Post Drivers

gbazaco · Apr 3, 2014

Need recommendations for reliable post driver-3 pt hitch/hydraulic. Shaver/Work saver/Danuser???

mguitas · Apr 3, 2014

:welcome:

deerseeker001 · Apr 3, 2014

Welcome from Wisconsin

zionview · Apr 4, 2014

We had a Shaver years ago. Never had any problems with it. Snug your 3 pt. hitch arms a little so the pounder can't swing around. One word of advice: use something other than your hand to hold the post while you get it started. Dad always used heavy welding gloves until he released the pounder and caught the finger of his glove under the hammer. Just the glove, but he used a 2X6 with a "V" cut in it after that.

Briana03 · Apr 15, 2014

Welcome to TractorByNet!

I moved your thread to the Attachments forum.

JimRB · Apr 15, 2014

I second Zionview's suggestion of keep your hands away. A Shaver worked fine for me and 4-500 posts.

Verticaltrx · Apr 15, 2014

How many posts do you have to do? What is your terrain like? How picky are you about them all being straight and plumb?

The Shaver and Worksaver units are popular, but IMO there are much better drivers out there for not much more money. Take a look at the European and Australian/New Zealand brands such as Vector, King Hitter, Bryce Suma, Munro, etc. They are much heavier built than the American brands are much easier to get a post to go in straight as well.

Texasmark · Apr 16, 2014

I have just used my loader bucket. Course it requires you to back down your line of intent, but if you leave the string on the ground and have a helper to position the posts at the recommended interval it works great....unless you just want to buy the implement.

Mark

Beltman60 · Apr 18, 2014

:welcome: from SW Ohio

I have a Shaver PH-8
I can pound about 200 posts in a day with my dads help maybe 6 a day with the wife :mur:
also stand to the side as when they hit a large rock sometimes the posts blow up

SPYDERLK · Apr 18, 2014

Texasmark said:
I have just used my loader bucket. Course it requires you to back down your line of intent, but if you leave the string on the ground and have a helper to position the posts at the recommended interval it works great....unless you just want to buy the implement.

Mark

What post can you push in with the loader bucket. T post?

RoMad · Apr 18, 2014

I can easily push T-posts in with my loader bucket on my L2900 but I have pretty sandy soil. I couldn' push in a wooden post with it.

oliver28472 · Apr 19, 2014

My neighbor drove in some posts for me with a Shaver. It has a spring loaded gizmo on it to hold the post in place so you don't have to hold it. One of my cousins drove in a bunch of posts with his excavator bucket. This was after several rains and could not be done with our red dirt if it was dry. Some of the posts were 6" treated.

rasorbackq · Apr 19, 2014

SPYDERLK said:
What post can you push in with the loader bucket. T post?

I pushed about 30 in last spring with a bucket.
I started the hole with a rebar bar then stood the post up and put the tractor weight on it. Ground has to be very wet to work well.

sdef · Apr 19, 2014

Beltman60 said:
:welcome: from SW Ohio

I can pound about 200 posts in a day with my dads help maybe 6 a day with the wife :mur:

Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I know. But they try... It can be exasperating, though.

ishiboo · Apr 20, 2014

rasorbackq said:
I pushed about 30 in last spring with a bucket.
I started the hole with a rebar bar then stood the post up and put the tractor weight on it. Ground has to be very wet to work well.

T-posts or wood posts? Just about anything will push a t-post in.

I had a Gehl 6635 I tried to set a wood post with, put 1600 lbs in the bucket and it's still lift the whole skid loader up trying to set a 3" pointed post.

Texasmark · Apr 21, 2014

I have pushed Ts and 1 1/2" Schedule 40 Plastic.....course the ground has to be soft to get the plastic in before it bends/breaks....Houston Black Clay. Had a neighbor move in here from out of state and the next day his horses were to arrive via common carrier. We (3 of us) fenced about 5 acres in a day using PVC and a hot wire and finished just as the rig was driving up. That was half a dozen years ago and he is still using the fence.

Mark

sdef · Apr 21, 2014

Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground.

I have never set fence posts with a tractor before and everything previous has been strictly manual with digging a hole for wooden 4 x 4s or pounding in metal poles/posts with a heavy, tubular, fence post driver. I will have to fence about 1 acre behind the new house that is yet to be built as we are currently clearing the property. I had originally envisioned wooded posts all the way around but knew the rocks would be troublesome and a 3PTH post hole digger seemed dubious at best. Now after reading this post I think that maybe wooded corner posts (or larger metal pipe) with metal T-posts in between and then wooden posts again (or larger metal pipe) at the entry points.

So in order to test driving Ts with my FEL, how does one do this? I can see my significant other holding the post upright (yeah maybe

) and then me manipulating the bucket and the bucket pushing the T-post off to one side or the other.

Any tricks or jigs involved in this is or is it simply as easy as it sounds, which just can't be in my experience with life?

sdef · Apr 21, 2014

sdef said:
Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground...

Please disregard my comment above as I have just posted a new thread with this question.

rasorbackq · Apr 24, 2014

ishiboo said:
T-posts or wood posts? Just about anything will push a t-post in.

I had a Gehl 6635 I tried to set a wood post with, put 1600 lbs in the bucket and it's still lift the whole skid loader up trying to set a 3" pointed post.

Spruce poles some as big as 6" bottoms.

rasorbackq · Apr 24, 2014

sdef said:
Not trying to hijack this thread, but many of these comments fit my circumstances. The ground is very dense clay and very rocky, like a glacial dumping ground.

I have never set fence posts with a tractor before and everything previous has been strictly manual with digging a hole for wooden 4 x 4s or pounding in metal poles/posts with a heavy, tubular, fence post driver. I will have to fence about 1 acre behind the new house that is yet to be built as we are currently clearing the property. I had originally envisioned wooded posts all the way around but knew the rocks would be troublesome and a 3PTH post hole digger seemed dubious at best. Now after reading this post I think that maybe wooded corner posts (or larger metal pipe) with metal T-posts in between and then wooden posts again (or larger metal pipe) at the entry points.

So in order to test driving Ts with my FEL, how does one do this? I can see my significant other holding the post upright (yeah maybe ) and then me manipulating the bucket and the bucket pushing the T-post off to one side or the other.

Any tricks or jigs involved in this is or is it simply as easy as it sounds, which just can't be in my experience with life?

What I did find was push a crow bar in the ground and move it in a circle to form a ground funnel to start . Stick the post in . get the bucket over it and push it down . Most times it will slide off as the angle changes. Just push the post back level and push it in again.