[thorne]

I have been through a few augers of various brands and have had various issues with all of em over the past 20 odd years....so after one trip, 3hours out of town and having my auger crap out I said enough is enough and bought a Sthil. All issues solved once and for all! Never had an issues since, and if I do Sthil is serviced ever where ( if I decide to ice fish in Serbia...I can get parts!)
Ya....its a bunch of dollars to buy, but if I had bought a Sthil from the beginning I would of saved a bunch more over the years! The thing I love most is how fast it cuts without throwing ice and water everywhere..it piles it nicely beside the hole while just powering down through the ice with a crap load of torque! And if you want to drill post holes in the ground, heck you can do that as well!