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2. Wood auger - Wikipedia

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   Study of a man using an auger, from The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin, by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496. The classical design has a helical screw blade winding around the bottom end of the shaft. The lower edge of the blade is sharpened and scrapes the wood; the rest of the blade lifts the chips out of the way.

3. Earth auger - Wikipedia

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   A post-hole auger. An earth auger, earth drill, or post-hole auger is a drilling tool used for making holes in the ground. [1] It typically consists of a rotating vertical metal rod or pipe with one or more blades attached at the lower end, that cut or scrape the soil.

4. Boring machine (carpentry) - Wikipedia

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   Before boring machines were invented, carpenters used hand-powered augers to bore holes. Most common were T-handled augers. The shape of the drill bits changed over time, with the spoon bit and shell bit being common before the invention of the spiral or twist bit in 1771 [1] which removes the cuttings as it turns. The exact origin of this ...

5. Category:Gardening tools - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Gardening tools" ... Wood auger; Woodchipper This page was last edited on 9 June 2020, at 06:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

6. Brace (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A brace is a hand tool used with a bit (drill bit or auger) to drill holes, usually in wood. Pressure is applied to the top while the handle is rotated. If the bit's lead and cutting spurs are both in good working order, the user should not have to apply any pressure other than for balance: the lead will pull the bit through the wood.

7. Drill bit - Wikipedia

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   The cutting principles of the auger bit are the same as those of the center bit above. The auger adds a long deep spiral flute for effective chip removal. Two styles of auger bit are commonly used in hand braces: the Jennings or Jennings-pattern bit has a self-feeding screw tip, two spurs and two radial cutting edges. This bit has a double ...

8. Auger - Wikipedia

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   Auger bit, a drill bit; Auger conveyor, a device for moving material by means of a rotating helical flighting; Auger (platform), the world's first tension leg oil rig; see Big, Bigger, Biggest; Earth auger, a drilling tool or machine used for making holes in the ground; Wood auger, a drill for making holes in wood (or in the ground)

9. Drill cuttings - Wikipedia

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   Drill cuttings [1] are broken bits of solid material removed from a borehole drilled by rotary, percussion, or auger methods and brought to the surface in the drilling mud. Boreholes drilled in this way include oil or gas wells , water wells , and holes drilled for geotechnical investigations or mineral exploration.