped around the auger underground

 

[Smiffy]

As we CAT scanned that clay job, my mate and I were joking about how, if we didn't scan, the first thing we'd know about it would be the cable snaking down off the adjaceant pole as it wrapped around the auger underground

Watched one go round a piling ring the other day
25mm diameter been disconnected at each end long before
Got over 100 meters on it before the operator backed off as the material wasn't being expelled correctly

 

[Quattromike]

I don't know what type of ground you're in but it may be an option to use a Bryce Suma with the big rock spike tool that leaves a nice hole for concreting in posts .

 

[Quattromike]