On Apr 23, 3:55 pm, Jon wrote:

I need to replace the fence because my dogs are escaping the yard.

That sounds like a dog problem, not a fence problem.

Your dogs don't know their boundaries, their "territory", and that is-
whatever you tell them it is.

I'd try training the dogs for free before I replaced what I assume to
be a perfectly good fence. A determined dog might just dig under a
fence he can't climb over, and then where are ya?

Perhaps you have already tried that and failed and assumed that since
you couldn't do it, it can't be done. It can, and chances are best
that you can do it.

I'd trying looking for advice in some kind of dog training group on
Usenet (no, I don't know) or other such type forum. If the general
consensus there is that it can't be done, go elsewhere. I have (just
1 left of 2, and actually the wife's, and spoiled ****ing rotten) Jack
Daniels Terrier, and you won't find a more dominant/
independentstubborn and nasty-mean breed on the planet. If I trained
them to stay in the yard, so can you.

OTOH, if you want to replace the fence and are using the dogs as a
contributing factor, have at it.

I think your 4x4 posts would work OK for chain link, probably, buried
*¨÷* of their length deep with *all* the dirt tamped back in the hole,
level, no cheating. The corner posts I'd guess would best be half
buried. That's how we used to set them back on the farm anyway,
stretching 3 strands of barbed wire.

I don't know squat about chain link but, if you're planning to die
there, and the shrubbery is going to overgrow the fence, you might not
have to stretch it ****-tight.

Just as a former farm boy (just like in TPB!) and not a fence expert,
I can't think of a single reason to use concrete/cement. Posts rot,
then you've made some real work if equipment can't get in there.

A post properly set in dirt (most dirt, not every single composition
of "soil") will stand plump (oops) plumb until most if not every
species of post fails due to rot.

And if it doesn't, c/c probably wouldn't have helped much , unless it
was a ****load. (that's an estimate, and guess)
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- gpsman