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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
eden wrote:
I need to dig 5 holes for 1m high picket fence - which of these tools works most effectively? I use one of these - amazing bit of kit. £20 for 5 holes, but you could sell it afterwards. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Builders-Too...er/invt/501584 Also is concreting them def the best option to do as opposed to packed gravel/earth? Postcrete is the simple & quick answer http://www.wickes.co.uk/Special-Mort...te/invt/221100 -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
Soil is in ex-brickfields area so am assuming with be clayish.
Dave - I'm in Medway too - where's best place to buy Postcrete? and would half a bag be enough per post? |
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
Sorry, just noticed you suggest Wickes!!!!!
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:
eden wrote: I need to dig 5 holes for 1m high picket fence - which of these tools works most effectively? I use one of these - amazing bit of kit. £20 for 5 holes, but you could sell it afterwards. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Builders-Too...er/invt/501584 Yep that's the one I used. |
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
eden wrote:
Soil is in ex-brickfields area so am assuming with be clayish. Dave - I'm in Medway too - where's best place to buy Postcrete? and would half a bag be enough per post? Wickes in Chatham or Bats in Strood. If you want to borrow my post hole digger you are welcome. For a 1 metre post half a bag would be fine. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
On 29 Apr, 00:20, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote: eden wrote: Soil is in ex-brickfields area so am assuming with be clayish. I borrowed an auger to use in clay soil in West London; dead easy, like drilling putty. Suitably impressed, I borrowed it again to use in gravelly soil in Essex; utter rubbish. I got a long narrow spade, intended for digging cable trenches and have used that since. I dislike Metposts since you have little control over their direction and tilt once you've started driving them in. You can always adjust a post in concrete a little. I've used Metposts set in concrete. |
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posthole spade or post hole auger/borer?
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:47:22 -0700 (PDT), Onetap
wrote: I dislike Metposts since you have little control over their direction and tilt once you've started driving them in. You can always adjust a post in concrete a little. So do I, If I'd used Metposts on my fence I would have gone straight through a plastic gas pipe, at it was I used a concrete post and it missed by an inch, last fence in the run so it could have been much worse -- |
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