Posted by K Effective on September 18, 2019 at 19:23:22 from (99.184.108.123):
In Reply to: Setting posts posted by Grandpa love on September 18, 2019 at 05:02:08:
As you can imagine, owning a grape vineyard, with line posts every twenty feet and rows on eight foot centers, I have some experience with posts and wires. Seems like 250-275 posts per acre is about right.
We have some that date back to before my Grandparents bought this farm in 1946, some I installed new in 1984. I am replacing most frequently the ones installed in 1984- 3.5 inch treated round pine posts set on a clay hill. They are rotting off like they were set in concrete, which they kinda were. Often, I simply cannot pull the stump of a broken post for two or three months in the summer without rain. We used a sprayer to haul water the autumn we drilled the original holes.
Part of the vineyard has steel posts in the line, ranging from 6 foot long to 8 foot long, the short ones will pull up when that area is wet in the spring- not all the way out, but enough to lean over.
Right now I am traveling each row, checking for broken wires and posts, replacing and repairing prior to harvest. I hope to get through them all in the next couple of weeks, and bale hay, and our refueling outage starts next week, so 72 hour weeks at work (nights). And digging out the darn giant thistles that evaded all weed sprays, too. And, I probably should put the rest of the equipment away...
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