Edit 2016 Jun 02: Just found another handy use for this tool. I found a dead raccoon on the edge of my property. I grabbed the auger, set it's diameter to 10 inches, then dug a 4 foot hole. As I brought up dirt, I emptied the dirt into 5 gallon buckets. Then I dropped the raccoon into the hole using a shovel. Finally, I poured the dirt from the buckets back into the hole and tamped it down with an 8 inch tamper. The only evidence of all this was a nice, neat 10 inch circle of tamped dirt at the surface.