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Yet another fence question--for Northern and Ca folks
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1020231" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I have an acquaintance in Maine USA that has asked twice over the last few years for a solution to his posts being "heaved" out of the ground by frost. Since I'm in Texas, with a 2" frost line, I don't have a clue.</p><p>Anyone else having this problem up north or in Canada?</p><p>Here's his problem:</p><p><em>we have several hundred cedar fence posts ranging from a few inches to over a ft in width in the ground from 2 to 3'. I dug the holes with a post-hole tool and then drop the pointed posts in the holes then pounded them in another 6 to 12" then pack the holes with the dirt I removed, packing it in with my big fence post hammer, about a 50 lb hammer). Plum the post as I did all that. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>But then every spring when the frost comes out of the ground I have to re-pound just about all of them. Some come out of the ground quite a bit, sometimes 6 to 12". my frost line up here is 4' deep and I am sure that has something to do with the posts growing up out of the ground.</em></p><p><em>OK now---anyone have any luck with getting the posts to stay in the ground over the winter?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Any ideas?</em></p><p><em>I can't do that anymore, the back just doesn't let me even pickup the hammer never mind pound posts every year.</em></p><p></p><p>Any ideas on how to easily and cheaply get the posts back down and more importantly, how to keep them there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1020231, member: 18945"] I have an acquaintance in Maine USA that has asked twice over the last few years for a solution to his posts being "heaved" out of the ground by frost. Since I'm in Texas, with a 2" frost line, I don't have a clue. Anyone else having this problem up north or in Canada? Here's his problem: [i]we have several hundred cedar fence posts ranging from a few inches to over a ft in width in the ground from 2 to 3'. I dug the holes with a post-hole tool and then drop the pointed posts in the holes then pounded them in another 6 to 12” then pack the holes with the dirt I removed, packing it in with my big fence post hammer, about a 50 lb hammer). Plum the post as I did all that. But then every spring when the frost comes out of the ground I have to re-pound just about all of them. Some come out of the ground quite a bit, sometimes 6 to 12”. my frost line up here is 4' deep and I am sure that has something to do with the posts growing up out of the ground. OK now---anyone have any luck with getting the posts to stay in the ground over the winter? Any ideas? I can't do that anymore, the back just doesn't let me even pickup the hammer never mind pound posts every year.[/i] Any ideas on how to easily and cheaply get the posts back down and more importantly, how to keep them there? [/QUOTE]
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