Originally Posted By: tiderbd
Don't mean to side track but if your installing T-posts can it be done with a tractor? I've used spring loaded drivers but always wondered if there was an easier, faster way.


Absolutely. It's a 2 man job and the best way that I have found is to cut a piece of steel pipe the height you want the posts to stick out of the ground. The pipe needs to be large enough to slip over the post. The pipe should also not be so large to slip over the cleat on the post. Put the post under the bucket and apply pressure. Once the post gets 6" to a foot in the ground (depending on the length of the post) the pressure will be on the pipe and not the post. The pipe will push on the cleat and push the post in the ground. When the pipe gets to the ground, stop pushing. All the posts will have the same amount sticking out of the ground and with the pipe on the post the T-post won't bend like it will trying to push them in the ground without a pipe over them.

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