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Posted by Franz [4.156.234.48] on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 00:47:44 :
In Reply to: It looks to me like............ posted by Nick [72.173.39.233] on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 19:54:32 :
Having run more than 1 of those augurs I can tell you they were usually powered by a single cylinder Wisconsin that only started & ran when it was in a good mood. They also had a lovely habit of crapping out downhole so you could wait for a second truck to come by and see if 2 trucks could suck the drill out of the hole or if you'd be spending half of the next day pulling the drill with a couple 20 ton ratchet jacks and 2 short crossarms.
The bar from the bumper to the digger head is a headache bar. That bar will come around real fast and near kill any man standing close enough. Bear in mind a drill requires a man to clear it of spoils every couple revolutions so some dummy was next to the drill with a shovel. The mounting to the A frame which is actually a boom pole on that truck doesn't carry any of the drill's torque. The boom lacks the strength to resist sideloading.
Sorry to say the Dodge was a little overmatched with a digger on the front, and marginal with a digger on a rear A frame.
That digger would normally be used with a jack under the front bumper to carry the weight of the machine alone. Pulling the augur with a load of spoils would definitely kill the front springs.
Some diggers were set up with a clutch for the drill operated by a man with a handline running to the clutch handle. Hopefully he was fast and the clutch worked because biting into a rock with that setup on the nose of a truck could definitely move the truck around the hole before the engine quit. About the only time those Wisconsins really ran well was you caught a rock with the drill.
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