| Author |
Brent Parkin
|
Hello All, Is it feasible to use my 8N with a small PTO driven post pounder to drive some fence posts? I've only seen self contained pounders, but my neighbor who grew up on a farm says there are PTO driven ones around. Only need to drive about 6 of them, but I don't want to hurt my old girl or myself in the process. Thanks, Brent |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-29-2004 10:58:33
| | Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 06:07:45 |
I'm a little too late to reply here, but Danuser does make a PTO driven post pounder, the MD-6. I own one, which I use on my Oliver 1600 - I think that it would be rather heavy for an N .. |
|
04-27-2004 06:57:56
| | Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 06:07:45 |
There are several people around me with post pounders. The drivers are hydraulic, so you would have to find a pto hydraulic pump. The rest of the unit mounts on the 3 point and works like a pile driver. |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 06:37:33
| | Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 06:07:45 |
If you are talking about driving some 6 or 7 foot steel 'T' type farm wire fence posts, why not just get a hand driver for about $20 at a good farm supply or maybe a hardware store or fence supply?
For a half dozen posts I would just use a sledge hammer and two people, one person to steady the post while the other drives it.
Be safe, wear safety glasses. Steel on steel can cause flying debris. |
|
04-27-2004 06:40:15
| | Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Barnstormer, 04-27-2004 06:37:33 |
Actually it's wooden fence posts. 3' diameter stuff. If it were just steel stuff, you bet I would just pound em by hand. Thanks for the reply though, Brent Parkin
White City, SK
Canada eh! |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 07:10:24
| | Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 06:40:15 |
Brent.....I gotta 2-1/2' section of 8' scrapiron wellhousing pipe witha 1' THICK cap welded on, NO HANDLES. Weighs about 25# that I use to hand-drive pointed pressure treated wooden fenceposts. Takes about 15 minutes to drive the 1st one, 30 minutes to drive the 2nd one, 60 minutes to drive the last one. Local school is called RockyRidge and it is. SECRET TRICK: PILOT HOLE. Decide where yer gonnna plant yer fence post and witha 10# breakin' bar JAB a pilot hole and grind'er roundy-round until yer pilot hole is at least 18' deep and top is 4-6' round. Plant yer pointed post and THROW yer pounder down on top of the post. Its 3-strokes annna puff, then its 2-strokes annna puff-puff, then its 1-stroke annna puff-puff-puff. I can plant 3-4' slender and 4-5' medium wooden fenceposts 2' deep innna'bout 15 minutes with this technique unless I hit a really big rock. Planted fenceposts are much stouter than holedug and tamped posts. And iff'n yer particular about the absolute height of yer fencepost, saw it off to fit. Piece o'cake, eh?.....Dell |
|
04-27-2004 08:39:07
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Dell (WA), 04-27-2004 07:10:24 |
Why don't You get a hand Post hole digeger and doit yourself. Its Only six holes |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 07:18:50
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Dell (WA), 04-27-2004 07:10:24 |
Thanks Dell, I'm not against driving them by hand. My neighbor wants to do a few too and he was willing to rent the pounder if the 8N could do it. I think I'll talk to him again about doing it the ole fashioned way. 
Thanks, Brent Parkin
White City, SK
Canada eh! |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 09:26:13
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 07:18:50 |
Hasn't anybody ever heard of an auger before?
Here in good ole Seymour, Indiana we have a company that makes and sells various sizes of hand augers. They come in sizes from 2' dia. through 8'. They also make one that is adjustable. They can with a removeable 'Tee' handle. These sound alot easier than a breaker bar and wallowing out yer hole.
As a man that squeaks when he walks, I've used a 6' auger and drilled my own well. Of course I only had to auger down 21 feet. |
|
04-27-2004 06:49:07
| | Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 06:40:15 |
Hm. I've never thought about trying to pound in wooden posts. I have the old style hand post hole digger and a 3 point lift/pto Ford auger.
Are the posts pointed on the bottom or are you going into very soft ground? |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 07:08:15
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Barnstormer, 04-27-2004 06:49:07 |
The posts are indeed pointy on one end. People around here seem to drive them in with a 'high and heavy hitter' machine. The terrain is normally just packed earth, but we live on a big pile of gravel with frequent bolders in the 18' diameter range. I've heard some people in my area have snapped even 4' posts like match sticks from time to time. Brent |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
04-27-2004 18:40:19
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 07:08:15 |
I just got done pounding close to 500 3' wooden posts. I was going to rent a self-contained gas engine driven 'heavy hitter' type pounder, but them my neighbour (adjioning property) offered his big hydraulic one. When I said my little N doesn't have the hydraulics to run that thing, he offered the use of his tractor as well. 500 posts in 2 days, well 490-some odd, I quit counting. If I only had to do a few though, I'd do them by hand. |
|
04-27-2004 09:24:44
| | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Post pounding of a PTO in reply to Brent Parkin, 04-27-2004 07:08:15 |
..to learn something new (to me). It makes for a successful day. I don't do a lot of fencing but will keep that in mind for some work that I'm thinking about. |
[Log in to Reply][No Email] |
|
|
