T-post driver?

..................Once you get your fence built , for those area's that will hold animals , run a HOT Wire inset about 6 feet or so from the perimeter fence too keep the animals OFF the perimeter fence and make it wide enough so you can run your mower in this area ! , fordy

I agree with the "Ozarks" comment! OMG I've never lived on land with so much rock in my life. LOL I do raised bed gardens because of all the rock. When we planted our fruit trees it took us about almost an hour to dig one hole for the tree.

i'm not looking forward to planting our posts although we will need to do it eventually. And ours have to be fairly close, since our land has a nice slope to it. I'm no spring chicken, nor is my DH ... so we may do things the "lazy" way and hire someone to do it for us! :P

Evening,
I might suggest if you do try the hand pounder weld a 10pound weight to the top It is amazing the extra impact it gives.
Steve

We're rebuilding one of our perimeter fences next spring and actually considering hiring it done, hiring someone to pound the posts in or renting a post driver. Rocky ground (limestone cap on top of a ridge), really tough pounding T-posts ... both DH and I have done a lot of it but I'm 5' tall and 70 years old, getting harder for me to lift the driver above my head ... DH is 82 and arthritis in shoulders and hands getting worse, a day or two on the post pounder and he can hardly pick up a pitchfork for a few days.

We're starting to look for an easier way.

i live in the ozarks i drive 100 a day by hand

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i would rent one might be cheaper

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................On one fencing job I did , we encountered about a 1500 feet run of shelf rock about 12 inches below the top soil , I hired a crew too install the Tposts for this portion of a 2 mile fence job ! They knocked all the face plates off the Tposts , then they used an Air powered Rotary Hammer Drill too drill all the holes in solid rock ! I had already negotiated with the owner about this possibility so the extra expense was already covered . Short of using explosives I can't think of any other method for drilling holes in solid rock too insert Tposts into that will hold up a fence . , fordy

I think this limestone cap is at least 24" down in most places. We've got a 2" auger and will do some test holes first. But I think this is going to end up being a hired job at our ages.

I just cut mine off close enough to the ground I can run over them with the lawnmower set as tall as it will go. Have done hundreds of 3" and smaller 20' trees. I 6 years I can kick out some of them with a boot.

That's what we did.

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We use a heavy pipe with handles. It works. It is cheap. It is portable.

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I bought one of the pneumatic fence pounder. They are run by air pressure so i had to have a generator power my compressor. Actually worked fine. We have some big rocks, and when you encounter them the post will go nowhere. Just have to move it up or down the fence line. It just replaces the up and down with your shoulder. It doesn't replace a jackhammer at all.

I rented one. A pull behind compressor and a air powered driver with 50' of 1" air hose.

Cost me a couple of hundred bucks but some of the best money I have ever spent in my life.

Out of 200 posts I could have put in maybe 20 by hand, the rest would have killed me as there is a layer of chirt rocks about a foot under my soil. Even the air driver couldn't drive a few.

Down by the coast where I grew up, I would have just waited a few days after a decent rain and almost pushed them in by hand..