Darn, I wish I could do that, with the camera--puter.
As for weights, a good scrap yard is not a bad place to start.
A bud has a Honda lawn mower and power center. I've repaired and replaced the entrance to his place I'm not sure how many times. It seems the only thing thieves have more than stupidity is audacity. He got hit three times in as many months where they'd back through the gate and then grab everything handy and haul.
The last time I put in a new gate and then I built a barrier in front of it. It's very similar to those at the RR crossings. But it is not made to breakaway if you hit it.
The barrier is three and half inch schedule forty pipe with eighteen feet on one side of the fulcrum and two feet on the other. An average man has to work to lift it up. If an unaverage man got it almost up and collapsed it would hurt something fierce.
So I went to my favorite junk yard and picked out this piece about twelve inches around and eight inches thick. It was two hundred and fifty pounds. The barrier is now a one hand up and down for even an unaverage man.
My cost for that piece was twenty five cents a pound, sixty two fifty?
My anvil stand is a piece of steel approximately sixteen inches by eighteen inches by ten inches. A geek bud with a tape and a calculator figured it out to nine hundred and thirty seven pounds. My bud at the scrap yard charged me two hundred dollars for it. I'd picked it out and they had to get the excavator with the magnet into pick it up. Neither one of us could guess what the weight was so we agreed twenty five cents a pound or two hundred dollars which ever was max.
If you're digging post holes in clay there's this time when it's perfectly wrong. What happens is when you get down about eighteen inches to two feet the clay wants to stick to itself and it gums up something fierce.
The secret is to water the hole. A half a gallon occasionally will be oiling a sticking hinge. More and it gets sloppy. Also one of the secrets to success with digging post holes is what the professionals call "crowd". Crowd is down pressure.
So when I have a bunch of post holes to dig in clay I strap a hundred gallon propylene tank full of water on the top of my JCB165HF. It adds about eight hundred pounds to the tractor and I drop down a short hose so when it starts gumming up and I can "oil" it.
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