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Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver

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Mark McElvy

04-04-2003 19:28:44




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I have a lot of fencing to do on the family farm and was wanting to build a powered tamp/t-post driver to ease the wear and tear on the arms. I was thinking you could connect to the hydraulics on the tractor to drive it. The part I am not sure of is how to create the pulsing action needed to tamp dirt or to drive the t-post. I have seen air powered tpost drives for sale, but they are 500.00. Any of you hydraulic geniuses out there?

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qin long

02-02-2004 17:43:02




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 Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Mark McElvy, 04-04-2003 19:28:44  
Hello Sir: I am interested in your product and one thing to be questioned, that is whether the hydraulic tamp is a kind of product similiar to Hydraulic Tamper which used in high speed rail? and give me some brief introduction about you and your company to show me how to buy them.



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mj

04-06-2003 10:02:06




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 Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Mark McElvy, 04-04-2003 19:28:44  
You need a valve, long cylinder and weight....manually raise weight and drop it....I don't know about the "pulsing" ..... Post-pounders just pound the posts in, one lick at a time....right? I saw a circus outfit setting posts for a big-top and they had an air-powered pounder on the back bumper of the post truck.....VERY fast. Ranchers east of here used to make one by hooking the PTO to a 4-speed truck tranny and a shortened car rearend. They left the brake drums on and had 2 master cylinders with hand levers to control the action. A cable was wound around a spool on one drum that went up the mast to a pulley and down to the weight. You worked the handles and utilized the differential action of the car rearend to raise the weight and hold it at any point then drop or raise it more....these were very efficient drivers that didn't need hydraulics. They were developed at a time when hydraulic-power was rare on tractors and were similar in action to the old cranes and draglines that used the same methods and differential action to raise, lower, drop and pull the load. I've heard that some of these are still in use and I've been trying to track one down so I can get some photos. :-)

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Dusty

04-05-2003 05:45:17




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 Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Mark McElvy, 04-04-2003 19:28:44  
How about getting a generator (lots of other uses) then buy or rent an electric driver?

Dusty



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Mark McElvy

04-05-2003 10:37:32




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 Re: Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Dusty, 04-05-2003 05:45:17  
Never heard of an electric one...



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chris

04-06-2003 12:37:16




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 Re: Re: Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Mark McElvy, 04-05-2003 10:37:32  
I work for a roads dept. and they make adapters for steel posts(for signs along the roads) that slide into electic jack hammers. We've only had luck with the adapters from the jack hammer suppliers since they are forged drivers. The jackhammer just breaks welds instantly on shop made ones. chris



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Paul Janke

04-04-2003 21:01:18




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 Re: Hydraulic tamp and/or T-Post driver in reply to Mark McElvy, 04-04-2003 19:28:44  
You might start by investigating hydraulic pavement breakers and compaction plates made for backhoes in place of the bucket. I think most of them use hydraulic motors that runs a crankshaft to run a piston which is the hammer.



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