The Never-ending Post Hole Augering Drama at Lupin Farm

[lupinfarm]

What do you guys do to set your fence posts? Our last fenceline was pounded, but this one we are augering. Our posts are 4" ...I've seen people gravel 25-50% of the way up, and backfill with soil (tamped), and people doing gravel 25%, soil 25%, a layer of concrete, then soil on top of that.

How do you guys do it?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Our drilled ones are drilled, post in, some dirt in, tamp, more dirt in, tamp, etc. until filled. They are drill quite a ways though.

We have clay ground and this seems to work well for us.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

What do you guys do to set your fence posts? Our last fenceline was pounded, but this one we are augering. Our posts are 4" ...I've seen people gravel 25-50% of the way up, and backfill with soil (tamped), and people doing gravel 25%, soil 25%, a layer of concrete, then soil on top of that.

How do you guys do it?

We cemented the corners and at the gates....we grow rocks here....ha ha !! so we just backfilled and tamped it down and then more back fil and tamping it down.....

 

[lupinfarm]

What do you guys do to set your fence posts? Our last fenceline was pounded, but this one we are augering. Our posts are 4" ...I've seen people gravel 25-50% of the way up, and backfill with soil (tamped), and people doing gravel 25%, soil 25%, a layer of concrete, then soil on top of that.

How do you guys do it?

We cemented the corners and at the gates....we grow rocks here....ha ha !! so we just backfilled and tamped it down and then more back fil and tamping it down.....

haha!! we grow rocks to! ... we have at the least 2.5 ft and at the most ..who knows! At the house I was able to dig down 4 ft, part of the field has a rock shelf on which i will buck fence.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Ha ha ! Our fence line is crooked on the one side because it was the last line to do and the guys using the tractor were getting so angry when something broke....luckily hubby s a welder

 

[lupinfarm]

Ha ha ! Our fence line is crooked on the one side because it was the last line to do and the guys using the tractor were getting so angry when something broke....luckily hubby s a welder

We're renting a hydraulic tow behind auger from home depot cause the guys with the tractor are too expensive! plus are booked up all season lol.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Good idea....our neighbours helped us out....hubby did some welding for them in return...

 

[lupinfarm]

Jeallousss, our neighbours are all cow farmers and don't have time lol

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

uh uh ..LOL..we had to ...as in hubby and I fill in the holes ....

 

[lupinfarm]

hahaha... we're doing it all. drilling and back filling. I mean, ours is just going to have 4 lines of electric on it.