FENCE POST CONCRETE MIX

[Barnsey]

Could i have some recommendations for the perfect mix of ballast to cement. This will be for timber fence posts into soil.

[Christian McArdle]

I just use postfix bags. All premixed, just pour into the hole and follow with a bucket of water. I don't bury posts directly, though. I stick a special concrete in metpost to hold the timber above ground and delay the rot.

Christian.

[Barnsey]

Thanks for that. One reason i wanted to mix myself was to reduce the cost. I've got a lot of posts to do.

[Mike Halmarack]

I use the metpost method as already described. The concrete-in ones are sometimes not available, so I stand the pointy ones on their heads and make angled cuts into the metal of the spike with an angle grinder. Then I bend these newly made fins to a horizontal position. They combine with concrete really well then.

When I've dug out old, concreted-in wooden posts in the past, I've always been glad when the concrete mix used has been really weak on cement. It's a great relief when the concrete casing disintegrates into fine rubble with just a couple of blows.

-- Regards, Mike Halmarack

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[Christian McArdle]

How many posts? I've never found Postfix to be particularly expensive. It is also very quick and easy, which could be very useful on a big job. There's no measuring to be done, no mixers required.

Christian.

[Rick]

You don't actually need concrete.

A few weeks back a guy came and fenced some fields neer me, he dug the holes with a long crowbar, and by hand, he put in the post, and them packed what came out back in. These were the coner posts, the middle ones he just knocked in with a maul.

We do have very stone dirt though.

Rick