06-17-2014, 10:06 PM
Well, I bought my jackhammer off of amazon for a couple of hundred bucks. Well worth it.
I live in Hawaiian Beaches, Brought 4 14" round corner posts and two rolls of 330' of hogwire from dells. Bought enough T-posts from Home Depot plus a 16' gate and a 4' pedestrian gate with metal poles / Bags of cement and ties to tie the hogwire to the tpost.
There were places (blue rock) where the jack hammer just danced and had to rent a drill from Home Depot for a day to do 10 or so holes. The drill works pretty good for blue rock, but the hammer works much faster and better, esp, when making a Huge hole for the wooden posts.
Anyway after it was all said and done, I probably have about 1200 in the project. Including a friend to help me out. I traded some plumbing work so I didn't have to be the only one on the jack hammer.
It took us about 3 weekends to get it all done.
The only thing I used a 5lbs hammer to drive the poles down into the holes. The Spade on the tpoles NEVER ever broke off. I did however get the poles pretty close to the top of the spades. It was tough pounding in the posts with a sledge. I guess I should have got a t-post driver. But I didn't see them at HD. Maybe you got to rent them? I suspect with a driver it would go much easier?
Anyway, It was much cheaper than the quote I got for 5K dollars and I'm sure I would have gotten crappier material at that. The quote didn't include the gates or hardware. So, I'm pretty happy to get it done cheaply myself. You will defiantly need two or more people. I used a 100' 12 gauge cord. But after that I used a cheap 100' smaller gauge (not advised) but only used it for the places I couldn't reach with the 100 footer. If you had more then a 200' I'd use a generator.
You can do it on the cheap and make it look pretty good. Even with the jack hammer I only had to use cement for about 1 out of ever 15 t-poles. Just seemed even if you made the hole a little bigger bunch of rocks would fall down in it anyway when pounding in the post.
Even with the cheap HD T-posts *painted* I'm thinking they will last a good 5 years, maybe wishful thinking on my part. But, I can get some galvi posts next time and jackhammer right into the same hole. Might be easier than making new holes in blue rock.
I live in Hawaiian Beaches, Brought 4 14" round corner posts and two rolls of 330' of hogwire from dells. Bought enough T-posts from Home Depot plus a 16' gate and a 4' pedestrian gate with metal poles / Bags of cement and ties to tie the hogwire to the tpost.
There were places (blue rock) where the jack hammer just danced and had to rent a drill from Home Depot for a day to do 10 or so holes. The drill works pretty good for blue rock, but the hammer works much faster and better, esp, when making a Huge hole for the wooden posts.
Anyway after it was all said and done, I probably have about 1200 in the project. Including a friend to help me out. I traded some plumbing work so I didn't have to be the only one on the jack hammer.
It took us about 3 weekends to get it all done.
The only thing I used a 5lbs hammer to drive the poles down into the holes. The Spade on the tpoles NEVER ever broke off. I did however get the poles pretty close to the top of the spades. It was tough pounding in the posts with a sledge. I guess I should have got a t-post driver. But I didn't see them at HD. Maybe you got to rent them? I suspect with a driver it would go much easier?
Anyway, It was much cheaper than the quote I got for 5K dollars and I'm sure I would have gotten crappier material at that. The quote didn't include the gates or hardware. So, I'm pretty happy to get it done cheaply myself. You will defiantly need two or more people. I used a 100' 12 gauge cord. But after that I used a cheap 100' smaller gauge (not advised) but only used it for the places I couldn't reach with the 100 footer. If you had more then a 200' I'd use a generator.
You can do it on the cheap and make it look pretty good. Even with the jack hammer I only had to use cement for about 1 out of ever 15 t-poles. Just seemed even if you made the hole a little bigger bunch of rocks would fall down in it anyway when pounding in the post.
Even with the cheap HD T-posts *painted* I'm thinking they will last a good 5 years, maybe wishful thinking on my part. But, I can get some galvi posts next time and jackhammer right into the same hole. Might be easier than making new holes in blue rock.