T Handled Augers - Post them up!

M3mphis

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T Handled Augers - let's see them!!!

I have a bad hankerin' for a couple vintage augers. I don't have any as of now, but it won't be long! Please post pics and any thoughts on your experiences with them. Pegs, this is calling your name!

Here's some things I'm wondering
-What sizes of augers are your most used?
-Do those that do NOT have a steel collar on the wood handle stand up to hard use?
-Let's see some things you've done with them!

Looking forward to some pics and chatter on this one! Thanks all.

matt
 
Does this count? :D

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I'll have to dig 'em out and do a group photo.

Here's my 2-1/2" as a teaser. It has a home made elm handle. The hole is perpendicular to the grain so it won't split (like elm would split anyway). I cleaned it up and sharpened it and re-cut the lead screw threads with a triangle file. Cuts great!

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When sharpening an 2-bladed auger you need make some test cuts to see if both blades are cutting evenly. If one blade is proud it produces a thicker shaving. Then you file it down until you get even shavings off of both blades.
 
FortyTwoBlades - that thing is beautiful. I'd love to here the stories it could tell.

~Chris
 
OK, Matt. Here's a few more pics. Group photo.

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Clockwise from lower left: The 2-1/2" I posted earlier, 2" with a cast steel 'T' - no makers mark visible, 1-1/2" R.S.&W.Co. -Patented 1888, 1-1/2" Swedish military surplus, 7/16" U.S. military surplus by Irwin.

The most used are the 7/16" Irwin and the 1-1/2" Swedish. I use the 7/16 to drill rebar holes in logs for making turnpikes on the trails. If we get a group of youth volunteers then they have a good time drilling the holes by hand.

Here's a close up of the cast steel 'T' on the 2".
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Here's the R.S.& W.Co. It has a slot cut down the middle to give some flex and then bolts with wing nuts on either side of the auger's taper.
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Finally, the 2-1/2" with the original handle that came with it.
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One to add - just won an auction. 2" bung hole drill. I'm interested to try this. I think it may be good for bushcraft. Might be easier to fit a peg or leg into a tapered hole.

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Nice score! Tapered augers are a tool sadly absent from the modern tool market.
 
Yo Pegs, that tapered auger is epic. I'm totes jelly.

Seriously though, that is a really unique find. Have you received it already?
 
Many years ago I visited Sturbridge Village in MA, and they had a very nice tour. One of the things they demonstrated was boring holes in fence posts, which they said was often done during the Winter as they could not farm then. Even then it looked like a lot of hard work, but so was clearing the field of all those stones, and there were lots of them as evidenced by the stone walls on many farms. John
 
I have a drill brace similar to this one and a set of bits for it. It was my Dad's. Does that count? You can still buy bits for it.

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Tom
 
M3mphis said:
Yo Pegs, that tapered auger is epic. I'm totes jelly.
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I know. I'm giddy like a school girl for it. :D
I just thought it was over the top cool and it belonged in my tool set. I don't have it yet. Looks like it won't take too much effort to bring it up to working condition.
 
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