Post banger

[Dr pecker]

You can't weld them no matter how hard you try and the picture isn't as easy as it looks...lol

 

[JD450A]

You can't weld them no matter how hard you try and the picture isn't as easy as it looks...lol

No comment, haha.

One pictured I believe is mine, Fired 40 posts in within a hour and a half in moderate ground. That is on a 5t, JCB backhoe type breaker fitted to my TB175 (Breaker is off a 2cx)

IMHO need to have a 3t plus carrier to drive posts with a breaker, 7 tonner fires them in no bother, we have gone up to 8" posts this week using a different head/tool on the end of the point and it works well, We also have quoted a job driving RSJ's into a riverbed where the breaker should piss it.

Brought mine from Nigel (Dr Pecker). No Issue on backup or quality. Well made and engineered tool for a reasonable amount of money.... I did manage to kill the weld but in fairness I do have a long standing record of abusing things (Ref Digbits, haha) The adaptor (modified Breaker Point) that the cups are mounted on is well machined and is the key to the operation. Would recommend ASL as the boys to go to and I know Nigel is on the end of the phone when I need other information regarding hydraulics not working properly.

 

[diggerjones]

http://www.ceforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8627

 

[Dr pecker]

No comment, haha.

One pictured I believe is mine, Fired 40 posts in within a hour and a half in moderate ground. That is on a 5t, JCB backhoe type breaker fitted to my TB175 (Breaker is off a 2cx)

IMHO need to have a 3t plus carrier to drive posts with a breaker, 7 tonner fires them in no bother, we have gone up to 8" posts this week using a different head/tool on the end of the point and it works well, We also have quoted a job driving RSJ's into a riverbed where the breaker should piss it.

Brought mine from Nigel (Dr Pecker). No Issue on backup or quality. Well made and engineered tool for a reasonable amount of money.... I did manage to kill the weld but in fairness I do have a long standing record of abusing things (Ref Digbits, haha) The adaptor (modified Breaker Point) that the cups are mounted on is well machined and is the key to the operation. Would recommend ASL as the boys to go to and I know Nigel is on the end of the phone when I need other information regarding hydraulics not working properly.

Top man Rory, I am about to put another one together tomorrow but with more beef and a slightly tweaked design in the 'floor to prevent any type of Devonshire massacre again....

 

[diggerjones]

Funny what you forget and this wasn't even 2 years ag

 

[diggerjones]

Paul Peacock is your man

http://www.hydraulicbreaker.co.uk/pa...ostdriver.html

Just.dont ring him if you only have 5 min he is a very good to talk and wants to make sure you have the right tool for the job

I spoke with him today. I couldn't get away from him.. ha.. But very knowledgeable

 

[tinydigger]

I still hate fencing however.

There's no substitute for giving them a bloody hard wallop!

I used to love doing the fencing when i was on the farm in fact i always volunteered for the job lol was a 3 man crew based around a old ford tractor and king hitter post rammer first job of the morning set your posts for the day by handballing them on to a trailer then driving round the fields chucking them out at roughly 8ft centres target for a good day was 100 (5"by3" 8ft long) banged in. Set your guide posts with 3 string lines then away you go one driving the tractor one on the controls and then me as the twist and true guy.

 

[MOSPLANT]

Hi Everyone and thank you Wee Gus for your recommendation for our post drivers.

That is also us in the ebay link above.

So, as per a few previous comments post driving cups for breakers are a great way of saving time and saving your back. Obviously if you are driving into stoney rocky ground you will have limited success but clay and topsoil are perfect and the posts will fly in.

You need to be realistic about it, I have customers calling me up asking for an 8 or 9 inch cup to go on a 1.5 ton breaker, I point out that its way too demanding and will break the cup or even more expensive the breaker! Realistically on a 1.5 tonner you can do 4 or 5 inch posts with ease and we do make 6 inch cups for certain breakers to do straining posts every now and then and these can also be used for smaller posts.

They are not cheap, but like everything cheap things will not last. Some customers get a price from us and after they have managed to stand up again they go and make their own from an old point but 9 times out of 10 they come back saying the welds keep breaking and they then order one of ours.

We can also fabricate lower mounts for some breakers (not all) and we also supply new used and refurbished breakers if you dont have one already.

Cups are turned on CNC/Lathe from a lump of quality stock steel so are solidly made, there are some hollow pipe types on the market but more and more customers are telling us that they have not met their expectations.

We are here to help and happy to give advice and quotes on whatever you need, whether is be a breaker or just a cup.

Not sure if I am allowed to put contact details on here, admin please remove if not allowed

Martin, MOS Plant Ltd 07772 081052 / 01708 691150 (website is currently being revamped and will be live again soon )

 

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[doobin]

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You can't weld them no matter how hard you try and the picture isn't as easy as it looks...lol

I did manage to kill the weld but in fairness I do have a long standing record of abusing things (Ref Digbits, haha) The adaptor (modified Breaker Point) that the cups are mounted on is well machined and is the key to the operation. Would recommend ASL as the boys to go to and I know Nigel is on the end of the phone when I need other information regarding hydraulics not working properly.

No weld will put up with being run under a breaker in my book.

 

[V8Druid]

Paul peacock in Hereford is where I got my side mounted breaker bracket & post driving cup from to convert an existing breaker i had, 8 inch posts fit in it with a 60mm lip to hold them in. He makes them up to what ever shape or size you want https://www.hydraulicbreaker.co.uk/pages/breakers_postdriver.html

Ha .... small world .... I've known Paul Peacock 40 odd years .... lives in Grosmont and used to have a tool hire shop in Abergavenny - Gwent Tools; 'bout 200 yds from my old workshop . Have hired all sorts off Paul, over the years.
Wondered what he's been up to of late ..... he must be pushing 70 now .... always got on alright with him ..... but was like marmite to some folks.

My mate Serge, the genny man, worked for Paul for many years, in his workshop, keeping things 'alive' ..... we were only talking about him a few weeks ago, discussing one of many funny stories, of when Serge worked for him....... and there are many

 

[Gunners]

Been there done that with the home made modified cup idea. Breaker smashes them in the ground easy enough but its hard to keep them upright as you go down the digger has a habit of pushing the post away from the machine due to arc of the boom. And then the cup breaks, so you weld it again, and it breaks again 3 posts later.... and so on.

 

[V8Druid]

from what I can see of this problem, it needs a dedicated billet cup machining with an interference fit to a 'steel' for the breaker and maybe 'sweated' on, under pressure .... no matter how it's welded, the shock is going to kill the welds PDQ

 

[diggerjones]

They machine them out of one piece. I wasn't going to spend £400 + on something that i wasn't going to use very often also it wasn't a paid job.

 

[Mogman]

If I was going to ‘make’ one I would turn a big cup out of a lump of steel with a tapered hole in the middle then get an old breaker steel, heat the end up to take the ‘temper’ out of it then turn the same taper on the end, wouldn’t need anything to hold them together after a few knocks on the breaker

 

[V8Druid]

If I was going to ‘make’ one I would turn a big cup out of a lump of steel with a tapered hole in the middle then get an old breaker steel, heat the end up to take the ‘temper’ out of it then turn the same taper on the end, wouldn’t need anything to hold them together after a few knocks on the breaker

well you have got that lovely Colchester Mastiff to do it with yer jammy bugger ..... you found me its sister yet ??

 

[Mogman]

well you have got that lovely Colchester Mastiff to do it with yer jammy bugger ..... you found me its sister yet ??

Not yet

 

[V8Druid]

Not yet

..... keep on looking .... 'less I say otherwise and find one

 

[Quattromike]

If I was going to ‘make’ one I would turn a big cup out of a lump of steel with a tapered hole in the middle then get an old breaker steel, heat the end up to take the ‘temper’ out of it then turn the same taper on the end, wouldn’t need anything to hold them together after a few knocks on the breaker

Kinda like a morse taper on a drill bit, I think it’d work a treat. You might need a bit of length on the taper though, if it’s only an inch or so long and you were hitting on one side it might move and fall off the taper. Plus if you don’t get the length of taper on the chisels just right you’ll be leaving little circles on the posts you’ve knocked in .