[TheForge] setting fence posts

Bruce Freeman freemab222 at gmail.com
Tue May 26 08:02:55 EDT 2009


...or if you're going to use concrete below the frost line, why use it
above the frost line too?  Drill your 48"  holes, set the post in 6"
of concrete at the bottom, and refill with dirt.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:45 AM,  <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:
> Why set these in concrete?  We never set fence posts in concrete - we just dry pack the soil back in in shallow lifts.  If you can get all the soil back in the hole, then you are not packing it tight enough and using too big a lift before packing.
>
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Bruce
NJ

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