On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:19:31 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

|On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:24:49 +0100, Steve Lowe wrote:
|
| I'm doing a bit of hard landscaping in the back garden putting in some
| Marshall's woodstone posts and sleepers. the posts are 150x150mm x
| 600m long and need 200mm of their depth concreting in.
|
|Care to look at you units? A 600 metre post (some post!) with only 200
|milli metres in the ground? The only thing I'm moderately sure about is
|the 150 x 150 being a nominal 6 inch square post. B-)
|
|I'm not a great fan of concreting in timber posts, unless the bottom of
|the post is left open to let any water out. Otherwise the post ends up
|sitting in the water contained by the enclosing concrete. A decent bit of
|timber well treated will last in the ground anyway. You don't see
|telegraph poles set in concrete. B-)

But you see a lot of ex-telephone poles much worse for wear on the back of
lorries. The one which carries our phone line bit the dust after only 45
years.
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