What is 'auger' 🧑‍🔧

In this article, I'd like to explain "What is 'auger'". Let's characterize it and answer some popular questions.

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A wood-boring tool that consists of a shank with spiral channels ending in two spurs, a central tapered feed screw, and a pair of cutting lips. Also: A large augerlike tool for boring into soil.

An auger is a spiral-shaped tool that moves materials or liquids from one area to another. When the tool is rotated, the materials or liquids move along the spiral to the desired location. So it is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting.

Auger is also a helically shaped drill used to bore holes into the ground.

These holes may be made for the purpose of obtaining soil samples or it may be filled with concrete and form a drilled shaft foundation.

Simply put, an auger is a spiral-shaped tool that is used to drill holes into the ground and other surfaces or materials.

The spiraling metal shaft with a blade at the end of the device is known as a “flighting”.

The flighting rotates to scrape, cut, or siphon out drilled materials.

According to wikipedia…

What does wikipedia say about “auger”? Let’s see:

An auger is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting. On rotation the material is moved along the axis of rotation. A drill bit uses this mechanism to remove shavings from a hole being drilled. For some uses the helical flighting is enclosed in a tube, for other uses the flighting is not encased.

These are questions that people still ask:

Auger

What is an auger drill bit...

Often searched for as ‘auger drill,’ or ‘auger drill bit,’ an auger is an essential piece of equipment used in construction. This spiral-shaped tool is a lot more than a simple drilling tool. It actually has multiple uses on site depending on the task at hand.

What is the origin of the auger tool...

This tool was first used to bore a hole for the axle in the nave, or hub, of a wheel. Such a nave was called nafu in Old English. Nafu is related to the word nafela, which became our word navel. The Old English ancestor of auger was nafogar, which was made up of nafu and gar, meaning “spear.”

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