How to keep t posts from twisting?!?!

[cowboyclayt]

Building a chicken run. I am getting frustrated because all the t posts this and turn and lean over as I put them in the ground and all the other fences I have seen are perfectly straight and the t posts are twisted to the side.

How do you keep t posts from twisting hole pounding?

Thanks!

 

[1 acre willows]

Are they actual t posts or are they the just the stamped v or u looking ones. Ive used fork lifts to drive t posts and never had an issue

 

[cowboyclayt]

Are they actual t posts or are they the just the stamped v or u looking ones. Ive used fork lifts to drive t posts and never had an issue

I think they are actual t posts... what do the other stamped ones look like?
I pound them by hand.

 

[Folly's place]

I've pounded T-posts in for almost a mile of fencing, and I've learned how they should look while going into the ground! At first, it tool a level, standing back, and redoing some. Then, with practice, it's easy!
Get a couple of them straight, and the right height, and then stand next to them and get a feeling for how they should look.
Do wear ear protectors while pounding them in!!!
Mary

 

[Beer can]

All they tall one's? Six foot to start?
I stand up on something to get above them and they are easier to keep straight. I'm over six foot but it makes it easier, using a heavy maul to pound them anyway.

 

[Folly's place]

I use the metal tube-like device (whose name I don't remember) to pound them in. I prefer the one without the handles on the sides.
Mary

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I do it the same way as beer can. I've never had them twist while putting them in.

 

[Folly's place]

I was using posts that were taller; seven feet long. No way am I getting up on something to pound them in!
Mary

 

[aart]

I use the metal tube-like device (whose name I don't remember) to pound them in. I prefer the one without the handles on the sides.
Mary

It's called a post hammer, what I use too.
I also use a post level, made for 4x4's but it can work on Tposts too(just have to resettle the bubble once in awhile).
The twisting is often due to rocks in soil, hard to get it right at times.

 

[cowboyclayt]

It's called a post hammer, what I use too.
I also use a post level, made for 4x4's but it can work on Tposts too(just have to resettle the bubble once in awhile).
The twisting is often due to rocks in soil, hard to get it right at times.

Yeah I have lots of rocks.