On Mon 11 May 2009 07:25:57p, HeyBub told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

My house backs up to a 200' wide power-line easement. The houses on
my side of the easement all had their fences installed with metal
posts. No a single fence came down during hurricane Yikes! The
houses on the other side of the easement all had wooden posts.
Almost all of them were flattened.

Are you referring to the vertical posts in the ground? What size
were the wooden posts? In our area they usually use pressure-treated
4x4's. In almost all cases, whether pre-bilt panels or built in
place, there are three rails supporting the vertical pickets.

Yeah, the vertical posts. Best I could tell (from 200' away) they were
the standard 4x4s. The laterals were 2x4s, but it didn't make any
difference. The wind snapped the vertical posts at ground level.

Truth be told, I suspect the posts were more than fifteen years old,
mostly rotted, and required only a puff to tumble them over. Of course
galvanized metal posts set in concrete don't rot, so...

Yes, they probably had some rot damage. Our pressure-treated 4x4's are set
in concrete and we live in the desert, so any type of wet rot would
probably not happen. BTW, how do you attach a wooden fence (I'm assuming
something like a stockade fence) to metal posts? Curious. Thanks...

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Wayne Boatwright
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