I wanted to do this! But my stick welder is dead and my husband despises the pipe fitters at work so bad he doesn’t want them here for any reason. 
I could try the push method, but that would be me and 2 running engines to pound one post. As it stands, I use my truck bed as the tpost mobile, gets me the height to get things started.
I’m having the post pounding company quote out making the shell of the barn addition and getting the roof metal on.
I know I can do the framing by myself (6x6 posts, 2x10 headers, 2x6 rafters, 2x4 purlins), but the roof metal I don’t think I can do alone without getting hurt. I think for most gigs, that’s a three man job. Gosh, if they can do it affordably, WOW would that save me some work and time. Fingers crossed.
LOL me too
This is coming from a cheapskate outta necessity- sometimes it costs less in the long run to have someone else take care of it for you. Less stress-physically and mentally- less time, less aggravation.
There’s the fear factor of messing it up, too. If they can get the skeleton in, I can frame and do the rest. I don’t want it to be horrible looking.
Plus, if I get hurt trying to get that metal up there, it’s game over.
Side note - after drawing it out, I’m short a big post. Did i mention lately how bad I am at material lists? Ugh.
Early morning finished the flooring in the tack room.
Once it was noise making time, I drove another line of posts on the east side. Capped them because the neighbors horses can reach them and they don’t keep their tensile fence hot. They’ll learn not to touch my tape quick… 
Looks great!
Seriously! @endlessclimb, you are a beast. I’m gonna save this thread for the next time my husband complains about T-posts. I think you drove more in a day than he has in his entire life.
I’m stubborn more than anything, ha.
My hands are saying “no thank you” today (I get carpal tunnel from heavy digging, pounding, and painting, if I do too much) so I’ll give them a break. Maybe I’ll work on some h braces.
No kidding!
She has motivated me to get my sh*t together and build something.
In defense of your husband, though, my soil is silty loam with very few rocks. That doesn’t make the job “easy” per say, but it’s sure easier than driving into rocky or heavy clay stuff!! 
You are rolling right along on your projects!
The uneven white paint on t posts bothers me too. At my local TSC they sell spray paint for metal applications in “farm colors”. The green looks to be an excellent match for t posts. I’ve considered spraying my own posts but I’m not terribly motivated atm 
As an aside, my Dad has a post pounder that has its own motor. Like a man auger but for pounding posts. It’s crazy heavy though. He only uses it on bigger jobs bc they either move it with the skid steer or two strong men. We didn’t bother w it at my little farm. We set the wood posts in concrete and hand pounded the t posts.
Can you remind me of the dimensions of your tack room? And your plan for feed storage? I’m still scheming on my own barn space and am thinking I might need separate feed and tack rooms instead of my OG plan of a larger tack room and a feed box.
The farm I grew up on was clay and rock. My father used his company backhoe to put in the fence posts when he redid the fences. I don’t know how the other occupants of the property coped.
The tack room is approximately 8x10.
Feed will be in metal trash cans at the end of the hay storage (hay storage will be 14x30), on a “pallet” made of 4x4s topped with a solid layer of 2x6s. It was a pallet for an assembled pump I nicked from work, they were going to toss it. It’s heavy, and big, but will make a superb platform for a couple cans and a small table for prep.
The air driven pounder shows up on my facebook feed all the time. It looks incredible for tough/huge jobs, but having to lug a compressor and therefore a substantial generator around sort of takes the fun out of it.
I love a really good pallet!
I’ve been using a similar in function set up for feed, an old chest freezer. But I think I need a bit more room since my horses can’t ever seem to be convenient and eat all the same feed stuffs lol. I need to scheme more on my situation.
That’s a nice size for a tack room. Should work well for you!
Hay storage is always good. You’ll be able to get a lot of hay in that space!
We have one somewhat like this hydraulic post pounder and is super wonderful.
We have built lots of fences and our neighbor borrows it constantly for theirs, has it now.
Ours is way lighter than this, weights 60 lbs, easily bolts to the side of the FEL, cost a few hundred dollars a couple decades ago:
We are able to poke t-posts into the ground with the bucket of our tractor, thank heavens. We’ve lived where that didn’t work so well but thankfully here we can just drive along poking them in.
How does that work? I’ve always done it by hand.
Speaking from experience, go for the separate feed and tack rooms! There’s less chance of mice ruining tack if you are unlucky enough to get them. We have separate ones now and it’s a huge difference
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