post hole digger

[wellmax99]

I used my post hole digger yesterday,
son was here and he helped me place my old dinner bell on a new post.

we used the post hole digger to dig the hole,

had the hole dug in about 1 minute.

what a great tool to have around the barn yard when you need it.

guess you really do not have to have one, but its nice to have when you need it.

was funny, he said it took longer to hook it up than it did to drill the hole.

what a great machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Greenline 5000

 

[rrlund]

That's what I always get in to,taking longer to hook it up that it takes to auger the hole. I need more than one hole to drill or some awful hard ground to make it worth the trouble.

 

[Dave H (MI)]

If you find a convenient place along a wall...

Reinforce the trusses a little, a 2x4 run over the top of several is good, then put an eye bolt thru it with a long chain hanging down. Back the PHD under the chain and wrap the chain under the boom and secure it to itself. Lower the PHD so it hangs on the chain and unhook. Leave the auger on for balance.

The next time you need to hook on, one guy can do it in two minutes. Mine has been that way for 26 years.

 

[bobwny]

your lucky to live in an area where they work.here in western n.y. their almost worthless,too rocky.

 

[rrlund]

I do,but I still have to squeeze between the arm and wheel to get the pin on the center link,then get on my knees to hook up the pto,then get the arms lifted to the right height to get the pins in. It's just easier sometimes to grab the post hole digger out of the shop and do it by hand.

 

[Roy in UK]

We had a Massey Ferguson Post Hole Digger, (Like the one in the link) It was a good machine but a TERRIBLE thing to hook up! Instead of using the tractor top link hole it used that bracket underneath with the pin that pivoted in the middle, (Originally designed for the pick up hitch) We found that before un hooking it if we let it dig a hole half way or so of the length of the auger then leave it in the hole it had just dug was self supporting .
Ferguson Post Hole Digger

 

[wellmax99]

I store it like this, drill a hole in the ground and let it stand, so far its worked ok for me, but still a pain.

I agree having a place where I could hang it up would make it much easier, someday I might do that, its been 2 years since I used it for digging 3 holes in my grape vine arbor.

so you see, it does not get a lot of use, but its there if I need it.

 

[504]

The cure is just buy another tractor, and leave it on all of the time. Tell your wife, she will under stand--no, really she will.

 

[wellmax99]

I agree 100 % with you,

but I do not think she would agree, otherwise I would not be riding around on this old 1957 TO35,

I would be riding on a new tractor with a front end loader, most all my friends have those and they are nice,

also have a good neighbor with a case 580 backhoe, now that is one sweet tool,

Remember: he who dies with the most toys wins.

 

[Dave H (MI)]

Yup, that is the exact setup I use excepting mine is inside. The whole bury the auger in the ground idea does not cut it for me, tried it and don't like it. Now you see, I am still a couple years younger than you and my Michigan muffin top is sadly lacking...so ize can bend over and put the PTO shaft on! ;<)

 

[rrlund]

Mine's under the eves so it's mostly out of the rain. The PTO shield on the tractor keeps me from sliding the shaft on from above. Danged safety equipment just makes life tough on us old,out of shape guys.

 

[RustyS]

We have the Rhino digger. Same basic shape as the one in your photo. It travels with two other augers and a ten foot piece of 1/4 inch chain to hang it from the closest low tree limb. When you hang it at the right height it is a piece of cake to hook up.

 

[wellmax99]

If you own a TO35 you have PTO ground speed reverse option, you might not be aware of that and hopefully you will never have to use it.
but sometimes using a Post hole digger, you get the auger caught under a root or sum such and you can not get the auger to pull out.

Option: you can jack one rear wheel of the tractor off the ground, then place the pto in ground speed, then place the tractor transmission in reverse,

when you let out on the clutch, the wheel that is off the ground will start to spin and the pto shaft will turn in reverse,

as the pto shaft turns in reverse, the post hole digger auger will reverse itself and screw itself out of the ground.

hope you never need to use this option, but it works,

guess it would work if you had a haybaler or corn picker choked up, it might work, but could mess up the knotters on a baler.

might be a bit of useless information to most folks, but who knows someone might need the option someday,

I was using my post hole digger the other day and remembered the option as I was drilling a hole beside an old dead tree stump, was concerned I might get it caught under a root.

 

[495man]

(quoted from post at 07:34:52 12/22/15) If you own a TO35 you have PTO ground speed reverse option, you might not be aware of that and hopefully you will never have to use it.
but sometimes using a Post hole digger, you get the auger caught under a root or sum such and you can not get the auger to pull out.

Option: you can jack one rear wheel of the tractor off the ground, then place the pto in ground speed, then place the tractor transmission in reverse,

when you let out on the clutch, the wheel that is off the ground will start to spin and the pto shaft will turn in reverse,

as the pto shaft turns in reverse, the post hole digger auger will reverse itself and screw itself out of the ground.

hope you never need to use this option, but it works,

guess it would work if you had a haybaler or corn picker choked up, it might work, but could mess up the knotters on a baler.

might be a bit of useless information to most folks, but who knows someone might need the option someday,

I was using my post hole digger the other day and remembered the option as I was drilling a hole beside an old dead tree stump, was concerned I might get it caught under a root.

Sound advice. I do this with a newer MF, putting up a fence one day I had to do this 7 times.....

 

[vscummins]

I have always wondered what you when you need to put down force on a digger like that with my ford it has flat frame that you can set a loader bucket on and push with Another tractor or you can use A 4x4 buy 8 about 6 feet long and then hang off the end of that to sink a hole in super hard ground

 

[Bob in SD]

That's been my experience also. Unless I need to dig quite a few holes it's quicker and easier to pull out the hand phd. I've actually never used the one that came w/ my Ford. It sits under the windmill and gets greased every couple of years, but never used.

 

[bteny10]

hey there we sometimes set 150 posts a day at ten dollars a post dont take long to run up the bill bush hog has no trouble going in the ground