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Yet another fence question--for Northern and Ca folks
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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 1020367" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>Posts will heave considerably in wet ground. High, dry hills will heave posts, but only at a fraction to that of the lowland.</p><p></p><p>It's fun to watch many people's thoughts on how to prevent it from happening...</p><p></p><p>The comment I hear, and witness, time and time again, is 'PUT A BIGGER POST IN SO IT WON'T HEAVE!' Something along the lines of a heavier post won't move.</p><p></p><p>So funny. Not only does a bigger post (wider diameter) heave more, they also weigh more and are liable to fall over fairly easily when they push 2' out of the ground after a few years.</p><p></p><p>The easiest solution is to use T-posts in low-traffic areas - they don't heave, or if they do, I have never seen it happen in some pretty marshy areas.</p><p></p><p>In high-traffic areas, I would vote for either more, smaller diameter posts in a given area, or, as Bez's suggests, going below the frost line which is almost impossible here as frost is guaranteed to 4' and possible up to 6' deep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron, post: 1020367, member: 1682"] Posts will heave considerably in wet ground. High, dry hills will heave posts, but only at a fraction to that of the lowland. It's fun to watch many people's thoughts on how to prevent it from happening... The comment I hear, and witness, time and time again, is 'PUT A BIGGER POST IN SO IT WON'T HEAVE!' Something along the lines of a heavier post won't move. So funny. Not only does a bigger post (wider diameter) heave more, they also weigh more and are liable to fall over fairly easily when they push 2' out of the ground after a few years. The easiest solution is to use T-posts in low-traffic areas - they don't heave, or if they do, I have never seen it happen in some pretty marshy areas. In high-traffic areas, I would vote for either more, smaller diameter posts in a given area, or, as Bez's suggests, going below the frost line which is almost impossible here as frost is guaranteed to 4' and possible up to 6' deep. [/QUOTE]
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