Keyfit Tools G.S.I. Contractor Grade Garden Stake Installation Tool Drill Bit Fast & Easily Install Garden Stakes Even in Frozen Soil Fiberglass Plant Support Stakes Tomato Cage Rebar Steel J Hook

I needed to get a number of 7'-8' bamboo stakes in the ground and my soil is rocky red clay. This drill bit allowed me to break the ground up enough to push the stakes far enough into the ground so that they stood firm. The stakes were wider than drill bit, so I had to move the drill around to make a big enough hole, but the bit stayed locked in place and didn't give me any trouble. This will be useful next season when I'm putting in tomato cages and bean/pea trellises. Highly recommend.

These have been holding up well in my garden for a few years. So easy to install with the drill bit. They will bend and fold over if exerting too much pressure trying to push them further into the ground so don't overdo it.

Wish I could still get the 8 foot versions. Had to settle for the 7 foot instead.

I live in Alabama where my yard is basically a big pile of hard red clay that becomes rock hard. So when I wanted to install 17 tomato cages I knew I needed something to help me get 51 stakes into the ground. I was really skeptical when I purchased this as other items have been rendered useless due to our clay. However others had reviewed it well, I needed to try something as I knew I couldn’t install 51 stakes without some kind of help and it was less than $25; so I thought I’d take a chance. I’m so glad I did. I was able to install 51 stakes in around 2 hours with mostly little effort taking my time to hydrate in our Southern heat and humidity. There were some holes that gave me difficulty but I blame that on either hitting a rock or trying to drill into an especially hard clay dirt area. Spots that didn’t have that, had the drill go in like butter; very quickly and with ease. In short, I highly recommend this and it was money well spent.

I had to put plastic net around several garden patches of about 16 ft x 4 ft and each patch needed about 6-8 stakes. I was looking for a tool to make 3/4 in x 18 in holes. Keyfit Tools G.S.I. Contractor Grade Garden Stake Installation Tool Drill Bit came handy. It made holes of 1/2 in x 12 in holes. I enlarged and deepened the holes with a 3/4 inx 36 in stake. Then pushed the 8 ft garden stakes into the ground and put net around tied it to the stake with plastic coated metal twist ties. Without the tool it would have been hard to make those perfect holes (about 40 holes) for the garden stakes.

Vast swaths of the southeastern United States have high amounts of red clay in the soil. That's awful for virtually anything, except making a pond or fashioning your own bricks. Not only is it challenging to grow things in clay, it's a pain to dig up, too. That's where the Keyfit Tools G.S.I. Contractor Grade Garden Stake Installation Tool Drill Bit comes in.The idea was that I could use the Keyfit Tools drill bit to install plasticized metal garden rods for supporting tomato plants. With the bit being the proper diameter and a foot long, it seemed like the proper solution. I ran a 12/3 extension cord out to the garden because the clay soil was probably going to require more torque than my cordless could supply. Getting the bit into my 13A drill wasn't the issue. The chuck requires a key, and I tightened it well. The issue came in use... the torque of the drill versus the resistance of the clay caused the shank to spin in the chuck. Decreasing my plunge rate obviously helped, as did prepping the soil a bit, but there are really only so many concessions you want to make. Ultimately, I decided the best thing to do was clamp the bit down and grind two flat edges on to the shank (opposite each other). I didn't remove a ton of material, but it doesn't spin in the chuck anymore. After that, everything went smoothly, but the tool only gets three stars since I had to modify it to make it work.

Love this garden drill ... makes it easy to drill the holes for the 5 FT+ garden rods ... especially if you have hard, sandy, dry ground where you want the stakes like I do here in Arizona ... just drill to the hilt and slide the garden rod into the hole ... eazy-peazy

I plan to use this tool to drill holes for garden stakes. It should be handy within a few weeks.