Is there an easy way to drive "T" posts
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They have hydrolic drivers that will drive your t-posts and wooden posts.
Earl Thigpen
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I use the front end loader to drive T posts.
I know they make drivers for cedar posts but I sure need to see one of those things work. I can't get it my little pea brain how they work. Sometimes I can pick a 14,000 lb tractor off the ground trying to push a T post so how is it a cedar post can be pushed in? I feel pretty sure it isn't a "pile driver" and I can't see how even a vibratory driver can do a 6" cedar.
I saw a driver at an equipment auction once but it attached to the tractor with the 3-point hook-up. I still can't figure out it works. For one thing none of my tractors have down force hydraulics (the 3-point goes down by gravity) and second, none of my tractors are heavy enough even if I had the right kind of hydraulics.
If someone has pictures of a hydraulic cedar post driver in action I would sure like to see them.
Got another 4" of rain Brute.
Thanks,
I know they make drivers for cedar posts but I sure need to see one of those things work. I can't get it my little pea brain how they work. Sometimes I can pick a 14,000 lb tractor off the ground trying to push a T post so how is it a cedar post can be pushed in? I feel pretty sure it isn't a "pile driver" and I can't see how even a vibratory driver can do a 6" cedar.
I saw a driver at an equipment auction once but it attached to the tractor with the 3-point hook-up. I still can't figure out it works. For one thing none of my tractors have down force hydraulics (the 3-point goes down by gravity) and second, none of my tractors are heavy enough even if I had the right kind of hydraulics.
If someone has pictures of a hydraulic cedar post driver in action I would sure like to see them.
Got another 4" of rain Brute.
Thanks,
Yes Sir... Amen to that 4".
The drivers I have seen sit on the 3 point hitch.
You have to take an axe and chip a little off the bottom of the cedar posts so they aren't so blunt. Like driving a wooden stake with a hammer.
The drivers I have seen sit on the 3 point hitch.
You have to take an axe and chip a little off the bottom of the cedar posts so they aren't so blunt. Like driving a wooden stake with a hammer.
farmerjohn
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I use this.http://www.rohrermfg.com/
It only takes a small air compressor. I have an air compressor and my bobcat welder on a trailer. So far I have driven about 100 posts with it. Sometimes the post bounces around a little before starting going into the ground. I am going to try sharpening them with my plasma cutter :lol:
It only takes a small air compressor. I have an air compressor and my bobcat welder on a trailer. So far I have driven about 100 posts with it. Sometimes the post bounces around a little before starting going into the ground. I am going to try sharpening them with my plasma cutter :lol:
Texas Ranch Man
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Front End Loader
farmerjohn":1iae58ca said:
If you put your fott on the top of the spade when you start driving it the post won;t bounce. I've driven thousands of posts with ours, the only problem is when it hits solid rock. One of the good things is that if you leave it long enough in one spot with will eventually crack a rock o couple of inches thick and drive through it. Just make sure that you never want to remove that post cause it's there forever.
dun
farmerjohn
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I will give that a try. I had tried pushing my toe against the spade but not actually pushing down like a shovel.
Thanks
Thanks
farmerjohn":2rxiwajd said:
Once it gets started I push on the side to turn it back to square, but I alwasy start them with my foot on the top.
One good thing about the pounder is that it's kind of a huck fin type of deal. Anyone standing around wants to do it so I don;t have to do them all.
dun
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HAY MAKER
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I knew about the air operated pounders,always wondered if they were worth the money ?
I guess they clamp on the post and have a pnuematic cylinder that has a piston that pounds them ?
..........good luck
I guess they clamp on the post and have a pnuematic cylinder that has a piston that pounds them ?
..........good luck
cattleluvr18
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i lloovvee my loader!
farmerjohn
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cattleluvr18":2gkjhszb said:
You wouldn't if you had my hard ground. I have a 90 hp cab tractor with 4wheel drive and loader weighs in at around 10000 lbs. If you try to drive a post it just lifts the front end of the tractor off of the ground.
cattleluvr18
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dont worry. its gone off the ground before. and another trouble with it is that it takes two people. sometimes i'd rather just use a driver for some of the small jobs.
fourstates
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We bought the $450. hydraulic driver, rigged up the air compresser on a small trailer, pulled by a 4 wheeler. Best money we ever spent. We sure bent a lot of tposts using the bucket, even welded a giant nut to the loader, just couldn't make good time and bent a lot of posts! Hard clay ground!
fourstates
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Forgot the small gas generator on the trailer, too.
VZCR
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I 've got a gas generator / welder that I put on the trailer. Then I get this big Milwaukee "Hole Hawg" Drill with a 1-1/8" wood auger bit and go down the line drilling pilot holes. Then its only 2 or 3 licks with the "Armstrong" to set the post.The Hole Hawg is a powerful geared down drill with the chuck set at a right angle for drilling holes in studs to pre-wire a building. I bought it to do some pre-wires I got into one time. I got it at a pawn shop for $50.00. Best money I ever spent , probably. ;-)fourstates":2yfwqsj8 said:
