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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #30 on: Nov 13, 2008, 10:16 PM »
Any friction causes heat. If the blades are spinning faster than they are made to cut then they can build up heat. When I lay the auger tip on the ice it melts in pretty quick so the blades do have a raised temperature. Will the blades turn blue... no. will they dull prematurely? quite possibly.
The first day with my new hand auger I dropped it on the blades (not very hard) and it never cut the same.  Them little blades are pretty fragile.  That's when I made the drill adapter.
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #31 on: Dec 17, 2008, 09:39 PM »
through how thick of ice have you guys drilled with these?

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #32 on: Dec 18, 2008, 10:45 AM »
through how thick of ice have you guys drilled with these?
14in.
The most important thing is to use a good high torque 1/2in drill.  I can't see a $25 harbor freight special doing very well :)
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #33 on: Dec 24, 2008, 06:37 PM »
I hollowed out an old battery for a ryobi 18v drill, added wires from the battery to a small 12v 9ah lead acid battery and 6v 5ah lead acid battery in series. I can drill at least 50 holes in 12'' of hard ice even with the junk ryobi drill.

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #34 on: Dec 24, 2008, 06:56 PM »
nice! Hmmm. whats the thickest that you have drilled with it though?

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #35 on: Dec 24, 2008, 08:34 PM »
I used it to drill 16'' a couple of years ago. Works great with 6'' auger and new blades. Dewalts with three speed work much better .

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #36 on: Dec 24, 2008, 08:41 PM »
Do you have a different auger for thicker ice? or is that how thick the ice gets where you are?

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #37 on: Dec 25, 2008, 07:08 AM »
I use it mostly for 12'' or less ice, use the gas jiffy for thicker ice except on nyc reservoirs no gas augers allowed, have to use the electric. Two years ago ice got 16'' on the reservoirs so I made the battery pack.

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #38 on: Jan 13, 2009, 10:51 AM »
I hollowed out an old battery for a ryobi 18v drill, added wires from the battery to a small 12v 9ah lead acid battery and 6v 5ah lead acid battery in series. I can drill at least 50 holes in 12'' of hard ice even with the junk ryobi drill.

do you have any pics on that operation. 
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #39 on: Jan 16, 2009, 09:38 AM »
I keep the batteries in a insulated bag so they stay warm and last longer.                                                                                     

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #40 on: Jan 16, 2009, 10:39 AM »
that is brilliant, I have a couple dead bats. Now ya got me started up again, my wife will be sure I'm nuts now
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #41 on: Jan 16, 2009, 02:02 PM »
my wife will be sure I'm nuts now

Would she be wrong?? LOL

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #42 on: Jan 16, 2009, 04:35 PM »
Hmmmm.... Got me thinking now. I have a Ryobi 14.4 volt battery that is no good. I wonder if I were to hook it up to a 12 volt system if it would work and jsut turn a little slower of not be able to drill as many holes?  ???

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #43 on: Jan 16, 2009, 06:55 PM »
An 18v ryobi is just powerfull enough to turn a 6'' auger with good blades. I don't think less than 18v drill will work. Dewalt 18v drills way fast but are $$$.

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #44 on: Jan 16, 2009, 08:56 PM »
That is slick, but what about portability??

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #45 on: Jan 16, 2009, 09:34 PM »
I got the same dead battery drill but being a free thinker I might just hot wire it to 2 12volt Vex type batteries.
In the cold it can't hurt the drill much I'd guess.
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #46 on: Jan 17, 2009, 09:22 AM »
I took a 12 volt dewalt drill and wired it direct  and put battery jumper cables to it   never runs down now   except like on morings like this at -40
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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #47 on: Jan 18, 2009, 05:35 AM »
Portability is not a big problem as the batteries are about 5 or 6 pounds in a cooler bag slung over my shoulder when drilling. I did have a problem yesterday with the drill, -2 degrees drilling holes the drill snapped right in two. Oh well that drill made thousands of holes in ice and a few hard landings when it fell off ladders. About time it broke.

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #48 on: Jan 18, 2009, 05:48 AM »
I have a 10 " jiffy that runs fine, but i have been thinking of trying to lighten my load by hooking up my 18v dewalt hammer drill, to the jiffy screw to only drill two holes.
does anyone think this is possible ??

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #49 on: Jan 18, 2009, 04:46 PM »
I have a 10 " jiffy that runs fine, but i have been thinking of trying to lighten my load by hooking up my 18v dewalt hammer drill, to the jiffy screw to only drill two holes.
does anyone think this is possible ??

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #50 on: Jan 18, 2009, 05:23 PM »
I have a 10 " jiffy that runs fine, but i have been thinking of trying to lighten my load by hooking up my 18v dewalt hammer drill, to the jiffy screw to only drill two holes.
does anyone think this is possible ??

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I think I would take it off of the hammer setting though??

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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #51 on: Jan 18, 2009, 08:04 PM »
I use my Milw drill 18v lit-ion, drills about 30 holes through 15in of ice. I got the adaptor from craigs list
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/spo/994897904.html




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Re: Cordless Drill auger?
« Reply #52 on: Jan 19, 2009, 09:45 PM »
Personally if I didn't already have a good drill I probably would not go and buy a $299 cordless drill to use with my auger.  I would probably destroy $300 worth of cheap harbor freight specials before buying an icegator or a gas auger
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