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I use Quickrete Fast Setting. Just use factory instructions. Bell the bottom of hole if in a frost area.
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Just mix in a wheelbarrow then put in the hole around the post. Do it right the first time. This right here! Rick
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I use Quickrete Fast Setting. Just use factory instructions. Bell the bottom of hole if in a frost area. Frost? Up here? 🤨😂
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Posts are in and solid, using krp’s suggestion.
Thanks all.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Steel post that hold a chain across a driveway. Glad to hear it's steel posts. I just dug up and replaced some cedar fence posts set in concrete. My recommendation for cedar fence posts is, if you'll outlive them, don't set them in fricking concrete In that case, brackets set in the concrete to hold the post above ground level is the way to go
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Make sure it's legal.
If that sort of thing interests you anyway.
I am MAGA.
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On Tiktok they just dump the dry chit in the hole and let God do the rest.
Which has to be better than digging a 1ft deep hole and chucking 3 baseball sized rocks in it and refilling it with just sand. Like they do in Texas.
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Posts are in and solid, using krp’s suggestion.
Thanks all. How long did it take for them to setup, just curious.
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Just mix in a wheelbarrow then put in the hole around the post. Do it right the first time. Yep, thats the best way.
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It works, just doesn't seem right to me, and I don't.
Setting clothesline posts, I drill a deep hole, pour footings with rebar sticking out.
The next day set the posts on the footings, plumb them up, pour, confirm plumb.
Ours have been in 20 years, one backed into by a car, all the lines tore off by a car,
they are still plumb.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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On Tiktok they just dump the dry chit in the hole and let God do the rest.
Which has to be better than digging a 1ft deep hole and chucking 3 baseball sized rocks in it and refilling it with just sand. Like they do in Texas. If you ever pull a post set this way, you'll find a big azz solid chunk of concrete attached to the bottom, just like if it was premixed.
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Posts are in and solid, using krp’s suggestion.
Thanks all. How long did it take for them to setup, just curious. Alternated mix and water in 3 if 4 lifts, and rodded each lift. The top was set, but not 100% cured. Posts are solid.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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