Augers

A Long Auger Drill

Augers are drilling devices that usually includes a rotating helical screw blade called a "flighting" to act as a to remove the drilled out material. The rotation of the blade causes the material to move out of the hole being drilled.

Auger is mainly used for digging holes and it can be called in other names depending on where the auger digging holes for. Like:

• Digging post holes is called an earth auger, soil auger, or mechanized post hole digger
• Wood augers have a screw to pull them into the wood

Usage

• Used for special drilling rigs to dig holes for deep foundation piles
• Used for piles forming a piling retaining wall

Applications

Snowblowers, to move snow towards an impeller, where it is thrown into the discharge chute. Combine harvesters use both enclosed and open augers to move the unthreshed crop into the threshing mechanism and to move the grain into and out of the machine's hopper.

• Ice resurfacers use augers to remove loose ice particles from the surface of the ice. Plumbers use a plumber's snake, a flexible auger, to remove obstructions from pipes.
• Handheld augers can also be used for garden planting. Post augers driven by a modified chainsaw engine are use to bore holes for fence posts, and for Ice fishing holes in Alaska, Greenland and other areas with frozen seas and lakes