Fencing, that constant companion of all that we do on our farm, is made easier with the metal T-post—which itself is made easier to put in with a T-post driver and easier still to remove with the post driver’s first cousin, the T-post jack.
All fences that go up will someday come down. After some years of using brute strength to pull old T-posts from the ground, often finding them bent and unusable, I spotted this beauty at a local farm supply store.
Proper jack position for removing a t-post.
Brilliant: a jack, one of the oldest of man’s tools, designed to tackle one of his oldest chores, fence building. Among the simplest mechanical devices invented for applying force to an object, the T-post jack makes lifting and removing T-posts remarkably effective and easy. A simple downward popping action on the handle and posts emerge from the ground a few inches at a time, straight and reusable.
And my back, likewise, remains straight and reusable.
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Reading this weekend: Xenophon’s March: into the lair of the Persian lion by John Prevas. Terrific story that makes me feel shame about complaining about the daily walk to the mailbox.
Wow, it’s an epiphany! I did not know these existed … always just wrenched them out, too (along with my back!). I like your Toolbox posts.
Thanks for the kind comment about the “toolbox”. The same for me when I spotted it. If memory is correct it cost about $35. With t-posts at $4.99 and back surgery much higher…a bargain.