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Guy at the hardware store in Red Deer told me my fence posts were set too shallow, and I've been chewing on it all month
About three weeks back I was loading 8 bags of quick-set concrete into my truck at the hardware store in Red Deer and this older fella in a grease-stained jacket asked what it was for. I told him I was resetting a leaning corner post on my back fence, and he said "buddy, if you only go 2 feet down in this clay, she'll lean again by next spring." He said he's been fencing around here since the 80s and always goes 4 feet with a wider hole at the bottom. I went home and measured my other posts and sure enough most of them are barely 2 feet in. Now I'm wondering if I should dig up the whole line or just fix the one. Has anyone dealt with this clay and does the deeper hole really hold better?
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aaron7401d ago
Read somewhere that clay soil shrinks and swells with the seasons, so a shallow hole basically works its way loose over time. Going deeper gets you past that top layer that moves around so much. Fixing just the one post might buy you a year, but the rest will keep leaning one by one.
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