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I don't blame ya one bit I don't like nils I got two of them sharpening costs a arm and a leg same with the blades.. your looking at half the cost of the auger for a spare head in the 8 inch most likely same price on ten inch.. to bad no one made a blade conversion for the mora to a laser.. in a 8 inch laser or the 10 inch to a power laser bit would be nice.. sharpening is cheap for those blades and they cut that much better.. then the mora.. but I can wish in one hand and crap in the other.. guess wich gets filled first??
A 10" hole by hand? Wow. Why not buy a strikemaster electric unit? You have batteries in your wheelhouse already.
Does nobody ready the thread?
Oh I love my 8in nils. The heads do stay sharp a long time. I might just have to stick with it, if I cant find a 10in mora. The do make a conversion kit to got from a mora to a lazer
Does nobody read the thread?
I did. Missed the part about the clam drill plate. My bad. Still think it's too much for any drill combo.
But not the 8 inch or 10 inch mora to laser. They make it up to a 7 inch and small as s 5 inch.. but if you were to just buy the 6 and 5 inch it's the same as the conversion.. but if you remember mora made a run of augers with a off set handle?? Which make really good hand auger in augers... while the 7 inch laser has the ice breaker bars the mora did not have the ice breakers.. make it hard to drill the last few turns with a laser.. might be worth picking up the 7 inch mora adaptor while you can cause the mora don't have the ice breaking bars on it and cut much easier with the laser adaptor then a standard nib laser 7 inch .. and the blades are plain and simply cheaper.. now if they made a 10 inch or 8 inch adaptor for the mora to laser blades I would be thrilled to own one I got a 8 inch mora with off set handle but would love to buy a 10 inch that's how lt goes like you said earllier the ion in a 10 inch plain sucked is true why not to get it.. By the way not much difference in a 7 or a 8 inch hole it's only half inch on around bigger on each half of the circle.. it would save cash on those $100 heads for nils if you could use it?? You could always get a ice hand saw and saw spud it bigger like the nils ice saw.. if you had square hatches ?? There's more then one way to skin a fish like we all know.. lol's
My uncle has an Ion. Tried it. It is not bad for an 8in bit, but if you try the 10in bit u can get on them it is way underpowered for the 10in bit. Also the batteries are expensive for them, and the handles stick out and get in the way when trying to drill some of the holes. I think the biggest battery is a 5ah, the original came with a 4ah. The batteries are expensive, and it cuts somewhat slow. I found the 1200in/lb Milwaukee drill on a clam plate to be a lot easier to fit into tight corners in the wheel house. I have two batteries that came with it (5ah) and can take the drill off it and put a bit in it to raise my wheel house up so I don't have to crank it. Plus it's super light weight. I've already got all of it, and just looking for a 10in light weight hand auger so when it's cold out the holes don't freeze closed so fast, same for the tip up holes. If I could find a decent 10in hand auger, I'd probly get the 9ah battery to up the amount of holes I could cut if I was going out to find fish. I'm guessing a clam plate/Milwaukee/10in hand auger would be around 20 lbs. I think my setup plate/milwaukee/8in nils is about 15lbs. I doubt any 10in setup would be lighter. Thinking an old used 10in mora with the screw on/off handle and adaptor for it to the clam plate would run me about. $60-$70 if I can find them. An Ion 10in bit runs $180. If I needed new blades for the 10in mora I believe the 10in ion blades would work on it.
I'm not worried about the drill. I'm pretty sure the Milwaukee I have will turn a 10in hand. I didn't think about the ion 10in bit. It might work. I believe the ion auger is built lighter like hand augers, and not heavy like the power ones are.Still gonna see if I can find a 10in mora though.
Hey Agronomist, I kinda zipped thru the last page and a half but the suggestion of drilling a bigger hole with a smaller bit ain't that far off. I fished by a guy last year that had an 8" k-drill on a MKE drill. We were next to each other most of the day. He was very friendly and I got an eyeful of his drill. Even got to run it for a few holes.Drilling a three-leaf clover is dirt easy with the K. If you wanted bigger with an 8 or even 6" drill it would be EZPZ. Maybe you don't need that 10 after all. Even drilling thru old holes is stupid easy.
Already brought up the clover leaf hole earlier. But it's a little hard to do once the shanty is in place and are bound by the floor of the fish house.. by the way argonomist did you get the 10 inch mora the guy private messaged you about?? If not I will still keep a eye peeled for one..
Sent an email to the guy haven't heard anything....guessing he doesn't want to ship it.
I also got a response from k-drill that they won't be makinag a 10in.
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