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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1600781" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>When I start to install the posts in the new part I will be digging the hole with an excavator. Those cottonwoods in the middle of the first picture are on the river bank. This area is an old gravel bar from the river. Rock too big for an auger and lots of them. The pole permit from the forest service only allows a maximum diameter of 6 inches. I went with a minimum of 3 inches. I put the smaller poles on either the bottom or top rail. I use to handle the RR ties by hand. Now they get put in the hole using the FEL on the tractor. If they need to be turned in the hole I use a Peevee to spin them. Hydraulics and leverage are a good thing. </p><p>There is the remains of an old corral about 10 miles from here. It is between old Highway 30 and I-84. I am sure that when they built I-84 that it cut that corral off from the pasture. All the RR ties are still there and a few of the poles. I am not sure when they built that corral but they built I-84 in 1962 so you know it was before that. The poles only last so long but here in the desert the RR ties seem to last forever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1600781, member: 498"] When I start to install the posts in the new part I will be digging the hole with an excavator. Those cottonwoods in the middle of the first picture are on the river bank. This area is an old gravel bar from the river. Rock too big for an auger and lots of them. The pole permit from the forest service only allows a maximum diameter of 6 inches. I went with a minimum of 3 inches. I put the smaller poles on either the bottom or top rail. I use to handle the RR ties by hand. Now they get put in the hole using the FEL on the tractor. If they need to be turned in the hole I use a Peevee to spin them. Hydraulics and leverage are a good thing. There is the remains of an old corral about 10 miles from here. It is between old Highway 30 and I-84. I am sure that when they built I-84 that it cut that corral off from the pasture. All the RR ties are still there and a few of the poles. I am not sure when they built that corral but they built I-84 in 1962 so you know it was before that. The poles only last so long but here in the desert the RR ties seem to last forever. [/QUOTE]
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