Machine designed to complete all the necessary tasks to carry out a fencing job. It has 2 spinning jennys and a linkage system to carry your own post driver. It will also carry posts, wire and all other fencing tools necessary.
In 1958 it took a crew of workers two days to dig a 6" (that's right, six inch) deep post hole on our ranch near the famous Y O Ranch between Junction and Uvalde Texas. The last two inches took me nearly 8 more hours. We used a crow bar, by hand going through a big combination flint/limestone rock. It was a corner post for a section of land we had just inherited so it had to go in that exact spot. We stripped the sap wood off of an 8" X 7' cedar post with a draw knife and cemented in place. About 30 years later when we sold the place, I rode past it on a horse ... got off and tapped it with a big rock (yeah it was mostly rocks ... nothing like that gumbo Mr. Linehan is stickin' those toothpicks in above). It rang like a tuning fork. Nearly a mile of fence north and another mile west at 90 degree angle pullin' on that old post. I am 78 years old now and can still hear that crow bar ring. The post will be there long after my great great grand children are gone. God bless you Kevin. I am happy for you. That is a beautiful machine. And there is more grass in your video than we had in 1200 acres of Texas Hill Country land (7 year drought from 1950 to 1951).
Yeah I was going to comment the same thing. Id rather do it by hand than destroy the grass... Most clients would not like that. Besides looks like theres no rocks or anything in that ground since they were just tapped in like that so wouldnt be hard to dig a 2ft hole
Next time I decide to put a 2.5-ft tall fence in my yard, and I have the simultaneous need to utterly DESTROY my grass, I'm SOOOOOO calling you to come out in your giant tractor to help me!
I helped my uncle set a half-mile of T-posts by holding the posts while he pushed them in the ground with the bucket of his Mahindra tractor. Fast and simple.
I farm in Maine - freezes every year and our fence posts (2 ft in the ground) do not "pop-out" of the ground and we have over 2 miles of fences. Ciao, L
@@lancelot1953 Guess your going to be busy in the spring . I hope not just kidding . I know building codes require the posts like foundations to be below frost lines in the soil for a reason . I need to keep horses from escaping into a local New Jersey highway, so the posts are set at 42 inches depth . Any yes there are no government construction rules on farms in my state like yours just common sense. Ciao bella
Hi Michael, in all honesty, we are usually pretty busy in the Spring. Our building codes do specify 4 feet deep for foundations (our frost line level in our area). We usually do not have post coming out of the ground, our main issues are the posts rotting at the boundary between the surface of the ground and the "ambient air" (oxygen) - and it is getting old (just like me) replacing these damaged posts year after year. May Peace be with you Michael, thank you for the "civility" in your comments, Ciao, L
Get you a post say 7' long put 2' in the ground giving you 5' sticking up and do this in dry soil and see what the outcome will be. The ground the tractor is in is soaking wet. You could get a sledge hammer and stick it in the ground. Nice video anyway....
Ok, admittedly it does do a fantastic job using lightweight pine posts in wet ground. Two more tests please. 1) The Little Test: A steel fence post (picket) going into hard 'DRY' ground', 2) The Big Test: A hardwood post going into a well worn 'DRY' dirt road. For me, your machine looks too flimsy for any realistic fencing work. Your posts would probably suit a hobby farm, with a few chickens, a couple of sheep and an old house cow.
There is something funny about this. Don't look at the machine, look at the fencing in the background. Those are solid posts, not pine posts. Can it do the same job with a solid hardwood post.
Look at the damage he did to the Floor. Instead of just using your 2 healthy legs and mooving thoose short logs there by yourselfe. Even a kid could have done that. and using a hammer is a workout you desperetly Need to get that fat of of your Body.
I bet it will smart if he gets his hand caught in between that ram and the post, what a silly waste of a machine and extremely dangerous to the operater. a hydraulic auger post hole digger would suffice and is twice as fast as that contraption.
You obviously have no idea about fencing, 99.9% of the world's fencing contractors ram posts this way... don't want to crush your hand? Don't bloody put it in there then!
@@rhyslf usualy drop the plate onto the post to steady it before hammering safer, but still the rule of thumb is if you want to keep your fingers and thumbs ,keep hands away
Hmm I guess you're right, it just seems pretty slow and ineffective in the video, given that they use a huge tractor along with that gigantic "fencing machine"
