Loader Can't pull a fence post

[RDrancher]

I use the curl function when pulling wooden posts. It has more guts than the lift. Or use a combination of curl and lift, shaking it around a bit to loosen it up. For t-posts I use my Ratchet Rake.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

I feel your pain about the fence posts but I had the opposite problem! I recently put in some new 6" clothesline posts at my parents house and had to leave the 4" ones in the ground till i got the new ones finished. Well long story short, I brought the deere over to pull the 4" ones out. Easy enough right? Nope, I put my pallet fork/hay spear plate on since it has this handy 2" square tube directly centered between the loader arms and wrapped two wraps of chain around the post and the other end around the square tubing. Hopped in the cab, and BANG! the posts both snapped off right at ground level with a dead straight up pull. I guess I should be happy I dont need to backfill the holes now!

 

[IndyIan]

I just stick the edge of the bucket into the post at a little below ground level and then curl it out.

 

[Sysop]

I just stick the edge of the bucket into the post at a little below ground level and then curl it out.

I just took out about 300' of posts and wire that way. I was shocked being near 50 years old how much was still left in the ground and how good of a hold some of them had. Many of them, what was on top of the ground was actually in the worst shape.