Renting a post driver

Jimlh86

Hi all,

Can anyone shed some light on the cost of renting one for a day or two? I'm based in the midlands if anyone knows a place to get one also.

Thanks in advance

paddysdream

Know Brennans in Johnstown Kilkenny (make Vector postdrivers)used to rent them out.
Unsure of the price as a friend priced them a few years ago when his own was out of action for a few days.All I can remember is that they were rather pricy by the day but maybe weekly etc might be better.

howdee

Brennans are quite pricey for the rent of one. Centenary Co-op is where I rent mine but it is probably out of your area. €40 plus vat a day and you dont need to buy the stakes off them. I woulld usually rent it for a weekend or that and have the posts laid out the week previous.

razor8

Sheridans of Arva on Cavan/Longford charge €60 a day and have a weekly price that can be agreed before taken it

Ps it can be pulled behind a car

Askim

Laois hire have some too, got one a couple of years ago

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Milked out

Tis the new year, advertise a new "fitness" course with sledge hammers, charge twenty/ hr and get your fencing done, posts an all paid forðŸ˜႒

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbDNlSWuWCQ

Jimlh86

Ha ha I've five esb pole strainers to drive in hard ground as mad as "fitness" people are I can't see it taking off! I tried to dig in two, tensioned the HT and well just say every day is a school day! Fee's and all! Another stupid question what kind of horsepower would ya need only I'm not sure if the MF 240 would handle it good an all a tractor as it is!?

poor farmer

Milked out wrote: »

Tis the new year, advertise a new "fitness" course with sledge hammers, charge twenty/ hr and get your fencing done, posts an all paid forðŸ˜႒

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbDNlSWuWCQ

It's a pity she hasn't got a bundle of posts ,shame to waste all that energy.

oldsmokey

whatever you do, be careful with the bloody thing, using one over the Christmas, it was mighty tricky to get it to do exactly what you wanted with our old 7610 hydraulics - the lad holding the stake learnt to keep well back. A dangerous hoor of a thing.

milkprofit

oldsmokey wrote: »

whatever you do, be careful with the bloody thing, using one over the Christmas, it was mighty tricky to get it to do exactly what you wanted with our old 7610 hydraulics - the lad holding the stake learnt to keep well back. A dangerous hoor of a thing.

Better to hire tractor man and all
40e /hr tractor post driver 2men

kingstown

My twopence worth, its very hard to get a good machine to hire – that is one with built in level, rock breaker, Hyd top link and levelling arm etc.., most hire machines are now quite old. Easier to just bite the bullet and hire in the professionals. They will do more in half a day than you will in half a week. (and more importantly it will be done right!)

lakill Farm

Got to agree with the below.

I worked with a farmer who bought a new Malone post driver and used it on a year old tractor at the time. It was all down to communication between driver and lad on the ground. Remember a post breaking and finding splinters in the cab the following year.

The brother in law is a fencing contractor near Mullingar. He was putting up a fence here for me a few years ago and he had all the posts and rails for a 30meter section up in under an hour while chatting to me.

Heard of a local lad losing top of his thumb a few weeks back with a post driver. Same lad is around a while and no way is he a messier or inexperienced.

kingstown wrote: »

My twopence worth, its very hard to get a good machine to hire – that is one with built in level, rock breaker, Hyd top link and levelling arm etc.., most hire machines are now quite old. Easier to just bite the bullet and hire in the professionals. They will do more in half a day than you will in half a week. (and more importantly it will be done right!)