Cub auger

grandpa Love · Mar 23, 2019

Anyone ever use an auger for a cub? How rare are they?

jeffcat · Mar 23, 2019

First off anything would turn the wrong way. Also nobody in their right mind would try running a PTO at that much of an angle. So i would guess cobbled up and home made. You are working with 10hp. You realize that long rod is a screw of some kind. OK my opinion. Lets see what others say.

bradhow in NE · Mar 23, 2019

Isn't that a post hole digger?

SVcummins · Mar 23, 2019

Yes . Sometimes referred to as an auger

tractorsam · Mar 24, 2019

I think that?s using a v-belt drive from the belt pulley shaft instead of the PTO. Either way round, a very big job for a cub. Sam

DR. EVIL · Mar 24, 2019

An "auger" is for moving shell corn, beans, oats, or ground feed. A post hole digger drills post holes, typically PTO powered, have seen some run off a belt pulley, also used both one and two man hand held post hole diggers run by a 2 cycle engine. Do a Google search and see what comes up!

Dad had a Continental post hole digger, Had a large upside-down "U" shaped frame, had an "H" shaped carriage that held the right angle gearbox, PTO driven, with a steel cable to raise the gearbox and auger when the hole was deep enough. Lot more complicated than today's 3-point diggers but only remember problems with the cable one time for the thousands of post holes we dug. In all the years Dad farmed, only had ONE tractor with 3-point, 4010 rowcrop, never hooked a single thing to that 3-point, EVER, so everything got done with an M or H Farmall for years before the 4010 came around, also had an IH Fasthitch on the 450 for 4-5 years

Traditional Farmer · Mar 24, 2019

The whole contraption is a post hole digger,the piece that actually goes in the ground is the auger.

Tx Jim · Mar 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:19:17 03/24/19) The whole contraption is a post hole digger,the piece that actually goes in the ground is the auger.

DITTO

leroy in ne · Mar 24, 2019

DR. Evil. Education time. The soil sampling drill machine I worked on carried 300 feet of solid shank, hex coupled AUGERS and 150 feet if hollow stem AUGERS per the catalog they were ordered from. These were in 5 foot lengths and used to drill into the earth the same as a post hole drill AUGER which is available in several diameters and are used with a bit on the bottom end.

jm. · Mar 24, 2019

Well let this old man tell you. First it was not cobbled up home made. Was a factory machine. 9 HP worked it very well. My grand dad had one and actually went to other folks and dug holes. It stayed in the shed leaned up by a post when not on the tractor. That shaft ran UP to a gear box in the sliding head that one controlled by where the guy operating it has his hand. The only draw back at all was it was somewhat heavy on the rear of the cub. And yes Grandpapa Love and I live in the south. When my granddad got ready to dig post holes he would say "got to put the augur on the tractor. The augur dug post holes. Guess it all depends on where one is. LOL I might just be able to get you guys a photo of the thing pretty sure it is still laying out behind the old shop.

showcrop · Mar 24, 2019

I don't know if I am qualified to perform edumacation like Leroy in Nebraska, but like jm. says it was a manufactured, called the Prewitt. It had two drives: chain for the auger and ring gear and pinion for the up and down. It appears that the up and down drive kept the digging rate under control so that it would not be so likely get stuck like todays units can, in addition the stand that you see would keep it from being able to "bite" too much. Overcoming the PTO direction of turning was not a problem. Terminology varies from one part of the country to another so I am fine with Grandpa love calling it an auger.

RobCons · Mar 24, 2019

Interesting what tools we have made over the years and the regional names for them. From my time on here spring plows/all purpose plows/orchard plows/chiesel plows are same thing depending on where your at. Down here all brands of bush hogs are bush hogs. Not rotary cutters or shredders.

grandpa Love · Mar 24, 2019

Yep. Saws all. skil saw. Bush hog.
All brands doesn't matter! Lol. Of
course around here " you want a
Coke" covers every flavor of
carbonated beverage in the store!!

warbaby · Mar 24, 2019

its not an "auger", "post hole digger" or even a vertical grave digger. It is a buried boulder locator!

Never ran one, but with only 9 h.p.(on a good day) to spin it, you better stick with drilling sand and avoid any clay

Russ from MN · Mar 24, 2019

They make hand held ones that run off a 3 hp Tecumseh, I guess the cub can probably handle it!

4wdtom · Mar 24, 2019

I'm not really a fan of Cubs, I think they were way under powered and I don't like the offset engine however it would be really interesting to know more about this post hole digger. JM, if you have one still I think it is unique and rare enough it needs to be saved. Hope you will restore it or at some point get it to someone who will.

warbaby · Mar 24, 2019

On second thought, with a snowplow on the front, some chains on the rear tires, and this contraption hanging off the back a fella could make some serious $$ drilling holes for ice fishermen next winter on Saginaw Bay or Fletcher's Floodwaters!

grandpa Love · Mar 24, 2019

This is all I could find quickly in our cub literature.

Looks like same guy in all the pictures. Anyone got anything else?

Fritz Maurer · Mar 24, 2019

X2... and one heck of a lot safer

Fritz Maurer · Mar 24, 2019

In Bay City they call them Bobcats regardless of the brand... Dore Wrecking was here in Cleveland, and I once mentioned a skid-steer. I was met with a blank stare.

formerly ny bill · Mar 24, 2019

I'm with 4wdtom, in thinking that JM should rescue that auger. might not get a pile of dollars for it, but I bet moe than a few people would show interest in it for shows on the back of their Cub, if nothing else.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Mar 24, 2019

That is a Prewitt post hole digger. The same one will fit numerous tractors. The difference in that one and others I have seen is that is on a one point hitch, normally the were turn 1/4 turn and bolted to a drawbar. It has a pto shaft that runs to a right angle gear box at the bottom of one of the uprights, and a vertical shaft runs up to the gearbox on top. Being on a cub it would have a Prewitt gear reducer/reverser on the pto (very sought after item). The reducer/reverser is hidden behind the hitch assembly. The piece that appears to be a pto shaft running up at a steep angle is actually the stabilizer for the one point hitch assembly. to find some pictures Google Prewitt post hole digger. I have a friend that has one for a Farmall H

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