Software for the yard running excavator auger attachments.

An excavator auger attachment is the unit a rental yard hangs off a machine that is already on site so a crew can drill instead of dig — fence posts down a lease road, footings for a pole barn, anchor holes for a utility pole. It is not a standalone machine. It is a hydraulic drive, a set of bits, and the pins that hold them, and all of it only works when the flow from the carrier underneath matches what the drive needs. That dependency is what makes augers hard to run as a fleet: the drive moves between excavators and soils constantly, bits and pins go missing in the dirt, and one bad match stalls the unit in a half-drilled hole. EquipFlow handles auger attachments the way the yard that built it handles them — dispatch, billing, maintenance, and return inspection on one record.

Built inside Rental King, right now.

Rental King is a heavy-equipment rental yard in Odessa and Midland, TX. They run excavator auger attachments, manlifts, forklifts, light towers, generators, compressors, and water trucks on MSA contracts through the Permian Basin — 24/7, oilfield pace. EquipFlow was designed and first deployed inside that yard. Every feature was tested against their live operation before it shipped. The product runs there today.

An auger attachment is small, easy to lose track of, and easy to send out wrong, which is exactly where a rental yard quietly leaks money. A drive matched to the wrong carrier stalls and comes back as a complaint instead of a paid job. Bits and pins walk off into the spoil pile and never get charged. A gearbox run low on oil turns a cheap service into a shop rebuild. The hour meter is the spine of both maintenance and billing, so it has to be captured the same way every time — at return, on the inspection, against the rental record. When dispatch, billing, maintenance, and inspection all read from one record, the dispatcher confirms the carrier match and the full bit list before the truck loads, the mechanic services against real hours, and the bookkeeper closes the month without rebuilding which bits went where from memory.

Excavator Auger Attachment specs the rental record tracks.

Every number below is a sourced specification range. The render layer is the only path these values reach the page — they live on the unit record, not in a dispatcher's head.

Max output torque

1,014-7,189ft-lb

Hydraulic flow requirement

6-40gpm

Max operating pressure

3,500psi

Auger bit diameter

6-48in

Carrier weight class

3-10ton

Output shaft (hex)

2in

Drilling speed (RPM)

36-100rpm

How EquipFlow handles excavator auger attachments on the dispatch board.

An auger drive only earns when it matches the carrier under it, so the dispatch board treats the drive, the bits, and the carrier as a set, not three loose lines. The drive's flow requirement has to fall inside what the customer's excavator actually delivers — too little flow and it stalls in the hole, too much and the motor cooks — so the dispatcher confirms the carrier on the rental record before the truck loads. Bits are the trap. A drive sent without the right diameter, or without the rock bit a caliche job needs, is a return trip, and a loose bit or pin left in the yard is a hole the customer cannot drill. The board surfaces the carrier match and the bit list at assignment, and it flags the same drive double-booked across overlapping post-setting windows so a conflict shows up before the gate, not at the customer's job.

Billing excavator auger attachments — MSA, standby, and site-level tax.

Auger work in the oilfield and on ranch jobs is usually MSA-contracted, so the rate override lives on the customer record by class — the drive, and often the carrier it rides — and a rental created for that account applies the negotiated rate without the dispatcher keeping a sheet in their head. An auger drive frequently bills alongside the excavator carrying it; both lines ride one invoice, plus any extra bit diameters and the rock-bit add-on. When the crew sits through a weather hold or waits on locates before they can drill, the drive sits idle but committed, and standby is billed at a rate separate from active hours so the dispatcher marks it and the invoice carries both lines without a month-end rebuild. Tax is set on the delivery-site record, so a job that crosses county lines still gets the right rate per site. Invoices post to QuickBooks Online on close.

Maintenance on excavator auger attachments.

Auger-drive PM is hour-meter driven, not calendar driven, because a drive boring footings all week burns an interval fast while a yard spare sits a season. The hour reading posts when the return inspection records it, and the maintenance module advances the PM clock from that reading so the next service lands on real usage. The gearbox and its oil are the heart of the service — auger drives live or die on gear-oil level and seal condition, and a drive run low or with a weeping seal is the most common shop repair. PM also covers the hydraulic motor, hoses and couplers, the output-shaft splines or hex, and bit-tooth and pilot wear, since dull teeth stall the drive and chew torque. Work orders, parts, and meter history live on the drive's unit record, which is also where a damage charge off a return inspection becomes a repair ticket.

Excavator Auger Attachment return inspections.

Two rhythms apply. The carrier's pre-shift check belongs to the customer while the unit is on the job — couplers seated, lines clear, no leaks before they start drilling. The yard's own control is the return inspection: before an auger drive comes off rent, the driver runs a mobile-web checklist on a phone — no app install — captures the hour-meter reading, and attaches required photos that cannot be skipped. Auger-specific checks carry the weight here. Count the bits back against what went out, confirm every pin and the hardware that holds them, check the output shaft for twist and the splines for wear, look for a gearbox-oil weep, and read tooth and pilot condition. The inspection ties to the rental record before the truck leaves the customer site, so a missing bit or a bent auger is documented with photos and a timestamp, not argued later.

Common excavator auger attachment classes in the field.

The product, the same way it runs for excavator auger attachments.

The sections below are the EquipFlow modules that matter most when running excavator auger attachments — each links to the full feature detail.

Operator guides for running excavator auger attachments.

Field-tested playbooks that go deeper on pricing, dispatch, billing, and maintenance for fleets like this.

• Choosing the Right Excavator Class for a Job →
• Documenting Equipment Condition at Checkout →
• Earthmoving Equipment Rental Basics →
• How Site-Level Tax Affects Rental Billing →

What you give up running excavator auger attachments in EquipFlow.

EquipFlow is a web app, so the return inspection needs a signal to load. On a remote ranch or lease with no coverage, the driver cannot finish the mobile inspection at the customer site; most yards run it at the yard on return instead, so the bit count, photos, and hour reading land later than ideal. There is no built-in telematics today, so engine and fault data from a carrier's own portal is not pulled automatically — the hour meter is captured at return inspection. And the rate logic is built around the MSA-and-standby model the oilfield runs on; a yard that bills augers in an unusual way should bring it to the demo so it can be scoped honestly rather than forced.