Pod augers generally vary in diameter from 8 to 20 in.
For holes of large diameter earthaugers are handled with the aid of a light derrick.
This method has been generally disused, iron or wood rods substituted in the place of the rope, and a variety of augers and chisels instead of the simple chisel, with appliances for clearing the bore-hole of debris.
Augers are sometimes made as long as 10 feet, and are then very effective if the strata is soft enough to permit of their use.
In certain kinds of mining, such as in the potash mines of Europe and the coal mines of America, these electric drills operating their long augers have been found particularly useful.
This proved more successful, and rotary drills, operating long augers and acting like ordinary wood-boring machines, are now used extensively for certain kinds of drilling.
Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips.
It iz not differkult tew find augers that wont bore, but yu seldom cum across a bore that wont auger.
And that the two holes was on her port-side, and seven foot from her stain-post; and I say them very augers that is in our cutter made them holes.
He got from the boat one of the augers that had scuttled the Proserpine, and soon turned the pith out.
Then he took up one of those great augers he had found in the mate's cabin, and bored a hole in the door; through this hole he fired his pistol, and then screamed for help.
Meantime the lovely goddess to his aid Sharp augers brought, with which he bored the beams, Then placed them side by side, adapting each To other, and the seams with wadding closed.
On this account most augers for use in machines are provided with triangular points instead of screw points.
They made more racks on the walls--boring holes with the augers and then driving in pegs--on which they laid their axes and extra rifles.
Among their stores were two augers and two gimlets, and they were veritable godsends; they enabled the boys to make use of pegs and to save the few nails that they had for other and greater emergencies.
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