How to make a garden drill with your own hands

If there is a need for a garden storm, and there are no available financial resources for purchasing, you can try to make it yourself with simple advice. If you make a garden drill with your own hands, using improvised materials, its cost will decrease by an order of magnitude.

There are several separate components in this device: the drill itself, which makes a hole, a stand (a metal pole) and a handle.

Let's now try to make a garden drill with our own hands, observing the order of the sequence of actions. We will make a drill for poles, but with the help of this article you can do any other.

Before starting work it is necessary to collect all the necessary material that may be required: high-strength sheet metal, a two-meter bushing and a metal drill bit. If the garden drill is later to be used for other purposes, it is advisable to make augers with different diameters.

We cut several blanks for the future blade from the sheet material. If, according to further plans, the garden screw auger is to be used for drilling holes for a certain diameter of the columns, the diameter of the screw must exceed the diameter of the column by 5 mm.

In the center of our workpiece, several through holes are drilled, which should be 1-1.5 mm larger than the diameter of our rack, under which a smooth reinforcement is recommended. To give the valve a smoothness, you can process it on a lathe. In the rack we have made, it is necessary to drill two holes with the help of a vice, after which the thread is threaded into them. These threaded holes are required to hold the blade.

Now we need to return to the blades prepared by us and continue to work with them. On the preparation of sheet metal on the garden drill we cut through the radius of the bulge, the presence of which is required when the flat blade is turned into a screw. The lower part of the finished blade must be sharpened at 45-60 degrees.

Having passed 10 mm of the distance from the edge of the bushing, we proceed to make a flat on it with a 3 mm depth, and then sharpen the end at a 30-degree angle until the point is formed. Using the grinder in the lower part, we make small screw grooves. When drilling holes , not only soft soil comes across, but you can also encounter hard earth, so we will need to attach the drill to the bottom, the diameter of which should not exceed or be less than the diameter of the bushing.

Now there is very little - to make a comfortable handle and the beadhorse will be finished with his own hands. Use welding to connect the handle to the base is not recommended, it is better to apply the mounting bolts. If the handle is T-shaped, then you can attach it to the thread. We may need to drill much deeper in the process of operation than we expected, so attaching the handle to the bolts is a simple piece of advice to facilitate work.

Our garden screw auger can also be used for digging wells, only it is necessary to add a few additional racks with threaded threads and connect them with bushings, but it is worth remembering that for work at depth, good quality bushings are required.

As you can see, independent drilling is not so complicated. To facilitate the drilling process, the drill is periodically pulled out and freed from the ground. To increase the service life it is possible to paint it with anti-corrosion paint, and for the production of blades to use a strong metal, since all the load is given to it. Periodically, it is worth checking the blades and, if damaged, remove them.