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My fence was put up in 1978. Stockade fence 6 feet tall. The first year it started falling/leaning. My husband called the company back and had them install galvantized posts. Problem solved and the fence still stands straight.
As others have pointed out, the force of the wind on the fence is huge. The posts may be not deep enough, or improperly set, or rotted, etc. If you are really as utilitarian as your name says, you could brace the fence as follows: drive stakes (metal or wood) into the ground a couple feet away from the fence, leaving just a couple inches sticking up above the ground. Then run diagonal braces from the stakes up to the fence posts. Done properly, this will add a lot of strength against the wind. However, (a) it will be ugly as sin, (b) you'll trip over them, (c) it'll be a pain to mow around. On the other hand if you have, say, bushes along the fence, you might get away with it.
Hey there. If the fence is leaning let’s say, to the south put large fist size pieces of solid rock (old chunks of concrete) on the north side of the post touching the post and pound them in with a sledgehammer until the post is plumb.
You are 12 years late. It fell over 5 years ago.
And fences never lean anymore (not since president Donald Trump passed the anti-leaning act of 2019), so nobody can use information on this :-)
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