Post Drivers

[RoMad]

I can easily push T-posts in with my loader bucket on my L2900 but I have pretty sandy soil. I couldn' push in a wooden post with it.

 

[oliver28472]

My neighbor drove in some posts for me with a Shaver. It has a spring loaded gizmo on it to hold the post in place so you don't have to hold it. One of my cousins drove in a bunch of posts with his excavator bucket. This was after several rains and could not be done with our red dirt if it was dry. Some of the posts were 6" treated.

 

[rasorbackq]

What post can you push in with the loader bucket. T post?

I pushed about 30 in last spring with a bucket.
I started the hole with a rebar bar then stood the post up and put the tractor weight on it. Ground has to be very wet to work well.

 

[sdef]

:welcome: from SW Ohio

I can pound about 200 posts in a day with my dads help maybe 6 a day with the wife :mur:

Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I know. But they try... It can be exasperating, though.

 

[ishiboo]

I pushed about 30 in last spring with a bucket.
I started the hole with a rebar bar then stood the post up and put the tractor weight on it. Ground has to be very wet to work well.

T-posts or wood posts? Just about anything will push a t-post in.

I had a Gehl 6635 I tried to set a wood post with, put 1600 lbs in the bucket and it's still lift the whole skid loader up trying to set a 3" pointed post.

 

[Texasmark]

I have pushed Ts and 1 1/2" Schedule 40 Plastic.....course the ground has to be soft to get the plastic in before it bends/breaks....Houston Black Clay. Had a neighbor move in here from out of state and the next day his horses were to arrive via common carrier. We (3 of us) fenced about 5 acres in a day using PVC and a hot wire and finished just as the rig was driving up. That was half a dozen years ago and he is still using the fence.

Mark

 

[sdef]

Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground.

I have never set fence posts with a tractor before and everything previous has been strictly manual with digging a hole for wooden 4 x 4s or pounding in metal poles/posts with a heavy, tubular, fence post driver. I will have to fence about 1 acre behind the new house that is yet to be built as we are currently clearing the property. I had originally envisioned wooded posts all the way around but knew the rocks would be troublesome and a 3PTH post hole digger seemed dubious at best. Now after reading this post I think that maybe wooded corner posts (or larger metal pipe) with metal T-posts in between and then wooden posts again (or larger metal pipe) at the entry points.

So in order to test driving Ts with my FEL, how does one do this? I can see my significant other holding the post upright (yeah maybe ) and then me manipulating the bucket and the bucket pushing the T-post off to one side or the other.

Any tricks or jigs involved in this is or is it simply as easy as it sounds, which just can't be in my experience with life?

 

[sdef]

Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground...

Please disregard my comment above as I have just posted a new thread with this question.

 

[rasorbackq]

T-posts or wood posts? Just about anything will push a t-post in.

I had a Gehl 6635 I tried to set a wood post with, put 1600 lbs in the bucket and it's still lift the whole skid loader up trying to set a 3" pointed post.

Spruce poles some as big as 6" bottoms.

 

[rasorbackq]

Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground.

I have never set fence posts with a tractor before and everything previous has been strictly manual with digging a hole for wooden 4 x 4s or pounding in metal poles/posts with a heavy, tubular, fence post driver. I will have to fence about 1 acre behind the new house that is yet to be built as we are currently clearing the property. I had originally envisioned wooded posts all the way around but knew the rocks would be troublesome and a 3PTH post hole digger seemed dubious at best. Now after reading this post I think that maybe wooded corner posts (or larger metal pipe) with metal T-posts in between and then wooden posts again (or larger metal pipe) at the entry points.

So in order to test driving Ts with my FEL, how does one do this? I can see my significant other holding the post upright (yeah maybe ) and then me manipulating the bucket and the bucket pushing the T-post off to one side or the other.

Any tricks or jigs involved in this is or is it simply as easy as it sounds, which just can't be in my experience with life?

What I did find was push a crow bar in the ground and move it in a circle to form a ground funnel to start . Stick the post in . get the bucket over it and push it down . Most times it will slide off as the angle changes. Just push the post back level and push it in again.