Re: Fence posts in wet location?
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As a sidenote...there has been considerable construction on a major highway extension nearby as well as a lot of work on the exiting roads. One of the main exits runs alongside a very swampy area so they shored up the ground for the road by augering 50+ holes into the ground about 3 ft diameter perhaps 50 ft deep then placing tubes in and filling them with cement. They also added some kind of metal, corragated sleeves to it...one side remains swampy, the other dry.
What I'm trying to say, Mark, is you should drill some 3 ft diameter holes by 50 ft deep in your back yard, then fill them with cement.
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Yea you might want to get the 'extra long' post hole digger handle extensions.
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You use accelerators and mix it hoter'n hell. It's done all the time. We're just taking about a fence post, so don't get too carried away by comments made by engineers. you could also get some 2" PVC and drive it in.
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Mike, I'm sorry to sound dense, but what do you mean re: the 2" PVC? As an outer sleeve of sorts?
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Mike, I'm sorry to sound dense Hey, leave the denseness to me.
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Share the love densnicity.
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Hey, wasn't "densnicity" the name of..........
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Sorry about that. Been busy lately. I just meant to drive some PVC pipe into the ground and use that for your post in the wet locations. 2” or larger. Probably 3” now that I think about it some more. You can screw or mount fencing to it just fine. If you get schedule 80, it drives into soft dirt fairly easy with a pole driver. A pole driver is basically a chunk of heavy black pipe with handles on the sides and capped at the top. You just set it over the post, lift, drop, over and over again till the post is driven as far down as you need or you can’t drive it any further. Great thing about PVC, is you can bend it later if goes down crooked. Just use a weed burner to heat it (don’t get too close or you’ll burn the pipe), then you just carefully bend it. I can give you a more detailed explanation than that if you go down this road……
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UH-OH!! Stewie and a weed burner. That sounds like a good combo
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Wait never mind. I can't let myself finally fall into that trap. I don't know what you're talking about, but I bet CV doesn't have the wedding ring to prove it.
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