LBrown59
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- 2003 Kubota BX1500/2004 Kubota Bx23/2005 Kubota BX1500
Good one: ~~~ :thumbsup: ~~~I think the tractor would get in deeper than the post
Ken
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Good one: ~~~ :thumbsup: ~~~I think the tractor would get in deeper than the post
Ken
I am thinking of driving in some 6" wooden posts for a variety of projects around the yard. The local Co-op store sells them 5'-8' long and pointed on one end. Do you think I'll be able to set the FEL on top and shove down enough to get it to go into the ground a couple of feet? The soil is still moist here. There's a lot of "it depends" here, but what's your feeling? Or maybe I'll just have to go buy one first and try it? I don't have access to any post hole diggers.
My dad drives posts in with a large sledge, by hand. you use a digging bar to make a hole, round it out some, put in a sharpened post, and then you beat the heck out of it with a large heavy sledge. Most of his posts are put in this way, as his land is hilly and a lot of his fences you can't even get a tractor to. I don't think the pine posts would hold up to the beating, he uses locusts that he cuts. He has pushed some in with the loader, when the ground was soft, and then finished with a sledge.
In New England they call that a "post maul," it's the traditional way of putting in fence posts.
Ian,
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I picked up a used PHD in New Brunswick about a month ago, there wasn't much for sale here at all. Stick a want ad on Kijiji and see what comes up.
Sean
...............How rocky is your ground? Our's isn't too bad, we're near Windsor. Some clay but no really big rocks. Yet.
Sean