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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

I need to install three 4x4 posts to support grape vines. There'll be some
sort of wire stretched horizontally between the posts, as done at
vineyards.
However, I'd prefer NOT to pour cement. Reason: This project could be a
total failure if the deer decide grape vines=salad. They ate my neighbor's
car last week, so anything's possible. So, if I'm using 8 foot posts,
should
3 feet under the ground be sufficient?

The deer ate the car? :-)

These deer are outrageous. They apparently got their hands on a list of
"deer resistant plants" (bull****), and decided to turn it upside down.



Vinyards often have a diagonal wire to a post in the ground at each end
of a line of posts, which keeps the posts tight in the line. You might add
more wires at right angles to make a wire grid that keeps the posts from
wiggling from side to side in the line, without any digging at all, using
high-tensile wire with circular racheting fence tighteners.

Nick


Yeah...I thought I might have to use at least one support wire at each post.
Maybe more. Then, I'll need a string trimmer. I had this dumb idea that I
could construct the whole affair in such a way that I could mow really close
and not have to buy another tool....

....never mind.