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Driving the Posts
You can also drive posts directly
without digging any hole. Outfitted to a tractor or truck, a post
driver can get the job done more quickly, if the soil conditions are
right.
The driver uses a hydraulic system
to lift a weight and "drive" or pound the post into the
ground without any digging. Occasionally a rock or tree root
gets in the way and holes must be hand dug.
Special Considerations
Pay attention to where your fence crosses underground utilities. In our job, we were
crossing an underground fiber cable and had the company mark the
location. We carefully hand dug a square, inching our way by
hand. Here we found the tape marking the cable was buried about a foot beneath the tape.
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