POST IMPLANTING METHOD AND VEHICULAR APPARATUS THEREFOR

摘要

A port hole boring auger and a drop weight hammer are mounted on the periphery of a carriage a fixed distance apart. The carriage is rotatably and slidably mounted on a transport vehicle adapted to be driven along a surveyed post line by an operator seated at a control console including a plurality of control valves allowing the operator to also position and operate the auger and hammer. The carriage may be rotated to position the auger and hammer laterally of the transport vehicle such that the vertical center lines of the auger and hammer define a substantially vertical plane which extends generally in the direction of transport vehicle movement along the surveyed line. The hole boring auger is centered on a post position mark on said line such that the hammer is substantially centered over a previously bored hole at an adjacent post position mark. A hole is bored at the post position mark while at substantially the same time a post is hammered in place in the previously bored hole. The transport vehicle is moved ahead so that the auger is centered over the next adjacent post position mark and the hole boring and post implanting is repeated.