Thread: Digger - Auger advice please

answer is it depends. And only the manufacture will be able to give you that answer and for obvious reasons he will say no.
if its direct drive some hydraulic motors have decent double roller bearings with some separation on the shaft, others don't.
many augers use a planetary and while they do have big bearings on the output shaft they may not handle side loading.

Other option as you have the hydraulics is a hydraulic winch. That will shift anything, will be constant speed,
Z