Post Lifter Review 

I am a retired electronics engineer, and now a “Hobby farmer” love the life in Rural South East South Australia, should have done it years ago. Have few acres, few sheep, few chooks, few Alpacas, and have discovered that once you put in a fence you have created a life time job! And let me tell you Tim, your tips on RU-vid have saved my bacon on many an occasion. Top job mate keep it up.. Jim Moorak SA

Thanks for your tip re whacking a stuck picket in a bit more. I'm not the strongest on the block that's for sure and I had 4 pickets that would not move even with extra pipe over the lever. Thumped them in a bit more and Whoopi doo, out they came. Thanks mate.

Great video Tim. A trick with the first post lifters slipping - just rough up the contact point with a course sandpaper or angle grinder. Even just removing the powder coating or paint around that area helps a heap. As for the second one you showed (the cheapie you get off ebay), as they are not real good on bigger posts. You can drill a hole and attach a high tensile bolt through it and poke that into one of the holes in the picket. As long as the contact point in close enough to where the bolt comes through, it doesn't bend. And if it does, cut it off and put another in there. But if you have a bit of flat plate, welder and angle grinder an attachment (like the last one) is pretty easy to make and you just change it out when needed. Using a quick release pin through the bolt instead of the nut is also an option to make it quicker to change. What I don't like about the cheapie however is the base plate can sink into the ground under pressure. I just welded a slightly bigger plate to the bottom which distributes the weight better. I'm still $60 better off than getting the Whites one!

Great video and very informative as always. Thank very much!!

Thanks for posting this, I’m looking at solutions to help my father, who’s still pulling posts by hand well into his 70s

Another great video thank you Peter

Hi Tim, Great video as usual. Last one the best, especially if chain is on FEL!! Mine is a bit of 3/8th steel plate with steel post "Y" cut in it to shape of steel post, hole for D ring, chain to FEL. 2 man operation best and quickest - one to put chain on post and one to drive tractor. Thanks

This video was really helpful in making an informed choice! My dad desperately needs a post lifter and I would be devastated if the products I got him caused injury, I think I’ll go with the Whites professional lifter. Thanks!

great info also giving the post a good water or after rain helps

Last year we bought a Sneddons post lifter. It works well.

I've got the original "jack-jaw" post puller from before whites brought the patent and I have been using it for more years than I can remember and by the looks of it it has a harder steel jaws as this thing has never not gripped. another good thing about the jack-jaw style is if you have a broken off post you can dig a little hole beside it and still get the broken piece out.

Thank you, great informatio

I normally tie a rolling hitch to the post and then a simple loop to the high lift jack and away you go, fits any size.

Great video

We commonly use a jack-all or farm jack with length of chain. Works on all post shapes/type and it will even pull the concrete if that was used. 🇨🇦

Kickass video!

G’Tim, Great shows and informative. I have another post puller which won a farm inventor award for those who have a loader, backhoe or skid steer for you to try if you like.

A post puller that grabs from the side would be great in America because sometimes you have no room to put a teeth pulling remover and need to grab from the side of the post. Here in Florida USA, I will look around. Thanks for this info!

A piece of pipe or even a 2x4 work just fine and don't mess up the posts at all

Just pulled a very old post out of the ground. Tried using the Whites Professional Lifter - with no result. All it did was create tension so that when I lifted the arm to reset the jaws it just sprung/sprang back with no result at all: even with a piece of pipe used as an extension bar. Previous uses have also shown that when using it in long grass you need to trim the grass from around the post otherwise the grass just interferes with the operating mechanism. Finally got the post out today with a lifter like the orange one (with the extension bar attached again). The trick here is to hook it up to the side of the post with the holes in it and jam the outside edge into the corner of the jaws. But, as Tim says, watch out because it easily slips and when you've hot some real pressure on - especially with an extension bar - when it lets go it really jars your arms and body. Result - the Whites one only works on easy posts in the clay loam soils around here and be really careful with the other one: it doesn't always work either. Thanks for the video though Tim (glad you got one to work properly)- especially the tips about being safe and giving really stuck posts a couple of whacks downwards - who would have thought of that!

Galv coatings aint really damaged with scratches to bare metal. Rust protection is still fine because the galv is still acting as a cathode.

G’day Tim I recently purchased 20acres down the road from Kurt & have some issues extracting very rusted star pickets! I’ve noticed that the pickets are in excess of 50yrs old & are badly rusted at ground level! To complicate matters these pickets have been driven in a long way! I’ve attempted using an old Gallagher puller with limited success, tried the Richmond puller tool on my small Kubota tractor without success and even borrowed a mates high lift Jack with the Richmond puller!! All it did was upend the Kubota & pull over the high lift Jack/Richmond puller attachment! I’m at my wits end & have taken to digging around the base of the picket exposing about 300ml below ground level, breaking off the top of the picket(at ground level) sliding the Richmond plate puller down attached by D shackle & chain to the jaws of the Gallagher & inching the post out!! Takes over an hour for each post!! Any suggestions? I’ve been looking at the Jack Jaw PPL-10. Really hoping this will work! But need your help & advise mate! Cheers Matt

Just as I thought.. you like the one that we hate.. knew it would test fine.. never works that good in the paddock tho 🤦‍♂️

Your post lifters are so short. If I used around here, I would be face to face with a rattlesnake. The one I use is waist high but I usually use a tractor with a chain. It fits everything.

3:57 To Stop the slipping - On this one by using an old Philips screwdriver 🪛 or stainless steel pin through the picket hole across the backing plate between the pinch points .

Terrifuc presentation filled with practical know-how. Assited me to select products.

I have the lifter with the “C” shaped yoke, I hate it. It takes chunks out of the starpicket leaving a sharp edge. I have literally “cut” a picket it half due to the amount of damage done while trying to remove. I was told they were terrible and the only one worth getting was the pin/cammed styled lifter

Why are all those so short from the ground. Looks like pulling a row of post will pain your back. The one I have and have seen in use in the states come up about waist high so ya don't have to stoop down...that little pocket one is kinda wacky seeing as you have to carry the awkward jack around too. I heard of people using a post driver (knocker) to remove post but I couldnt figure out how to make that work..maybe a cert type is needed. Thanks for the low down the the lifters. Always enjoyable

Not that I have any steel posts to contend with, I like the Richmond attachment - jack combo because you didn't need to be getting down so low and potentially putting your back out. It's a shame they don't make them in a larger size but how hard would it be for a handy bloke like yourself to knock one up in your shed?

Tim Check out Marchant Engineering post puller

Well it sure would of been nice to have given us the names and links to these lifters.

Tim - ive got a fence that a couple of wooden strainers (with braces) have rotted out at the base - what is the best course to fix the fence?

Howaya- also from Ireland. Have you used hollow metal bars to extend the leverage of your lift? Or have you found that it can cause excess strain on the tool components? Also, how do you lift wooden pointed posts or are they just not used much by yourself? I broke a couple pulling them out recently and thought there must be a better way of getting them out without breaking them...

Hi Tim what's your views on the type of fencing post to use I am from Ireland wet climate

Hi Tim, In a previous video, didn't you make your own lifter plate out of some scrap plate steel using a drill and an angle grinder?

we do not have that tipe off feince post in scotland .we only put up wooding posts

I live in south africa,i need a post lifter for bothT posts and we have H steel posts. do these posts also work for H Posts

I don't see where your metal posts have the skirt on them. The skirt makes it much more difficult. My puller doesn't work. Someone said I should wet the ground with a hose overnight - slow drip on the post - to make it pull out easier. Other thought I have it to buy a pipe which would extent the lever another two feet or so. Added power.

Why are those post lifters you are using so short?

Word of warning, the slippage that occurred with the Whites lifter on the galvanised post, you will also have the same problem with the Waratah lifter on galvanised posts. However, changing to a different fin with the Waratah lifter makes no difference, it simply will not grip onto galvanised posts. It will grip onto black coated posts all day long, so if you are planning on purchasing a lifter for galvanised posts, do not get the Waratah. When I mentioned the problem to the place I bought the lifter from, they said that it is a common problem with the Waratah lifter, and that I could return it with a full refund.

I use a tractor and a chain

Back in the old country we couldn't afford such toys so had to use our teeth. Or just a chain on the back of a tractor.

Thanks for the video - These are all driven posts - please could you do similar with concreted corner posts and round posts/ sign posts / t posts and trees that a fence installer will find - every day. Contact me for a NW Quik Pull - regards and thanks again

Cut a larger size & sell em' yaself ,ill buy 2 off ya ,cheers!