We didn't have one of these. Instead, I got to crouch on the ground and hold the post with my hands while my father brought the front-end loader bucket down on it. Good times.
When I first started in electrical work, we'd take turns with a sledge hammer. Then we bought one of these, and it cut the time in half. Now, I use a driver bit for my demolition hammer and it's done in about 30 seconds. The driver bit also works well for fence posts, just sleeve a 24" section of EMT over it.
That isn't a generational thing it's an urban/rural thing. A 5 year old from a farming community would know what that is. Also, if you fill them with concrete, you got yourself a hillbilly skeleton key.
Gross. Boomer is like a known cringe thing. This is just some tool. Who gives a shit how old someone is using it? Giving it "boomer" vibes is just a low energy joke.
I know i come to shitpost subs for the bombastic, high energy, illuminating content
wait til you grow up and come to understand that people sometimes have to talk about things BECAUSE they're fucking cringe and that that, indeed, has been the entire point of the "boomer" meme - THAT BOOMER BEHAVIOUR IS CRINGE - from the beginning. The whole fucking point of it.
and anyway bitching shit is low energy is itself pretty fuckin low energy; i mean it's responding on the right level which is good, but then you break it by turning it into an insult. You want your energy higher, get a coffee and bring it.
I recently got to use a pole drivers powered by a little 2 stroke motor. It took like 5 sec to sink a tpost down 3 feet. It was so easy and quick that it was kinda upsetting, makes using the old pole drivers feel like you're a monkey banging on rocks.
I'm gen Z, grew up in the city, and I know what that is because we used em in the Boy Scouts. It's for pounding fence posts into the ground. The other end is welded shut and you put the post in the ground, put it over top of it, and pick it up and slam it down a buncha times
They also make ideal launchers for fire works:) especially in areas where the local police get pissy despite them being legal, you can go out to the country side, mount it upside down and fire off some rockets and yank it out and move a few county roads over before the sheriff can arrive.
I used one a couple weeks ago to put up supports for my grape vines. But when I was a teenager I had a horse and was constantly rotating his grazing area so I am very familiar with it.
A fence post driver is so much better than a post hole digger. Just give her a whack whack whack until it's set. Handling the wire, though....that's a bitch, especially if it's barbed. Erecting an electric fence was child's play, though.
I have a scar on my wrist from one second of not paying attention to barbed wire. Queasiness warning: I remember staring at the muscle and watching it contract until blood came gushing out. Farm life is quite something