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Anyone know where I can hire a star picket driver in Perth? Tried Kennards and Classic with no joy. Time to put up the shadehouses

Cheers
Matt

Try Bunnings

Just tried two local bummings stores - no hire, one thought they might sell them, thought couldn't be certain and didn't know for how much! Gotta love em!

Try here http://www.beeshire.com.au/shop/product ... -driver/74

Is there a Coates hire near you?

Just tried Coates and True Blue - neither of them do either. Looks like bees maybe the only ones - bit of a trek for me - might be best to try and buy one!

Try a local fencing company

I've seen a few home made ones... A welder and some bits of scrap pipe, you can make one pretty easily..

I can buy one for $35 locally so will add it to the tool collection
http://www.mircobros.com.au/shop/produc ... river/1096
Thanks cc -

I think investing in a welder is pretty worthwhile EB - the amount of things I could have done if I had one (and some welding skills!) Grow beds frames, gates, star picket drivers, fish tank frames.

Of course thats the hard bit... Working on the skills... Lots of crappy jobs at the start.

Would mean I'd accumulate a heap more crap as anything weldable would suddenly have 'value'

What are you driving into Matty? If its sand you just need a piece of heavy duty pipe that will just fit over the picket and a couple of high tensile bolts about 1/3 bigger than the diameter of the pipe, or larger (they bugger up after a while). Stick the bolt through one of the lower holes on the picket and keep smacking it with the pipe.
BTW its better with two putting pickets in, even with a driver they tend to lean a bit.
I started with a milk crate and a sledge hammer but its hard work.

Just good old swan coastal plain sand so not hard, though may come across the odd tree root. I was thinking it would be handy to get someone to hold if vertical while the other drove. I'll keep my eye out for some metal pipe - thanks for the tip.

If you want to go the milk crate and sledge, get someone who you think is a *sigh* to hold it vertical.

Thats an awesome tip sleep.

A good sledge hammer or gimpy will do the trick.