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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:34:38 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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WE've done that before too. Whew, alot of work.
My son wanted a basketball goal put up one time. My husband told him, he had to dig the hole before we bought one. It took Charlie nearly a week to dig one hole deep enough, but he did it.
Becky
Bay know about this?:')
hehehe. :-) Good number.
Are you saying you hit rock at that depth on all the posts? or just one?
If you make a full braced corner, you may get away with 17 inches, depending on how good you compact them and how much tension you're going to pull wire on it. Remove all rocks when tamping the post dirt back in, no rocks, lots of tamping.
If you can't get the depth, digging more posts and bracing it two times at each corner will make up for it too. Five braced posts at each corner instead of three.
A heavy hammer used on the end of the steel bar helps a lot. But it is hard work. We have lots of boulders underground where the barn sits. There were lots of rocks broken to place those posts.
It hurts if you are the one holding the bar though!
I'd bust rock for one post, but not all of them. If it's all of them, I'd just live with it.
Bay takes it better than the dogs do...
Note to self.... make sure we have lots of doggie downers....
We hired the perimeter fence done. We just did not have the time it required to dig the holes. Our Tposts are not all spaced evenly either, they put them in where they could. Some of them they cut the tops off to make them even. The one post they got in real good was the post our gate hangs on. I think that post will be there forever.
Becky
Yes it does but when you are young and tuff, you do not even notice......... : )
Yeah right. I've been the helper holder for 30 plus years and it always hurts:')
For a fence post, I agree, but when it is a barn, you do not have a choice.
Very true. ;~D
But then, as I recall, you put rocks in your post holes.
I think you did the wise thing by having the perimeter fence built. Those guys are much faster than we are and have much more experience. When I am standing there scratching my head, those guys are putting the fence up.
A homestead has to have a wife........ : )
cowtown was a retread troll with multiple previous accounts.
That was a friend of yours. : )
My posts are for electric fences now, just drive im in with a hammer.......
I have no idea how they could have gotten your number unless you have it listed or have it listed with another company other than sprint. I would ask to be put on their no call list, unless they got the wrong number, which is a possibility too.
Well, I pull electric wire very very tight. I like a very taut fence :~D
Estrogen, if you are stuck with 17 inches on just one hole, I wouldn't sweat it. If you are stuck with that level on all of them, then just put in more post bracing. I'd recommend double braces like this:
You can skip the diagonal brace if you know how to do this with wire... look at some corners as you drive the countryside... you'll see the good ones.
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