Best, easiest way to r emove t posts

[susanne]

I've heard the old-style car jack technique, but we don't have that sort of jack, so I wonder if anyone has a great method?

((Hopefully something other thhan digging down 2 feet!

 

[jayne]

Hi Susanne!

I can only tell you how NOT to do it. Don't just wiggle them back and forth and back and forth until you can muscle them out. This bends them and then when you go to drive them in again, they refuse to go in straight. Ugh. Of course I learned this the hard way!

Smooches to Thelonius and his brothers and new baby sister!!

Jayne

 

[Marnie]

You can buy a t post remover at farm stores for about $20. They work real slick, theirs a bump that catches under the bump on the post, you pull down on the handle and it comes up, may have to redo it a few times for each post but they're great.

 

[susanne]

I'll have to check into that gizmo -- I always have to look for the homemade version first, but $20 is hard to beat!

LOL, Jayne...I've tried that method and have the bent posts to prove it!.

Thelonius sends you a kiss and says he'd love to lick your knees -- his new favorite trick. We've finally come up with the right human counterpart for him -- the little red-headed kid, Ron, in Harry Potter. Daryl (BigDogs-Little Horses) has declared Thelonius the cutest horse around, and I have to agree!

 

[ChrystalPaths]

Susanne, you'll need a length of good tuff chain and a cinderblock. Wrap the chain around the cinder block then wrap around the post and gently pull down on the post. My husband did ours a couple years ago and I think this is how he did it. I know those were all the "tools" he used.

 

[dangerranger]

the best and easiest is to bet the kid down the street $20 he cant get them out before morning. if your old and fat like me it takes a little goading first, but if you are young and cute a bat of the baby blues should do it. If you must do it yourself. the front loader on the tractor is the best followed by a tee post puller. good luck. Huck Fin.

 

[MeadowRidge Farm]

Bob is re-doing fencing right now, and has alot of T-post to pull out. All he does is attach the forks to the skidsteer, and puts a chain around each post, gets the chain on one of the forks, and pulls up. They come out really fast and he hasnt bent any......YET. Corinne

 

[Miniv]

Well........not the BEST way, but.....

Just invite the horses over to scritch their butts on them! That should do the trick! :bgrin

MA

 

[JO~*]

I have this really long heavy crowbar, a short one may work as well I don't know, anyway I get my crowbar and a block of wood put the end of the bar under one of the nubs on the t post right close to the ground and have the block of wood on the ground right under the bar right next to the post. Next push down on the bar and it should lift the post a little then repeat it all again. Works good for me.

 

[susanne]

Wonderful ideas! Since we don't have a lift truck nor any neighbor kids, I'll have to try the pry bar or chain and block of wood or cement...if I had known we'd have reason to be refencing, I would have encouraged the horses back when the ground was soggy.

I did get 4 outby means of a variation on batting the baby blues, hehe (I should be ashamed!). I dug one out, soaked three with the garden hose, then had to leave. When I got home, Keith came home and saw that I had gotten one out and felt either guilty or inspired and dug out the three I had started...If I had known, I would have soaked all of them!

 

[justjinx]

We use the same thing as Marnie -- a t post remover. Works very slick and lasts forever! jennifer :saludando:

 

[~Karen~]

We just use a backhoe bucket and chain, but that doesn't help you any, sorry. I'd check into the T post puller for $20. Go to a rental company and ask lots of questions before possibly ruining any of them though.

Good luck with it.

~Karen