JDMCQ's Garage

evening garage

just pulled 5 posts on my fence and put 5 back in.

 

I hope it wasn't the same 5, otherwise that'd be a very productive yet unproductive day

 

sup krap, sounds like a slightly productive day


i ended up powerwashing the truck and underbody as well as clean my guns from the hundreds of rounds that went through them last weekend... everything was filthy

 

i had to replace the 5 posts because the frost had pushed them up. Luckily the concrete was crap and they came out fairly easily.

 

hide the stains by flipping them towards the neighbors, haha

 

so chain link metal posts?

 

nope, 4x4 wood posts 30" in the ground. Went back in at 42" deep.

 

fack, use the truck to yank them out... and did you try to make the bottom wider so that the cement isnt like a wedge that wants to go back up?

 

I've never cemented fence posts, and we live in Canada, I know some people do it though...

 

can't get the truck back there with out tearing up my yard and the neighbors yard. I had to buy a high lift jack to pull the posts.

the walls are straight up and down. no wedge either way. They shouldn't come out now. The concrete was crap. When we put them in, a lot of the holes filled with water. The only way to put the posts in was to dump dry concrete in. It didn't cure right and was really weak. This time they didn't fill with water because its been so dry. They won't be coming out.

 

I worked for a fencing company in college. We cemented wood posts only. Chain link posts were driven into the ground.

 

you have faith, so let me know if a few years

 

I've put in thousands of posts and never had problems. This is one of the few times i've had a post come up on me. It is a tough area because it has so much water.

 

no cement for the barbed wire fence around the grazing fields, but then again they are alot bigger with many more posts

 

few years

 

yes, that too. they are wider at the bottom than they are at the top too.

 

we always just pack epic amounts of dirt and pressure around the post so it stays rock solid, the ones we put in 10 years ago at my parents house, I can full body check em now and they dont even budge

 

Sup B