16 thoughts on “Some of us had to use them a lot!”
Oooooh, look at the hoity toity nail puller.
In my day, we used the claw on the back of the hammer and were happy to have it!
My fence pliers I bought in 69.
Dang it!
You make me feel pathetic because I was going to say I bought mine in 1984. The posthole digger finally died three years ago.
I have a valid excuse though: I did not arrive in the US until 1981, LEGALLY.
🤔🥰🤣
Legally is good! You seem to have assimilated well, that is what we expect. We are the Borg…
ohhh i hate that post hole digger too many memories lol
Up here, that post hole digger is useless. Too much shale and ledges. We did have a 12 lb bar to spud a hole into the ground and drive hand-split locust posts with a 16 lb maul.
BTW – dry locust is harder than a whore’s heart and damn near impossible to get a staple driven into.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Sounds like hedge posts/ Osage Orange. We used baling wire to tie fence to those posts. Dad bought some back in the early 50’s and I finally used them for firewood in the early 2000’s when I pulled out the old fences and they wore out a chainsaw chain cutting them.
Yep, hard, burns hot though. Bois d’arc pronounced boedark in these parts, natives made bows using them.
Dad grew up cowboy. Quite often made a joke about a childhood friend who came to campus when he was in college who enrolled in fencing class and showed up with fencing pliers, brads and posts. I still hate those pliers, hard to manipulate
I was 13 in 1974 when dad decided to convert a hayfield into a cattle field. Three hours into digging post holes he went to town and bought a 3 point hitch post hole digger. It still took close to two weeks just to dig the holes and set the post.
Builds character, look how you turned out
Fencing tool. Designed to be used with fence wire and staples, not nails. Learned to use one as young lad on our ranch in the ’60’s.
Our post hole digger was the rotary kind. Handle was iron pipe with a “T” screwed on the top end that you could slide what ever you had for a handle through to turn it. /Worked great in soil. Useless for rocks, roots, packed clay, etc.
Staples will just flatten against seasoned, weathered White Oak posts.
Once you go rotary you won’t go back.
Unless, of course, it’s on a 3-point hitch and PTO powered……..
I use the rotary manual digger. They are supposed to be for making well holes, but, whatever. I keep mine sharp, and it chews through tree roots. Clay cuts pretty easy. I spade off the first 8 inches, then sink a hole. I have a pipe union at the 3 foot depth mark.
Clam shell diggers just piss me off, mostly. Boise de’ Arc, Hedge, Osage Orange are all the same tree, and that is the go to around here. You can drive staples in it when it is still green, but once it dries, you would have better luck trying to drive a staple into aluminum.
I’ve had blisters from both those bastards.
Not because I didn’t know how to use them but because I spent way too many hours with one or the other in my hand.
I spent most of my youth on a large farm.
I moved from living on solid rock to deep sand. Now I can use a sand drill not a six foot rock bar. I get raw cedar posts for a dollar a foot. TOm
Oooooh, look at the hoity toity nail puller.
In my day, we used the claw on the back of the hammer and were happy to have it!
My fence pliers I bought in 69.
Dang it!
You make me feel pathetic because I was going to say I bought mine in 1984. The posthole digger finally died three years ago.
I have a valid excuse though: I did not arrive in the US until 1981, LEGALLY.
🤔🥰🤣
Legally is good! You seem to have assimilated well, that is what we expect. We are the Borg…
ohhh i hate that post hole digger too many memories lol
Up here, that post hole digger is useless. Too much shale and ledges. We did have a 12 lb bar to spud a hole into the ground and drive hand-split locust posts with a 16 lb maul.
BTW – dry locust is harder than a whore’s heart and damn near impossible to get a staple driven into.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Sounds like hedge posts/ Osage Orange. We used baling wire to tie fence to those posts. Dad bought some back in the early 50’s and I finally used them for firewood in the early 2000’s when I pulled out the old fences and they wore out a chainsaw chain cutting them.
Yep, hard, burns hot though. Bois d’arc pronounced boedark in these parts, natives made bows using them.
Dad grew up cowboy. Quite often made a joke about a childhood friend who came to campus when he was in college who enrolled in fencing class and showed up with fencing pliers, brads and posts. I still hate those pliers, hard to manipulate
I was 13 in 1974 when dad decided to convert a hayfield into a cattle field. Three hours into digging post holes he went to town and bought a 3 point hitch post hole digger. It still took close to two weeks just to dig the holes and set the post.
Builds character, look how you turned out
Fencing tool. Designed to be used with fence wire and staples, not nails. Learned to use one as young lad on our ranch in the ’60’s.
Our post hole digger was the rotary kind. Handle was iron pipe with a “T” screwed on the top end that you could slide what ever you had for a handle through to turn it. /Worked great in soil. Useless for rocks, roots, packed clay, etc.
Staples will just flatten against seasoned, weathered White Oak posts.
Once you go rotary you won’t go back.
Unless, of course, it’s on a 3-point hitch and PTO powered……..
I use the rotary manual digger. They are supposed to be for making well holes, but, whatever. I keep mine sharp, and it chews through tree roots. Clay cuts pretty easy. I spade off the first 8 inches, then sink a hole. I have a pipe union at the 3 foot depth mark.
Clam shell diggers just piss me off, mostly. Boise de’ Arc, Hedge, Osage Orange are all the same tree, and that is the go to around here. You can drive staples in it when it is still green, but once it dries, you would have better luck trying to drive a staple into aluminum.
I’ve had blisters from both those bastards.
Not because I didn’t know how to use them but because I spent way too many hours with one or the other in my hand.
I spent most of my youth on a large farm.
I moved from living on solid rock to deep sand. Now I can use a sand drill not a six foot rock bar. I get raw cedar posts for a dollar a foot. TOm