Make your own post driver.COUNTRYSIDE: Last week a neighbor stopped by to see our post driver he had heard about. He wanted to build one while his badly mangled fingers healed heal v. healed, heal·ing, heals v.tr. 1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. See Synonyms at cure. 2. To set right; repair: healed the rift between us. from his sledge sledge: see sled. hammer/T-post accident. This brought back painful memories from several years ago. While using a 12-pound sledge hammer to drive metal T-posts for a new fence, I made a mistake with the hammer and mangled my thumb between the sledge and top of the T-post. The pain brought about the construction of a pipe driver. We used three-inch I.D. heavywall pipe, 24 inches long; two 24-inch long 1/2-inch round bar stock for handles; with a piece of one-inch thick flat metal welded on top. This first driver weighs about 60 pounds and will drive a T-post with three to four licks even in hard ground. A neighbor used it to drive a water well. The drawback DRAWBACK, com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. came many years later. The heavy driver had been left at a back pasture pasture, land used for grazing livestock. Land unsuited for cultivation, e.g., hilly or stony land, may be used as pasture. Tilled land and meadow may be pastured after the crops are removed. fencing fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Modern Fencing The weapons and rules of modern fencing evolved from combat weapons and their usage. job. We had a rotten rot·ten adj. rot·ten·er, rot·ten·est 1. Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed. 2. Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid. 3. wood post close to the barn, and being a line post we decided to replace it with a metal T-post. It would take 15-20 minutes to retrieve the driver, and the sledge hammer was handy -- it was only one post. It happened again, only it was the right index finger this time. We now have several pipe drivers of various sizes and weights for different types of posts, all painted bright orange for easy locating in thick vegetation. Pipe drivers are inexpensive to build and compared to the pain, cheap at any price! -- Myron and Earlene Adams, PO Box 185, Brinkley, AR 72021 |
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