NEW STYLE OF AUGERS
By: Evan Lucyk
Bit Service is dedicated to continually helping our clients stay on top of the best items in the market, as the bit world evolves and changes. With more than five decades of experience in the industry and housing an expert staff who really know their stuff, we love passing along quality products that we believe will add efficiencies to our client’s processes.
In this spirit, we recently brought on a new style of auger, and talked with Andrew Grasdal, our technical sales and services representative, about it.
We’ll start with the basics and work up from there. Wondering what exactly is an auger? You’re not alone. Andrew shared how an auger is quite simply a drill used in conjunction with a cutting bit to create a hole in the ground or rock. Typical sizes range from a couple feet, to 20 feet in length.
Here at Bit Service, we sell augers mainly for roof drilling, support anchors and blasting holes for face drilling. The auger is used in an application specifically where the cut material needs to be extracted by the integral flighting on the exterior of the drill rod.
Around here it is most common in potash for ground support bolting, where an auger will be used to drill a hole of a specified depth and diameter, into which a mechanical or resin anchored bolt is inserted and torqued to support a section of the back
Yet another use for augers? A drill auger is used extensively in creating holes for anchors used for hanging equipment such as belt conveyors, conveyor drives and chutes, cranes and warehouse shelving from the back in an underground mine.
SO, WHAT IS THIS NEW STYLE?
The new style of auger we are carrying here at Bit Service comes from Hardrock-Vertex Mining Drill Products, a Canadian company we are proud to partner with in alignment with our dedication to working—and supporting—North American companies.
What makes this auger so unique is that it is built as one solid piece with a consistent cross sectional area, twisted to form the required pitch and profile. The resulting auger is exceptionally strong, with superior extraction properties and is suited to both rotational and percussive applications.
Further benefits include:
The profile of the auger itself does a lot better job of actually auguring material when compared to other versions
The augers have multiple profiles that can be used for different applications
Users have the ability to specify custom bit ends
If you’d like to hear more about this new product and to discover how Bit Service can further serve you, contact us today to get started.