MY GAS-POWERED EARTH AUGER REVIEW

T-Bone’s Tools & Equipment
Written By T-Bone Tress

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I was out in my yard putting up fence posts.  I had my trusty manual post hole diggers and all was going well.  When I got to the north border of my land, something changed.  The soil, about 3 inches beneath the surface turned into an impenetrable material.  I got my sharp pry bar, and between the two implements, I managed to dig three holes--in one day.  I was wearing leather gloves, but it literally destroyed my hands.  Took me two weeks to heal!  I told my wife I wanted a gas-powered auger.  What she found is the NEOTEC 72CC, two stroke auger.  I uncrated it and assembled it.  It came with three augers.  An 8-inch, a 6-inch and a 4-inch.  It  came with the tools to install the auger, but it also came with a container to properly mix the fuel.  I did these things and on the third pull the engine roared to life. 

We put the NEOTEC 72CC gas-powered earth auger to work on real post holes in East Texas soil. Here’s what helped, what fought back, and whether we’d use it again.

Don’t let me lie to you, it was still work.  After a couple hours I had my holes dug and it was much more efficient than the manual method and the $189 we spent on it was worth EVERY penny. 

PROS AND CONS OF THE NEOTEC 72CC AUGER

PROS :

  • Attractive Unit

  • Seems to be well built

  • Powerful

  • Easy to assemble

  • Makes quick work of hole digging

  • Easy to start

  • Fuel mixing container is a no brainer

  • Not too heavy

CONS:

  • The throttle lock lever broke.  It was plastic and looked like an injection mold malfunction. I don’t use the lock anyway. 🤷

I consider this to be a solid purchase and would definitely repurchase it again.

NEO-TEC gas-powered earth auger used and reviewed at T-Bone’s Place

NEO-TEC 72CC Earth Auger

The package we purchased came with a 4”, 6” and 8” auger bit.

T-Bone Tress

T-Bone Tress is the hands-on voice behind T-Bone’s Place, sharing honest reviews, practical homesteading projects, useful tools, farmstead lessons, and the occasional “well, that didn’t go as planned.” His wife, Jax Tress, is right there in the middle of it with him as a fellow author, farmstead partner, camera operator, idea wrangler, and more likely to be found creating the recipes and cooking up the next wild idea for them to try. Between the two of them, if they build it, fix it, grow it, cook it, test it, break it, or learn something worth passing along, chances are it’ll end up at T-Bone’s Place.

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