On 31 May 2005 08:52:48 -0700, "Barnsey"
wrote:

Could i have some recommendations for the perfect mix of ballast to
cement. This will be for timber fence posts into soil.

You don't actually need concrete.

A few weeks back a guy came and fenced some fields neer me, he dug the
holes with a long crowbar, and by hand, he put in the post, and them
packed what came out back in. These were the coner posts, the middle
ones he just knocked in with a maul.

We do have very stone dirt though.

Rick