How To Install Round Deer Fence Posts
To set a deer fence round post into the ground start with a digging bar. Stick a piece of tape on the digging bar at a height corresponding to the appropriate depth of the hole. Then thrust the digging bar into the ground at the location you want to set the post. Work the bar downward while rotating in the hole. If you run into a rock that you cannot navigate, move the bar to another location and try again.
Pound the post in with a manual post driver. The driver is a weighted metal cylinder open at one end and closed at the other, with handles on the sides. Take it up a ladder and slips it over the top of the metal post to be installed. It is then raised and dropped anywhere from a few inches to nearly its full length so as to tap or pound the post into the ground. Be sure no one is ever assisting you by holding the upper portion of the post with their hands, because the heavy descending driver can remove flesh from the hands.
Stop driving the post when you are about 1 foot down and apply a level to be sure it's straight. Keep driving it down until only 7' 2" remain above the ground. If you have not prepared the way with a digging bar, this pounding is likely to distort the upper inch or two of pipe to a point where it may no longer accept the post cap that goes on top. If this happens, get a pipe cutter and cut off the distorted portion of the pipe.