Always use tools as they were designed, as you can see in this fine demonstration.
That's what happens when they print the operator's manual on the inside.
Thank you. That guy used to work for me. Ha!
Thank you. That guy used to work for me. Ha!
That's funny.?ÿ I was thinking the guy in the video reminds me of someone that use to be my boss...
For those that think training is expensive....
I have one of those.?ÿ I learned the hard way how to use it properly.?ÿ You'd think it's just a matter of lifting and dropping, but I found out that if you lift *too* much the driver comes off the post, rotates backward and splits open your scalp.?ÿ I also think I figured out why the top 8 inches or so of a t-post is painted white.?ÿ (Kind of like the new Star*Net editor:?ÿ it gives you a visual cue that you're about to do something stupid and painful.)
If he had a helper he would probably tell him "Nod your head and I'll hit it."
To some people every tool is a hammer.
About 55 years ago my dad was too cheap to buy one of those fancy things.?ÿ He took a length of oilfield pipe, some extra iron for weight and some one inch rod and built his own.?ÿ Everything worked great until the day one of the L-shaped "handles" snapped loose where it had been welded to the side of the pipe.?ÿ It bounced off his knee viciously on the way to the ground.
I still have that trophy post driver and have used it on occasion.?ÿ Have two other store-bought models that have been used extensively and still have not worn out.
What is that red ??thing?? Looks like using as a hammer is ok to me and why do they paint the tops of t posts white? ?????ÿ
@holy-cow I was a combat engineer and we used those extensively. Not sure if ours were homemade or had just been repaired so many times that they looked homemade. We put a man on each side and called cadence as we drove u- shaped posts for razor wire fences. Typically we'd blow the top out of them or sometimes yank off a handle and send them back to maintenance for repair/ reengineering. It was like an arms race where they'd make them better and we'd use them harder.
(Kind of like the new Star*Net editor:?ÿ it gives you a visual cue that you're about to do something stupid and painful.)
This made me laugh out loud! StarNet and I have never been friendly but that's not my fault. ?????ÿ
@jim-frame At least I'm not alone with that one.?ÿ Not only did I cut open my head, the next day I noticed I had one chipped and one cracked tooth.?ÿ Now I wear a hard hat whenever I use one.
Have you never seen one in use??ÿ It's a heavy pipe with one end closed.?ÿ You put it over the post and slide it up and down, with lots of force on the down.?ÿ If you raise it too far, risking Jim's fate, you will see the white top of the post.
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I had an instrument man many years ago that had stitches in his forehead from a post driver just a few days before his wedding. Him and a buddy were making extra money building fence and started racing to see who could drive the post the fastest. I haven't seen him in about 25 years.
I have never seen one of those either in a static or dynamic environment. They don??t have pile drivers on 4 wheelers yet? ?????ÿ
I have 2 shoeboxes full of 3.5? floppies, nothing to read them with but still have them nonetheless. And I know that ??DUKE NUKEM?, ??JILL OF THE JUNGLE?, ??CASTLE WOLFENSTIEN?, and ??MONKEY ISLAND? are in there somewhere. I??ll bet the younguns here never heard of those games or the DOS operating system! ?????ÿ
Thats what he says, I??ll just bet his fianc??e wacked him on the head with a high heel or some such other female instrument of mortality, because she found out that there was a stripper at his bachelor party. ?????ÿ
If you raise it too far, risking Jim's fate, you will see the white top of the post.
You'll see the white top of the post just before seeing stars.
