T post

[quarkion]

I have about 50 metal t-post on my land I need to pull up. Does anyone have any good ideas for getting them up? Thanks

 

[texasjohn]

Get a chain. Attach to the FEL ...your info says you have one... if you have a tooh bar, a center tooth is ideal, approach offending T-post with lowered FEL about 6 inches off the ground... STOP 1/2 inch before hitting it... wrap chain 3 times around post and hook back to FEL so it won't slip.

Raise FEL until T-post is out of ground. Place t-post in FEL and proceed to next post.

PS... you may discover you need more weight on rear if you encounter difficult t-posts.

 

[texasjohn]

By the way... welcome to TBN... good place to get your questions answered... glad to have you /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[quarkion]

well I didnt know if the FEL was strong enough to pull them from the ground. I heard they were pretty tough to pull up, but I will try. Thanks

 

[ronjhall]

If you have a draw bar on your 3PH. Attach a chain to it and pull the tough ones with it. 3PH usually has more lifting power than the FEL.

 

[yoyo]

Texasjohn has been watching me pull up fence! , By the way, the fel is great for putting down the posts also, just center bucket on top of t posts with help of trusting friend and then lower the fel, pushing post in ground.

 

[Bird]

I've pulled a number of t-post with the FEL, both with a B7100 and a B2710. I only found one that I could not pull. After doing just a very little digging, I found that a big tree root had grown completely around it many years ago. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue">By the way, the fel is great for putting down the posts also, just center bucket on top of t posts with help of trusting friend and then lower the fel, pushing post in ground. </font>
As long as you don't hit rocks. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Also, once the FEL makes contact with the post, tell your friend to move away in case the post springs out.

 

[mrutkaus]

Some local guy got angry with the placement of t posts on what he claimed was his property, and he twisted about 20 of them right out of the ground, must have used some giant wrench/lever arrangement, but it looked like he did it quickly!

Mike

 

[BigDogues]

You could try this.

 

[rback33]

You don't even need to make it as diffficult as some might suggest... two people can tear out a fence FAST. if you happen to have hooks on the top of your bucket, hook the chain.... wrap the chain around the post twice and drop the hook over the top of the chain going to the bucket... as you lift, the bucket end "locks" the looped end against the post so it can't unravel (second person may need keep tension on looped side, but not much) Tee post comes right out and you drive to the next and repeat.... have pulled TONS of posts this way in quick fashion.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[tf116]

Hello the group....have a device that has a hole in each end., you drop one end over post and hook of chain into other end and attach to 3pt. or FEL and lift....just slides on and off....bought it somewhere.....also they make a T-Post remover...about 3feet high with a lever and a hook that you raise and then push down have pulled several t-posts with this ....around 30-35 $....can even do wood post using techniques with chain posted from other folks.....a reallly neat device......but the chain around the post, works great also....have had to take tractor up against post and push--- then post should come out.....Mike

 

[quarkion]

heres what I pulled up!

 

[MFL]

Unless you have really difficult ground conditions, I'd reccomend a t-post puller like the one BigDogues linked to. I pulled about 30-40 posts with the FEL last year re-setting some cross fencing. There were a few I couldn't get to very easily with the tractor, so I borrowed a t-post puller to get them out. After I used the puller, I went out and bought one for myself. To me, the time savings was worth the 40 bucks for the puller. By the time you align the FEL, position the bucket, wrap the chain, and pull the post, you could have pulled 5 posts with the t-post puller.

Every once in a while you'll get one that's stubborn and needs the power of the tractor to pull out. Except for those, three pumps of the handle on a puller gets it done!