Post Supports

I had hoped for at least a comment. Will I have to wait 15 years for someone to spot it on one of the mirror sites?

Chris

Ah. Perhaps the tone was not quite right. Should've tried: "Contemplating building a shelter/prison for illegal immigrants.." and then following with the post dilemma.

Personally, I'd go for the concrete-in option.

To drive in fencing spikes straight, you need to make a hole in the ground first with a bar.

If you go back 10 years or so... we had a discussion. I suggested using a strip of steel, slotted and bolted into the post foot and then concreted into a small pad.

The idea is that the post foot is not in contact with the soil and does not rot so readily. I got the idea from a rather grand pergola at Henley which used thick stainless steel!

A slight variant: You can but post feet (that grip the post like the spikey ones) that have a flat base designed to be bolted down onto concrete. You could dig and fill concrete pads and then bolt these feet onto them.

I used those for the gate in my back fence and they worked well. I used these

I had a bar, and drove it in. As it happened that still left a solid enough rock to block and then bend one arm of the crossed spike.

Chris