Bet y'all are very familiar with this

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Is this for hammering down fence posts?

Yup, I've also used them for driving ground rods before we got a rotohammer with the driver attachment

Post if you want, but you'll be digging yourself a hole.

Post drivers, and I hated using them to make fencing.

Huh. I spent years driving posts with a sledgehammer! When I discovered the existence of post drivers I was overjoyed and bought one immediately.

Discount door breach, or post hammer.

Door breachers aren't hollow.

They are, if you're trying to cut costs. Hence my use of the word 'discount'.

Obligatory 'whoosh'

You'd typically fill it with something heavy, if that's the use case.

My fucking back tensed just looking at this shit. Never helping plant signs again. Though it was cool the signs were made to use one of those instead of just stabbing it in the ground like those weak ass wire frame ones.

Loosen your grip right before it hits, not enough that you lose control but enough that you're not going to take much of the impact. It might take an extra hit or two, but it also might mean that you can push it down a little bit harder as well knowing that you don't have to absorb the impact

Edit: or don't, I don't care

Shove a hunk of 2x4 down to the bottom too. Changes an irritating noise to a satisfying thunk.

Plant… a sign…?

I think I’m going to advertise my next fence project as all natural “planted” fencing.

Yeah, if you add some organic matter you have a might billboard in a few years

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I actually thought this was a police tool for breaking in doors.

So according to comments it's a post driver. So far I dug holes and put my poles in. This tool seems practical for soft soil, but what do you do when living somewhere with rocky soil or with dry clay soil?

We have dry clay soil. You put on hearing protection and whack the shit out of the t-post with this bad boy.

Ah thanks! So you use thin metal posts. I still use self cut wood like a caveman and whack the shit out of other things.

Yeah, i wouldn't use one of these to drive in the wooden posts. We still need them every once in a while for stability.

Wouldn't it be easier to just rent an auger?

If you're putting in t-posts, an auger is going to end up making a really big hole. An auger would be more appropriate, IMO, for a wooden post.

For hard soil you use a different tool. It's similar to how you have saws for wood and saws for metal.

When you fill the tube with cement it gets the nickname "Redneck Lockpick".

I've used one to put those skinny metal posts in that have wings on the bottom part to make it hard to rip them back out. A post hole digger is usually used for large wooden posts.

I should have been familiar with it, but the one time I put up a fence, I didn't know that such a thing existed, so I used a big mallet and a lot of hard work.

It's a whoompty whoomp. I've used it a lot since that's how we set up poles for Aussie Rules football in the US.

Once I was pounding a stake and got the alignment off. Post driver came down on my forehead and knocked me down. Hurt a bit but I finished the fence, which is what's important.

I know what it is but I don't get the joke in the title.

Is it a joke about _post_ing?

Ramming 💩posts down the community’s throat…(?)

I use them for helping to set up stages for PCSL and hit-factor matches.

I once got too vigorous with one of these and dropped it on my head.

One of my teammates bent over to get leverage and whacked her forehead on the up stroke.

My grandkids use it. Gotta train them young. Thanks McD's! (They even painted it orange)

I've spent too much time slamming that lil guy around

That's what the cops use when they are too impatient waiting for you to open your door. Where do people get the idea it's for digging post holes?

Just in case you're serious, this is in fact a tool for driving metal fence posts like round posts for a chain link fence or t posts for a garden/cattle fence. You slide it over the post and drive it down to hammer in the post. Way easier and safer than using a sledge.

Huh TIL. I've put up many posts, used post hole diggers and augers of various kinds. Never saw anything like this. The soil where I live has lots of clay, this device looks futile

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