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I actually thought this was a police tool for breaking in doors.

So according to comments it’s a post driver. So far I dug holes and put my poles in. This tool seems practical for soft soil, but what do you do when living somewhere with rocky soil or with dry clay soil?

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DasAlbatross@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We have dry clay soil. You put on hearing protection and whack the shit out of the t-post with this bad boy.

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- sinkingship@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah thanks! So you use thin metal posts. I still use self cut wood like a caveman an whack the shit out of other things.
  
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  - DasAlbatross@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, i wouldn’t use one of these to drive in the wooden posts. We still need them every once in a while for stability.
    
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- Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wouldn’t it be easier to just rent an auger?
  
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  - HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you’re putting in t-posts, an auger is going to end up making a really big hole. An auger would be more appropriate, IMO, for a wooden post.
    
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Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For hard soil you use a different tool. It’s similar to how you have saws for wood and saws for metal.

When you fill the tube with cement it gets the nickname “Redneck Lockpick”.

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fill it with concrete and it might do in a pinch

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JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve used one to put those skinny metal posts in that have wings on the bottom part to make it hard to rip them back out. A post hole digger is usually used for large wooden posts.

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