rokit
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This one falls into the category of Stupid-Simple-yet-Oh-So-Useful (to me anyway).
I am putting in a fence around my property. The majority will be steel posts, but along the frontage I did railroad ties every 10 feet. I quickly got sick of maneuvering the posts only in the horizontal with the tractor and vertically with my own grunt...so on a bad-weather day I zapped together a fork out of 2" x 2" x .250" square tube and some 3/4" nuts and bolts. BTW, a hitch receiver on my pallet fork attachment makes this a snap.
Anyway, now I simply pull up to a tie lying on the ground, zap down the bolts down with a battery-powered Dewalt mini-impact, and lift away. The posts go vertical and I plop them in the holes with the FEL. This little rig is equally as effective at pulling stuff out of the ground (an old mailbox post, other old fence posts, etc.). I wondered about gripping strength and slippage and the need to add gussets, but so far it hasn't been an issue.
I am putting in a fence around my property. The majority will be steel posts, but along the frontage I did railroad ties every 10 feet. I quickly got sick of maneuvering the posts only in the horizontal with the tractor and vertically with my own grunt...so on a bad-weather day I zapped together a fork out of 2" x 2" x .250" square tube and some 3/4" nuts and bolts. BTW, a hitch receiver on my pallet fork attachment makes this a snap.
Anyway, now I simply pull up to a tie lying on the ground, zap down the bolts down with a battery-powered Dewalt mini-impact, and lift away. The posts go vertical and I plop them in the holes with the FEL. This little rig is equally as effective at pulling stuff out of the ground (an old mailbox post, other old fence posts, etc.). I wondered about gripping strength and slippage and the need to add gussets, but so far it hasn't been an issue.