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 Keep those crap slapping tails away!
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Location: Around here somewhere... | Do any of y'all have experience with those mechanical fence post pounders? I know that they are expensive but if they are easy to use and durable I'd like to look into getting one. |
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | I can't be of any help but if you have a tractor, your can use the front end loader or level hay hooks to push T-Posts in. I usually space and hold while hubby operates tractor. Just as fast and cheaper if using what you already have. We do have an 3 pt auger for doing the actual Corner or Brace Posts. Just an idea. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| lol never heard them called fancy but i bought i to fence our place in its was money well spent but we had the hydralic on the tractor to. we fenced in and crossed fenced 72 a just myself and son we occasional would have some extra but just him and i, it was 98 best 2500,00 i spent plus 2400 for a 12 dump trailer |
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Keep those crap slapping tails away!
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Location: Around here somewhere... | Well they're pretty dang fancy compared to using the regular old fashioned heavy as all get out one that I just built a big pen by myself with lol my hands have been hurting and are all blistered and I can not even hold a glass of water with my right hand... Sigh. I'm not pounding any more fence posts!!! I will pay someone before I will do it again. I never thought if using a loader/tractor bucket!!! We have an auger but that isn't too useful for t-posts lol |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | We have one that you have to hook up to an air compressor. It is ok, but the last t-posts that we put in we used the tractor forks and of course I was the holder. I think it was actually faster. |
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Party Gal
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | RocketPilot - 2014-07-14 10:48 AM We have one that you have to hook up to an air compressor. It is ok, but the last t-posts that we put in we used the tractor forks and of course I was the holder. I think it was actually faster.
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Location: north dakota | Are you talking about the one that will pound in the big corner posts. My husband use to work for a company that sells them. We used one to put in a bunch of posts and it works great. |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | maybe this title needs to be in LRQHS match.com add??  (sorry.... i couldnt help myself) |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) |
I'ma have to agree here.....lol. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| oh on t post they are a breeze we had a pipe with to handles boom boom a couple times in the hardest for me was i was short so i lean post put it on and go for it never had a blister but my hand were very calloused |
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Location: So. MN, to close to IA | Around here, unless the ground is wet you won't push in a t-post with your loader bucket. My BIL bought a wood post pounder. Yesterday we helped him put in 1/4 mile of 4-strand with 6" posts in about 3 hours. It was so simple. |
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Location: Alberta | You should phone around to places that sell them and see if you could rent one. Up here all the local farm co-ops have rentals, its just over a hundred bucks a weekend to rent it and because they are closed Sundays its a "free day". We perimeter fenced our whole 20acres with 7foots, 4 strands in two days. Since then we have rented it a few more times to build smaller pens and fix broken posts. We also use our tractor bucket once in a while but man its tough on the tractor if the ground isn't wet. |
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | My brother just spent 7k on one and it works slick. You can level it side to side and front to back. Pounded in the big wooded fence like nothing, and using high tensil fencing it is fast to put up fences! |
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Location: south central usa | be careful with the loader on hard ground. have used it for t posts as well wooden posts that are beveled. broke too many of the wooden posts to be efficient |
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| We have a heavy hitter, even I can pound posts all by my self. So easy to use and so worth the money. You can pull it with tractor or truck. Its hydrologic are self matiained, so you dont need to plug into the tractor. It jas a gass motor and runs its self it has a little arm that holds the post so you dont have to. And its very posisationable. |
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