Post pounder

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2021

Finally got a post pounder now Im thinking I need to make me a pilot post so I can make a starter hole in rocky ground or hard ground ,

grandpa Love · Dec 12, 2021

We bought an electric jack hammer for that!

Bruce from Can. · Dec 12, 2021

Is your post pounder a hydraulic tractor mounted rig that puts in wooden post? Id like to have one of those rigs

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2021

That would be a lot of work driving 7 foot 4 inch posts holy cow

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2021

Yes its a shaver hydraulic post driver goes on the 3 point hitch . Ive got several miles of fence on my place thats needing a bunch of new posts as Money permits . The cattle association has a gas powered steel post driver but it takes two people and its as much work as hand driver . Im hoping I can get a bundle of 4 inch by 7 foot posts bought by spring

Russ from MN · Dec 12, 2021

We used to sharpen local cedar posts with a chain saw and then push them in the ground with the dozer blade on a JD 440 skidder. In the spring when the ground is soft it worked real well.

Fred Werring · Dec 12, 2021

Had an uncle would use his 3-point post hole auger to drill a pilot hole, then drive the bigger posts in.

Unlike you (and me) he did not have rocky ground.

It's funny how my fences...high tensile... progressed. I was doing them by myself. The first half dozen posts or so on any given day, I would be real particular...making sure they were perfectly lined up and straight. Usually took 2-3 trips on and off the tractor for me to get them just right.

After multiple trips on/off the tractor, I would decide they were good enough and would hold cows. And they did.

Kinda doing what you're doing. Got some rotted posts, but the wire is still ok. Back in next to the rotted post, drive a new one. Luckily for me, bought a bunch a couple years ago just for this, still working off that stack.
Fred

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2021

Thats what Im going to do but there are few bad stretches

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2021

Ive pushed a lot in with a cat track hoe

FBH44 · Dec 13, 2021

I worked with Mo Dept of Highways in 1960's for two summers. Had to install a CURVE sign on a stretch of pavement in Stone County MO. (You see where this is heading?) It had to go in one particular exact spot. I was 18, new hire, temp summer help, farm kid, and I got assigned to dig the hole. Took the crow bar, and chipped rock all day, chips of flint the size of silver-dollars. Hole had to go 30 inches deep. Got her done.

SVcummins · Dec 13, 2021

Nothing like chipping rock all day to dig one post sometimes I could get through them sometimes I couldnt

Kansas4010 · Dec 13, 2021

Let us know how it works for you. I have places of solid rock here that need fence. Here is my skid loader with a 2 rock bit. That's right a 2 inch rock bit for steel posts.

farmallboy15 · Dec 13, 2021

I had that issue last year but only when trying to drive a post right next to big trees. Ended up finding a 7 stick of 3 or 4 schedule 40 steel pipe and welded some chain hooks to the side. It worked like I was taking a core sample. With the hooks on the side I could use the 3pt to just pull it right back out. Worked like a charm!

farmallboy15 · Dec 13, 2021

By the way I love my shaver. Thing is so much better than tamping posts! Just make sure to hook up the drain straight to the reservoir and lube it up good. Wouldnt be bad to have a replacement set of springs on the shelf. All the manuals are online from shaver. Once you have part numbers from the manuals, Ford distributing has all the parts online.

Geo-TH,In · Dec 13, 2021

I helped a friend push in steel posts with his loader.
The ground was sand. We had to be careful not to bend the post.

FYI, Still a post hole shortage at TSC, Rural King, Lowes, Harbor Freight and Menards. Claim the shortage has something to do with semi driver shortage.

mrslesq · Dec 13, 2021

I tore out several fences that was reinforced several times like that. Also they ran new wires because there was a few Good posts in the fence line. One neighbor built a brand new fence a few feet inside a brushy bad fence. He left the old one. They both got tore out at the same time when both fence lines had trees hanging out over into the field 30' or so. All were good ideas at the time, but 30-50 years later will have to be dealt with.

MARK ROBKE · Dec 13, 2021

I saw a U Tube video recently about fence building. The reason I watched it was to see the post driver in action, that was pictured. It mounted to the 3pt and set to the right rear of the tractor, like a sickle bar mower. All hydraulic, single remote. It had about 6 or 7 control levers to operate. What caught my eye was a metal spear that could shifted to the post site and could be pounded thru rocks. The driver could then lift the spear hydraulicly back out of the hole. Pretty slick outfit. Mark.

Bill in Colo · Dec 13, 2021

If you want a real post pounder, buy a Kinghitter!! out of New Zealand. I have one with two different rock spikes a 3 and 5 it drops a 200 Kg wt from 15' used it to build 7 miles of fence. Will drive 12' posts

Bill

SVcummins · Dec 14, 2021

Whats the price tag on that sucker ? The cattle association has one that will drive 8 inches posts through a gravel road and I thought that was impressive

SVcummins · Dec 14, 2021

Thats kinda what Im wanting to build

SVcummins · Dec 14, 2021

Is that a massive amount of weight on there

SVcummins · Dec 14, 2021

Im hoping I can hire someone to help line up the posts ?

SVcummins · Dec 14, 2021

Ive never tried shoving a steel post . We are being conditioned on this shortage crap . I just bought a bundle of 65 posts four inch by 7 feet 400$

Fred Werring · Dec 14, 2021

(quoted from post at 13:51:48 12/14/21) Im hoping I can hire someone to help line up the posts ?

Goes a lot faster.

Building by myself, I'd get the corners set, run the low strand of high tensile. Step off distance between posts, spray a dot of paint on the ground where I wanted the post, (did all the dots at once down the fence line) then line it up from the tractor seat.

But as I posted earlier, that getting on/off the tractor to get them just right gets real old real fast....and I was younger and lighter then.

Fred

Bill in Colo · Dec 14, 2021

I would guess that a Kinghitter would cost between 12 & 20,000 depending on all the options. I do have a 50 year old shafver I would sell for 500. works great on irrigated ground or to drive 2 7/8 tubing.
Bill

Kansas4010 · Dec 14, 2021

Yes those are JD suitcase weights mounted on both sides. A big head knocker for people standing beside. It's a Harleman Ground Force post hole digger. For that bit I don't really need all those weights but for the bigger bits I do.

OregonAaron · Dec 14, 2021

I know a guy here who owns a fencing company. They tear out old fence and put in new frequently. He will sell me used t posts for a buck a piece. I just bought 350 from him last spring for $350. Too bad he isn't a good enough friend to borrow his hydraulic pounder. I still do it old fashioned way with a hand pounder. Sure is hard on the body these days.

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