Features:

  • GARDEN AUGER DRILL ATTACHMENT DIGS FOR YOU! Save time and energy. Use in any electric or cordless drill that can accommodate a 3/8" bit. No better tool for digging deep holes in your dirt or even under sidewalks.
  • PERFECT AERATING AND IRRIGATION AUGER FOR fertilizing trees and shrubs, deep watering, and insecticide applications and termite treatments. Quickly digs holes up to 16 inches deep and 1 1/4 inches wide using the power of your hand held drill.
  • EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY AND VALUE. This is the best earth digging drill bit auger available. The heavy duty powder coated steel is built for a lifetime of use. Three flats on the shaft keep the auger from slipping.
  • BUILT TO LAST. Powder coated durable steel construction, 18 inches tall, 1 1/4 inches wide, and weighs 1 lb.
  • YARD BUTLER’S NO RISK 30 DAY SATISFACTION GUARANTEE. If it is not perfect for you, return it for a full refund or replacement.
  • Digs holes up to 16-inch deep and 1-1/4-inch wide
  • Plant bulbs, bedding plants and seedlings
  • Deep water aeration or fertilization of trees and shrubs
  • Gets the weeds, roots and all
  • Lifetime warranty
Perfect width and length for gardening.

This soil auger is just the perfect width and length for boring holes in my garden for aeration and fertilization. I spread compost on the area where I want to enrich the soil and then, using a hand drill, I bore holes into the ground. This mixes the compost into the existing soil and provides aeration of the soil too. It works best to drill the holes very slowly, in case you hit roots, and to put the drill in reverse each time you bring the auger bit back up and out of the hole. I am very pleased with the quality of the metal auger and by how well it works for my purpose.

Works great for intended purpose. NOT intended to penetrate thick clay soil or rock hard, bone dry dirt.

Planted 500 bulbs in 6 hours thanks to this auger. Worked great with cheap power drill. However, my soil was loose because I’d built up the bed and slightly wet due to recent light rain. When I hit a buried tree root, the bit spun in my drill chuck, but that’s OK: the last thing I want is to have the drill ripped out of my hands. On my drill, I could set the clutch so it released when I hit a root but the auger would pull the soil out up to 8 inches. Read the instructions, and pull the auger up every couple of inches to clear the soil from the hole.

Heavy duty Man Dream Tool --Georgia Clay Tough

My hubby is in love with this thing. He has been planting Monkey grass. He said once you play with it enough and figure out how to slightly tilt it, it will not shake you after that. Now that he is used to it, he loves it. He prefers it with a plug in drill. Runs down Cordless really fast. really heavy duty materials. We live in Georgia, so we are going through compacted hard clay that is hard as rock and bent a aluminum fancy handled bulb planter right in two. He said this went through with little effort. This is a champ. My hubby is very picky in the tools dept. and expects quality. He is fully satisfied with this product. Ok now husband has a few words. Don't use a cordless drill. Have a dealt 18v and its worthless with this tool. I'm now using heavy duty Milwaukee corded drill and as long as chuck is very tight it works like a champ. Once start to hit a rock or large root let off or will strip auger and loose the chuck. So far 1000+ holes dug with little effort.

Works, just use it carefully...

I bought this to drill a tunnel under a brick walkway (4 ft) for an electrical conduit. I did not want to collapse the brick work using water, so I used this small diameter auger carefully drilling from both sides and slipping the pvc through. The auger is spot welded in several areas to the shaft so, could probably break if forced (it could probably be fixed if you know someone with a welder) . I went through a relatively hard clay/sand mixture taking care to exert minimal pressure and pulling the auger out completely many times to clear the debris and small stones. It worked perfectly. Be aware, also, it gets hot from the friction.

Makes planting bulbs easy, but watch out for landscape fabric

We bought two bags of bulbs at Costco, totaling 250 bulbs. To speed planting, I got this Yard Butler auger to use in my cordless drill. We planted about 70 bulbs in part of the yard that has landscape fabric, and that made it more tedious to use the Yard Butler auger. I couldn't just drill through the landscape fabric -- that caused a twisted mess to wrap around the auger. I had to cut the fabric in each spot a bulb was to be planted, and that was time consuming. At the other part of the yard, there was no fabric and I could use the auger directly. It made the job go amazingly fast, especially where there were no rocks or roots. If it's just soil, this thing will have you in and out in 2-3 seconds -- nice! The drill I use is a nice quality Hitachi cordless drill, for which I have two batteries. The first battery ran out about halfway through and the second one finished it. It was easy with this auger bit, and planting that many bulbs would have been an ordeal without it. The picture shows the bulbs we planted, the drill and auger bit... after the job was done.

Awesome tool for planting tulip bulbs

My wife bought a bunch of tulip bulbs, but in the harder clay dirt we have in eastern Nebraska, it was a real pain to plant them. I was trying large drill bits, little hand shovels, etc., to dig a deep enough hole for a few dozen bulbs. I had a few things that kinda worked but took several minutes per bulb. I thought, hey, someone must make a tool to do this. Yep, here it is. As others have suggested, it's a good idea to grind down the shaft into three flats so it doesn't slip in the drill. After doing that, I tried it out. WOW. I could plant tulip bulbs in about 30 seconds per bulb. But, BE CAREFUL especially if you're using a good drill. I was using a corded Dewalt drill with plenty of power. Move this auger SLOWLY into the ground. If you're not careful, it'll grab very quickly and pull itself down fast, nearly twisting your hands off. Drill at a moderate speed, don't go as fast as your drill can go otherwise you'll fling dirt everywhere.

Excellent for what it is...

When I bought this it was $17. This is not a $50 or $150 dollar tool, and I set my expectations accordingly. It worked very well for me. So far I have 3 holes drilled that are 24" deep in some terrible dirt. I'm hoping to get another 8-10 holes done, but even if not, this thing has already paid for itself. A few tips for using this effectively: 1. Go slowly. This is a huge drill bit for a household drill and it puts a lot of stress on the drill and you. Ease it in, don't lean on it, and back it out every couple of inches to ensure it's clearing debris out of the hole. I set my drill to the slower speed and then turned it very slowly. It's not a race and you're not drilling a 1/4" hole through a 2x4. Give it a chance to work and move the dirt. 2. Try to keep the sides of the hole straight. I let it wobble around on my first hole so the inside of it was lager than the bit. It can't move the dirt out if the hole is too wide. Slow and some care are require to keep the sides straight. 3. Gravel is a real pain. I have 1/2" to 2" gravel buried all over my yard. I had to abandon some holes when I hit a larger rock. You can you 1" gravel up, but you need to ensure it dislodges it. I let it "bite" into the dirt around the gravel and then pulled up on the drill gently. Then I slowly pulled out the bit while rotating it to get the gravel out. You can't expect it to to just fling out big pieces of rock. My trees are going to be so much happier that I can get them some deeper watering. Plenty of other uses for this as well.

Works!

After reading all the reviews, I purchased this and tried to flatten the end a little to keep it from spinning in the drill. I don't have whatever tool everyone else has so it doesn't work as perfectly as they say, but it does keep it in the drill for a decent amount of time before it falls out. It works much better on looser soil but still worked relatively well in my clay soil. It 100% made planting all my bulbs and flats of plants easier and I recommend it for sure.

I bought this to use with a pest control mechanism ...

I bought this to use with a pest control mechanism called a Gopher Hawk, which requires the user to make a hole in the ground to accommodate the trap. This works perfectly, it makes using the trap much easier. I also picked up the cheapest cordless drill Harbor Freight sells ($15) to avoid getting dirt in my Makita -- the combination is ideal for this purpose. At some point I may try to free-hand grind the end of the shaft to 1/4" hex, so I can use an extension to make it a few inches longer, but it certainly serves me well as it.

Priceless

Parked down on the beach, grabbed my bucket, Sport Brella XL and my radio. Walked down closer to the water and a kid walked up to me with a screw gun with a bit on the end of it and asked me if he could help me set up my umbrella. Now I can appreciate that these kids work for tax free tips (and I'm sure they do very well). But you should have seen his face when I lifted the towel off my bucket and revealed a screw gun with an 18" bit on it. PRICELESS!!!!!

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