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ric1

12-05-2007 10:43:03




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hi does anyone have any good tips for driving fence post with a post driver safety or other ideas. thanks




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1936

12-05-2007 14:25:33




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to ric1, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  
Seen a pipe attached to side of a loader bucket on a loose connection place the post in the pipe where you want it and drive up till it is sort of straight and push it in with the loader. Works best with two people. If the post is off to one side or the other just bend it to the right spot. Start by pulling the barb wire on the line of the fence. Take a lenght of board or what ever the lenght between the post and mark the post spot on the ground with spray paint walk up till the end of the marking stick is on the spray paint mark and mark and so on.
Know of many miles of fence put in this was and wire still on the post. Like Red Green say's If women don't find you pretty they should find you handy. I will be right home after the lodge meeting.

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hayray

12-05-2007 14:55:31




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to 1936, 12-05-2007 14:25:33  
I bent my bucket doing it that way, just a little hump in the bottom so I stopped.



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Steven f/AZ

12-05-2007 14:24:12




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to guido, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  

Michael Soldan said: (quoted from post at 15:04:32 12/05/07) Don't! You can rip up your shoulders and take years to get over it. Set the driver over the post and stand on the tailgate and drive it in with a sledge hammer.


I guess I'm assuming he has a tractor mounted post driver... not the old manual one you have to raise up and lower with your arms...

We have one like this that mounts to the front of a tractor:

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Michael Soldan

12-05-2007 14:04:32




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to ric1, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  
Don't! You can rip up your shoulders and take years to get over it. Set the driver over the post and stand on the tailgate and drive it in with a sledge hammer.



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IH2444

12-05-2007 15:07:54




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to Michael Soldan, 12-05-2007 14:04:32  
I am assuming we are talking about a Shaver type of driver, not the backbreaker ones.



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Michael Soldan

12-05-2007 16:06:14




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to IH2444, 12-05-2007 15:07:54  
..naw, I'm talking about those manual jobs that you whap up and down, they can ruin your shoulders, tear ligaments and damage rotor cuffs of the shoulder.



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ric1

12-05-2007 16:02:32




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to IH2444, 12-05-2007 15:07:54  
yes it is a cherokee driver has a cylinder that picks it up and then it trips itself and falls down on the post then run the cylinder down and start all over again



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Steven f/AZ

12-05-2007 12:04:06




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to ric1, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  
ALWAYS stand to the side when driving a post and use a handle of some sort to hold the post. Even after the first hit they can still split apart and injure a person in the way.



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IH2444

12-05-2007 11:48:55




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to ric1, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  
The person holding the post for the first whack or two should NEVER stand in front of the post, always stand to the side.



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old

12-05-2007 10:52:36




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 Re: driving fence post in reply to ric1, 12-05-2007 10:43:03  
Not to long ago I built a mount for one on a bob cat sort of machine. I also built a hold handle so a man can hold the post and use the driver at the same time. Sure does help to keep the posts standing true. The handle I built is just a pipe the fits over the posts and a 2-3 foot U shaped handle. On the top of the pipe I welded a piece of channel iron with the U part going down and that helps a lot.

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