Market Farming

[Grandad <grandad AT grandadsfarm.com>]

> > Is it crazy to think about standing on a ladder or something to pound in
> > posts?
> 
> We dug one foot holes with pick and shovel.  I stood the posts in the
> holes.  My husband stood in the back of the truck and  pounded them in
> another foot with a sledge hammer.
> 
> Robin
> 

        There is a tool for driving steel fence posts called a steel
post driver.  it is a 3 inch piece of steel pipe with a weight
inside the top end.  It slides onto the post. You raise the
driver up and drop it.  the weighted pipe slides down the post
and the post is forced into the ground.  Like many tools you can
make the job easy or difficult, if you try to manhandle the tool
you will wear yourself out.  Just lift the driver and let it
drop.  
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