On the other hand, East of the Cascades, the ground freezes almost every year. I like to try to use railroad ties for corner posts and put them as deep as I can--I prefer at least 3 feet. And then I brace corners with steel pipe.
Much of my ground is quite rocky, and a real pain to try to dig. I mostly use T posts these days and pound them in until I can no longer see the spade and that seems to work just fine. I try to pound posts soon after the frost is out of the ground, since they go in the easiest at that time. A few places where I have wanted to fence had almost no soil to anchor a post in, so I have built up rock piles around the posts, and in a few spots, have filled steel barrels with rocks and tied a post to the barrel. Not pretty, but it will hold up a fence for as long as I care about. Lord knows I have plenty of rocks!
I hope to do some fencing this Spring, if something else doesn"t get in the way. Digging post holes right now would be really tough, as the ground is frozen--I don"t know how far down, but at least a foot or two. It is almost like concrete. Maybe with a fair sized backhoe, but it would take all day to dig one post hole by hand. No thanks, I"ll wait for warmer weather!
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