Slushmaster – Is it an “AUGER”

  • dan-larson
    Cedar, Min-E-So-Ta
    Posts: 1482
    October 4, 2010 at 9:12 pm #1301487

    This dipstick I work with, from Illinois mind you, was looking over my shoulder today as I perused the Strike Master website. While watching the video of the Slushmaster in use, he proceeded to tell me that the Slushmaster was indeed an “auger” by definition.

    To settle a gentleman’s bet of $1, I put the question to my friends on the intanets, to finally answer the now age old question, does the Slushmaster meet the following definition of an “auger”:

    –noun
    1. Carpentry .
    a. a bit, as for a brace.
    b. a boring tool, similar to but larger than a gimlet, consisting of a bit rotated by a transverse handle.
    2. earth auger.
    3. a device consisting of a shaft with a broad helical flange rotating within a cylindrical casing to force bulk materials from one end to the other.
    4. snake ( def. 3a )

    Thanks.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    October 4, 2010 at 9:23 pm #902516

    No, not an auger. Enjoy your COKE

    big G

    mikkar
    South Saint Paul, MN
    Posts: 223
    October 4, 2010 at 10:34 pm #902523

    by definition nope certainly not an auger.

    stevenoak
    Posts: 1719
    October 4, 2010 at 11:21 pm #902529

    Hey,hey easy on the Illinios guys.Some thing you don’t understand.I read yesterday Illinios was rated like 48th for public outdoor recreation options in the US.Some folks don’t get out much.Have to say guy sounds like a bit of a ”tool”.Was he from Chicago that could explain a lot.

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    October 4, 2010 at 11:52 pm #902530

    I’ll take em. ………….and will see how many holes I drill before he can wack a hole in the ice with a slushmaster

    slipperybob
    Lil'Can, MN
    Posts: 1414
    October 5, 2010 at 6:25 am #902570

    The only hole I can drill with it is a slush hole left by the “AUGER”

    jd318
    NE Nebraska
    Posts: 757
    October 5, 2010 at 2:04 pm #902615

    I don’t think I would have ever thought of considering it an auger until I read this post. After considering it for a second or two, I don’t think I would ever consider it auger ever again.

    I don’t know who gets to decide who wins your bet, but I think you are correct.

    lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    October 5, 2010 at 3:03 pm #902630

    You’re going to have to find someone who has no clue of what an auger is until you find someone who agrees that that thing is an auger.

    It’s just as much an auger as a spoon is. Both could probably poke a hole through the ice if you had two weeks to spare.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    October 5, 2010 at 3:16 pm #902634

    Just in case you needed proof….

    Slushmaster

    The directions clearly state you have a hole in the ice already.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    October 11, 2010 at 9:15 pm #903653

    I think in the context that your buddy is thinking, an auger is also flighting in a tube, which can move things, such as corn, grains etc. The “slushmaster” does not use “flighting” so therefore, it is not an auger…. it uses what I would call a vortex to rid the hole of slush…either way, he loses…

    big G

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