Auger flight for heavy tree roots

[Tentman]

Gidday Guys

 

I've been working (trying to place posts) in an area with a lot of heavy tree roots - its the sort of job I get quite often.  My Augertorque x2000 is just refusing to cut through them, it either "bounces" off and diverts, or stalls out.

 

Any ideas on how to solve this - am I using the wrong type of flight?  Not enough power? Is there a  specific tool??

 

Thanks

 

PS - for the job I'm on I've solved the problem ,just smashed them through with the Kinghitter's 340 kg hammer, but its messy and still tough going.

[donnk]

just go bigger. hire in 5 tonner with a bigger head and use same auger bit. blast through.

[Gary Prentice]

26 minutes ago, donnk said:

just go bigger. hire in 5 tonner with a bigger head and use same auger bit. blast through.

Yeah, that don't really need roots anyway.

[slack ma girdle]

just go bigger. hire in 5 tonner with a bigger head and use same auger bit. blast through.

I found a fourteen tonner with hydraulic trenching tool to be be very effective.
Like Guy said trees don't really need roots.

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[Matthew Storrs]

Augers will take the easiest path- and often the auger will just screw past a root if it can fit in the auger flight.

 

what tip have you got, I have the tungsten tipped flight on my x2500- rarely find it gets stuck on a root unless very large 4"plus- anything less it normally chews through.

only a 3 tonner behind it.