How do you store your post hole auger?

Justin SE IOWA · Sep 10, 2014

Every time I need to use my auger it is a royal pain in the a$$. Trying to get it up off the ground and hooked to the tractor is a real chore. It flips and twists and the PTO shaft spins around and Im just lucky I don't break a finger or an arm! Its so damn heavy also. There HAS to be a better way. Some way to store it so I can just back up to it and hook it up. How have you found to be the best way? Any pictures? Thanks

Case e · Sep 10, 2014

Try hanging is in the allyway of a corn crib or in a pole shed with a come a long. you can lift it and hook it to you tractor with ease.

Tracy Brown · Sep 10, 2014

We put a loop on the gearbox, then built a frame to hold it
hanging upright about 6" off the ground. Back up to it, hook it
up, raise it enough to unhook it, drive away. A tree limb or
beam in an existing building would also work.

Justin SE IOWA · Sep 10, 2014

I was thinking about hanging it. Thanks for your help

Greg1959 · Sep 10, 2014

Justin SE IOWA- I fight with mine too! I have
wrestled that thing for years....you posed a good
question. I hope someone has an easy solution.

Greg

IowaJohn · Sep 10, 2014

I've got a danuser that I lay it on the concrete inside to store. When I unhook it I let it down and back up it folds under the drawbar. When I hook it up I lift the frame to put the pin in the top link then the pins in the 2 lift arms. Lift it up and hook up the PTO.

VicS · Sep 10, 2014

Just helped neighbor. His had fallen down. We set
it on a board and leaned it up to a post, and
chained it. It swinging from a come-along from a
tree limb would be better.

fixerupper · Sep 10, 2014

I made a stand for mine. It clamps to the digger right below the gear box with one big clamp. The stand is light enough to slide right up to the digger and clamp it on while the digger is still on the tractor. After the stand is clamped on I pick up the digger with the stand attached, drive to where I want to store it and set it down. My digger goes on the front of the loader so there aren't any three point arms anymore but a three point mounted digger would work in this stand too. I'd take a pic but it's buried in the back of the machine shed and hard to get to. Jim

Hobo,NC · Sep 10, 2014

I don't have one if I did I would build a stand for it...

I have a bud that stores his in a shed and drilled a hole with it and that's were it sets....

notjustair · Sep 10, 2014

It hangs from the main beam in the lean-to. Back up to it, hook
up the top link, hook up the arms, and hook up the pto.
Hardest part is finding a chain long enough or wiring two
chains together so they don't come unhooked when you lower
it down on the chain to unhook it.

Dick L · Sep 10, 2014

Like all of my stuff it is stored outside. I auger a hole about half way down and leave it there until I need it again. I loop baler twine over the center end and lift it up and back the tractor into it where the pin can line up from the tractor seat. With center the pin in place and the three point arm down the arch will swing to where the arch pins line up to the arms. I stick a wood post in the hole to keep someone or a horse from stepping in it.

farmer boy · Sep 10, 2014

If you aren't dead set on storing it inside, the
easiest way is make a hole about 2-3' deep and leave
it there.

RayP(MI) · Sep 10, 2014

Disassembled and stored against a inside wall. Yoke and PTO shaft easily stored. Leave arm and auger together and lean them against the wall. Probably should take auger off gearbox, but can manhandle arm, gearbox and auger singlehandled.

MI AC Parsons · Sep 10, 2014

No good at pics. Built a sturdy wood frame on
skids. Back into it and put a 2 x 6 cross beam
under and close to the auger. Ease it down on the
cross beam, pull the 3 pt pins and drive away.
It's safe and I can push it into a corner inside
my barn. Just hangs there.

Goose · Sep 10, 2014

I use it on my D19 AC, so I pick it up with the loader on my H Farmall and drive up to where it needs to be to mount on the D19.

It's not 3pt. I bolts to the lift arms on the D19.

DeltaRed · Sep 10, 2014

I hang mine from a tree branch.Loop a chain at the
'gooseneck' and let it hang. Haven't used it in 5 years. Still there.

Spook · Sep 10, 2014

I built a rolling stand for mine. I am trying to upload a pic.

I give up. I've done it before, but now I can't get it to work.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 10, 2014

I hang mine from the rafters also.

tractorguy2 · Sep 10, 2014

I have found it is easier to take the auger off. I
get the center link hooked first, then the two
lift arms. Then i put the auger back one.

When I take the digger back off I remove the auger
first. I store the digger on the floor in the
garage.

Dan in North Houston · Sep 10, 2014

I was going to build a stand, but found a used engine hoist on
craigslist that was cheaper. So I hang it from the hoist, can
easily wheel it back in the corner of the barn. Super easy to
hook up now.

NEKS · Sep 10, 2014

Hanging from a tree limb with a log chain. A pain to hook up to tractor.

GeneMO · Sep 10, 2014

I have an old antique Continental brand. They sit upright. I bought a parts one, rebuilt and repainted mine, then adapted it to work on a three point. But it sets upright, the auger runs in a framework. It works great. I just back up to it, hook it up and go.

Gene

Stephen Newell · Sep 10, 2014

I store mine indoors hung from the ceiling with a rope. It's no harder to hook up then the bush hog.

Ultradog MN · Sep 11, 2014

Loan it out and the fellow who borrowed it stores it. Reminds me I should inquire about it and see if it's still mine. Haven't seen it in well over a year.

Fawteen · Sep 11, 2014

My barn/toolshed is a modified version of a pole barn.

I back the PHD up to a wall near a pole, set the auger tip on a piece of plywood (dirt floor) and strap the gear head to the post.

I disconnect and pull the PTO shaft apart with the tractor end stored on a peg on the wall.

I unhook the boom and rotate it down and set the end of the boom on a small pallet I made of 2x6 so it doesn't end up in the dirt.

It's [i:654c4848f0]still[/i:654c4848f0] not the easiest of implements to hook up, but at least it doesn't flop around and try to break an arm or a leg.

It is critical to get the tractor in the right spot when hooking it back up.

rrlund · Sep 11, 2014

Mine hangs from a chain in the lean to on the corn crib.

RLA · Sep 11, 2014

I welded a loop acrost the top above the gear
box out of 3/4 rod on the ends of the lift
arms. I have a short chain eye bolted to a side
beam of my shed. back in, hook the chain & lower
unit. Chain becomes tight, lift arms & pto hang
almost straight down, Bungie strap the pto so
it doesn"t extend to the floor.. Takes up about
20" x 36". Without it hanging like this it"s a
royal pain to install. My only problem is when I
do want to use, I have to move just about
everything out of the way... RLA

SDMike · Sep 11, 2014

Someone posted this picture a while back on this forum. I kept the picture in hopes of building a similar one. I would probably put casters on it.
Mike

steve wi · Sep 11, 2014

I hang mine on windmill cross bar.

PJH · Sep 11, 2014

I hang it from a chain attached to a horizontal pipe so I can slide it into a corner after it's unhooked. I take the lift yoke off and then it nearly lays flat against the wall. After having said that, right now it's hanging from a tree limb where I left it "temporarily" about a year ago.

Spook · Sep 11, 2014

PIc?
I think I got it to work?

in-too-deep · Sep 11, 2014

Mine stay in my shirtsleeves most of time.

Rick Kr · Sep 11, 2014

Mine is exactly like the picture SDMIKE posted. I added casters to mine. Made it out of a pile of spare 3/4" black pipe.

Getting ready to weld two uprights on it to store the extra two augers I have.

Rick

bison · Sep 11, 2014

I used one of these 3 point augers from a neighbor a couple times, what a pain in the azz they are to hook up and to drill holes with.
I vowed to never own one of these contraptions.

I build myself a hydr drive auger to hang from the front end loader.

I store it upright tied to a post, it only has a 1 sq foot foot print.
hookup or take off takes only 2 minutes

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