Tony Williams wrote:
In article ,
Tim Downie wrote:
I'm in the process of taking down a hedge and putting up a new
fence and I've found that in some areas, the ground is
waterlogged to within a couple of inches of the surface.

Perhaps worry about the waterlogging first.

No fencepost is going to sit securely in
waterlogged soil.

You say Leylandii in a later post. They would
not have survived sitting with their feet
permanently in water. So where has the water
suddenly come from?

The waterlogged part didn't have a hedge, it's at a low point in our
neighbours front garden/drive and there's clay not too far beneath. There
was a wobbly panel fence over the boggy stretch (vaguely secured with
metposts).

Is there a new source of
water, (a leak or something?), or is it bad
drainage, or what?

Nah. It's just Ayrshire. ;-)

Tim