Gen alpha has no fucking clue

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??? What does a fence post driver have to do with your age?

Well for some... It's a thing you put fireworks into....

No, I'm pretty sure it's how SWAT get through doors

The tube looks hollow. SWAT would use a solid ram.

Those are closed on both ends and have both handles on one side or one handle on the top with handles on both sides.

I never thought to use one of these as a mortar tube, that's a brilliant idea.

And for a certain group of people, their houses get fucked with by cops using a variant of this.

Exactly. Back breaking work but this is so much better than any other manual alternatives.

We didn't have one of these. Instead, I got to crouch on the ground and hold the post with my hands while my father brought the front-end loader bucket down on it. Good times.

Key memory unlocked. Oh damn I just remembered the sheer amount of faith I had to remind myself I had in my father's post driving ability

*ground rod driver

When I first started in electrical work, we'd take turns with a sledge hammer. Then we bought one of these, and it cut the time in half. Now, I use a driver bit for my demolition hammer and it's done in about 30 seconds. The driver bit also works well for fence posts, just sleeve a 24" section of EMT over it.

Man, I hate driving rods with anything other than a hammer driver. I live in the Appalachians and every damn time I hit some gigantic river rock or some shit, its never just 8' of clay. That post-driver is a step up from a sledge like you said for sure, but imma just hop on an excavator and shove the bitch in if I can these days. Too old for the dumb shit ;)

Here I was thinking it was an unpainted big red key

That isn't a generational thing it's an urban/rural thing. A 5 year old from a farming community would know what that is. Also, if you fill them with concrete, you got yourself a hillbilly skeleton key.

That isn't a generational thing it's an urban/rural thing.

Yes, that is indeed the point of the shitpost.

Didn't see what community it was on. Apologies.

No apologies needed. That's the fun of making these posts. Because people react as if I'm dumb. Which I am, of course.

Well I'm hardly the one to point fingers. I have a first rate rural education you know.

In the city they call it street smarts. I call it field smarts.

Also, if you fill them with concrete, you got yourself a hillbilly skeleton key.

I assumed it was a police battering ram, tbh.

OP out here posting boomer humor....

Gross. Boomer is like a known cringe thing. This is just some tool. Who gives a shit how old someone is using it? Giving it "boomer" vibes is just a low energy joke.

I know i come to shitpost subs for the bombastic, high energy, illuminating content

wait til you grow up and come to understand that people sometimes have to talk about things BECAUSE they're fucking cringe and that that, indeed, has been the entire point of the "boomer" meme - THAT BOOMER BEHAVIOUR IS CRINGE - from the beginning. The whole fucking point of it.

and anyway bitching shit is low energy is itself pretty fuckin low energy; i mean it's responding on the right level which is good, but then you break it by turning it into an insult. You want your energy higher, get a coffee and bring it.

I'm guessing this English but I'm just not dumb enough to get it

This is the thing to get a pole in the ground. I used it to put up an electric fence around a pear orchard once

I saw a kid piss on an electric fence once. Fucking hilarious.

I watched my brother do this to a cow/horse electric fence, can confirm, fucking hilarious

Okay now im curious, why does an pear orchard need an electric fence?

I guess in case people try to jump over to steal the pears before they can be harvested

But are these potential Peach-Thieves sooooo determined that a normal Fence is not enough? I like peaches, but climb a fence to steal some? ._.

I've put so many ground rods into this amazing earth. These bad boys have destroyed my shoulders.

I recently got to use a pole drivers powered by a little 2 stroke motor. It took like 5 sec to sink a tpost down 3 feet. It was so easy and quick that it was kinda upsetting, makes using the old pole drivers feel like you're a monkey banging on rocks.

I made the mistake of using one to pound metal stakes without ear protection.

And if you use ear protection you can get off my property you piece of shit grandson

I don't think most gen alphas are tall enough to use a post driver effectively. I've got early model alphas and they are barely 5'4".

Its a post driver for t-posts that get barbed wire around pastures

I'm a millennial. I guess if it was bolted to the ground, you could lock a bike to it?

Same, and after learning what it is, now I’m wondering what driving fence posts has to do with generations.

It's for sinking fence poles lol (also a millennial btw) - you use it to hammer them into the ground and it sucks.

I'm gen Z, grew up in the city, and I know what that is because we used em in the Boy Scouts. It's for pounding fence posts into the ground. The other end is welded shut and you put the post in the ground, put it over top of it, and pick it up and slam it down a buncha times

Well you know I'm not rural. It never connected for me that these were originally for putting in fence posts.

I was literally looking to buy one since I just bought a house and need to use one.

Edit: just read the actual title. C'mon man, this is boomer humor type of stuff.

Ooo so fancy. Mine was the old fashioned that looked like two really curvy shovels joined together at the hilt.

A fence post driver is so much better than a post hole digger. Just give her a whack whack whack until it's set. Handling the wire, though....that's a bitch, especially if it's barbed. Erecting an electric fence was child's play, though.

I have a scar on my wrist from one second of not paying attention to barbed wire. Queasiness warning: I remember staring at the muscle and watching it contract until blood came gushing out. Farm life is quite something

I thought this was a weird mixer attachment at first

I used one a couple weeks ago to put up supports for my grape vines. But when I was a teenager I had a horse and was constantly rotating his grazing area so I am very familiar with it.

I've used one to set t-posts for steel targets before a match. It's ever so much easier and faster than using a small sledge hammer.

Better keep that handy for your big dick energy after you showed Gen A who's boss 🙄

Grabbed my ol man's winch and made a flying fox with his one.

This is what people used to call a "kazoo". If you've been around as long as I have, you might have played one too!