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Dachshund

05-16-2006 18:43:44




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Anyone ever used concrete fence posts? Might be able to come across a few for nothing. Just wondered good, bad, or ugly? On another note - anyone ever made your own?




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Mike (WA)

05-17-2006 08:15:59




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Dachshund, 05-16-2006 18:43:44  
We used some of them, mostly for braces and corners, when I was a kid. Very hard to handle, needed to be inventive to attach wires and braces, but held up well. Local concrete purveyor used to have a bunch of forms for them, and when the redi-mix trucks would come back from a job with some concrete left over, would pour some (after putting rebar in the form). Must not have been much demand for them, as I haven't seen any around for years. The extra concrete is now going into "ecology blocks", BTW.

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Harley

05-17-2006 05:55:32




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Dachshund, 05-16-2006 18:43:44  
Looks to me like they'd be awful hard to drive staples in to. Harley



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msb

05-16-2006 21:43:51




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Dachshund, 05-16-2006 18:43:44  
Concete posts are by far the longest lasting kind of posts ever used in this area,bar none.



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jhill

05-16-2006 19:27:26




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Dachshund, 05-16-2006 18:43:44  
Omega Farms near Webberville Mi has miles of concrete fencing. Omega was a big fancy Black Angus farm for many years all the fencing is concrete with two horizontal rails and concrete posts. It has been ther for as long as I cna remember going back 40 yrs or more. Each piece has several rebar inside. This fence was used to contain angus cattle. Unfortunately the farm has gone downhill in recent years ( different generation in charge?)but the fencing is still there.

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Easy

05-17-2006 05:21:55




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to jhill, 05-16-2006 19:27:26  
I live near Fowlerville, and heard some years back that some German investor bought that farm. Maybe a rumor? I know some property near me is owned by investors with names like Chang or Woo.



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jhill

05-17-2006 11:13:57




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Easy, 05-17-2006 05:21:55  
Might have bought it to get the bloodlines from the cattle but it sure isn't what it used to be.



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CK from ON, Canada

05-16-2006 19:01:51




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to Dachshund, 05-16-2006 18:43:44  
Concrete is a great material under compression, as I'm sure you know, but is very weak under tension. Not sure what kind of fence you are considering, but for livestock that may push the fence, the posts would not be terribly strong. Without rebar, the posts would definitely crack and fail. Another big problem with this idea is the method of attaching wire, rails and braces. My father came up with this idea a few years back, and we made a few posts of concrete and I am not wild about them. I'd rather put in a cedar fence twice than mess with concrete.

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jimNCal

05-16-2006 22:30:42




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to CK from ON, Canada, 05-16-2006 19:01:51  
Many of the vineyards here in Central California have concrete end posts set at an angle to 'preload' the top wires that trellis the vines. The amount of side tension about harvet time must be incredible. Some have been in place 35+ years that I know of. Yet, they still stand. I was given about 200 of them a couple of years ago and I'm still finding great uses for them. 2 pieces of 3/8" rebar is the difference between mere decoration and usefulness tho. VERY difficult to handle and store/move also.

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JDknut

05-17-2006 04:20:21




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 Re: Concrete fence posts in reply to jimNCal, 05-16-2006 22:30:42  
Hard to nail the fence to, too. :-)



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