How To Hand Drive A T-Post Into Hard Packed Stone ... Or Just Normal Soil

Are you having trouble hand-pounding T-posts into place? If so, this video shows you how I easily pound a T-post into any kind of ground... even into the hard-packed stone of my driveway!

[brene]

My hero! I never thought I'd get these posts in the ground before summer! I happened to have a tamping pole with a beveled edge and your method worked perfectly! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ♥️♥️♥️

[SimpleEarthSelfReliance]

People who share their tips and tricks for getting things into hard ground, are all-right by my books. Many thanks.

[tlfreek]

great video. My wife has watched it three times - she should be good now.

[tonyhemingway]

Growing up in Maine, we used wooden posts but the method was the same. We would use the rod to make the hole then drive the fence post in with the back of a single bitted ax. All the posts were sharpened beforehand. That was when I was a kid and I'm 73 years old now.

[galewollenberg]

Have a gallon jug of water handy to dribble into the hole as you jump it down. it also helps to use water when augering post holes. like a cutting fluid when drilling metal. Linemen also use the same idea when driving long grounding rods into the ground. a little water goes a long ways.

[ronselliers]

I am 71 and have my grandfather's bar. He called it a Johnson Bar. I've used it in Illinois, Missouri and Texas and it never failed me, but in Tennessee it is a totally different story. Most of middle Tennessee near the Cumberland Plateau has bedrock near the surface and it has whooped me.

[Bearfoot-ee]

The digging bar I use was forged by my great great grandfather from a wagon axle. I also use a chisel from a coal mine about 3 ft long and a short handled sledge. I hit the top of the chisel a few times, smack the sides to get it to wiggle, repeat til I get the depth I need, pull the chisel out and drive my posts. We gots lots of sandstone here, if we're lucky there might be some dirt too so the extra effort with the chisel saves the effort of arm breaking post driving through 4-6 inch stone slabs.

[wncwaterfalls]

His wife is going to be surprised driving up that driveway and hitting a t-post! Thanks for the video, I'll check that digging bar out.

[kathythompson]

New subscriber here and have to thank you for this video. I was out this morning trying to drive t-posts with a hammer while standing on a little kitchen step stool. I ended up somehow smashing my thumb between the t=post and the hammer when I hit the top. I was so mad and so fired up that I didn't flinch I just kept hammering but wasn't getting anywhere. I came in the house sayin to myself, there has to be an easier way to do this, since I don't have one of those driver things. I did however have what we called a rock mover that you were using to make the holes. I ran got ours and dragged (it is pretty heavy) it around to where I was working and gave it a go and omgosh!!! it was a miracle. You made my task go so much faster and easier and there was no more thumb smashing or jarring this 60-year-old woman's arms hitting that t-post. I am so grateful for your video! My fence around my coop is already up and I did it all by myself. Thank you!!!!

[echognomecal]

Goodness, this is going to help me so much. I have a bad back, etc! & have to get a garden in.
Thank goodness for the online global community helping each other out!!! 🗽

[politicalpartyagnostic]

I bought one of those at Habitat Restore. I didn’t know what it was for but knew it had a purpose. Thank you for teaching how to use it!!! My land is rock hard and setting T Posts is a real bear. You have made my day!!! 👍🏻

[FreshAF_]

Probably the most useful video on YouTube. Hammering those suckers in the ground is a headache. You just made this single mom’s life’s a whole lot easier. Thanks for sharing!!!☺️💯

[donames]

You just save a 70 year old man a lot of work, thanks👍🏻

[WilliamHunterII]

Where I come from, we call that a pry bar. It's a very useful tool. Your application is new to me. Thanks for the tip.

[dfrozendog]

I paid 20 bux for a similar bar at a used tool store years ago. Money well spent. When you need it, you need it.

[lakesnake]

Sometimes here in the Texas Hill Country we have to use a drill driver to get through the limestone to set a T post. We use a rockbar to dig post holes and the post hole diggers to clean the hole. Up by Llano they have granite and I have no idea how they dig holes for anything, You are digging in soil....I'm jealous.

[TieeshaEssex]

Thank you. I thought I could stomp a Shepards hook into my yard to hang my bird feeders but Glad I watched this

[DiSanders]

OMG finally someone that put up a video that showed me exactly what I needed to do. You’ve saved me thousands. Thank you!!

[sleeve]

When you brought out that 17 pound bar, it brought back memories of my younger years !
I was a,
" Gandy Dancer " !
Working Maintenance of Way for what then was the Louisville and Nashville, aka. L&N, then also for the Norfolk and Western, aka N&W, Railroads !
That 17 pound bar got pretty heavy by days end, especially after some of the other things we did, like Two guys tossing 300 pound creosote covered railroad ties, from a moving train !
You get the picture !
Anyway, we called those bars,
" Spud " bars !
Used mostly for leverage when forcing Track into position !
Hope that helps ?

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[JJEMO]

@5:09 You sir are a GOD!!!! Bravo! Thank you for teaching me today.