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Bale Spear "Hole Maker"
Last summer we couldn't drive steel posts into our dry, hard, rocky ground. The posts would just bend. So we used a broken bale spear and a steel pipe to open up holes where we could drive the posts," says Jimmie Blades of Billings, Mo.
He welded a 2-ft. length of bale spear inside a 5-ft. length of 3/8-in. thic
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Bale Spear "Hole Maker" BALERS Balers 29-1-2 Last summer we couldn't drive steel posts into our dry, hard, rocky ground. The posts would just bend. So we used a broken bale spear and a steel pipe to open up holes where we could drive the posts," says Jimmie Blades of Billings, Mo.
He welded a 2-ft. length of bale spear inside a 5-ft. length of 3/8-in. thick steel pipe. A 2-ft. length of chain attaches to a hook that's welded to the top of the pipe.
The spear is placed under his 3-pt. post driver's hammer and driven into the ground. Once a hole is made, the chain is hooked to the top of the post driver to pull the spear back out of the ground. Blades then sticks a post in the hole and uses a hammer to tap it in by hand.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jimmie Blades, 4761 S. State Hwy. PP, Billings, Mo. 65610 (ph 417 732-2371).
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