You might be able to create a bridge with 2x4’s with feet on the side to straddle the area wide enough so the concrete doesn’t hit the levers base. That would mean the chain would be higher up as well. Although the weight and width of concrete might prove to be too much resistance. Here’s an example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z7RFORJw4lk.html
A farm jack will pull any post out with minimal effort. They cost $80 it's weird everyone in the comments thinks pulling a concreted post is difficult. Chinese farm jack and a chain will pull a heavy concreted post out of the ground while you drink a beer with your free hand.
Try that with a wooden post that had been cemented in. A securely placed post would have 2 bags of concrete around it. I use 4 ton come alongs and sometimes bend the handles
We've been talking about that--it's actually on the schedule to shoot this week. So many people have never heard of driven posts and think we're trying to pull a fast one on them...
You can speed up pulling t posts by 50% by not wrapping. Just hook the post below a bump with the chain hook at 90’. A little tension will hold it until you pull
I like the concept. Not gonna work at all with a fat concrete ball attached to the post just under the dirt, which is 99% of posts I pull. Would work fantastic for ranches though.
I was thinking the same thing as the base will be on top of the concrete. Maybe they need to make a different one that has two legs touching the ground about 16” apart
my farm jack and a short chain with end hooks does about the same job. If I lift high. I can put the base just outside of the concrete skirt and still jack a post out of the ground.
How do you prevent the top of the hi-jack from pulling forward? You must have only a few feet of concrete. A hi-jack doesn't work on four feet of concrete.
Funny you should ask that. Postmasters can stick in the ground pretty good as we've discovered. It probably won't work for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISxDntwIXvY.html
A homeowner's posts? Probably pull it right out. A contractor's posts? (more concrete) Probably won't cut it. We were just talking yesterday about making a follow-up video to this using concreted posts.
You're right nothing is in cement--these are all driven posts. You're wrong that these will come out with a little rocking. Once these things are in they're tough to get out--we usually grab our forklift to get them out.
T post only have those 2 little wings to bite into the ground, but man do they grab sometimes. They take probably 1000 pounds of pulling force or more to remove.
Little cement yes. Lot of cement no. If you're pulling up a DIY job you're probably fine. If you're pulling up a fence contractor's work it's probably not going to happen.
We get these straight from the manufacturer in New Zealand. Right now we've got a container full of tools just waiting to get on a ship and come this way. Apparently international shipping can move slowly at times. And you're right! We totally need to test these on concreted posts. 👍🏻👍🏻
Almost as easy as a chain hooked over a planter wheel and tugged on with a tractor. And, a darn sight easier to find than all old steel planter wheel… BTW, mine ain’t for sale!!!!
If the handle on your post puller were fabricated on a 45 degree angle then you could reduce the number of strokes required to pull the post out of the soil and you wouldn't have to bend over as far. When you pulled the wood post you were almost laying down on the ground.
These are driven posts--there is no concrete. If you're not familiar with driving posts--yes, it's absolutely a thing, and a driven post done right is solidly in the ground. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-15zL8bOXU1E.html
Correct on no concrete. Wrong on hardly a foot in the ground. Driven posts (without concrete) apparently take a lot of people by surprise, but is a legit method of fencing that's very common up north (a lot less common down south). It's faster, and in many cases stronger than using concrete. We've even done tests to show the difference. Vinyl Fence Wind Test in Concrete: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_iQnheVwAI4.html Vinyl Fence Wind Test - Steel Posts No Concrete: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jWcT17PFME.html (There are more tests on the channel if you care to search them out.)
Wind test with concrete: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_iQnheVwAI4.html Wind test without concrete: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jWcT17PFME.html You don't need concrete.
Driven posts without concrete is actually pretty common, especially up north. This sytem will work fine on most home-owner DIY concrete jobs. Not so much on professionally-done concrete jobs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VuYG5iOQato.html
Trying this on some cemented posts is a great idea--we've got it on the list. 👍🏻 Your confusion is understandable, but (a) it's not a 4x4, it's a round agricultural fence post, and (b) these types of posts can definitely be driven, as you see here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EVeu8Q8onwY.html
Something tells me you've never seen a pounded post before. 🤔 It's a legit method of fencing--not everyone uses concrete. Having said that, this method isn't going to pull out contractor-grade concrete-set posts. It will, however, mostly likely handle DIY and homeowner concrete-set just fine. We'll see if we can get a demo together to show you. 👍🏻
Waste of money. All you need is a burke bar and a pivot point. Or even a hi lift jack that has many more functions that this. Also, this things costs over 300 dollars. LOL
You're absolutely right there is no cement! This is what is called a driven post--it's a very popular method in England, New Zealand, and Australia, and we're trying to make it popular here too. It's absolutely a legitimate way to build fence. We'll have to try one on concrete and report back. I wouldn't recommend it until we test it. It would probably work on a homeowner-set job, but I don't know that it would pull a contractor-grade concreted post.
