It seems like jiffys aren't built like tanks anymore. I have one of the older jiffys that are mostly metal. I remeber when I had that auger for a year, the auger partially fell out of the back of the truck and started scraping along the highway for about 6km.
Man that thing was scraped, but it still ran like new.
BTW sorry to hear about those incedents with your augers.
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