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A couple of months ago they put in some new barnbed wire on t-posts just up the road. The used an air hammer and had to dig holes to plant the t-posts.
In some areas we don;t have many rocks either. But those few rocks are as big as a couple of acres and rest just below the surface.
 
dun":2f0p39eq said:
It cracks me up people recommending pushing in posts with a tractor bucket without any knowledge/consideration of the soil conditions that is in the area the poster is from.

That's correct. But Mr. Blueridge didn't say if he wanted to do "T" posts, steel pipe, wood posts or what.

Folks need to have a little common sense. You ain't gonna "push" posts (any kind) into rock. Quite frankly, you ain't gonna "push" "T" posts into hard pan dirt without some sort of sleeve over the post, either.

A hydraulic post driver ain't gonna drive a post into rock. You can drill rock - the oil and gas industry do it all the time, but not with the conventional auger used by us flatlanders. So if Mr. Blueridge has any of that common stuff he is asking about getting posts into dirt. What kind of posts we have no idea because he doesn't say.
 
The posts are 6" wood posts for the corners and 4" for some of the line posts (where there is sharp elevation changes). The rest will be t-posts. Where the fence is going is new ground and has some rock but very small in size (quarter to silver dollar size) not sure what type but it breaks pretty easily.
 

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