Simply one of the greatest inventions ever. I bought one of these and immediately put an ad on CL offering to pull tree support T-posts out of the ground for $10 per visit (I keep the stakes). We have a lot of new homes surrounding us, and contractors planted new trees everywhere. Now many of those t-posts need to come out. I needed T-posts for my 15 acres, so now people pay me remove theirs and I keep the stakes! Is this a great country or what?

I was really hoping it would work as well as most of the reviews, but in reality, I knew better. I was moving a section of fence and had to remove several T-posts. I first simply tried to use the puller with a 2x4 under the base for added load spreading to keep the puller from sinking into the ground. This puller did absolutely nothing for the T-post. The harder I pushed down, the more it pushed the T-post away from the base with a threat of bending the T-post at the ground. At 250-lbs and some of these reviews, the T-post should have just pulled straight out. The reality was that I eventually had to dig around the post until I got down to the blade section of the 1.25# and 1.33# posts, wiggle it a bit to get it loose, and THEN the puller could do it's job. It had rained for days prior to this, so the ground was soft, but these were 6.5-foot posts that were driven 18" into the ground. Some of them had been installed for 15 years or more. When removing T-posts manually, the last 8" is the worst, and this puller worked wonderfully for that, but for anything driven into the ground deeper for larger livestock, expect to use a shovel a little before even putting this puller into action. Overall, it's a decent tool and did help with some aggravation, but don't expect it to perform miracles. I'd guess it cut the time in half for each T-post compared to doing it manually with a shovel and brute force, so, in the long run, I am glad I bought it.