Patent ID: 6296068
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: A01C

Abstract:
A planting system for drilling planting holes in the earth using a portable electric drill having a chuck for receiving tools to be rotatably driven, said planting system comprisingan auger having a helical cutting blade and a shank adapted for insertion into the chuck of the electric drill,root-cutting means at the lower end of the auger,a cylindrical shroud slidably mounted on the shank of the auger and extending downwardly around the auger with the inside wall of the shroud spaced away from the outer edge of the helical cutting blade of the auger,a slip ring mounted on said shank below the inside surface of a top wall of said shroud for engaging and rotating said shroud with said shank until said shroud is displaced upwardly along said shank by engagement with the earth, anda pointed centering tip extending downwardly from the lower end of the auger along the longitudinal axis of the auger.