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gas augers are far from being a thing of the past, but I like electric. I have a small ridgid fuego, gives me only 525 in/lbs and I turn a 6" HT auger. The 1.5ah battery would barely cut 20 holes in 6" of ice. Forget about it when the ice got thicker, in a ft of ice it barely got me 5 holes. I got a set of 4ah batteries and now I can drill holes all day in 20" of ice on a battery. What size batteries do you use in your Dewalt?
I'm thinking...Ion xStrike master Honda lite (4 stroke)Strike master lazer pro All in 8 inchI'm leaning heavily towards the strikeMaster Honda 4 strokeBut my go to bait shop nearly has me convinced to get the ion...Few more days and I'm ordering 1 of these units.
I'm an old fashioned gasser.Like Chris said, take care of them and have no issues.. Personally, my opinion,.... I don't want to have to worry about batteries, charging them, or having extra on hand, thick ice, thin ice or dirty ice.Eskimo Shark 10" Z-71cc gasser tank of 50:1 mix gas and drill for days.........
I've never had a gas auger or hand auger not work when I needed it.(I do know how to care for them and maintain them though) But I have had drill batteries just up and die for no reason when I needed them most. Some were not even a year old. Never had the old Nimhs crap out suddenly just Lion batts. Hell a couple my NiMh drill batteries were 10 years old and still kicking before I bought newer Lion stuff.