Rice Hydro 32 Inch Heavy Duty Choker-Style Post Puller Set with Lifting Chain Puller | Wood Post Puller for Round Fence Posts, Sign Post & Tree Stump | Made in The USA

I bought this knowing that I would have to pull metal stakes driven down 18” out of virtually frozen ground. I am no “spring chicken”. Yet, this post puller made the task extremely easy. It is very solidly built with a long handle requiring no extension as others on the market. It was easy to assemble out of the box. Actually, there are just two metal pieces, and simple assembly and use instructions are on the Rice Hydro website. I appreciate that two different types of chains were included without having to purchase them separately. While other post pullers I reviewed were seemingly cheaper, by the time I would have purchased the necessary chains, the other pullers would have been more expensive. One chain has a special attachment for T-posts. The other chain could be used to pull tree stumps, wood posts; etc. They make this tool versatile. All in all, the best choice I could have made and well worth the money.

I needed to pull cedar posts from 24 inches of concrete. Sixteen post were 4x4 and eight posts were 6x6 inches. Most all came out with just my weight ( 240lbs) leaning on the bar. Some were very stubborn however and leaning on the bar wasn't cutting it. I decided to add dead weight in the form of concrete blocks. The big ones, 8x8x16 are 33 lbs. The smaller solid ones 4x8x16 are 32 lbs. Total dead weight was 225lbs. When that sustained weight wasn't enough, I rocked the posts gently with large bar while adding my push down weight to the stack of blocks. SUCCESS!! All posts removed and the steel puller just like new ( well, a few scratches to the paint.) Overall, only a hydraulic bucket on a tractor or backhoe could have been easier. If you factor the mechanical advantage at somewhere around 6:1, then we are talking around 1300 lbs of pulling power and the lever still did not break! Bravo!!!

What I like about the tool: It has quality steel construction, is easy to use, made quick work of a difficult task and red is my favorite color.What I don't like is the included heavy duty steel chain (with hook) is so short. I used the tool to remove the cement anchor that was still in the ground after my fence post broke. I purchased this tool in July 2019 about two months after I replaced 2 broken fence posts. Of those 2 posts, I was only able to remove the cement out of the hole for one of the two. It took me about two hours to remove the cement from the first hole, and I gave up on the second hole altogether, and just put the new post next to the old cement.With several more old fence post at risk of the same fate, I knew there had to be a better way to remove cement from broken fence posts, and I'm very happy to find this tool. Three more posts broke this year. I used the tool for the first time yesterday. I found the chain was too short to use with the stand (fulcrum) attached. So, I removed it and substituted a cement circular shaped object for the fulcrum, that I made from leftover cement and half-inch river-rock 20 years ago. Anyway, the make-shift fulcrum worked swimmingly! I removed the cement from the hole in less than 10 minutes. This time does not include the digging, but the last time it took me 2 hours, not including the digging.Bottom line: I enthusiastically recommend this tool!

This is a solid piece of equipment - made in the USA, which is why I purchased it. It took me a while to figure out how to use it (give me a break, I'm a woman who's not very mechanical). But, I was determined and after getting my husband to help by putting his weight into the pole, we were able to remove four t-posts. However, I won't say it was easy. No fault of the Rice T-Post Puller. These posts were deep in the ground the held in place by tree roots. I wasn't heavy enough to pull them on my own, but once my husband and I put our weight together, we were eventually successful. We did have to dig around the posts first.

Had to give up on removing this choke-cherry clump last year, but this year I used the post puller's chain to crack off its roots as I uncovered them with a shovel. Made the job much easier. Actually bought it to remove some of those black posts you can see a piece of in the lower-left corner. Those are 9' long with 3' sunk into good New England glacial moraine (lots of rocks)... they don't have any protrusions to grab onto, just holes that are only about 3/8" so I had to find a smaller hook. (Two hooks, actually, to divide the strain between them.) I Don't blame Rice Hydro for not including something like that... I was worries enough it would snap that I wore safety goggles. But it worked.

I bought this model after buying a cheaper model that just couldn't do that job. The t-posts I'm pulling have been in the clay for an unknown number of decades, and I needed them out.The Good: this things pulls if you put your back into it. If you think pulling old t-posts is easy, think again. This does the job but it took a couple sessions to get the really stuck ones out.The not quite so good: nothing. Literally nothing.5/5*

I've read the reviews where people say they broke theirs but you'd have to really try to break this took. I'm sure it can be broken, if you exert too much force. The fulcrum will only take but so much violence.

Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world". Well, with this tool you can lift out stubborn fence posts in mere seconds.Well made, it'll probably last forever.