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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 1117762" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>The whole fence is depending on your anchors. Corners are your anchors. </p><p></p><p>I use 3 inch pipe minimum. 3 3/8" outside diameter. In the last 15 years or so, I have been welding cattle panel on the outside with a small brace on bottom. The cattle panel on a corner adds strength in not only the X and Y but also the Z axis. </p><p></p><p>In the rock (limestone) the posts only have to be so deep. When I get into the sand on the river, I weld a scrap short iron piece on the bottom of each post to add an additional 2 foot or so. When I set the corner, I take the tractor bucket and push it in to the depth I want. Hence, if my hole is 4 foot, I push it in an additional 2 foot or so depending on the length of the short iron. Not much different than driving a post. Thus far these have held perfectly. Scrap 2 inch pipe or tube steel is about perfect. </p><p></p><p>There's nothing more aggravating than building fence and having to replace or rebuild it 5 years later. In 1990 I was burned out with a brush fire. Not only did I lose 3 barns, I lost all the fence I built back when I was a kid because I used wood posts. I went back with metal in 1990. A few years later a car went through a fence and pulled my corners loose. That is another penalty for using higher tensile wire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 1117762, member: 3162"] The whole fence is depending on your anchors. Corners are your anchors. I use 3 inch pipe minimum. 3 3/8" outside diameter. In the last 15 years or so, I have been welding cattle panel on the outside with a small brace on bottom. The cattle panel on a corner adds strength in not only the X and Y but also the Z axis. In the rock (limestone) the posts only have to be so deep. When I get into the sand on the river, I weld a scrap short iron piece on the bottom of each post to add an additional 2 foot or so. When I set the corner, I take the tractor bucket and push it in to the depth I want. Hence, if my hole is 4 foot, I push it in an additional 2 foot or so depending on the length of the short iron. Not much different than driving a post. Thus far these have held perfectly. Scrap 2 inch pipe or tube steel is about perfect. There's nothing more aggravating than building fence and having to replace or rebuild it 5 years later. In 1990 I was burned out with a brush fire. Not only did I lose 3 barns, I lost all the fence I built back when I was a kid because I used wood posts. I went back with metal in 1990. A few years later a car went through a fence and pulled my corners loose. That is another penalty for using higher tensile wire. [/QUOTE]
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