[TheForge] Fw: setting fence posts

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Then i'll have to reveal my blacksmiths hillside fencing secret weapon.
I picked up a very used 30# pneumatic rock drill and cut the working end 
off a broken bit and welded on a home made socket instead. The socket 
fits over the pipe or angle iron i want to drive. Then i took my HD 
commercial garden hoses and made conversions so that they can tap the 
air tank for the compressor. That gives me good reach at a decent volume 
of air.
I fit the socket into the pneumatic drill and over the end of the pipe 
or rod to be driven..push it upright, then get up above it ( ladder or a 
tractor bucket) and use the pneumatic hammer to drive the pipe. It's 
loud and funky, but quicker and cheaper than anything else at my 
disposal. It'll drive bed frame stakes through softer rocks no problem.  pf

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello peter;
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
>> Terry:
>> I have difficulty distinguishing between "I can " and "I should"---do
>> something...you may have similar difficulty...
>> Call the competition and see how much better they can do..then call the
>> local guys back...etc....pf
>>
> 
> there is no local competition to northern illinois fence.
> the next closest fencing contractor is either rochelle or big rock.
> perhaps elburn, but elburn is yuppie country, and dink countryn
> elburn should just put up a sign on all streets leading into the town;
> "hippies, pot smoking no goods, and disabled people not welcomed"
> that is the attitude that is predominant in elburn. which is surprizing
> since elburn is a bunch of bleeding heart liberals.
> 
> 
> there is of course 'sears/k-mart' . :-)
> 
> the money that i current have i look at as 'blood money' my blood was
> literally spilt. i do not spend it casually. if northern illinois fence
> had half a brain i would not have a problem paying them to do the work.
> the problem is that northern illinois fence does have even have a pea
> size brain. they are basically over paid snafu artists.
> 
>> terry l. ridder wrote:
>>> hello david;
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 25 May 2009, David E. Smucker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hell Terry,   Have a fence company do it.  They will not put it down, 48
>>>> inch in a 9 dia. hole.  At least get a quote from some of these guys, in
>>>> these hunger time I will bet they know a way around this.  While I
>>>> understand the power of frost (I grew up around there) for a fence this is
>>>> crazy.
>>>>
>>> northern illinois fence on route 38 dekalb, illinois which is roughly at
>>> most 4 miles from my place quoted me $7,855.00+ usd to do the job. that
>>> quote was given to me about 1.5 months ago. basically, the guy doing the
>>> quote was using $20.00 per ft. 400 ft * $20.00 usd per ft = $8,000.00
>>> usd per 400 ft. he deduct $145.00 usd because they could leave the dirt
>>> from the holes here. so even in these hungry times some places still try
>>> to gouge you.
>>>
>>> i figure that i could do it for around $2,800.00 usd not counting the
>>> cement. that is all the fence material, pipe, chain link fabric, tension
>>> bars, gates, brackets, etc.
>>>
>