Pipe post puller buddies

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There's some close ups of them in "photos". But they're just some holes cut in three quarter bar stock with an offset ring welded in.

When you slide them over a pipe post and lift with a chain it all comes up.

 

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A close up

 

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I made these years ago. I've got them for specific sizes of pipe. They really work well for a backwoodsy kind of contraption.

Here's one grabbing a two and three eighths gate post.

 

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Bad things seem to like fence lines. Fire ants adore them. So does poison ivy. And of course there's the cedar trees. If you want a cedar break in north Texas all you have to do is stretch a wire and the blue jays will make it happen.

Every now and then it'll all come together. This was one of those.

Poison ivy, fire ants, and a cedar tree wrapping a fence post.

Iris, the tractor, is one ballsy gal. Check out the size of the stump she pulled with that post.

 

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Of course it wasn't easy. But once she got her back up there was no stopping her.

 

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You just have to love a willing tractor. She can make one's life so much easier.

 

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Harv
Way back in the 70s i bought (i don't know 3-4 -5 kms of fence of the railways(Gov owned here), at which time they closed over half of the rail-net work here in sth oz. I pulled hundreds of star pickets by hand useing the same sort of thing a big washer on a chain welded to a 7 or 8 ft lever. a stand about 2 ft high with a v welded on top and levered of the stand. I hope this makes sense. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

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Harv
it's scribble i don't go to high school,
Another way which is some what better than a ring is a u shaped piece of steel, then yo don't have to slide it over the post.

 

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Good morning--evening Vin, /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Many years ago I made something similar to your design from pipe. But it was heavy and awkward, better than digging up the post, but not much because it was so big.

Then I build a cart for moving things across lawns without tearing them up too much. It had short fat tires and could haul four railroad ties at a time with just me operating it on human power.

One day I realized that it liked being a cart. But what it really wanted to be was a fulcrum. And so it became. It was a great lever that was easy to manuever.

The oil industry uses a tool similar to my pipe pulling buddy. It's more of a tear shaped opening. But they use it for pulling pipe out of wells.

There is a company that sells a u shaped device like you've drawn out for pulling t posts. I haven't used that one but I do carry one that is a plate with two different sized holes for different sizes of t posts. It works great.

It's going to be a hot one today. gotta get out there. harv

 

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Harv
This is a great idea, and even better for those that don,t have a tractor.
I was browsing through this old book today i thought of you, take a look. You might be able to install something like this for one of your more wealthy customers /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif