01-15-2013, 01:08 AM
Don't waste your time with a power auger! Get yourself an 8" Nils hand auger. They cut as fast and with as little effort as a power auger only without lugging around all that weight and gas and worrying about whether it will start etc.. People who buy them as a backup after owning power augers start leaving the power auger home. They are not like other hand augers. You don't push down on the top and turn with the other hand. Both handles are offset and you push and pull with both at the same time while the weight of the auger alone is plenty to push it through. I was a skeptic til I tried one last year, and now I own one. I use to use a 6" mora hand auger, and even with new blades the 8" nils is less effort. I can't imagine how easy a 6" nils would be.
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