Driver for Wooden Posts

Thanks for your help.

Using a digger is much slower, but offers some flexability if you need holes for light poles, trees, etc.

I haven't priced a hydraulic driver in years, but I know that the diggers aren't too expensive and don't require any hydraulic outlets on your tractor. You can rent them in a lot of places.

Using a digger is much slower, but offers some flexability if you need holes for light poles, trees, etc.

I haven't priced a hydraulic driver in years, but I know that the diggers aren't too expensive and don't require any hydraulic outlets on your tractor. You can rent them in a lot of places.

Sounds like the voice of experience to me. Would you consider emailing me off line to discuss this a bit? I'm interested in whether it's feasible to fabricate one. I've got about 100 posts to get in the ground this Spring.

Paul Fox

Perhaps you should also ask them to develop the plans. I think it might be affordable to fabricate one, but with the experience I had in using machinists and welders on converting a loader dump bucket to hydraulic, it is better to get a competent person to develop a plan.

good luck

I use 3 ft of 6 in well caseing with a 1 in welded plate for a cap. DONOT put handles on it!

Just throw that sucker down on top the post! Handles slow down the pound and are hard on the forearms. Old physics formula sez: Force = Mass X Acceleration. Throwing is acceleration.

I use it on 4-5" dia 7 ft long pressure treated pointed posts 2 ft deep in very rocky soil. Takes about 15 minutes for the first one, and 30 mins for the next one. (I'm not getting old?) But it takes me an hour to dig a hole deep enuff. Did you ever notice the biggest rock is always down at the bottom off to one side?

Hope this helps.....Dell