Post Driver - how many PTO HP?

[Jim_Fisher]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have exactly 549 slightly rotten and a few broken 35 to 40 year old cedar fence posts which I hope to pull out and replace next summer )</font>

I've had to replace a couple of broken posts. I used the driver but I'm not sure that I couldn't have pushed them in with the loader bucket.


</font><font color="blue" class="small">( In the spring I was watching one of the commercial fence installers drive posts into the ground and saw one cedar post virtually explode when the post hit a large rock. What a sight. )</font>

The first posts that I drove were 3 hole sawed locust for a post and rail fence. There is a learning curve as to how high to lift the hammer in order to minimize splitting the posts. Ground moisture also plays a significant role.

 

[davidseaquist]

have you thought about a skid steer with a hydrolic post hole digger. I also rented a pavement breaker attachment on a bobcat it punches a pretty good size hole 3" to 4". The skid steers have a lot of hydrolic pressure and down pressure. Good luck David.