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Best way to set a wood post,, get someone else to do it...

Sawmill cut locust 4x4's. If they are dry, you will need to drill nail holes. For me.

For the OP.

I would drop a flat rock or bigger in the hole first, tamp the dirt, or limestone dust,
Or cement. Never used the foam, it's probably fine.
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Cap or bevel the top so water runs off.

When they are junk, my $20 says,

They rotted right at the ground level,
on top,
Or where the sign held moisture on them.


They most likely will not rot below ground.

Excellent point.

Duh.

Even girls know.

Do your friends tease you when you wear that hat out?

When cement bedded post rot and need to be replaced, it's a bitch. I've cursed the original builder of the decorative fence around my yard many times. See if one can find some durable wood (osage), and tamp them in.

I helped put in a couple of miles of 5 strand fence about 40 years ago on the family place, and it is still standing. Hardwood posts, the bottom ends liberally painted with creosote or used sump oil, put into the hole and the soil progressively tamped in using the blunt end of a heavy fencing crowbar. The subsoil is heavy clay on most of the place, and that is what goes back into the hole first, keeping the topsoil to go in last.

I've also put in garden fencing the same way, but using treated pine, and one I did 20-odd years ago is still sound. I suspect that the hardwood will outlast it though.

No one bothers to "tease" a real man..................................








girlie hat or not.

Bob spelled backwards is Yror.

Threaten to hold somebody down and stick Valsdad’s fungus filled ,uncut toenails in their mouth ......


Unless they dig and set the post for you





Happy Trails




Bob

#Rory?

That might get 'er done.

I'd do it to myself, as I've got some hole what need dug and some posts set.....................



but that would be foolish.

Has Kellory chimed in yet?

No .....
That was " Tom"

Lol!!!

He has been busy setting multiple daisy chained bent over saplings.
With jackknife killing points to get some does and fawns for the freezer.
Homonculli( sp?).....
Has been giving tech advice to him, while monitoring his marine wifes online cbd oil with and without THC on his phone app.

Must depend on where you're at, what's available and what sort of fence is being put up?

Helped my kinfolk "fix fence" in the spring time more than once, going back 40 years ago. Split locust posts and three or four strand barbed wire. Most of those fences were four strand in dairy cow "day pastures" and three strand for the "night pasture" closer to the dairy barn..Apparently the holsteins got rowdier during the daytime?

Springtime the ground is still wet and ain't hardened up yet. Poke a hole in the damp earth with a heavy digging bar (pointed end, not spade end). Spin the bar around to make an inverted cone-shaped hole, insert sharpened post, set that piece of locust with a post maul. If my uncle had located a handy locust grove, we cut/pointed our own posts, but he usually just bought a pile of pre-pointed posts. We liked that option better.

Because if we had to point 'em ourselves, that meant using the belt-driven buzz saw that went on the front of one of his Farmalls. Flying chunks of locust were never really appreciated. Some of those posts I helped set over 30 years ago, are still there.