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Originally Posted by Zee
Does anyone know what I have to do to get my auger to finish the whole? It goes very well until I am just about to bottom out the whole when the auger sticks and I have to raise and lower the auger several times to finish the whole. I have replaced the blades and the same thing happens.
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It appears that your auger has an agressive cutting edge and if you are putting lots of pressure on the auger as you are drilling the hole the cutter is dropping down underneath the ice and trying to take too big of a bit and it stalls the cutting action. Try easing up on the down pressure and just let the auger do the cutting for the lat couple od inches of ice and I believe you won't have any more trouble. My auger was doint that too and when I started easing up on the pressure my problem stopped. Hope this helps.