Driving Farm Productivity: Gas-Powered Post Driver

Feb 09, 2024
By Farms.com

Photo Credit: Skidril

Driving posts for fences when you can’t use a bigger piece of equipment

By Braxten Breen
Farms.com Intern

Sometimes you can’t use a larger piece of equipment to drill a post on the farm. That is when the Skidril post driver can come in handy.

Depending on the circumstances, driving posts manually can be physically demanding and challenging to a farmer. Soil conditions, post material and size, post depth, physical strength all come into play when installing a series of posts for the farm.

Skidril has a tool for you, the G15D is a 4-cycle gas powered post driver that puts an end to manually post driving.

Gas powered post drivers originated with Skidril, with a series of post drivers, the G15D is easy on-off simplicity, powerful light weight driver with no hoses attached.

Weighing in at 33lbs, the G15D driver runs at an impact energy of 35 ft-lbs. being a 1.5 hp with max speed of 600 rpms, while remaining at a high fuel efficiency of 1qt/hr.

The G15D driver has an air cushion dampening for no recoil, with few moving parts already, there is no need for springs or extra parts.

The G15D from Skidril is a cool tool for drilling post holes when you can use a larger piece of equipment. Watch the video below to see how easy the Skidril G15D is to use.

Video: Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.