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UR a crazy fugger............too funny

Talk about bad advice.
I'm just hoping the bracket folks didn't read the OP.

Go ahead with you plan. Make some kind of form, get cement
6" or more above grade. Taped the top so water runs off.
Your post will never rot off from the water.
It will rot in the zone where soil meets air.


Look at an old rotted off post.
The very top, where rain soaks in, is rotted.

A couple inches above garde rot starts, it goes a couple inches into the
soil/cement. The wood below that? Probably still solid.


Being in Alberta, you might want to consider the frost line posts.
If not, liquid water and rot won't have a chance to be a problem!

Is this a high water table or just a lot of rain? A post set in mud, concrete or not, is going to need some cross bracing when the wire is stretched.

boy there is some funny chit in this thread. Tamp crushed rock and call it good. Guess a lot of folks have never built fence

I understude the posts were to support a chicken shelter, not support wire tention?

No way this thread could be let to slip into our archives without some chicken porn being included.

Let’s make a chicken run meet commercial codes!!!!

4x6???
Can’t you get any 2x12’s and laminate them? This thing could snap if you use a measly 4x6.

You're probably spot on the OP did inform us that he has a huge Cock.
A Cock such as his could get outta hand...

Based on the original post and the work that has already been done. "Home Depot" or "Lowe's" and pick up a piece of 4' x 6" Sonotube cut it in half for 2' lengths... place them in heavy duty trash bags inside your holes allowing 4" to 6" above ground level. Soak or brush your post with creosote, place in hole and pour concrete. I'd bury some slab wire mesh reinforcement and put a wire mesh roof on it if Coyotes are a problem. But its a chicken coop not a bridge abutment...



Phil

You could ask this crazy place how to blow your nose , and get a ridiculous number of conflicting replies.

If I'd have known this would get this many responses I'd have been more detailed in my original post. All I really wanted to know was if the concrete would set, probably shouldn't have mentioned the chicken run at all. You are correct in that these posts won't see any wire tension. They are part of a hare-brained idea I have to try to preserve/restore my old barn, and they happen to be inside the chicken run that I am building at the same time. If all goes to plan they only need to last a few years. I do appreciate all the helpful responses.

Actually, all the OP ever asked was if concrete would set in a wet hole.
I think he has the rest his schit together and knows exactly what he is gonna do..

Concrete will set fine. For something like a coop, I’d just use a 5gl bucket in the bottom of the hole.

No wire tension, but if I understand correct, you are going to side
load them to support the barn. Same thing.

Deep, strong, no brackets.