How does one find someone to drive fence posts?

I live in belfair and if your ground is like mine you are not going to be able to drive wooden post because of all the rocks. Even T post are hard to pound in. Just dig with a post hole digger and added a little quick set cement. figure on 1/2 hour per post to dig and set.

Try craigslist. If you do not feel comfortable with the people that respond I might be able to help you find some locals that need work from my church.

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Belfair, Washington

Put an ad in the local paper...a farmer with an auger can punch 22 holes in normal ground in half an afternoon, provided it's not wet or rocky. I dug mine with a post hole digger, but about a month ago, bought an "Earth auger"...one man 2 cycle engine that has an 8 inch bit in it. I can put 5 holes in the ground with it before I'd do one with a post hole digger, the old fashioned way. If you know a farmer with a front end loader, have them use it to push your posts into the hole once they're dug.

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All those resources are good ideas, and maybe your local ag agent might know of someone who does that sort of thing. I once was at a demonstration of a new type of post pounder for large, 4-6" across wood posts mounted on a skid steer. Made real short work of putting in posts. That was over ten years ago, so maybe it's not new any more.

On a related note, I was putting in some posts myself this weekend. Rented an auger-type hole digger, and once we got it screwed ALL the way down into the ground, I looked for the reverse on the thing, and THERE WAS NONE! Are you joking!? We called the rental place, and asked, how are you supposed to get it back up out of the ground once it's corkscrewed 4 feet in, and he said "shovel"?

If I hadn't happened to have had the neighbors' skidsteer sitting right there, I'd have gotten real upset! We wound up just wrapping a logging chain around the sucker and pulling it straight up out of the ground with the bucket. I don't know how you'd get it out, otherwise. That could have taken us HOURS of extra work.

Well not really You KEEP moving it Up and down In and Out LIFTING the dirt out as the Screw turns. geesh I would have thought the rental place would have known THAT. THAT is why MOst Augers like that Require TWO people so the Lifting out while the thing spins around is easier. You Lift it up so that it Spins of the dirt. Then back down and so forth.

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...................ALways rent an Auger , with , a Tractor , attached TOO it ! Those augers designed for one and two man teams will break your back if you've never used one before ! They work OK in soil that is fairly loose , but in rocky soil or thick clay , you better have a frontend loader too extract them from the hole . , fordy