A bit of an unconventional use but here goes. I put 50 pounds of corn, 30 pounds of soybean, 10 pounds of sunflower, 5 pounds of oats, and 5 pounds of rabbit pellets in a barrel. I use the auger to mix the wildlife feed. Works excellent! Very well built.

This tool is very sturdy and I've been putting it to the test. I've dug into hard stone-filled clay with great success. And it has assisted me in planting over 100 vegetable plants. If I had to do all this digging by hand, or if I were not using such a sturdy and reliable auger, the task would have been overwhelming. You do need to make sure you use a drill with a handle to avoid any potential for injury. But bottom line, best tool ever! Don't try cheaper alternatives, you'll regret it!

Way better than 3/8 drive ends.

I am putting in fencing using 7 ft steel posts. I live in an area that has tons and tons of stones beneath the sod. I knew it was going to be a beast to drive the posts in. I purchased the auger in hopes it would ease the pounding. I read through a lot of different augers. I chose this auger as it was American made and had a lifetime warranty. So I chose this unit. WWOOOOW! I started my fencing and soon realized that EVERY SINGLE POST HOLE HAD TO BE PRE AUGURED. I used my 18v Dewalt 1/2 inch drill. Be warned you will need to use the extra handle on the drill or you will break a wrist. My project is about 3/4 done have been using it for four days. The auger has held up to WICKED BEATINGS on just about every hole. I have three batteries so for me it’s a non stop day. I have lost control on couple occasions and have a sprained thumb and a sore forearm n wrist. I can’t even begin to tell anyone how EXTREMELY Abusive I have treated not only my Drill but the auger. Without the auger I would be no where near completion of my fencing project. I have a friend that owns a farm and when he saw how well it worked he said he was going to get one. I have a surprise birthday gift coming for him. I got him the same auger.I would recommend this little beast of an auger to anyone looking for one.My only wish is I could find an adapter so this would work on my 1/2 inch 20volt hex hammer impact drill.

Je commence à utiliser la tarière pour aider à planter mes 600 plantes de haie et c'est vraiment géniale. Il faut le utiliser avec une perceuse puissante toute même et faire tourner doucement au début/milieu du trou car si rencontre avec racines d'arbres ou pierre, peut bloquer net avec coup sur ton poignier. Mais rendre la tâche de plantation beaucoup plus facile. Je recommande.

The product is quite large and heavy but fits into a cordless drill with a 1/2" chuck and my heavy duty cordless drill has no problems driving it. It wouldn't fit into a drill with a smaller chuck.The weight of the auger helps when drilling down but of course also makes it a bit harder to pull up. I used to plant all my bulbs by hand but a chronic shoulder injury makes that extremely difficult and this tool turned an impossible job into something quite doable and is much much faster than planting by hang (by a factor of at least 10x). I'm very happy with the purchase - money well spent.

Works well for digging holes for the 1500 bulbs I bought. I welded a couple more spots on the blade as it was only spot welded in one spot at the top and one spot at the bottom which may have worked but I didn't want to chance it since I had a lot of rocks and roots. Turned out that it did the job good even with all the rocks and roots with no damage other than maybe to my wrist. (:

The old adage "you get what you pay for" comes to mind when reviewing this product. My first impression of the Tanaka 3x24 inch bulb planting auger bit was that of an antique farm implement, heavy and built to last a lifetime. The 1/2 inch solid steel shaft with flat sides for the chuck and a thickly spot-welded spiral vane is built to withstand commercial farming use but will delight the weekend gardener with years of usefulness without ever having to be replaced. Take note that you must have a drill with a 1/2 inch chuck to use this bit. I would recommend a  heavy duty drill that wont chew up a plastic gear if  torque is repeatedly applied. I used my Milwaukee 8 amp drill which easily withstood an afternoon of abuse ( I however was not so lucky as I will shortly relate). I would also recommend a T-handle attachment for the drill, the reason for which you will also find out shortly. I also thought that the 3 inch auger was overkill after my initial inspection for I was only planting one inch diameter bulbs. I later found out that this diameter was perfect for the job I was about to do. My initial test of this tool came as I planted a 10 by 15 foot oval bulb flower bed, the site of which is where a 20 year-old maple maple tree had very recently stood. I had the stump ground out to a perimeter circumference of about 4 feet from the outside of the tree. I then dumped about a yard of aged compost, several bags of compressed peat moss and some topsoil and then tamped it all down firmly. The result was a raised bed about 2 feet high at the center and tapered down to ground level around the outside edge. I did not mix the layers by hand as the principles of engineering told me that the Tanaka auger should do it for me. I was not disappointed. What would have been long, very hard work with a spade was rendered very easy and in a short period of time with the auger bit. I started in the center of the bed where I knew the tree roots had been thoroughly mulched by the stump grinder. The weight of the drill and the auger was enough to penetrate the soil without applying extra pressure. It dug down easily the full length of the bit by itself, allowing me to regulate the depth and time that I mixed the soil and then extract the bit effortlessly from each hole. I was impressed with the consistency of the soil as a result of the augers wide vane engineering, spatially mixing all the layers very evenly. I prepared about four holes per minute allowing myself time to mix the soil and leave a hole to the exact depth where I wanted to place each different bulb, as every variety I planted required a different depth. When I was finished with this section of the bed each bulb then had up to 24 inches deep and 3 inches wide of loose, well mixed prepared soil to take root in, perfect for starting a long-term perennial bulb bed ( on a later date I edged a section of tree root-free lawn about 6 inches wide by 60 feet long, removing only the turf. I then drilled holes about 8 inches apart resulting in about 65 holes. It only took me about 10 minutes to drill all those holes with the soil mixed thoroughly and to the exact depth I wanted with this tool! ). The next stage in digging this bed was not so much fun, but it was my own fault. In hindsight, I would have paid extra to have that tree root-bed ground out and expanded to the entire size of my flower bed. Upon encountering the first of many roots, the auger quickly grabbed it and pulled down, taking me with it (This is where that T-handle that I recommended for your drill comes in). I quickly learned to use the infinite setting of my drill trigger to regulate my drill speed, and had to use the reverse function on my drill to release the root. After the second root the auger caught, the drill came loose in my hands and spun around and cracked my shin, hard, and I learned to hold the T-handle tighter. The third root the auger "bit" into, I found out just how much torquing your wrist can hurt by tightly holding the T handle. This scenario was repeated many times over the next several hours as I waged all out war on the tree roots, and alternating between a mattox, a spade, a 6 foot pry bar and the drill, I finished putting in my bulb garden. During that conflict I gave my new Tanaka auger bit every opportunity to break, snap, rip the vane off the shaft, bend, twist, or strip off in the chuck. The only result was a well bruised shin, a nearly torgue- sprained wrist, and a near-perfect Tanaka bit blemished only by the paint that wore off the outside edge of the vane and off the tip of the bit that bore the brunt force of every rock and root it encountered. I cleaned the auger after I was finished and noticed that dirt had compacted between the inside vane edge and the shaft because it was only spot welded at several intervals and not welded along the entire length of the vane. Over time I'm sure the paint will wear off there, as well as from the other places mentioned, and that a coat of oil or wd-40 will be required to keep rust from setting in as I do not think this tool is made from stainless steel. I could be wrong about that point. For that reason alone I wish that the manufacturer had welded along the entire length of the vane and shaft, for there is certainly no structural deficiency, as far as my experience is concerned, that could cause these two components to fail. On a final note my brother bought a cheaper, $20, 2-inch bulb auger bit from a different manufacturer and the shaft broke in half after the first use in his non-tree-rooted flower beds. Taking his lesson to heart I bought the Tanaka, and he has already asked to borrow it. I think I will buy him one for Christmas. As I stated at first, you get what you pay for.

Very strong and efficient tool.

This Auger performed very well. I planted over 700 tulip bulbs and it work great! Saved an enormous about of time versus digging and planting by hand. I will definitely be continuing to use it for planting bulbs in particular however I could see it working great for other plantings for a flower bed as well as small tree planting