Flood waters washed down about 350' of 5 strand barb wire fence. The fence is intact on the ground. There is a hole where the posts were set. Thinking about digging a post hole and backfilling with crushed limestone. Don't want to relocate the post or use concrete. Any suggestions. Thanks BO.
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Janicholson
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Sand will work as well and might be easier to handle. Use a 5/8chunk of rebar about 4' long to tamp it in. Jim
BO, I will assume this 350 ft of fence is in a low lying area or near a creek since it washed out.
I an guessing the post you speak of are just steel T-post. Go to a local steel pipe yard and buy 2 & 7/8 steel oilfield pipe but in approximately 11 feet length. Go the a Rent-All place and rent a big air compressor, (the kind used to run a jack hammer!) also rent the steel post driver that is used with the compressor. Simply drive the 2 & 7/8 on the same splits as the rest of the fence. 5, 5.5, or 6 feet of the 11 driven into the ground. Then use the old T-post and fill the splits just in the area where it washed out. re tie the fence and you are well on your way to being done. Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
I an guessing the post you speak of are just steel T-post. Go to a local steel pipe yard and buy 2 & 7/8 steel oilfield pipe but in approximately 11 feet length. Go the a Rent-All place and rent a big air compressor, (the kind used to run a jack hammer!) also rent the steel post driver that is used with the compressor. Simply drive the 2 & 7/8 on the same splits as the rest of the fence. 5, 5.5, or 6 feet of the 11 driven into the ground. Then use the old T-post and fill the splits just in the area where it washed out. re tie the fence and you are well on your way to being done. Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
I reset about 2000ft of 5-strand T-posts in 2006. Then again in 2008. I guess it depends on what kind of ground they're drove into. In my case, it was wetland. I didn't fill at all, I just spent most of time pulling all the floatsam and jetsam off the wires after it tried out, then I would walk back and forth along the fence line about 10 posts at a time pushing each post as far as I could and using my boot to push mud in the hole that the post left. Eventually they stand straight again. I wouldn't bother with any type of fill because you know what that's going to amount to during the next flood: absolutely nothing.
If this doesn't seem reasonable in your ground, just wait for a good rain and try it. I do the same thing on my high-ground fences in clay after a rain. They get knocked over by cows reaching for alfalfa in the spring, but posts feel about the same effect as a flood
If this doesn't seem reasonable in your ground, just wait for a good rain and try it. I do the same thing on my high-ground fences in clay after a rain. They get knocked over by cows reaching for alfalfa in the spring, but posts feel about the same effect as a flood
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