• sinkingship@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    I actually thought this was a police tool for breaking in doors.

    So according to comments it’s a post driver. So far I dug holes and put my poles in. This tool seems practical for soft soil, but what do you do when living somewhere with rocky soil or with dry clay soil?

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      We have dry clay soil. You put on hearing protection and whack the shit out of the t-post with this bad boy.

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        4 months ago

        Ah thanks! So you use thin metal posts. I still use self cut wood like a caveman and whack the shit out of other things.

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          Yeah, i wouldn’t use one of these to drive in the wooden posts. We still need them every once in a while for stability.

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          If you’re putting in t-posts, an auger is going to end up making a really big hole. An auger would be more appropriate, IMO, for a wooden post.

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      For hard soil you use a different tool. It’s similar to how you have saws for wood and saws for metal.

      When you fill the tube with cement it gets the nickname “Redneck Lockpick”.

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      I’ve used one to put those skinny metal posts in that have wings on the bottom part to make it hard to rip them back out. A post hole digger is usually used for large wooden posts.