Imagine the look on my face when...

Bret · #1 08/13/13, 02:44 PM

...I was hand digging a post for a sweepgate before the cattle chute. I knew that I needed an eight footer at least and nine feet would have been better. I grabbed a post and drove some staple around the bottom prepping to quickcrete it in.

I had to first to clear away six inches of limestone, crushed limestone, geotextile fabric and then all of the damp heavy clay. The last few inches were tough but I said to myself that it will easier to dig now then when you have the post concreted in there. Yah yah yah, this conversation goes on all the time.

Imagine the look after I tossed a shovel of limestone in the hole and then dropped the post in and the top of the post leved off just above my belt. "This time, you've gone to far." I pulled the post out and measured it. Don't know where that seven footer came from, but I'm sure I had something to do with it. I work much harder than I have to.

copperkid3 · #2 08/13/13, 03:47 PM

Probably happened last night when you thought you were snoozing

"and sawing logs". . . have you been diagnosed as a sleep walker yet?

Harry Chickpea · #3 08/13/13, 03:55 PM

You can come dig holes over here anytime...

Ozarks Tom · #4 08/13/13, 05:12 PM

No idea how old you are, but we may have been separated at birth.

Like me, have you also been diagnosed with CRS?
(can't remember er, stuff)

Bret · #5 08/14/13, 09:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry Chickpea

You can come dig holes over here anytime...

That's what I need. More practice. When I was a kid, this is one of a million things that I said I wasn't going to do when I grow up. A sign that I have not grown up?

Bret · #6 08/14/13, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ozarks Tom

No idea how old you are, but we may have been separated at birth.

Like me, have you also been diagnosed with CRS?
(can't remember er, stuff)

I have a photographic memory. I just have not learned how to use it.

jefferson · #7 08/14/13, 12:05 PM

I have same problem Bret. I was born with a photographic memory; just some one forgot to put in the film.

where I want to · #8 08/14/13, 02:07 PM

If it were me, I'd just go out and buy a long post. That's show that hole whose boss.

mmoetc · #9 08/14/13, 05:02 PM

Measure twice, dig once?