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I'm with the dirt that came out of the post hole school on this. As said tamp well, a level to keep the post plumb might help, as well as a wire, or string to make a straight line.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Kahuna
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6 pages easy by 10 pm cst!!!! Right, because every sub division collie dog owner that set 6 posts in their whole life has to put his/her ASTM My Neighbor Was An Engineer 2 cents in.
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Campfire Kahuna
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In before.....nail your empty swanson turkey pot pie foil tins on the sky side of the post butt
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Campfire Ranger
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6 pages easy by 10 pm cst!!!! Right, because every sub division collie dog owner that set 6 posts in their whole life has to put his/her ASTM My Neighbor Was An Engineer 2 cents in. You are right, maybe I should start to read about how many rocks you put in a pillow case when you have to drown a litter of kittens
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I never knew this was sooooooo hard. The last post setting thread 6 months ago went 30 pages
When I was 14,15 yrs old- we sawed down honey locust, dug a hole 18” deep with post-hole-diggers and dropped the raw post in there. Jammed a bunch of rocks in the with a tamper rod and piled the dirt back in there. Next hole...lather rinse repeat
Now today, with treated, same thing but I use concrete in there. 15 years here in Rain Every 3 Days Tennessee, they are not rotten yet.
Maybe I need some master Sgt stripes for all the posts I’ve set. Every time we moved every three years in the army, we had to fence 20-30 acres for my mother’s dumb ass horses.
I love horse,s as pets!!!! And everything that revoles around them!!! Dont ride em.... Ever. Nice expensive high maintenance useless pets. Just look at em and never think of all the cost associated with em. They are awesome to have as pets!!! Especially when others get sucked into the mandatory vortex of them as someone else,s dream pets. LOL!!!!! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/RZcDTPYK/da8f297c6e66aeb76d0e45f94e58cf61.jpg) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Useless and burden" Could be added into this somehow for giant pet mode..... LOL!!!!
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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6 pages easy by 10 pm cst!!!! Right, because every sub division collie dog owner that set 6 posts in their whole life has to put his/her ASTM My Neighbor Was An Engineer 2 cents in. You are right, maybe I should start to read about how many rocks you put in a pillow case when you have to drown a litter of kittens One for each kitten and 2 for the pillow case Important note- make sure it clears the trees before you heave it out the window over the bridge at traffic speed.
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Campfire Ranger
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6 pages easy by 10 pm cst!!!! Right, because every sub division collie dog owner that set 6 posts in their whole life has to put his/her ASTM My Neighbor Was An Engineer 2 cents in. You are right, maybe I should start to read about how many rocks you put in a pillow case when you have to drown a litter of kittens One for each kitten and 2 for the pillow case Important note- make sure it clears the trees before you heave it out the window over the bridge at traffic speed. Are you an engineer or did you stay at a Motel 6 last night?
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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There used to be an excellent post setting video on Martha Stewart’s YouTube channel.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Campfire Ranger
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There used to be an excellent post setting video on Martha Stewart’s YouTube channel. You owe me a keyboard dammit.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Campfire Tracker
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6 pages easy by 10 pm cst!!!! Right, because every sub division collie dog owner that set 6 posts in their whole life has to put his/her ASTM My Neighbor Was An Engineer 2 cents in. You are right, maybe I should start to read about how many rocks you put in a pillow case when you have to drown a litter of kittens One for each kitten and 2 for the pillow case Important note- make sure it clears the trees before you heave it out the window over the bridge at traffic speed. Who the fugg wastes a good pillow case on kittens?! Body in left hand, head in right, twist top that sumbitch and on to the next.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Wood is for city slickers. Oilfield tubing and sackcrete, be there for decades. Welding shop should have any size cap you’ll need so you don’t have to orange peel the tops.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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This thread has potential .
Only scottish folds and siamese kittens deserve the pillow case end all.....
LOL!!!
Hey Slumlord how times back in the day did you think about putting a Remingdog yellow jacket into " National Velvets" noggin???
Thats the movie that started your moms pet horse obsession I bet.
LOL!!!
Fess up man .
You know you wanted too......
Lol!!!
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I’ve set a few in 2B stone.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Set a schit load of pickets back in day.
Not wood , so Im totally off the meat of the basic subject matter as usual.
Single, double, and triple strand concertina barriers ( not fence)
All over this orb....
That count for anything?????
Even made up a poem long ago.
"An ode to concertina"
Schitt about bullet sparks in it.
Tracers going thru it.
FPL,s and FPF,s.
Organs dried on it hanging in the sunlight.
Body,s sagged over it.
Channeling into kill zone stuff.
Ect ect ect
Basic Dr. Demento stuff....
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Campfire Kahuna
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Set a schit load of pickets back in day.
Single, double, and triple strand concertina.
All over this orb....
That count for anything?????
Even made up a poem long ago.
"An ode to concertina"
Schitt about bullet sparks in it.
Tracers going thru it.
FPL,s and FPF,s.
Organs dried on it hanging in the sunlight.
Body,s sagged over it.
Channeling into kill zone stuff.
Ect ect ect
Basic Dr. Demento stuff.... I seen that happen on The A-Team
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Set a schit load of pickets back in day.
Single, double, and triple strand concertina.
All over this orb....
That count for anything?????
Even made up a poem long ago.
"An ode to concertina"
Schitt about bullet sparks in it.
Tracers going thru it.
FPL,s and FPF,s.
Organs dried on it hanging in the sunlight.
Body,s sagged over it.
Channeling into kill zone stuff.
Ect ect ect
Basic Dr. Demento stuff.... I seen that happen on The A-Team Never heard of em..... They ever lay down concertina along antitank ditch at NTC by any chance in a 150 man work party at night with a hit time on their azz ready to rock in the dawn with vizmod sheridans bearing down on em. Good times until you got the schits by a yucca bush in a pro mask and the CS is wallowing. Then after its all done for the day and the AAR,s are done. Time to go recover the concertina materials. Yep You guessed it. You will lay that schitt down again for the next defensive mission. Big old sigh of relief when the missions turn over to offensive ones. See ya later concertina. Until we have ta do breech ops for offense on ya.... Too easy doing that schit with well set up supporting fires direct and indirect. Repeat planet wide Training and real world... Good times.... Kinda...... LOL!!!
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Campfire Ranger
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I've done it both ways, set in concrete, and not used concrete. Have never been able to tell a difference. I have used crossties, treated posts, and cedar. As has already been said, I just dump the concrete mix around the post, pour some water in the hole, and that's it. If the ground is already wet, you don't need much water at all. JamesJr: When you didn't use concrete with what did you backfill? Thanks -tnscouter Dirt that came out of the hole.
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Campfire Kahuna
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This thread has potential .
Only scottish folds and siamese kittens deserve the pillow case end all.....
LOL!!!
Hey Slumlord how times back in the day did you think about putting a Remingdog yellow jacket into " National Velvets" noggin???
Thats the movie that started your moms pet horse obsession I bet.
LOL!!!
Fess up man .
You know you wanted too......
Lol!!! Yes I shot one of mama’s goats with that 788. Kept getting head stuck in the wire, kept getting out If you love something, set it free
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Campfire Outfitter
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I've got more than a little experience setting posts for fences, barb wire and high tensile electric. Those are loaded and as long as they are braced well in corners they work fine with simple tamping....we do have a sandy loam soil so that can make a difference, the sandy soil packs TIGHT.
For a non-loaded 4x4 post there's no need to do anything other than tamp....the quality of the pressure treat of the wood is going to make more difference on how long they last than anything.....someone will probably want them moved before the end of their useful life.
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Campfire Outfitter
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For your application , dig a hole as you see fit. Then tamp the dirt back in the hole about every 6-8 "
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