always nice weather after a storm

[stevej37]

Very Nice...I'll call when ready!

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Cuz I’m always looking for holes to drill...

That's dirty talk there.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Cuz I’m always looking for holes to drill...

Now if I had a setup like that I'd be breaking into farms at night and putting up fences everywhere.

As a kid I'd dug hundreds (hundreds and hundreds ) with just a crowbar and skinny shovel. Very hard work.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I burnt the broken posts today...I might burn the boards also...start out new in the spring.

If the boards are still good, just reuse 'em (shorter spans).... cut off the ends where the nails are too.

Smart, lazy, cheap, and awake .... you may pick only three

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Cuz I’m always looking for holes to drill...

You musta got hungry and needed a sammich or a drink.... something is missing in yer pic. That's mighty nice !

[GH85Carrera]

When we moved to our house, the yard had stockade fence in the back yard. Typical cheap builder quality. He used untreated wooden posts. Of course the fence post rotted out pretty quickly.

I don't have a tractor, and it was usually just one post at a time that broke off so renting anything was not cost effective.

I bought the longest lag bolts sold, and brought out my impact wrench to drive the bolt down into the remains of the post. I used an old metal edger blade as a giant washer and ran the bolt head through my chain, and then another small lag bolt to hold the chain on the end of the old broken post. A piece of wood as a support, and I used the old post as a lever, and just pulled the old rotten stump from the ground. Most of the time the concrete came up with the stump.

Just put in a new metal fence post, and reattach the panel.

One of my neighbors saw me doing it, came over and helped. Then he mentioned he had a few broken posts. So he "let" me use my rig and I helped hm replace a few of his posts.

Finally the fence panels were shot, so we just paid a crew to yank all the old posts, and replaced it all with metal fence posts. The new posts are T-posts and will outlast me.

[URY914]

Need to go back and change the title of this thread. It went from a weather topic to how to replace fences topic. I'll never be able to find it two years from now when I do a search.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

by default..isnt it always nice weather after a storm? i mean, its not storming.

Yes and No. If it's a hurricane, well, yes, the weather after a hurricane is better than the weather during the hurricane for sure. But if you've lost power during the hurricane, then the weather after a hurricane sucks, because it's generally HOT and HUMID. We were without power for 5 days after a hurricane. Our floor was sweating because it was cool tile and the weather was so hot and muggy.

But, the weather after a storm that is ushering in a cold front, now that's spectacular weather, cool, crisp, dry air and usually sun and blue skies. Yep, weather after a storm that's leading a cold front is usually fantastic.

Sorry to derail your post hole digging discussion.

I've been lucky enough to never have to use a post hole digger of any sort, manual, automatic, etc.... I'm hoping to keep it that way, but if I do have to dig a hole, then I'm going to shoot for powered digging.

[stevej37]

Just digging 2 or 3 is easy with a manual digger....unless you hit rocks or chunks of concrete!
KC's suggestion of digging new holes and changing the fence board lengths is great...will make it a lot easier.

Now..I just have to find an easy way to paint it next summer! (about half of the entire acre of fence needs it)

[KFC911]

We have a type of soil here in the piedmont region called sandrock, along with clays and granite formations. It can be almost as hard as concrete and give big ass foundation equipment a fit.... otherwise, manual post hole diggers are just fine. And of course... if you hit a decent size rock.... you just cuss .

[stevej37]

We have red clay...almost as hard as rock. And it sticks to the digger or shovel like glue.

[stevej37]

It's almost 11 pm here and the outdoor temp is 63F.
That's higher than most summertime night temps here.

[stevej37]

Overnight wind gusts of over 60mph here again.
Another day of limb and branch pick-up.

[stevej37]

Where is all the fri**en wind coming from??

[GH85Carrera]

It got a bit windy in Oklahoma yesterday.

Not just blow over a fence windy, but it blew over a moving train! Really, a train!

https://www.news9.com/story/5f3284cf77af560bb89efcb5/strong-winds-derail-train-in-ellis-county-

[stevej37]

^^^ Wow! I wonder if some of the cars were empty...and when blown over started the others also.

The wind has been continuous here since early morning...incredible.

[Tobra]

It is always nice weather after an earthquake too, hmm.

Saturday is supposed to be a high temp of 40*F, which is a severe cold snap around here

We have about 4 feet of great soil on top of hard pan. The hard pan is some sort of clay that does nothing but make sparks and bend your pick axe if you try hand tools. It looks suspiciously like concrete, but concrete is like cotton candy compared to it. I am told the tool of choice for digging a hole in it is dynamite.

[GH85Carrera]

Our yard is 100% clay. Just clean out the organic bits, and make bricks of it. When wet or even damp is is just sticky gumbo. You have to use a scraper on every shovel full, and then a scraper on the scraper, to scrape off the scraper. If dry, it is just about like digging through a brick.

I remember watching a episode of this old house and Bob Vila showed how to use a post hole digger. He was digging in soft black farm soil and made it look easy. It does not work that way here. I have a post hole digger that I can use in the many flower beds we have after 22 years of putting compost and peat moss in them. It is real obvious when we get through the good soil layer and back to the clay. And no, I don't put in a fence post in the gardens, my wife wants a new bush or plant put in after she has me remove some old plant we put in once before.

[stevej37]

^^^ sounds just like our clay..lol
The good thing about it is that it helps the topsoil retain moisture...it can't drain through the clay.

[stevej37]

the wind has subsided since this morning....and the temp has dropped 30 degrees F
From 63 to 33 in the same day.