"mm" wrote in message
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| On 23 Mar 2007 17:59:10 -0700, "RicodJour"
| wrote:
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| DominicSantini wrote:
| "Michael Bulatovich" wrote in message
| Any thoughts / opinions from those with experience on
| a fence project ?
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|
| my bad, thanks to all those who have replied so far.
|
| the property is in Ocean County, NJ.
|
| i'm not sure how to classify the soil. it supports a
| lawn of kentucky blue grass.
|
| the fence plan is for nothing fancy (just plain old
| cedar or vinyl panels). in other words, no wrought iron
| fencing (incompatible w/the privacy barrier function).
|
| to the other poster, no, the one contractor went out
| of his way to explain how he puts his posts 10' under
| grade. so i think he'd be using a 16' piece of wood.
| thinking it over, i agree that it's more marketing hype
| than substance.
|
| the other contractor (i don't have the quote in front
| of me at the moment), but i believe he said 3' under
| grade (depth of the post).
|
| i just want to be better prepared to separate the
| BS contractors from the ones with a legitimate plan
| that will conform to solid engineering practices.
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| The 10' deep contractor - either you misunderstood the whole time he
| was going out of his way to explain it to you, or he thought you were
| _really_ stupid. The difference in strength/stability between a post
| sunk 3' in the ground and one sunk 10' is on the order of 2%.
There's
| no benefit and a **** load more work.
|
| Tell you what. Ask to visit one of his job sites so you can see them
| dig a 10' deep fence post hole. Post pictures.*



|
| I don't know much about fences, but I'd like to see the 16 foot fence
| posts. Sound expensive.


they are called " telephone poles"
put your name on the list at your local town hall.
they will give them to you for free as they come available.



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| Retardo
|
| * I won't be holding my breath.

I wish you would
for about 20 minutes.
|