Post hole auger

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Schu

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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
 

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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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
I appreciate the input
Looks like no real good solutions for Cub mounted digger
I will probably go the rental or hand dig route
 
A cub pto turns at motor speed and backwards I'm not sure you can use one on a cub without a reverser despeeder.
 
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Follow up on this chain. Against good advice and better judgement I fitted an auger to my Cub. It’s a Newton IA Champion Mfg model from the ‘50’s. Only reason I persisted is that my father in law had a pattern shop in Waterloo and likely made patterns for Champion. It works great!
 
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Follow up on this chain. Against good advice and better judgement I fitted an auger to my Cub. It’s a Newton IA Champion Mfg model from the ‘50’s. Only reason I persisted is that my father in law had a pattern shop in Waterloo and likely made patterns for Champion. It works great!
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That's an interesting setup. Nice job on all of this.
 
Personally, I have given up asking too much of the Cub PTO. Even with the great rig shown above, I assume it has limitations. Plus the wear and tear on the tractor would be a big factor to me.
 
I have a Grosshart/Prewitt digger and everything to connect it to a Cub, dad had bought it in the very early 60's. As soon as we inherited our 8N in '64 dad bought the parts to put it on the Ford. I have never seen it on the Cub. That all said I have used it on the Ford, it is a beast and gives the Ford a workout. If your only digging a few holes it's not worth hooking up- it takes two people to wrestle with it to put it on. With its power down pressure feed if it hits something it will actually lift the tractor. Dad always did the supervising and spotting, I sat on the tractor running the controls and always ready to step on the clutch.

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