More-time-than-money fence fix

[minnikin1]

Old wood post/barbed wire fence:
How to fix loose wooden fence posts - clay soil.

[big rockpile]

If their long enough drive them in.If not cut New and replace them.

big rockpile

[littlebitfarm]

Originally Posted by minnikin1

Old wood post/barbed wire fence:
How to fix loose wooden fence posts - clay soil.

Sometime when the ground is wet and the clay is soft dump a couple shovelfuls of gravel around the post. Take a small post or shovel handle and pound the gravel in around the post. Just like you tamp the dirt in around a new post. Will tighten it right up.

Kathie

[wy_white_wolf]

If the posts are loose from frost heaving you will need to drive them in deeper. Pray they don't end up too short.

If they are loose because of the clay soil being dry you will have to add sand or gravel around the post and tamp in. May need to do yearly for several years.

If they are loose from rotting away you need to replace them. Only way to know is dig one up.

[whiterock]

We go in between the old wooden posts and drive in new metal T-posts. Have put t-posts next to broken or rotted wooden post and wired em together also. As the wooden post rot away, there are still fence posts in place.
Ed

[texican]

I've gotten a sledge hammer and hammered in rocks and bricks around the post... sometimes using the handle to tamp in smaller rocks/bricks, down as deep as possible.

Every so often, dig a deep hole, and bury some weather resistant poles, logs, and nail. You can tell by driving down the road, the people who have more money than time, and the opposite. More time folks will have posts about three times as thick as normal... with every kind of post, and t post imaginable. More money folks have clean rows, with evenly spaced painted t posts...

Me, I use trees as much as possible... cheaper than posts or t posts, and I don't have to dig a hole...