BukitCase
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- Joined
- Feb 17, 2012
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- Location
- Albany OR
- Tractor
- Case 580B, Long 460, Allis-Chalmers 160
This is the one I bought a couple years ago
99E-M Post Driver 2 - 7/8" Max Diameter Recommended For Military Use and Drill Stem - Rohrer Manufacturing
ordered it with t-post sleeve and one that fits 2" square tube. Driving T-posts in less than dead of summer, sometimes it's hard not to overshoot. Rocks can deflect of course, and it takes a little longer in hard dry soil.
I use the 2" square sleeve on an adapter I made - welded a cap on 2" x 1/8" wall square tube, then welded a cap on an 8" long piece of 4" square tube and welded the 2" on top of the 4" - this lets me "pencil point" a PT 4x4, lock the "adapter" into the driver, slide the whole thing over the post and drive it in.
Dry weather with the 4x4's is slow, and I haven't tried NOT pointing the posts first. I have a bucket full of today's version of "penta-40" that I soak the cut ends of the post in first. So far, so good...
Even the larger version runs fine on one of the "hot dog" portable 120 volt compressors - mine's a Campbell-Housfield. It'll run on a 4 kw genny ok, which makes the whole thing "field portable"... Steve
99E-M Post Driver 2 - 7/8" Max Diameter Recommended For Military Use and Drill Stem - Rohrer Manufacturing
ordered it with t-post sleeve and one that fits 2" square tube. Driving T-posts in less than dead of summer, sometimes it's hard not to overshoot. Rocks can deflect of course, and it takes a little longer in hard dry soil.
I use the 2" square sleeve on an adapter I made - welded a cap on 2" x 1/8" wall square tube, then welded a cap on an 8" long piece of 4" square tube and welded the 2" on top of the 4" - this lets me "pencil point" a PT 4x4, lock the "adapter" into the driver, slide the whole thing over the post and drive it in.
Dry weather with the 4x4's is slow, and I haven't tried NOT pointing the posts first. I have a bucket full of today's version of "penta-40" that I soak the cut ends of the post in first. So far, so good...
Even the larger version runs fine on one of the "hot dog" portable 120 volt compressors - mine's a Campbell-Housfield. It'll run on a 4 kw genny ok, which makes the whole thing "field portable"... Steve