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Posted by Tony Hwang on August 12, 2006, 1:12 am
Jim McLaughlin wrote:
> Wood fence.
>
> Somewhere between 20 - 25 year sold.
>
> Pacific Northwest, Willamette Valley.
>
> Old wooden post rotted out.
>
> New 8 foot pressure treated post.
>
> Dug out all the old post, which was 2 foot buried in dirt, with six foot
> above ground.--
> -had about a 4 inch wide "collar" of cement / concrete around post, going
> down only about 8 inches. In other words, bottom of 4" x 4" post was at
> least 16 inches, below concrete mass.
>
> Rotted out in only 26 years. Sheesh.
>
> Anyway, many hours (don't ask) later, really good post hole down about 28
> inches below grade, and all of rotted post out. (Bless neighbors who own
> their own post hole diggers, which double as clam digging machines on the
> Oregon coast.).
>
> Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. Hole dug, post placed. Post plumbed.
>
> So we decided to use stone in the hole instaed of concrete.
>
> Pulled the post, pourded stone, tamped stone with a with 2" x 4".
>
> Put post in. plumbed and leveled post.
>
> Poured a lot more stone in 2" pours, tamped. Poured 2 inch lifts, tamped.
> Wound up with about a 2 inch sloped cone above grade around the pos.
>
> I have about 20 more posts to fix in this yard. I'll be doing one a month.
>
> I'm wondering If I havre made a mistake by using concrete vs. stone vs.
> anything else
>
> Thoughts / comments about concrete vs. stone vs. anything else....?
>
>
> TIA
>
> Jim McLaughlin
>
> Reply address is deliberately munged.
> If you really need to reply directly, try:
> jimdotmclaughlinatcomcastdotcom
>
> And you know it is a dotnet not a dotcom
> address.
>
>
Hmmm,
At my last house I built a fence with cedar 100%. No cencrete, no stone
or anything, just dirt but I hade sure water runs away from post by
piling up the dirt in dome shape. I moved from there after 20 years,
nothing was wrong yet, just needed another coat of stain.
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