[AT] Knocking in T-Posts, lots and lots of em..

Roger Welsch captneb at micrord.com
Mon Mar 28 07:42:21 PST 2005


I just push them in with the front-end loader.  Of course I have pretty
light hahahahahaha soil...not much more than sand...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren F. Smith" <WarrenSmith at PalmettoBuilders.net>
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Subject: RE: [AT] Knocking in T-Posts, lots and lots of em..


> >>
> >>Has anybody else built a comtraption for knocking these thing
> >>in?  It seems
> >>silly to kill myself doing > 100 of em by hand.
> >>
> >>--Matthew
>
> Our company was building a "riverwalk", which required driving a lot of
4x4
> posts for pilings. We cut off a damaged jackhammer bit and welded a piece
of
> pipe, top plate and gussets to the stub end of the bit. We used it in a
> jackhammer and it drove the pilings with no problem, using it's own
weight.
> Moving the scaffold through the swamp was more trouble than anything else.
> (The 4x4's were 8-12' long to start).
>
> You should be able to make such a contraption to fit an electric demo
> hammer. Load a trailer with your posts and a small generator if necessary,
> hook trailer to your favorite tractor, stand in the trailer to get the
> leverage you need on the posts. Hardest part of that job will be getting
on
> and off the tractor!
>
> Warren
>
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