Melinda Shore wrote:

Well, the other thing is that I wouldn't be able to drive a
7' post. Being on the skinny, round-shouldered nerd side of
the body type equation and being endowed with an
overabundance of no-twitch muscles, I have to stand on a
stepladder to get the first 6" of the 4' posts in so that I
can take advantage of gravity with the post driver.

You're going about this the wrong way. Unbeknownst to
me one day my 10yo son pounded in some 6ft T posts.

I was amazed, and he showed me how he did it. Put the
bottom of the post where it should go into the ground.
Tilted the post toward him until he could place the
pounder over the top; then let it slide down as far as
it would go.

Put his hands on the post under the pounder, and tilted
both to the upright position, then grabbed the
pounder's handles and set that post in.

You don't have to hold the post upright in position,
then place the pounder onto it, IOW.

flick 100785


However, the good news is that it turns out that Cinder
didn't jump the fence. Further investigation this morning
revealed that the contractors removed the windows in the
extension and that she was jumping into the extension from
the yard side and out through the field side, and then
running around to the front of the house. The "footprints
in the snow" (I always thought that was a dumb song - if he
could follow her footprints to find her, why couldn't she
follow her own footprints to get home?) were Cinder running
*up* to the fence from the outside, presumably to taunt the
other dogs.

I've still got to get some fencing in this weekend, but at
least I don't have an immediate escaping dog emergency.