Whats a good way to pull T posts outa ground

I wiggle and pull too. Doesn't work when dh has used them for tomato stakes. For some reason he thinks the top of the flanges needs to be a foot underground. Those I have to dig part way. He keeps offering the use of his jack and chain but can never seem to find said jack and chain when I need to pull posts.

The T-post puller I bought at Tractor Supply was worth every penny, and saved injuries I'm sure.

Also, dump a bucket of water on each post before you start to pull, if it has been dry. Not needed with the post puller.

Buy the proper tool, store it with the post pounder, don't be so cheap!

"Cheap" is for people who have money.... which is a scarce commodity around my place. The only time I go the cheap route is when I cant figure out some way to do it for free.

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i generally shake and then put chain around post and spud bar,,lift up spud bar using the ground as a vulcram,,lifts them about six inch and then,can genneraly lift them out........ saves fuel and getting on and off tractor so much...........

If you can wait for a good rain, they'll come out much easier. I use a chain on a loder bucket in dry weather.

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Oh the best way. Is THIS.




Harbor Freight.
My friends have one, I tried it. LOVED IT, and they bought me one as a gift. When on sale 19 Bucks~!~and boy does it work GREAT. Even for me with arthritic wrists and such. Very little effort needed, even if posts have been in 15 years.

Thats the one DH has and I can even pull a t-post.

I bought a post puller off ebay,sorta like the HF one..one of my most prized tools.

I also have a post puller that I hook on my Bobcat bucket, but you can make a easy puller by hooking a chain around the base of the post, set and old steel press wheel off a horse drawn corn planter next to the post, run the chain over the press wheel and hook the other end to truck or tractor. Slowly drive ahead, the upward preasure going over the wheel will pop it right out of the ground. You can use a larger truck rim also, butyou need to use a larger one to get the leverage. > Thanks Marc

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This is the second best way, a tractor with a loader would be the best. But if you have no money or are cheap, I think a feller should be able to make one of those post pullers out of 2 by 4s. and a bit of chain.

Tractor works wonders.

There is a small, simple, hand operated lever that does the job. Probably $30 or so.

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Digging bar and wood to block it up and get leverage, scrap 4x4 or such.

Put the wood at the base, put the bar at the lowest prong and lever on up. Once you get movement, it should come out easily just pulling up.

Next time you start post blowing call me i just gotta see this show

Buddy of mine was setting charges under stumps and was using waterproof fuse .Well he got tired running so he had his case of Dynamite on the truck tail gate and would lite two fuses at once hop in the truck and start it and gun it out of there . We also used ammonia nitrate to stretch things .

He got two fuses lit and hit the started it went click click fuse is usely one minute about half way down and he bailed and ran ,leaving the truck door open . Said took two days to get the dirt out .That ended that idea.

Disclaimer i wasn't there and know nothing about explosives this story was relayed to my by my late Uncle that knew a man that read it in a book

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this is what we do...jiggle it back and forth til they loosen.

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I use a handyman jack and a chain, but last week we had a bunch to pull. I spied a cargo strap that I had found in the highway earlier, not the ratchet end, just the other end. It had a heavy hook and the T post slipped between the hook and strap perfectly in that little triangle area. Slid it down and tied a loop in the strap to hook over the jack. It sped up production greatly.

I cant remember the last time I pulled a T post. Its been over 10/20yrs.

And this lift is WAY before the Eagle Lift

I think Bill has what Case called the Motor Lift. It was a hydraulic lift, later than the mechanical lift but before the eagle hitch, a rockshaft to lift equipment....James

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I know a guy who knows a guy... Had rats getting into the garage. When he finally found the hole they were crawling in he had been dealing with chewed wires for too long. Anger got the best of him and he dumped a gallon of gas down the hole and went looking for a road flare. About 10 minutes had passed when he found his flares and made it back to the hole.

By this time the gas fumes had spread some distance through the hole. When he tossed the flare in there was a whump!, fire ball of about 20 feet shoots out and into the garage. After a mad scramble to put out the rags and such he goes outside for some air.

Turns out the rats tunnel wen out of the garage, under the sidewalk, and into the gutter. The tunnel was now a small canyon, the side walk (or some of it) was in the neighbors truck bed, and the police were trying to find the source of the blast....

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OK I don't mean to be stupid but the Harbor Freight T post puller. Do you just hook it under one of the bumps or what? I AM blonde.