[TheForge] setting fence posts

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Call it a livestock fence..fake up a chute and call it a holding pen?

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
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> On Tue, 26 May 2009 wmullett at bright.net wrote:
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>> Why set these in concrete? We never set fence posts in concrete - we
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> because that is what the county requries for chain link fence. i agree
> it does not make any sense especially in an area zoned agriculture. if
> it was a livestock fence or a field fence it would just be creosote
> soaked 6 to 8 inch wood posts sunk 48 inches down and the dirt tamped
> back in the hole. the common green painted steel t-posts are at most 12
> inches in the ground.
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> all i am attempting to do is give my dog a fenced area where he is able
> to run. harley, a chow/collie mix (mother was a chow and father was a
> collie) does not stay close to home if he is let to run. so he needs to
> be fenced. right now he is tethered to long runs using aircraft wire
> cable and chains.
> 
>> 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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