Why Dig Post Holes????

Truth being around here it use to be all Wood Post but People burn the woods to open it up for Pasture.So if you don't rake away from your fence you lose your post.

Me I don't have to worry about it I put in T Post and Rock Corner Post,won't Rot or Burn.Around here T Post are $2 apiece.And my Fence is Goat,Hog tight.

Cattle are easy! I have a Neighbor that don't have a post one,he uses Barb Wire,tacks it to Trees going through the woods,if he comes to a spot there isn't a close tree he put a couple Stays in.

big rockpile

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I see. More steel, so more expensive, than star pickets, which in cross-section just look like a letter "Y".

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A nice straight strong three or four wire fence all around your property is a great thing, and looks nice.

I don't think stringing wire on trees is much of a good thing to do. I guess if you have to then you have. OK, its your (their) land so you can make a fence how you want. I wouldn't do it that way. Well maybe at the odd tree that was not taken from the fence line before I started, and was right in the way.

Here we use wooden posts. Treated if we can afford it, or tammarck, or whatever if we can't.

What was the queston anyway?

Really, why talk about it or do it? Digging is a bear.

Alex

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I just read this thread. I never knew that there was another way to put up fence other than sharpen a post and drive it in! I've put in fence that way in gravel, clay, and rocky soil.

Huh, you learn something new everyday.

Stacy in NY

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I live in the eastern mountains of PA. Here you could drive a post in by hitting the top about 3-6 inches. We have clay and shale mixed with the odd large stone......15-16 inches across. if you don't dig you don't get a fence. Would be nice to do it that way tho.