Post puller - I need one!

[Forestboy1978]

Been using a breaker and occasionally a farming jack with some adaptions. Not good enough. I want a proper puller. Looked online and they are asking £1800 for them. It's a very handy piece of kit but it's only a hydraulic jack welded to a frame on wheels.

In the states you can get them for $800 - £600 give or take. Tempted to check out shipping and pay the import tax. Still be £800+ cheaper than over here.

Anyone know anyone selling second hand?

[dig dug dan]

i have one, and may well be uprgrading to the £1800 one you have seen, but not till later in the year.
The uk one, by steve hawthornthwaite, is in fact based on the american one, but beefed up and made much better. You could import one, but by the time you pay all the fees and taxes, you may be left with a machine that you cannot buy spares for at the same price as the uk one.
What i would say is, mine is one of the best purchases i have ever made. I even use it on small stumps and shrubs!

[Forestboy1978]

Hmmmm

Yeah I balked when the guy on the phone said they were £1800. He did admit that they were "over engineered" He felt they didn't need to be as heavy duty as they had been built but that they seriously would never break in a lifetime.

I've got a few serious fence jobs in the pipeline. This machine would save me a LOT of hard work, I may have to find the cash somehow or max out the old credit card.

Out of interest, how do you go about pulling out stumps with yours? Do you screw a plate of some description into them with an eyelet or something or other?

[dig dug dan]

its well worth the money if you can stretch. It comes with the claw attachment for broken posts.
For stumps, i either just wrap the supplied chain round it a couple of times, or i have a smaller chain with an eye on the end, that i pull with, so i wrap one end of the chain through the eye so it pulls tight as you pull with the puller.
Next time i use it, i will get a vid for you

[Forestboy1978]

Nice one thanks a lot.

I'm not sure I can afford it but I'm working on a way. My bro can't so I'll have to stump up all the cash myself temporarily so it's tight as hell as I'm moving too but I'm thinking out of the box for it.

[Forestboy1978]

I'm just waiting on a reply on a 50 meter fence removal and re-installation. It'll be my biggest so far if I get it and I'll be hiring a post puller. Can't afford it just yet.

[lutonlagerlout]

50m isnt that a 2 day job for fencers?
post pullers etc handy if you have room

but most blokes i know just use a grafter and occasional kango ?

LLL

[Forestboy1978]

No chance. It's a day at least just to remove all the old fence and posts for 2 guys (without a post puller)

Besides it's scarfed arris rails into mortaced posts, 2 gates a 3 way fence all backed onto a connifer hedge on a ridge. 1500+ nails alone to be gunned in. 3/4 ton of post crete.

2 days....

:p

[Forestboy1978]

Blank canvas, every tool imaginable, def a 2 man auger, 12 ft bays straight line, no roots, no gates and messing around 50m is well doable though in 2 days! Not this one!

[lutonlagerlout]

I have seen our bloke do 40m conc posts ,conc gravel boards ,3 arris rails and close boarded in a day and a half including removing old

lately he did 28m (lots of trees old concrete etc ) same morticed posts etc and was done by 3 on the same day

Have to say though he is easily the fastest fencer i have seen
always uses post crete

and always hammers nails by hand ???

http://www.marknasebyfencing.co.uk/index.html

cheers

LLL

PS pulling your leg forest different jobs different sites all add up to different timescales

[Forestboy1978]

I know you were. Still, caused a self evaluation.

Your fencing dude sounds out of this world

[lutonlagerlout]

he earns good money at it but his prices are still way below anyone else
hes been at it all his life really and is on top of the game
I thought I was ok at fencing but i reckon he is 3 times quicker than me
LLL

[Forestboy1978]

Yeah I don't do them day in day out either. Wish I did though, they're not the hardest work in the work but they pay well. We seem to beat most other quotes and earn OK. Though I'm now thinking I've screwed this last quote up.

Also, a rethink. Perhaps a better breaker is the more versatile and economical option!

[michaelthegardener]

cant see how it would be worth it if you don't do fencing full time myself I did 18 5 foot panels in a day on my own once dunno how many m that is ......:p

[lutonlagerlout]

18 times 1.8 =32.4m

it can be done


but not on every job

if you were doing fields a post puller might be worth it but for domestic stuff i reckon a half decent breaker works

enter the titan

LLL