Flatlander ! LOL .. That would be sweet! Were on a flat region on the side of a hill sloping off in all directions. Funny - when we first got here I bought a Brush Hog for the back field, and soon found out it was too steep for my equipment and newby lack of skill. Use my lawn tractor for it and even then have to use an outrigger to keep it on its wheels. My neighbor using tractors for 40 years, even had his John Deer topple, throwing him clear thankfully. But the tractor rolled down to the bottom of the hill - quite a mess. I've come to really appreciate the lure of flat terrain 😁😁😁😁 RH

That's always a good reminder - especially to those 'woke minded' individuals - which think life is sunshine, unicorns and 'furries'. Thankyou. Funny - I worked my way through college as an electrician - back in the late 70s. A couple of us liked to leave power on and work them hot - got zapped often with 120 and 240. Doubt I'd fare so well now at my age. But wrong circumstances and anyone could be taking a dirt nap!

Great comment. I hear you on the 'getting hurt' part. Was quite hard on my body early on - and was born with scoliosis then got arthritis by age 14. Was told at age 23 that "I'd just have to face the facts - I'd be in a wheelchair before I'm 30". Got big time into health foods and proper exercise. By 30 - instead of a wheelchair, I was competing in tennis at the A level. Kept moving always and kept the core strong. Along the way turned vegetarian, and then vegan to further reduce arthritis and other issues. Got rid of the caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, reduced sugar consumption and even lately eliminated between meal snacks, and staying up late -- all these things help some. Still 6 years ago had to have both hips replaced anyway. Now 66 and I'm still close to target weight & still working the land and going at full steam with energy from morning until night. === I'm just trying to encourage you === for I think we can always do something to aid the hurts. Stretching is a great way to get started. And a rebounder does wonders, as does a stationary bike. You'd be amazed at how fast the body can rebuild with the proper rest and fuel. Barbara O'Neil has many great videos - these can be found on Amazing Discoveries and Clash of Minds. Blessing, RH

@RelentlessHomesteading Wow, that's an impressive story. Thank you. I love seeing people overcoming obstacles, especially when they're not "supposed" to. It's also a perfect example of never letting anyone else (even doctors) dictate your future. I was in my 30s, would drink beer every day after work, was smoking cigarettes, and not eating well. I was going strong, but just really hard on myself, and I had put on a weight. I went to see a doctor, and surprisingly (to me), my blood pressure was pretty high. He put me on BP medication. I asked him if I got back into good shape, if I could get off the medication. He replied with something like, "No, it's hereditary. Your grandma, parent(s), uncle had it, you do too, and you'll be on the medication for life." That's all I needed to hear. I quit drinking and smoking immediately, started a regular workout routine 3 times per week, and started on a strict diet. I also worked a very physical job, and the fat melted away as I built muscle. By the time I went back to the doctor a few months later, I had lost over 40 pounds, my blood pressure was perfect according to the monitor in Walmart, and I hadn't taken the pills for several weeks. The doctor was looking over my chart and commented on my weight loss and BP, saying the medicine was "doing its job." When I told him I hadn't taken it in several weeks, he gave me a look like he literally wanted to hit me. I never went back. Your story has inspired me. I'm almost 64, but I don't consider that old. I'm gonna start walking every morning and probably get an eBike. You get the benefit of decent transportation to nearby areas, but some exercise when you peddaling. Thanks. All the Best.

@@MyTube4Utoo That is also a great story. Yes - indeed about the med profession. The Christian denomination I belong to runs lots of health clinics -- many have come in when they were said to need multi-way bypasses, and through changing lifestyle they circumvent all that and go forward healthy. The medical profession today is too influenced by Big Pharma that convince the doctors that ONLY their medications can help us -- and often these lead to other issues. There are times when meds are the answer - but we have to study these issues and decide for ourselves. ebike is a great idea 🎆🎆. By far my favorite ebike is from SuperHuman.bikes - previously called Flx. They don't use the crummy Chinese batteries and they design these bikes very well; ...I know - it is my son's company - they have quite a line of nice bikes and great prices for these high end units. I live in the hills for the last 12 years, when we came up here to start preparing for what is ahead. (I'm an ardent student of proper bible prophecy [what most teach on prophecy is actually counterfeit prophecy from the Jesuits - created to soothe itching ears and make people easy prey];) At Christ's first appearing Satan had led the ecclessia into teaching false doctrines of the coming Messiah. ...and it is the same at the second coming. Learning about health is very important! I got BPPV (a type of Vertigo) about 25 years ago and it was a nightmare I suffered through. Two years ago I found out about massive vitamin D doses. And since I started on that have not had any relapses of it. I was quite driven in my younger days and in my work used to stay up working straight through for days at a time. Found out too late that such takes a toll on the brain - creating Amaloid Plaques. A couple years back started having Parkinson symptoms and massive memory issues and foggy brain. Thankfully, found out that my body needed more Iodine and Magnesium - which took care of the shaking. Amen. Then more recently started adding Coconut and MCT oils to my diet - as they are finding that as we get old our brains (which are mostly fat) are 'under fueled' which leads to problems with memory, foggy brain, energy and the like. So I added those oils to breakfast and dinner -- and removed any snacks from my diet so my weight would not balloon up. It has helped tremendously and I'm not constantly stumbling to remember (it didn't get me back to a 30 yr old - but a clear improvement). And has allowed me to keep going on my day job, as well as teaching and preaching. So please take heart -- there is much we can do. And God can help us through it all. Please Keep me posted. Best Regards, and prayers, RH

Hi Robert -- I never thought of driving rivets with one -- but then I've only had to deal with small rivets. You said the lighter the 'contraption' the better it would drive the posts. That seems counterintuitive. One way I like to test a thesis is with extending it. Consider a post-pounder with negligible weight - as the driver extended it would just move the 'contraption' up and down and would have no effect on the post. Moving the other direction, consider a 500 # contraption - its inertia would prevent any quick movement, and thus the power of every stroke would go into the post and drive it at nearly 100% efficiency. So if one graphs this function between these two extremes they would show even in practical cases that the heavier the 'contraption' the more 'impact' it would have in driving the posts. Please let me know if I am missing something.

Hmmm: my demolition hammer is a Mikita. It hammers when placed against something. I set all the rivets at the “Hanging Judge” courthoue restoration of the 1878 jail at the National Park in Ft smith. The impulse of the hammer remains the same regardless of the weight in front of it, and the inertia of the device on the front of the hammer affects house much energy is left to hit the post. To make the most energy work on the post, the heavier the person holding the hammer the more force will be delivered to the post. It became really apparent putting the heads on the 3/4” shank rivets. The shank is heated with a torch after the rivet is in place, then the hammer withe the riveting head is placed against the shank, a helper holds a bucking bar against the head on the other side and the riveting is done. It was really noticeable how much faster the riveting happened with the lighter head. It is simple physics. The weight should be behind the hammer II transmit the most out of the front. Look at it as having a small engine. It can move a lawnmower quickly because the lawnmower is light. It can only move a pickup truck slowly for acceleration because it weighs more. Or, if you have a .22 cal bullet a given powder charge will move the bullet out of the barrel at say 1300 fps. If you put the same energy (powder) behind a .45 bullet you would be lucky to get it out of the barrel.

Thats where my little portable generator comes in. They have gas powered post pounders which are very expensive. ~ $600 on up.

I've heard that - its a good suggestion. Especially good if you are doing multiple 'circular' welds. Thankyou

For welding circular solid members, grind/machine the weld prep to a 90 deg. included angle chisel point with 1/8" flat nose. Then weld from each side.

@@BasementEngineer Thanks Basement Engineer ☀☀☀

Agreed -- but my back & arms could not handle driving in a few hundred posts by hand. And the $50 I spent on the Harbor Freight jack hammer paid off FOR ME on the first half dozen. I guess that Life -- it always come down to Time or Money... LOL

@@RelentlessHomesteading Oh yeah, if I could find a jackhammer for $50 I would build me one too.

@@radamson1 Thanks -- a great Craig's list buy...

That's a marvelous idea. thankyou Could even make it with a set screw if necessary. Especially good when you are working on a hill where a ladder cannot be set up.

That's a good one Dave. You could drive posts first then, slot/drill the 2x8 to fit over. Unless I needed steps - I'd probably just wire tie them together near the tops. Glad to see that you are also a Ham. I need to start getting back on the air again.

A couple issues. (1) You'd have to have a mechanical 'disconnecter' to defeat the pull back stroke (otherwise your post would be trying to oscillate in the ground); (2) as the sawzall does not create impulse function forces, but instead uses strokes, it would require far more force than required for the demo hammer - in hard soil/rock t would then actually lift you up instead of pushing the post down. 😉

Agreed. Thanks for responding. Yes this was more difficult than using a pepsi can. Yet this was very easy to bait - not relying on expensive 'hormone' bait packages. And For me it was an easy and fun project - and held lots of wasps.

Yes its rather elaborate - but I was really anxious to handle these issues permanently. And for me this is an extremely simple project.

Thankyou Jeffro for the comment. Actually wasps and hornet can do BOTH - Bite AND STING. I was saying 'bite' but those were actually stings I was getting. They can bite - they are meat eaters. For example, Yellow jackets often bite before they sting - grabbing hold of the skin just to get a better grip before jabbing their stinger in. Their bite does not contain the poison and does not swell up as much - and hurts much more along the line of a biting fly - it seems to hurt less than a horse bite fly.

...what would be the fun in that? Yes - you are right, can get more of the whole swarm. Thankyou for the comment

Two is one and one is none... sometimes 5 seems like 1 -- LOL. People with a prepper mindset are always busy aren't we. Thankyou for the comment. About to start releasing more videos - getting my vlogging HW up to the mark.

HI Paul, thanks for your comment. This Gen Set has an electric start. I think you are meaning "remote electric start". You would know the difference but many don't - so I will mention the following for them: A normal electric start can still require you manually to deploy the choke when starting and them remove it. A remote start handles the choking and everything automatically without you being there.

Thanks Tom - be sure to do a good weld

Well glad you had fun with that... BTW - both my Dad and Father in-law designed for the military, including for NASA. So I had a chuckle too. Do whatever works for you. I was PO'd and took my revenge on them. Happy Trails !

Perhaps you are using shorter T-posts? Otherwise -- if the bit is 2 feet long - then to slip it over an 8 foot post you'd have to have the bottom of the pounder at 8' +2' then the length of the pounder another 18" - so about 12 feet. So its not clear to me how you have rigged it up.

Without tons of calculations or real world testing - it would be difficult to tell. The physics here is all about mass and inertia -- a short stroke is easier to assure the energy gets converted to drive the post. And in a long stroke it may not be able to complete that stroke (e.g., think rocky soil), and stall the unit - that would be 'bad'. But I hear you - we'd like the post to 'fly' into the ground !! Thanks

Amen & thankyou. We want to help people be prepared both spiritually and physically. When the pandemic struck, we were deep in church media ministry work -- no time for this channel. Now retired from that I can get back to it. Like your 'handle' of Bunnie Lynn !

@@RelentlessHomesteading Thank you, that’s been my handle for the past, nearly 75 years 🤣

amen -- and let the tools do the work, not our aching backs.

Happy Pounding. Your comment made me think of my redesign on this -- noted this now in the description.

Must be tough on rototillers as well - LOL. And well drillers must hate that too.

Yes. It works on Caliche if you drill a pilot hole first.