How about putting a car jack under the grip. You could also use a C clamp. If you ruined it its cheaper than a vice grip.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Selfridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:12 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] tool for pounding posts. > Robert, > I have one solution to removing those steel posts. > Take a vice grip and lock it onto the post near the ground. Now, get your > handy large crow bar and place something solid such as a brick or whatever > on the ground close to the post. Use the brick or whatever as the fulcrum > and lever the post out using the vice grip to pull up the post. > You are correct, them blamed things are a witch to try to just horse up. > (LOL) > You could call them a hernia special or a ball buster. (LOL) > Cy, the Ancient Okie.... > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of robert moore > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] tool for pounding posts. > > > > Tony > This tool you are talking about is called a post hole driver. And so here > we > go again with odd terms. > I don't know why it is called a post hole driver you are not driving a > hole > you are driving a post but any way that is what I have always heard them > called. > I want to get me one next year. I use steel posts, the kind they use for > electric fencing, in my garden. For me it seems to work out just fine. I > run > electric fence wire along the rows > Now I just need to find or design a post puller. > Those things can some times be a bear to pull out but it does provide good > strength building. > > Robert > > -----Original Message----- > From: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Tony > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:13 PM > To: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic > > Here you are allowed to saw the ground rod off if you bury it to the point > you can't pull it out by hand. Also, there is a tool that can also be used > for metal fence posts. It's a heavy pipe, sealed on end and with handles. > You put it over the top of the ground rod and slam it repeatedly until you > can't go any further. > > Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> > [mailto: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> ] > On Behalf Of Dale Leavens > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:20 PM > To: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic > > There must be many places where you couldn't drive an 8 foot rod into the > ground because of obstructions like boulders or even bed rock. Takes a > pretty tall fellow to do that as well. > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > HYPERLINK "mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:DLeavens%-40puc.net> > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: NLG > To: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 7:47 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic > > The last 2 houses that I did a complete rewire job on (from the weather > head through, including meter socket, breaker box, ect and these had to be > inspected, the code was to have 2 ground rods 8 feet long no farther than > 5 > feet apart driven into the ground for grounding the system.. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:54 > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic > > Last summer I had the electric meter moved and they replaced my ground > while they were at it. They ran a heavy Copper line across the basement > and to the far side of the water meter. They also ran a heavy Copper line > through the basement wall and attached to a ground spike. So I think > current code, in Pittsburgh at least, is the two ground system, water line > and ground spike. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:dr25%-40andrew.-cmu.edu> > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > To listen to the show archives go to link HYPERLINK > "http://acbradio.org/handyman.html"http://acbradio.-org/handyman.-html > <HYPERLINK > "http://acbradio.org/handyman.html"http://acbradio.-org/handyman.-html> > or HYPERLINK > "ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/"ftp://ftp.acbradio.-org/ > acbradio--archives/-handyman/ > <HYPERLINK > "ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/"ftp://ftp.acbradio.-org/ > acbradio--archives/-handyman/> > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > HYPERLINK > "http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday"http://www.acbrad > io-.org/news/-xml/podcast.-php?pgm=saturday > <HYPERLINK > "http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday"http://www.acbrad > io-.org/news/-xml/podcast.-php?pgm=saturday> > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > HYPERLINK > "http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/"http://www.jaws--users.com/-handyman/ > <HYPERLINK > "http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/"http://www.jaws--users.com/-handyman/> > > Visit the archives page at the following address > HYPERLINK > "http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/"http://www.mail- > -archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > <HYPERLINK > "http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/"http://www.mail- > -archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/> > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following > address for more information: > HYPERLINK > "http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com"http: > //jaws--users.com/-mailman/listinfo-/blind-computing-_jaws-users.-com > <HYPERLINK > "http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com"http: > //jaws--users.com/-mailman/listinfo-/blind-computing-_jaws-users.-com> > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list > just send a blank message to: > HYPERLINK > "mailto:blindhandyman-help%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -.com > <mailto:blindhandym-an-help%40yahoog-roups.com> > Yahoo! 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