Please Fence Me In

[billroper]

Ruby made another escape through the wretched section of the fence today, but happily trotted right into the minivan when Gretchen opened up the door. This all has made getting the fence fixed rather more urgent, so I have selected the vendor that I liked better and he is coming to get the contract signed and collect a deposit tomorrow morning.

We are replacing a large section of fence and repairing the rest. All of the new posts will be steel posts that are designed to be clad with extra boards to cover them up. Supposedly, this will reduce the number of dead posts in the future, which will make future me very happy.

None of this is anything resembling cheap, but I inherited some money from my father's trust last year and this is a really good use for some of it.

The sooner the yard is properly fenced again, the happier I will be.

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[hrrunka]

Here on the edge of the woods on a cool damp north-east facing hillside in the Cotswolds, the previous owners of the place set up a bunch of pretty wooden posts with their feet in concrete. Very few of them remain, and I don't trust those to last long. It seems nothing kills wooden fence posts quicker than setting them in concrete. If you have to use wood then you either put a timber post with its foot above ground on a steel base, or else drive a (well pressure-treated) stake straight into an augered hole in the ground. If you really want them to last a decade or more then you have to set concrete posts in concrete....