KWentling
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2002
- Messages
- 1,145
- Location
- Rozet, Wyoming
- Tractor
- Kubota BX22, Kubota ZD21, Kubota M7060
The wife and I have put in several hundred posts this way. I cut a piece of 2" pipe about
1/2" long and welded it to the bottom of the loader bucket so the post can't slide. She spots the post, I drive the tractor positioning the loader over the post and lower the loader until the pipe catches the post, she moves back and I push it in. This is in HARD Wyoming clay and we bend one occasionally, but you can usually tell when that is about to happen and stop and hand drive it the rest of the way. This is using a 1967 830 Case tractor (70 HP) and I have had the front of the tractor light enough that the front wheels slide sideways occasionally, that is how hard our ground is! This is also the way the state road puts in sign posts.
Kim
1/2" long and welded it to the bottom of the loader bucket so the post can't slide. She spots the post, I drive the tractor positioning the loader over the post and lower the loader until the pipe catches the post, she moves back and I push it in. This is in HARD Wyoming clay and we bend one occasionally, but you can usually tell when that is about to happen and stop and hand drive it the rest of the way. This is using a 1967 830 Case tractor (70 HP) and I have had the front of the tractor light enough that the front wheels slide sideways occasionally, that is how hard our ground is! This is also the way the state road puts in sign posts.
Kim