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BTD

01-13-2002 13:36:40




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Does anyone have any idea's about a homemade t-post puller? I've see the ones in catalogs but I can't really justify the price to pull out 20 posts. After the 20 it would get rarely used. Think I could cheat and weld up a copycat of the ones i see in the ads? A bunch of companies sell virtually the same design so I don't think there are any patents involved or royalties.




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Lynn Busby

01-14-2002 06:47:39




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
Harbor Freight has them on sale right now for $14.99 (regular price $29.99). I picked one up last week at the local store.



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Paul

01-13-2002 22:52:47




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
All you need is a hand operated tubular "T" post driver (the kind that you lift by hand and drop like a mini pile driver). Walk up to the "T" post on the nubbin side. Push the top of the post away from you. Turn the post driver upside down and put the top of it on the ground about six inches in front of the post. Lean the bottom of the driver in under the handiest nubbin. Pull the top of the post back to you. This will pull the post out about an inch or two. Now push the post away from you, holding the driver against the nubbins. It will "ratchet" to the next handiest nubbin, and then you pull the top of the post back to you again. About three ratchets and it will be loose enough to lift out easily. It's simple, quick and easy. I've pulled hundreds of posts using this method, and you don't have to drag around any jacks, chains, levers or tractors. A lot of my posts are in the woods and impossible to get at with a tractor.

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Can't Belive this works, but......

01-14-2002 08:23:40




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 Re: Re: T post puller in reply to Paul, 01-13-2002 22:52:47  
I can't believe for one second that this will work....On the other hand I can't wait till the thaw so I can try it. Seems to me if it does work a handy piece of pipe might work too & be lighter. I'm going to give it a try!



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Paul

01-14-2002 11:53:53




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 Re: Re: Re: T post puller in reply to Can't Belive this works, but......, 01-14-2002 08:23:40  
Yeah, I wouldn't want to try it if the ground was frozen. I pulled about a hundred one hot summer evening after work. I don't remember the exact number, but it was a 3/4 ton truck bed full. They were on some reclaimed strip mined pasture, and the foreman said I could have all I could pull before tomorrow morning. I got them all - he couldn't believe it, ha. Some of them you couldn't hardly walk to. All I had that evening was a short piece of rectangular tubing that slides in the stake pocket on a flatbed semitrailer. I've used a short piece of 2X4, but it will wear out quick. By the way - this wasn't my idea - I stole it from someone else. You'll be surprised how easy it works. You're using the "T" post itself for the lever, and the inverted driver is the fulcrum.

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buck

01-13-2002 21:57:03




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  

lot of good ideas here but the slickest thing that I have used to pull post with a jack from a slidein pickup camper. sit it next to the post attach chain and crank it right out,



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Nolan

01-13-2002 19:42:30




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
A bumper jack makes a dandy post puller. Wrap a chain around the fence post (metal t type, wood, whatever) a few times, then hook the bumper jack into it. Out comes the post lickety split.

Now fwiw, I usually just yank t posts out by hand. I rock them a few times NSEW, and then lift them straight up. Just grab them low, hold them tight up against me, and lift with my legs.



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Matt

01-13-2002 15:15:54




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
Sure you could make one. If you have a tractor, and can get to the post, you can use a loader, or your 3 point lift arms and a chain to pull them. You can also use a bumper jack to pull them. They make a piece of metal that is rectangular with 2 holes, one to slip over the post, the other to hang onto the jack for this pupose, or you can use a chain.

Hope this helps,
Matt



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Mac

01-13-2002 14:54:14




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
I've seen a 4x4 notched on one end for a piece of 1" square tubing. Run a good pin thru this notch and tubing.
Then a small section of chain on the puller end. Worked OK.



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Just a thought

01-13-2002 14:22:12




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
as long as you dont try and sell it you can copy as many patented items as you want.



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paul

01-13-2002 17:46:27




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 Re: Re: T post puller in reply to Just a thought, 01-13-2002 14:22:12  
Don't let Monsanto let you hear that about their patented seeds! :)

Everything you find on a store shelf has a patent on it. However, if you make one for yourself, you won't have much problem with it.

--->Paul



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JoeK

01-13-2002 13:58:27




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 Re: T post puller in reply to BTD, 01-13-2002 13:36:40  
Have seen several around made of old water pump handle pivoted on a metal or 4x4 wood leg.A piece of chain with a hook or wire stretcher clamp hooks to the post...seem to work quite well



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Massydriver

01-13-2002 15:17:18




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 Re: Re: T post puller in reply to JoeK, 01-13-2002 13:58:27  
I just back the tractor up to them and run a chain across the lift arms and wrap some in the middle and then around the post and just lift them out. If your close its a straight lift and no bending



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T_Bone

01-13-2002 16:16:35




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 Re: Re: Re: T post puller in reply to Massydriver, 01-13-2002 15:17:18  
I've done the same using a pick-up. Besure and take off the tail gate or it'll ding it sometimes. I usually use two people, one driver, and one to wrap 2 to 3 wraps of chain around the post and just hold on to the end of the chain as the driver pulls foeward.

I've also pulled stumps this way but you can't hold onto the chain.

T_Bone



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jeff@nd.

01-13-2002 16:24:39




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: T post puller in reply to T_Bone, 01-13-2002 16:16:35  
I built one out of a drill wheel, piece of pipe and a chain cut the wheel in half weld the pipe on for a handle and attach chain the curve in the wheel gives great leverage light to carry low cost hope it works for you good luck



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