NORTH FLORIDA
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Five strands of barb-wire over terraces with wood and T-post. The soil is sand and clay, any suggestions. The last time I put some up, my wire was pulling up post.
dj":kjtecuye said:Or you can follow Caustics suggestion and drive the T-post through a sack of quickcrete.
wouldn't you have to be pretty quick to slip a bag of sackrete over the top before it ran out the hole in the bottom. After you decide where the post will be just lay the bag on the ground and drive the post through bag and all.cmjust0":1wzp07qp said:dj":1wzp07qp said:Or you can follow Caustics suggestion and drive the T-post through a sack of quickcrete.
That's exactly what I was thinking, but I couldn't remember who's suggestion it was. I'll be doing that soon for a rock infested dip where a wood post just isn't an option, but I'll probably be slipping the sakrete over the post once it's in the ground.. Reason being, I won't know exactly where the post will be until it's driven, and I ain't pullin it out after that! :lol:
If that don't work and the fence pulls it up anyway, that's when I'll bury the bag and drive the post through it. At least that way the fence did part of the work by pulling the post.
dj":294juhuj said:After you decide where the post will be just lay the bag on the ground and drive the post through bag and all.
I thought that was the purpose of the sackrete so you wouldn't have to move it But to be honest I never tried this trick(yet).dun":1pkvn7ny said:dj":1pkvn7ny said:After you decide where the post will be just lay the bag on the ground and drive the post through bag and all.
Come on dj, how often have you ended up putting a post a couple of feet away from where you started it? I consider an Ozark fence pretty good if the posts are anywhere from 6-12 feet apart and no more then 2 feet either side of a centerline
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Jason":21szxn8d said:If you get your wires good and tight wont it just pick up the bag of sackcrete. Ive had posts pull like that and i weigh 190 pounds and sometimes i dont even start to push the wire back down. The best thing ive found to do is to take a steel post and drive it in the ground almost all the way in, like about ten inches sticking out, and then drive another post right up against it and then tie the two together. then its like having your post in the ground 6 foot.