Tomac and working on the ranch fencing

I own and live and work on a 27,000 acre ranch in New Mexico. I have 80 miles of fences and we use a driver mounted on a skid steer to pound T-posts and a drill for corner braces. We can do about 3 miles of posts a day if nothing breaks.

Having said all that... I know the Tomacs have a vineyard and for all I know they didn't want a skid steer ripping up the ground in there. Plus, in our country you can't get a skid steer down the rocky mesa slopes and gotta do 'em by hand there. Nothing like pounding T-posts into rocks to make you think about buying a high clearance 4WD skid steer, if such a thing existed.

So... who knows the full story?

Guarantee that pounding a dozen posts will shake up your arms, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgO6VSLlng0

If you have never pounded fence post or tree stakes all day, you don’t really know!

Totally - I'm a huge fan of those guys.

I recall his dad talk about how much they actually held back implementing a gnarly structured training program before he turned pro, so as to not burn him out early.

Eli is one of the fittest dudes on the AMA circuit...he's a worker...