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Old 05/09/12, 09:15 PM
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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.
Yes, that way it doesn't matter which way the post is facing, it will stop at the bumps and pull the post up. it really is a neat tool and you do really move from one post to another in short order.
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Yes, that way it doesn't matter which way the post is facing, it will stop at the bumps and pull the post up. it really is a neat tool and you do really move from one post to another in short order.
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Their not on sale right now at HF. Anyone know the secret (if there is one) of getting a discount code? There is a place to enter one but I have no idea how to get one. I really can't wait for a sale as I need this wonderful thing ASAP.
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I checked here, didn't see a code.

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your right & close. My moter lift ws BEFORE the later hyd lift which didnt come around till the mid 40s I think. I had a 50 SC which had a hyd cyl to activate the lift.
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Old 05/10/12, 08:23 AM
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2X4 or 4X4 six to eight foot long, a chain and something about a foot tall. Wrap the chain around the post, put the something about 2 feet from the post, wrap the other end of the chain around the X4 and put it on top of the something. Push down on the free end.

If you have a lot of them you bolt a chuck of chain on the X4 and put a slip hook on the other end.
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Old 05/10/12, 08:26 AM
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.

I don't have a problem pulling them out by hand after I wiggle them around a good bit. Back and forth, side to side, pull.
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I just tell my grandson not to touch them, then go back in the house.
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1- Approach the Tpost with the knobs facing you.
2- Place a 2' piece of 2x4 upright at about a 45 deg angle between the ground and whatever knob on the Tpost that it engages.
3- Place your foot on the lowest section of the 2x4 creating a little pressure against the Tpost.
4- Push the Tpost away from you so that the 2x4 will ratchet down to the next lower knob.
5- Pull the Tpost back towards you, this should cause the Tpost to lift a little.
6- Repeat #4
7- Repeat #5
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Old 05/10/12, 12:47 PM
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I have to point something out here. Look at where the OP lives. In an area with lots of rock in the soil the odds of the wiggle and pull by hand working is very small. After the post had sat there for a while all the rocky stuff settles around it and sets like concrete.
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Old 05/10/12, 12:51 PM
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True and all that does is Bend the post not a good thing either if you want to reuse them.
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Their not on sale right now at HF. Anyone know the secret (if there is one) of getting a discount code? There is a place to enter one but I have no idea how to get one. I really can't wait for a sale as I need this wonderful thing ASAP.
They always come on sale at the local Farm Store here, around Fathers Day. LOL.
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Old 05/10/12, 05:34 PM
 
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Jim I guess ya didnt see as ta where I popped them out with the lift onna my Case CC
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Old 05/10/12, 06:53 PM
 
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Jim I guess ya didnt see as ta where I popped them out with the lift onna my Case CC
Yea i saw it i'v read every post on this deal . But i was hoping you had more to go or put em back in so we could gather down at your farm to teach you the redneck way

I'll stay on standby just in case
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LOL lol

AND. Rocks are hard to find here. I know where they are, and the farmstead is way away from them by around 100ft.
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And this lift is WAY before the Eagle Lift
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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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Never heard of that happening. I got a VAC Im giveing my DD and hubby that has the 3pt hitch on it. he ovrhauled the carb and I havnt got it, or I coulda used it. Those arms stick WAY out behind the rear wheels.

Its the same age as the SC I had in my early 20s, 1950, but it just had the rigid Eagle hitch.
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Old 05/10/12, 11:33 PM
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Yes, that way it doesn't matter which way the post is facing, it will stop at the bumps and pull the post up. it really is a neat tool and you do really move from one post to another in short order.
I do this all the time. when one bump gets too tall (as the post comes out) the flat U shape just notches itself down til it's caught another, so its like pumping water from an old well. usually 2-4 'pumps' and its up. cheap, simple, and I can haul it anywhere by hand, no pickup or anything. esp when its rained. this is an easy job.
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Old 05/11/12, 05:37 AM
 
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As said, Me, I havnt pulled a post in maybe 20yrs. These and others, IF I get the place im looking at, will go on the N boundry 1/2 way where theres no fence, and theyll stay there.
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