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 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
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.
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"
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).
Rickety Rube Goldberg setup.
Untreated post in wet dirt.
Genius!
good idea kevin , needs a counterweight , well done .
It destroys the lawn at the same time! Multitasking!
Lawm completely annihilated for one fence post lol 👌🏼
Eire1916 glad I wasn't the only one thinking that ...
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
It will grow back
Grass grows everywhere like that in that part of the world
Waste of money. Light 'pine' wood post would soon rot and fall over with that much water around.
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!
They seem to have chosen really wet land which makes it much easier to insert posts.
So a five foot post pushed into the ground two feet . Kinda hope the place doesn't freeze up in the winter that fence line will pop out of the ground
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
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.
666toysoldier Yep, seen it done in Oklahoma clay, not the soggy mush seen here.
As wet as that ground is no wonder the dwarf fence post went right in.
worlds shortest fence?
Hahahahaha
What will it do on dry land
dale baker break the post.
I laughed at that Glyn.
Glyn Owen I don't have a mum mate
Glyn Owen your mum
Glyn Owen no u
Quickest 3 punches post knocker
I hope no animals are injured in the trenches the tires made...
You got a fence now but no grass...
Probably alright on the flat. It'd be nongood around here. No where enough tilt.
Made a mess of that paddock
Needs a longer stick😀
Good for building a fence if you don't care about the lawn
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....
Now the farmer can buy a rut fixing tractor!
Soft ground, drive those few poles by hand instead of making a total mess of the grass.
very soft ground, and a 2foot high fence, done bigger posts in very hard stoney ground
Hold my crack pipe while I tear up the yard for the worlds shortest fence.
OK... This was funny!
Seems safe enough
Must be a fence for holding chickens ??
sheep dont need very high fences,, i guess this video are from united kingdom.
You paid HOW MUCH for that???
Be fun trying this in wet Fermanagh 😅
How effective is the anvil at reducing post splitting?
Show me in dry rocky soil or colechey.
Dont worry about to yard... It will buff out.
He didn't even use a level
look at how they left the paddock
I think that fence is for pygmy goats.
???????
pretty short fence !!!😵😵😵
That post ain't gonna hold long with no concrete in the hole
Soil compaction...irreversible damage to the ground
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.
I will stick with my wheat heart heavy hitter thanks.
Gopher fence
short sheep paddock.
WTF?! A 3 feet tall fence?
sheep fences dont need to be more than 3 feet.
This is that new machine that will smash yur fucking hand
to slow a system
I bet those post want last 5 years in ground
A Hobbit fence ???
Hi Kevin, who makes that pole driver and what model is it? Thank you, Ciao, L (ME, USA)
como destruir el pasto y gastar un monton de dinero en el proceso ah! y poner un poste enano
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.
Only works in mud .
Has potential, looks a bit random though!
$5000 machine to replace a guy with a posthole digger.
what is this? a fence for aunts?!
Dan Wally it will keep uncles out, too, provided they’re midgets.
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.
Jesus what a freaking mess that made of the grass. The fence when its up will be good fo pygmy rabbits and that about it. Absolute rubbish.
Um. As long as you don't mind ripping the shit out of your lawn.
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
Well that was shit it seems you’ll do anything to avoid manual labour
much quicker with a hammer, wtf
It literally took them 2 men, a tractor and 1:30minutes to put one in the ground, come on
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"
wtf
I can do it faster with an easy- auger
Betcha that machine is useless in Arizona
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oh no...
that is tooo much waste time...
better use a human working on and not vehicle machine
Definitely not worth the money
seems like a lot of climbing in and out of tractor for one dumb fence post. stupid invention
dumbest machine every
Crap demostration - it has to be British. No matter Boris Johnson will sort it out.
What a mess made, should of waited for a time when ground was not soaking wet
For that machine, it would not work on hard ground. You need an 'industrial' one for dry ground.