11-07-2021, 05:48 PM
(11-07-2021, 01:33 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Lots of good info there, have you ever tried the nils?
Yeah- in fact my ruined trip was with a 6” nils hand turn. I loved that auger tho. If I had to burn holes by hand, I would use a Nils for sure. But a drill set up is not very different in weight or bulk, so I’m never drilling by hand again. When that Nils let me down, I hit small stone that put a burr on the blade. Definitely not the augers fault, just what can happen to a shaver. It would just spin and not cut after that. I had nothing to knock the burr off. I started carrying a small file after that. Like I said- most of my preferences are from bad experiences. Here is a counter example- last year at the Millsite derby I hit some really dirty ice. There were layers of sand embedded in the 8” of ice. They must get some wild wind there. The shavings looked like mud at times and even had small chunks of what looked like broken rock from the surrounding landscape. My KDrill chewed right through it. I think it may have even sharpened it a little. That amount of garbage would have caused havoc with shavers.