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<blockquote data-quote="marksmu" data-source="post: 662134" data-attributes="member: 9219"><p>My phd is a rhino one - its had no issues and I have used it on about 600 posts. Honestly though - breaking a phd is pretty tough to do unless your trying to do it. Trinity is not that far from where I am - and after IKE we had to replaces over 7 miles of fence around our place - and I will make a suggestion which is highly dependent on the size of your tractor and your soil - but if possible and your tractor is large enough, use your Front end loader to push the posts in. You may need to fill your bucket with a load of dirt and hammer a few times on the posts to get it started, but usually once its broken the first few inches of hard crust it will just push right in.</p><p></p><p>I use a Kubota M9000 with a heavy duty ANBO root rake/grapple (1600lbs) to do my hammering and pushing, and it will make putting a 5-7 inch round wood post in the ground a 40 second ordeal as opposed to a 5 minute ordeal. When the post is in its packed, and you dont need to use a shovel to back fill either. When you are installing thousands of posts though - going from 5-10 minutes down to 30-40 seconds is an amazing difference. The ground for us is still soft so driving them in isnt a problem, but if you are already dryed out, you can just wait till you get some rain, and then do it. We are just driving our wood posts now while the soil is still soft enough - and stretching only the bottom wire - we come back later once the fields are good and dry, and put the Tposts, and the other 3 strands in. </p><p></p><p>Its so much faster and better for me, that I to this day cannot even imagine going back and drilling all my holes. I work with just me and a friend, we went from drilling the holes, and being able to complete about 400-500 feet in a day, to completing right at about 1500 feet. Thats if we stretch all 4 wires, and put in the tposts and the clips.</p><p></p><p>If we just do the wood posts and the bottom strand like we are doing now, we go about 4000 feet in a day, thats with a wood 5-7 round every 50 feet, and an H brace every 300 feet, or more frequently if were turning alot.</p><p></p><p>Just a thought - we fenced for a year with a PHD before someone told me to just drive them when the soil is wet. I think I owe that guy a nice dinner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksmu, post: 662134, member: 9219"] My phd is a rhino one - its had no issues and I have used it on about 600 posts. Honestly though - breaking a phd is pretty tough to do unless your trying to do it. Trinity is not that far from where I am - and after IKE we had to replaces over 7 miles of fence around our place - and I will make a suggestion which is highly dependent on the size of your tractor and your soil - but if possible and your tractor is large enough, use your Front end loader to push the posts in. You may need to fill your bucket with a load of dirt and hammer a few times on the posts to get it started, but usually once its broken the first few inches of hard crust it will just push right in. I use a Kubota M9000 with a heavy duty ANBO root rake/grapple (1600lbs) to do my hammering and pushing, and it will make putting a 5-7 inch round wood post in the ground a 40 second ordeal as opposed to a 5 minute ordeal. When the post is in its packed, and you dont need to use a shovel to back fill either. When you are installing thousands of posts though - going from 5-10 minutes down to 30-40 seconds is an amazing difference. The ground for us is still soft so driving them in isnt a problem, but if you are already dryed out, you can just wait till you get some rain, and then do it. We are just driving our wood posts now while the soil is still soft enough - and stretching only the bottom wire - we come back later once the fields are good and dry, and put the Tposts, and the other 3 strands in. Its so much faster and better for me, that I to this day cannot even imagine going back and drilling all my holes. I work with just me and a friend, we went from drilling the holes, and being able to complete about 400-500 feet in a day, to completing right at about 1500 feet. Thats if we stretch all 4 wires, and put in the tposts and the clips. If we just do the wood posts and the bottom strand like we are doing now, we go about 4000 feet in a day, thats with a wood 5-7 round every 50 feet, and an H brace every 300 feet, or more frequently if were turning alot. Just a thought - we fenced for a year with a PHD before someone told me to just drive them when the soil is wet. I think I owe that guy a nice dinner. [/QUOTE]
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