Great tutorial skipping the part where you fixed the angle. Pro tip to people doing this, check with a level every few smacks and correct as you go, it's waaaaay easier to put it in straight the first time rather than trying to pry a 3+ foot metal bar through settled soil. And that's presuming you don't have rocks to deal with.
@@ronjones4069 most of the time these gadgets aren't worth it, and it often just takes a bit of experience to see why. If you want to straighten out a crooked post, you either gotta cut the ground above the bottom, or cut underground using the post depending where the leverage ends up catching (you can never be sure). Unless the ground is soft, doing that is a massive pain in the ass, so you want your posts to go in as close to level on both axis as you can. I've pounded many stakes, pegs, and posts into ground and there's really no cheat code for it other than doing it smart.
If you’re not competent enough to hit it a couple of times whichever way it needs to go for your last few hits, then you should probably be hiring someone else to do your stuff anyways.
Don't worry about that hissing noise and that rotten egg smell. Or the water bubbling up, it'll be just fine. It'll also give you something to aim at when you're trying to back out of your driveway. Don't worry he'll be doing it again soon
Like the first comment said, make sure you didn't hit any utility lines near that sidewalk like water or electric or Fiber Optic for that matter. The only drawback to this method is that at a later time if you need me to remove this metal Spike you would almost have to use those for the cherry picker or tow truck to pull straight up out of the ground. The advantage concrete is that you drill a 10 inch diameter Hole 2 ft deep and put that amount of concrete of 80 lb bag in there as long as the ground around the concrete is pretty strong then when the next car hits that mailbox it'll tear the front bumper off that vehicle if it's a passenger car that is
811 guys call 811. Takes about 3 days to get out and marked. That thing is deep enough to hit power. I install irrigation for a living and let me tell you that ya don’t want to be hitting utilities.
You can only use these if you don't live in a rocky area. And good luck with them when they rust cause you will not get it back out. You're better off to just set a post with concrete.
Warning people: typically there are many shallow public utilities around the area of a mailbox: water, gas, electric, low voltage. At my house my gas line runs inches from my mailbox. CALL BE FORE YOU DIG or disturb the solid that deeply and destructively
you didn’t call 811 man that’s about the spot we put the gas main to, already know the Watermain’s on that side, just by that hydrant being right there
Bought one to finish my fence with…haven’t used it yet. An average of 25.00 dollars a piece for that …I need approx 8 to finish….I saw the force you needed to push into the ground and sounds like I want to purchase more. but 4.50 for a bag of quikcrete ( need 3 bags mixed with crushed concrete ( an additional 60 dollars…a post hole digger…still cheaper
This reminds me of that one guy that was doing something like this and he hit a gas main those videos are so amazing. There’s two things that I know exactly where they are when I’m digging that’s the gas and the electricity. I can fix a water leak I don’t care about the neighbors Internet and if I had a sewer line probably won’t do anything.
In case you don't know. If you are on a culdesac and you damage the sewer line to the street. The city doesn't have to pay for anything, you do though. And culdesac work is might expensive.
Nice job. 2 thumbs up. But gotta say, I have a big crowbar just like yours & it's bent, just like yours. Inherited it from my father in law who had it since the 1930s. Do you know if they come that way or do they hire King Kong to bend them post production. 😊 i.e. actually an honest question of sorts.
How about a post hole digger and a pressure treated 4x4? Put it 3 ft in the ground, and its good. Mine has been out front like that for 30 years or more.
I gotta say if you can't PHD the hole then a spike ain't gonna drive either. Also, how did you get plumb from that chaotic pile drive of a stake? Is there enough slop in the cup for shims?
