wrldruler wrote:
Great ideas.

What would you recommend I use as a concrete form to make this well-
drained socket? What do i pour the concrete around?

aemeijers, do you think Tractor Supply would have something I could
use as a form?

Thanks
If not, you could make something out of sheet metal, or use a piece of
the PVC stuff they sell for skinning fenceposts at the fancy houses
horsey people like. A real fence company might have a rust-proof
something you can leave in the ground, probably made by Simpson. Dig the
hole extra deep, put gravel in the bottom, drop the socket in, and pour
the concrete around it, squaring it all up as you go, of course. My
mailbox post sits in something like that. I haven't pulled it out of the
ground, because I keep forgetting to buy the replacement.

Other idea- If you have a way to round off the bottom of the post, a
piece of pipe would work. Are you patient enough to do it by hand with a
spokeshave, after lopping the corners off with a handsaw? It'd be
trivial on a lathe, but few people have ones that long. 2nd other idea,
if you can end-drill the post- put a steel pin in it, and use a smaller
pipe in the ground. The panels will keep it from rotating. Lotsa ways to
do it- sometimes it helps to watch a few McGyver episodes first. :^/

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