The Never-ending Post Hole Augering Drama at Lupin Farm

[lupinfarm]

I put line posts in 4ft ..have clay soil. Corner posts same depth but "drill" a bigger hole and then concrete the entire hole.

Jealous! Most people around here can only go down 2.5 ft ...we're looking at hopefully 3 ft, which leaves is with a 5ft fence. Whereever we cannot sink 2.5-3ft we are buck fencing instead.

 

[lupinfarm]

GO FIGURE we must be the only people in the township to be sitting on a HUGE field of PURE HEAVILY PACKED CLAY... We had Dan come to drill our holes today, no can do until we get some more rain... the clay was so well packed that he couldn't get further than a foot down, good thing it's storming out today. If this doesn't work, we'll have to buck fence the whole place!

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Ugh !!! and I was complaining about rocks.....Suppose to rain off and on for the next week ...crossin' my fingers for you!

 

[TxMom]

If this doesn't work, we'll have to buck fence the whole place!

Dumb question from a former city-girl....what is "buck fence"?

 

[lupinfarm]

this is buck fence, it might have another name in your area...

http://z.hubpages.com/u/751474_f520.jpg

 

[lupinfarm]

Ugh !!! and I was complaining about rocks.....Suppose to rain off and on for the next week ...crossin' my fingers for you!

Ohh I know, It's storming as I type this!

 

[nightshade]

yea rain here means putting in more fence and burning more brush. It never seems to end

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Hubby is scrapping the mud out of the mud paddock tonight with the tractor ..Mud up to my ankles....I think another storm is rollin' in....tomorrow morning he'll be burning is brush also....

 

[cmjust0]

I've got a 3pt hitch post hole digger and a tractor for incidental posts (and holes in general), but when I really needed a bunch of wooden posts put in the ground I paid a guy $5 a piece to drive them in with a post driver. We put in 57 that way one morning before 10am...best $285 I ever spent.

When I do have to put one in here and there these days...yeah...3pt digger and a sack of quikrete. I don't tamp...not when concrete is $3.75 a bag. If someone offered me $3.75 to tamp a post in good and solid, I'd tell them to take a hike. I don't work that cheap -- especially not when I'm the boss!!

Time is money.

 

[lupinfarm]

I've got a 3pt hitch post hole digger and a tractor for incidental posts (and holes in general), but when I really needed a bunch of wooden posts put in the ground I paid a guy $5 a piece to drive them in with a post driver. We put in 57 that way one morning before 10am...best $285 I ever spent.

When I do have to put one in here and there these days...yeah...3pt digger and a sack of quikrete. I don't tamp...not when concrete is $3.75 a bag. If someone offered me $3.75 to tamp a post in good and solid, I'd tell them to take a hike. I don't work that cheap -- especially not when I'm the boss!!

Time is money.

unfortunately our cement is more like 4.75 a bag, and while we pounded our bottom field in, that is just not going to happen with this field... the clay is so packed that the posts would just split apart.