Post hole auger

[Schu]

I have a 1948 Cub with later model (spring helper) Fast Hitch. I really enjoyed restoring it this past winter. I am setting it up for a small acreage. Looks like I can get everything I need except a post hole auger. I will need to drill many holes as I set up fence, plantings, etc.
Any ideas or experience on the best way to add an auger?
Looks like the Prewitt auger is pretty much unobtainium.
I appreciate any ideas

[Don McCombs]

For a one time project, I would suggest renting a self powered one.

[Gary Dotson]

Or, if you know someone, who has one, see if you can hire him for a few hours to drill them all at once.

[radioguy41]

For a one time project, I would suggest renting a self powered one.

That's what I did.

[ricky racer]

I don't know about a post hole digger but the tractor looks amazing!!

[SamsFarm]

I partnered with my brother and we bought a Deere 8875 skidloader, then a auger for it!

But for putting fence posts in I got a 3pt Shaver hd-10 post pounder.

There is no comparison between a post set with a post pounder vs a post set in a hole dug with a auger!

A 8-9" diameter black locust post, 9' long driven 4' in the ground will hold a 12' gate with no other support (in my ground)!

Our skidloader can lift 4000# with the pallet forks.
But it can not pull one of those locust rounds out of the ground once set with the pounder!

Cubs are great for cultivating and pulling a hay wagon, digging potatoes and bringing in some vegetables on the carry-all!

[Eugene]

You didn't state the total length of fence, purpose of the fence, type of fence, or soil condition.

AG fences are usually wood corner and brace posts and steel T posts for the line fence.

If you are not digging to many post holes. https://www.lowes.com/pd/43cc-One-Man-A ... lsrc=aw.ds

This part of Missouri we use the backhoe to dig holes for seedling trees. Got more rocks than soil.

[Jim Becker]

My thoughts are along the same line as Eugene commented. It depends a lot on what "many" is and what type soil you are on. I have set over 30 posts (4" x 8') 2 feet deep into sandy soil. Granted, the most i did at one time was a little over half of them. But I just dig the holes with a shovel. Yes, any sort of auger would have dug the holes quicker. But not if you added in time to either mount a digger on a tractor or go rent/return a rental auger. This does not include t-posts that I drive in for corners around my garden or the light duty steel posts in the straight stretches between the t-posts.

[Schu]

I appreciate the input
Looks like no real good solutions for Cub mounted digger
I will probably go the rental or hand dig route

[Eugene]

Another type post hole auger. https://www.zoro.com/seymour-midwest-au ... gLID_D_BwE
Its fast in soil without a lot of rocks.

Worked one fall until ground froze for an individual who commercially installed fence. Some of the fence lines were a mile long. Anyway, there are commercial firms that install fences.

[52DAVE]

A cub pto turns at motor speed and backwards I'm not sure you can use one on a cub without a reverser despeeder.

[Bill Hudson]

Here are three pics of the PHD I owned for a short time in 2012. It was designed for mounting on a FH equipped F-Cub and worked very well for the test holes I drilled here (sandy soil).

Bill

http://photos.cubfest.com/displayimage.php?pos=-39755
http://photos.cubfest.com/displayimage.php?pos=-39756
http://photos.cubfest.com/displayimage.php?pos=-39754

This may be of interest. The last I knew, this digger was in New Brumswick, Canada.

[SamsFarm]

It was designed for mounting on a FH equipped F-Cub

That dont look very FAST to HITCH!

But I guess it is better than nothing!