how do you guys set your post

rick165 · Mar 16, 2013

do you drive your end and brace post or do you dig them with a digger.i dig mine and put in a bag of quickcrete then drive all the line post.was thinking about trying to drive the end and brace post but was concerned about getting them straight and deep enough in the ground
RICK

john in la · Mar 16, 2013

Around here you are not driving anything 3 feet into the ground bigger than a T post unless you have some serious driving machinery.

We dig our end post holes and flood with clay and water once the post is in. A rain cap gets added to the top of all wooden post or they will not last very long.
We drive line T post in with a heavy pipe driver.

VicS · Mar 16, 2013

My neighbor has a post driver, I think a 500lb weight and is 16ft tall.(has a hinge and a cly in the middle) It will drive almost anything. We drove 10 in hi-line posts 2yrs ago in the spring 5 ft. Last one I set I dug the hole with a backhoe 5 ft deep and backfilled with Ca 16 chips, like they blot oil roads with. Was solid from the get-go. Vic

JD Seller · Mar 16, 2013

I drill a 4 inch hole and drive an eight inch post into the hole for corners to be straight. he line post are 4-6 inch just driven in. I have a Shaver HD 16 driver.

welled deers · Mar 16, 2013

Here in central minnesota rock baskets are very common for corner posts. Form some woven wire in about a 4 foot circle and fill it with rocks. A lot of us have more rocks then corners. See link below

http://www.barbed-wire-fence.com/rock-basket-fence-structure.html

JWalker · Mar 16, 2013

I set 18 post last weekend for corners end and gate post. I used an auger with a 9in bit and had to manually clean them enough for the post to fit. I used railroad crossties ($9ea) and 2 8X8s. I drilled the shalowest one at 39 in and the deepest one at 53 in. They are mostly in sand but several of them hit clay. Once I put my cross brace and wire up I do not think they will move in the next 25 years.

pete black · Mar 16, 2013

have you ever noticed that a square post is less likely to lean or be pulled over than a round post?

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 16, 2013

I dig all of mine with a 12" auger at least 2' deep and fill with crushed limestone or river gravel. It sets up as good as concrete and don't hold water. I use Tee posts every 10' and put in a wooden post every 100' or so. If the spot is not too rocky I push the Tee posts in with a front loader and Pipe.

JWalker · Mar 16, 2013

john in la · Mar 16, 2013

I saw a place in west texas that used rock basket post like that. Ground was so rocky guy said you were lucky to get 1 or 2 end post installed in a full days work.

uncle henry · Mar 17, 2013

I dig all of mine with a 12" auger about 3 foot 6 inches with 3 80lbs sacks of quikrete

scotc · Mar 17, 2013

We drill and set an H-brace, use 8 foot posts, put them in as deep as we can get them, which is about 4 feet.

kyhayman · Mar 17, 2013

Most of our soils have intermixed flag stone, 5 inch diameter rock a couple of inches thick making up 30 or more percent of the soil with bedrock at 30 to 60 inches so you never know how deep or straight you can drive a post. I did everything with a 9 inch Cat rock auger on a Lowe power head on the front of the skid loader. 48 inches deep on the corners and 36 inches deep for line post. Corners I clean with the auger best I can, line posts I back-screw the auger out so they are not clean. Then drive everything into the drilled holes with a Shaver driver. Corners I'll backfill with DGA if I've got time or concrete if not. Line posts if theres time just let them set a couple of months. The rock chips from the drilling sets them tighter than concrete after 4-6 inches of rain. Best system I've found. The auger and power head was the best 2500 dollar fencing investment I ever made.

old harv · Mar 17, 2013

Around here we push everything in with an excavator. We lay out all the posts where we want them first, then stand them up and the excavator pushes them in. It has to be really dry in the summer to not work. If we are quick after the frost comes out in the spring we can push them in with a front end loader. We have a soft clay with no rocks at all. Fences are hard to keep tight here, because they sag when the ground is soft. Every year or two I drive around all my fences in the spring and re-push in all the posts with the front end loader.

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