He Drives Fence Posts With Deere B Tractor

He Drives Fence Posts With Deere B Tractor FENCING Miscellaneous “All it took was some welding rod and a lot of thinking ” says Glen Hall Jr who used scrap metal to build a steel post driver that mounts on back of his 1939 Deere B tractor The home-built system uses a cable fastened to the tractor’s rockshaft which is normally used to raise and lower a cultivator or mower The post sets inside a piece of channel formed from the axle off a small square baler The cable runs over a series of pulleys and is connected to a 2 1/2-in dia 12-in long pipe with a hole drilled into it Hall pushes down on a foot pedal to activate the rockshaft which tightens the cable and brings the pipe down on top of the post A 1-in thick 14-in sq steel plate that bolts onto the tractor’s drawbar supports the channel Steel bracing runs from the channel to the tractor’s rear axle “It pushes the post right down into the ground ” says Hall “As soon as I let off the foot pedal the cable retracts and the pipe pulls back up off the post “I leave the post driver on the tractor all year long I welded a 7/8-in dia looped metal bar onto the back side of the plate so I can still use the tractor with my 2-bottom moldboard plow for garden work ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Glen Hall Jr 22218 Whiskey Rdg Ottumwa Iowa 52501 ph 641 938-2811

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