What do you fill a post hole with?
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Quote from Youtube video: Once you have dug your post hole add about six inches of quikrete all-purpose gravel into the bottom of the hole. Then compact. And level the gravel using a post or 2×4.
How do you remove rotten fence posts from concrete?
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Quote from Youtube video: You just double up your posts to give you a bit more of an angle. Let's pull more post out. And then that should be ready to just pull out by. Hand and there you go.
How do you secure a post on wet ground?
To properly set wood posts in wet ground, you need to use concrete and pressure-treated wood. There must be enough depth to penetrate below the frost line, and adequate back-fill for drainage. Done right, posts will last for years in any kind of soil.
How do I remove a post from the ground?
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Quote from Youtube video: Use a digging bar if you have hard-packed or rocky. Soil. Then wrap the chain around the concrete. And use the slip hook to latch the chain to itself pull the chain tight.
Can you backfill posts with sand?
Even if you know the general soil type for the area you’re going to fence in you’ll usually have to dig a few holes to find out what you have to work with. If the soil type you’re working with is sand, sandy loam, gravel or a combination of all three, backfilling with the native material will work just fine.
What do you backfill a fence post with?
Many fence builders use concrete for each post they set, but there are advantages to backfilling with gravel, and in some circumstances, soil may be the best option. You can avoid backfilling altogether, and get superior drainage, by bolting posts to galvanized holders set in concrete.
How do you remove old rotten fence posts?
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Quote from Youtube video: So you can chip it off pull the old fence post. Down. Got to chip it out. And then dig it out by hand.
How do you remove a wooden fence post from concrete?
You can dig around the post hole, and then use several long pry bars to lever the concrete footing out of the ground. If the wood left inside the footing is not completely rotten, then you can sometimes screw a large eyebolt into the wood and then pull it out with a rope or chain.
How do I delete old Postcrete?
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Quote from Youtube video: Simply move the soil from in front of that post. Over into the hole where the other post was. Now I'm simply going to take my shovel. Come in behind to post and push it forward just like that.
Can you reuse fence posts with concrete?
Posts with concrete at the base are the most difficult to remove and reuse because the concrete base is larger than the post, which makes pulling it up through the ground much harder.
How do you remove a fence post?
The trick to removing a fence post is to apply force upward, so that you’re not fighting the strength of the earth on either side of the buried post. This can be done with a jack or machinery, or with a lever and some elbow grease. One of the best post-pulling techniques comes from Family Handyman reader Mike Barnes.
How do I make my 4×4 post removable?
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Quote from Youtube video: Just take a drill bit drill holes on an angle about 1/2 inch. And then I've got actually put some inch. And 1/2 drywall screws or anything like that.
How do you make a removable fence panel?
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Quote from Youtube video: Two. These two panels flush. Like right here so that one piece isn't one panel isn't hanging over either to the front or to the back of it I just put a 2×4. Right here and then there's another one.
How do you make a portable fence post?
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Quote from Youtube video: I am going to build a portable fence post normally what I do is I make my fences three feet high all right yes okay so let's cut the tall. One out. Then what I do is I make the next one one foot.
How do I build a removable garden fence?
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Quote from Youtube video: Pull it up over the edge. So what we would have done maybe make these just a little bit longer than 22 inch boards maybe go 23 inches so that it can go to the middle of the board.
Can you build a raised bed against a fence?
You can build a raised bed anywhere in your outdoor space, and building along a fence allows you to keep the beds out of the way and creates a border area between the yard and fence.
How do I build a cheap raised garden bed?
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Quote from Youtube video: And we also used untreated wood i have friends that make their garden beds using untreated wood some say have lasted them two years some five years some are going on seven years.
