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  Posted by FL-Dave on January 8, 2022 at 9:45 am

  Good morning all. I am working through the best way to clean up a significant amount of old pasture fence. I really should have a larger tractor – but that is a longer story for another day. I need to restore better than a mile of fence. The good news is – not all at once. I am working through my options to dig the holes and a PTO hole digger is one.

  Can anyone recommend a PTO hole digger that mostly works. I saw Tim work though his review so I don’t expect perfection.

  Can I use a full size setup with a 48 in auger or do I have to utilize the 30 inch auger?

  As consideration I do have an older full size tractor that I hope to get back in service this spring. Thus my hope I make do with a full size for the urgent fixes and then switch to a full size high later with only a single purchase.

  Specific product information is helpful but it may come down to what can I find to purchase. Supply around me seems pretty limited right now.

  Cheers – like the show and hope the forum takes off.

  Dave

  

  • This discussion was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by  FL-Dave.

  Diglett replied 3 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Killer223

  Member

  January 8, 2022 at 11:02 pm

  I have the one from tractor supply, my little 2210 ran it just fine. i made a leg so it wouldn’t suck down into the ground to fast or past a certain depth. other than that it’s been great for me. it’s punched about 150 holes.
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    TractorTimeWithTim

    Administrator

    January 11, 2022 at 4:45 pm

    Mine is from Tractor Supply too. it works. I can pick it up about 6″ off the ground when in the ‘middle’ configuration. You should be fine.
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      FL-Dave

      Member

      January 17, 2022 at 8:03 am

      Killer223 and Tim – Thank you for the courtesy of a reply. I spent more time than most would researching this. So far I plan to purchase Land Shark’s subcompact model from everything attachment. It will be a few weeks to order and get it in but his video discussion of how they make them, favoring US materials and testing it on a one (1) series sold me. I have a used one for sale less than one hour away now. That might be perfect.

      If anything noteworthy happens I will try and share it back.

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  FL-Dave

  Member

  March 20, 2022 at 11:06 am

  This is a post purchase and a first use follow up.

  I ended up purchasing a Land Shark with 9 inch auger from everything attachments. After minor assembly and using it; I would purchase it again. I purchased the recommended 36 inch long auger which will produce about a 24 inch deep hole. After a little practice I was able to produce pretty clean holes with a mostly neat stack of removed dirt. I did not hit any major roots yet so I can not comment on that aspect, but my estimate is it will take a lot. I did not come off idle during the first days use.

  I expect to purchase a 48 inch auger as the 24 inch is not deep enough to set 8 foot corner post without some post hole digger work.

  Good luck to fellow hole diggers.

  Respectfully,

  Dave

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  Diglett

  Member

  March 20, 2022 at 2:40 pm

  Thanks for the follow up!

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