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<blockquote data-quote="dcara" data-source="post: 803944" data-attributes="member: 473"><p>Just to be sure... You might want to check with your funding partner on material requirements. My Cost Share money has always came from the USDA's NRCS branch and they always required that new AND approved materials be used. On one of my fencing projects last year their specification for installing 2 3/8 inch steal posts for braces specified the posts be mounted in a 3ft deep 3 ft diameter hole filled with concrete! The concrete would have cost twice as much as the post. The spec for wood posts (which I ended up doing) was that the hole diameter only had to be 6 inches larger than the post with a minimum brace post diameter of 6 inches. Line post minimum diameter had to be 4 inches. In both cases the holes had to be inspected before and after post installation. Tamped in dirt had to used with the wooden posts. And even though their published spec said I could use either Western Red Cedar or Bo-dark (also called Osage Orange) the inspectors said they would only sign off on the project if I used Bo-dark. Otherwise I would have to go through an appeal process to protest the field inspectors recommendation which would take quite awhile. I had/have plenty of both on my property from which to make the posts but finding Bo-dark trees with 8ft branches of the required diameters that were straight enough to make posts was at least 5 times as much work as it would have been had they let me use the cedar. On the other hand, if I had used cedar I likely would have been replacing them in about 10-15 years. Conversely, when I bought this particular piece of property there were still bo-dark posts used for house foundations on it that were easily over a hundred years old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dcara, post: 803944, member: 473"] Just to be sure... You might want to check with your funding partner on material requirements. My Cost Share money has always came from the USDA's NRCS branch and they always required that new AND approved materials be used. On one of my fencing projects last year their specification for installing 2 3/8 inch steal posts for braces specified the posts be mounted in a 3ft deep 3 ft diameter hole filled with concrete! The concrete would have cost twice as much as the post. The spec for wood posts (which I ended up doing) was that the hole diameter only had to be 6 inches larger than the post with a minimum brace post diameter of 6 inches. Line post minimum diameter had to be 4 inches. In both cases the holes had to be inspected before and after post installation. Tamped in dirt had to used with the wooden posts. And even though their published spec said I could use either Western Red Cedar or Bo-dark (also called Osage Orange) the inspectors said they would only sign off on the project if I used Bo-dark. Otherwise I would have to go through an appeal process to protest the field inspectors recommendation which would take quite awhile. I had/have plenty of both on my property from which to make the posts but finding Bo-dark trees with 8ft branches of the required diameters that were straight enough to make posts was at least 5 times as much work as it would have been had they let me use the cedar. On the other hand, if I had used cedar I likely would have been replacing them in about 10-15 years. Conversely, when I bought this particular piece of property there were still bo-dark posts used for house foundations on it that were easily over a hundred years old. [/QUOTE]
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