To perform various works on a personal plot, a garden drill is required. It is irreplaceable when constructing a foundation or a solid fence, when you need to make pits for piles or poles, in addition, in the garden it is often used when you need to make holes for planting plants. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right type of instrument, to analyze all the advantages and disadvantages of different models.

Boers and their varieties

Garden drills can have different designs, but the main elements in most cases remain the same: a support rod, a handle with which the tool is controlled, and most importantly, the cutting edge. This is enough to effectively perform all everyday tasks that may arise on a personal plot - from planting plants to the construction of outbuildings.

Electric garden drill

How to choose borax for the soil if earthwork is coming up is the first and main question that arises for amateur gardeners. The whole variety of instruments on the market can be summarized as follows:

  • mechanical drills (this is the simplest type of hand tool);
  • gasoline models, that is, motorized hand tools that run on fuel;
  • electric models are also hand tools, only they work from an electric drive;
  • hydraulic - this type of equipment is not used in the garden due to the design features and high cost.

The best option is most often considered a gasoline hand drill due to its compactness and ease of operation.

Important! Gasoline models are not only more convenient to operate, but also quickly cope with drilling any type of soil, easily opening layers up to 2-3 m deep.

Electric models have their own advantages too. In particular, they operate silently, which distinguishes them favorably from gasoline counterparts. But they cannot function autonomously - they need to be connected to an energy source, and it is impossible to perform work at a great distance from it.

The simplest mechanical soil drills can also differ in design. In the basic version, they are a metal tubular rod with a handle, at the other end of it there is a nozzle - a two-blade cutter. This design is as simple as possible, but also the most reliable. True, with its help you can mainly dig only small holes and wells.

Gasoline drill

There is also a more complex mechanical variety. Here the cutter is already removable. This makes it possible to use additional replaceable nozzles, but they all retain their plate shape. But they can have different diameters. This tool can already be used for almost all types of work.

You can also find auger drill on sale. It differs significantly from those described above from a constructive point of view, since behind its cutting blades is not a plate element, but a screw auger. These models provide faster work, since in one working cycle they can remove more soil from the hole than conventional tools.

Important! Enhanced plate type mechanical augers are commercially available.In addition to the fact that they come with several cutters of different diameters, they differ in the split design of the rod, that is, its length can be increased, while simultaneously increasing the depth to which such a tool can reach.

In some models, a so-called handle extension is provided, which greatly facilitates the work of such a tool, since then it can be used together with a partner. The cutting force of the edge will increase and the job will be completed faster.

Scope of the hand drill

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The simplicity of the design, which distinguishes the manual garden drill, is misleading for many. Inexperienced gardeners believe that it cannot be a functional tool. But this is not the case. The tool is used for the following work:

  • Drilling the soil for the subsequent installation of any support structures.
  • Arrangement of holes for further planting of trees, bushes and other green spaces.
  • Loosening of the soil, which provides plants with access to oxygen. Also, these works are necessary when watering and feeding plants.
  • Arrangement of compost pits or shallow wells.
  • In the construction of a country house, a garden drill can also come in handy - with its help, holes are arranged for elements of a columnar foundation.

Also, tools of this type can be used to lay inclined or horizontal tunnels through which various communications, elements of ventilation systems and structures for drainage will pass.

Ground electric drill

There are many interesting models on the market. Some of them have their own application characteristics. For example, there are Tornado drills - they are considered an excellent option for making holes and holes in soil filled with small stones and rubble or contaminated with construction waste. From a constructive point of view, they are a kind of hybrid of blade and fork-shaped tools.

Advantages and disadvantages of a hand drill

garden tools

The main advantages of this type of tool are:

  • relatively low cost (there is even an opportunity to make a drill yourself);
  • compactness and lightness;
  • convenient transportation to a new site;
  • maneuverability and the ability to get to where more massive tools cannot reach or where they cannot work without additional energy sources (the latter is relevant only for mechanical models).

The main disadvantage of such a tool is that it requires a lot of physical strength. In addition, not all models can cope with obstacles such as rocks and tree roots.

How and from what to make a hand drill?

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To make a good tool, you need a drawing - it is quite simple, you just need to calculate the length, size of the cutting part, etc. To make a tool, you will also need a water pipe 1.5 m long and an inner diameter of 15 mm (but only steel, no metal-plastic will not work). For the handle, you need to pick up a piece of fittings or a pipe of only a slightly larger diameter, 20 mm. The length of the handle is determined based on individual preferences, but on average 40-50 cm. A circular saw blade with a diameter of up to 200 mm is used as a cutting edge.

Note! To strengthen the structure, sheet metal 3 mm thick can be used, from which the disc will be cut, but it will still need to be sharpened.

The disc is welded to the stem at a specific angle. A drill must be welded to the end of this rod - in this design, it plays the role of a guide tip. A handle is fixed at the other end of the pipe.

Motor-drill Carver

Operation, care and storage

If a conventional mechanical garden drill is used, then before starting work, it is recommended to make "rough", shallow holes in the ground using an ordinary shovel. This will then significantly accelerate drilling, especially if it is necessary to "break through" to a greater depth.It is very important when using the tool to ensure that it does not deviate from the specified vertical direction. Sometimes for these purposes they even use additional equipment - a tripod.

It is necessary to raise the soil on each traversed section of 40-45 cm, otherwise the load will increase when removing the drill.

The cutting disc is selected to match the soil structure so that stones and plant roots cannot damage it. All the same, during operation, irregularities and burrs will appear on the cutting part. These attachments must be sharpened to restore the original edge shape, and the damaged areas must be painted over to protect them from corrosion. Sometimes the entire tool is covered with an anti-corrosion compound, but only after cleaning its surface.

Stihl Gas Drill

How to choose a handheld garden drill?

Regardless of what type of drills the buyer is interested in, before making the final choice, several parameters need to be analyzed, including:

  • The diameter of the cutting edge itself. The size of the hole in the soil depends on it, which can then be made with a drill. In this case, it is considered that the cutting attachment should be 5 mm larger than the size of the hole, which will be made with its help.
  • Additional options - the presence of replaceable attachments, an extended handle, the ability to extend the bar. The more such things are provided, the more convenient and versatile the tool is considered.

Important! If a gardener wants to buy a motorized hand drill, then you need to take into account the power of its engine, fuel or energy consumption, the presence of different operating modes.

Experienced gardeners recommend choosing borax from well-known manufacturers. For example, Zubr is one of the most popular brands. The company produces relatively light and simple designs. Classic model - with two screw cutters of different diameters. This design feature makes it easier to "bite" into the ground, leaving a narrow channel in it, which is then easily expanded with a second cutter.

Drill "Tornado Profi"

The Tornado Profi model is popular. Its main advantage, in addition to versatility and excellent performance, is strength. This is a forged drill, it is more reliable than models made using a different technology.

Garden drills from brands such as Stihl, Husqvarna, Hitachi and others have proven themselves well.

Imported models are much more expensive than domestic ones. Therefore, if the amount of work on the site is small, a good tool can be rented from time to time, and not bought, so as not to spend extra money on something that will then still be idle. In any case, the rented tool must be treated in the same way as with your own, observing all the rules of operation described above.