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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1336857" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>36" won't work here for very long especialy if it's in soft ground or rains a lot and often (like right now). </p><p>It all depends on your soil and what's down there and how much rainfall you get. </p><p>For me, 6"-8" of topsoil, then about 5-6' of red or whitish clay, and below that is the 1st water sand (ground water). It's why no one uses small dia (2 3/8"-2 7/8") pipe for corners here--they'd have to drive them thru the water sand & into the impermeable clay boundary below that sand for them to hold and that might be 15' of pipe in the ground. It was tried by a new fence company startup a couple years ago and they had to go back and replace all their corners when the 10' deep corners pulled. They replaced the pipe corners with 8" X8 1/2 ' treated wood posts at 4' deep and never had any more problems. </p><p>The corner H in the pic below would never hold anywhere on my place except maybe back in 2011's drought , even if the ground portion were twice as long but a cross tie 4' deep will last 30 years and never give an inch. </p><p><img src="http://www.ironmanpipeandsteel.com/images/home/steel-cages.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1336857, member: 18945"] 36" won't work here for very long especialy if it's in soft ground or rains a lot and often (like right now). It all depends on your soil and what's down there and how much rainfall you get. For me, 6"-8" of topsoil, then about 5-6' of red or whitish clay, and below that is the 1st water sand (ground water). It's why no one uses small dia (2 3/8"-2 7/8") pipe for corners here--they'd have to drive them thru the water sand & into the impermeable clay boundary below that sand for them to hold and that might be 15' of pipe in the ground. It was tried by a new fence company startup a couple years ago and they had to go back and replace all their corners when the 10' deep corners pulled. They replaced the pipe corners with 8" X8 1/2 ' treated wood posts at 4' deep and never had any more problems. The corner H in the pic below would never hold anywhere on my place except maybe back in 2011's drought , even if the ground portion were twice as long but a cross tie 4' deep will last 30 years and never give an inch. [img]http://www.ironmanpipeandsteel.com/images/home/steel-cages.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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