World's loudest pencil sharpener?

[edisto]

We got a pup, so I need to put up a bunch of fence. Back home, we used a bar to make a pilot hole and pounded the posts in with a 16 pound post maul.

Down here, they don't even sell tapered posts. So...I built a jig around the bar clamp for a Granberg Mini-Mill:

 

[edisto]

 

[1Alpha1]

Great idea.....nice work!

 

[rwoods]

Pencils are pretty cool.

I hope you don’t find that there is a reason why they apparently don’t pound posts in your area. I grew up in Florida where we dug and packed fence posts. Moved to Tennessee where you drive them. Different methods for different conditions.

Ron

 

[edisto]

I hope you don’t find that there is a reason why they apparently don’t pound posts in your area.

I've been wondering that all along. Guess I'm about to find out the hard way...

 

[rwoods]

If your local rental store has a post driver for a tractor or skid steer, you can have some fun and knock the job out at the same time. Pencils can’t hurt even if you have to dig. Ron

 

[edisto]

74 posts in the ground...had to put water in the holes to get through the clay.

I did manage to get video of the last set of posts I sharpened:

 

[Huskybill]

The erasers are next on the other end? I’d like to see how you install the lead in the pencil. Do we have a Guinness record here.

 

[heimannm]

 

[edisto]

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But...how do they sharpen it?

 

[Cycledude]

Your posts turned out excellent!
Years ago I sharpened a lot of fence posts free hand with a chainsaw, it was actually fairly easy.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

All that trouble and expense for a "pup?"

I did this in a day and all I needed was T-posts, a post driver, several rolls of fencing, a level, and some string. If I recall correctly, cost me under $100.

Three years later, still looks brand new.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

@edisto I want to see this fence.

 

[Goinwheelin]

This thread is insane lol. Post the pics edisto.

 

[lone wolf]

This thread is insane lol. Post the pics edisto.

Yup they are making fence posts matter tee shirts now.

 

[lone wolf]

All that trouble and expense for a "pup?"

I did this in a day and all I needed was T-posts, a post driver, several rolls of fencing, a level, and some string. If I recall correctly, cost me under $100.
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Three years later, still looks brand new.

Price it today.

 

[mexicanyella]

The pencil sharpener is a cool idea, but my eye keeps returning to that stepside in the background!

 

[edisto]

The pencil sharpener is a cool idea, but my eye keeps returning to that stepside in the background!

There's a '69 Bronco parked in the garage behind it

 

[edisto]

Price it today.

I don't remember now, but I think I paid double that just for a roll of wire.

 

[toadman]

The title reminded me of a prank I pulled once on my brother who was working in my shop for fun. He loved to sharpen all my wood marking pencils right down to the eraser and catch the metal part in the blades, on my electric pencil sharpener... Long story, but after he left one day I wired a relay and solinoid into the trigger that activates the sharpener motor, and wired that up to a electric valve on a nitrogen tank, powering an air horn (hidden in the rafters) from a fire truck we scrapped...
he about **** himself when he tried to sharpen the pencil in the morning.
We where both wearing hearing protection, (the tools in the metal shop are loud) but even with good muffs it made both of our ears ring for an hour or so...