anyone have or used a post driver?

[Clydes]

Trying to find someone who owns or has used a post driver. I have a lot of horse fencing to put up, and have read about these post drivers from Shaver and King Hitter, but do not know of anyone using one. Also look at a PTO stump grinder as well. Thanks

 

[Arbo]

I have not used one muself, but I had a contractor install my horse fence last fall. He used a driver that worked great. See attached picture.

 

[Birdhunter1]

My dad has one, you can put up a fence in no time flat with it. The one he has is an older one and I don't know the brand, last tiem we used it we were pounding landscape timbers in for fenceposts for a neighbor and two or three hits when the ground was soft waas all that was needed to be a few feet in.
Make sure your post doesn ot have a bow in it, it can cause it to split!

 

[Clydes]

that's one rig there. I'm looking for something a little more modern. But is probably most accurate there. I'm half way there with my team of Clydesdales and a wagon

 

[BGL990]

I've got one mounted to the front of an old Farmall M. Other than the tractor itself not being so nice to drive (grabby clutch, loose steering, etc) it's the easiest and quickest way to put in posts that I know of. The only thing I've ever seen anyone around here use an auger for is gate posts where you want a larger hole filled with concrete so the post won't move with a gate hanging from it. All the normal fence posts are driven in. It's hard to get the posts perfectly vertical, especially if you hit a rock in the ground, but it's usually not bad and a small price to pay for the speed with which you can put posts in. Even in our hard clay it only takes a couple of minutes to put a post in.

Attached is a picture of the beast.

 

[JerryG]

I have had a Danuser PTO driver for several years. I have put a lot of T posts in and several wooden posts as well. Even in our rocky soil I can put a T post in the ground in about a minute or so.