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Post by Chuck on May 26, 2006 14:39:07 GMT -5
For years we worked our garden aroud some stumps. This year I finally got them cleared out and hauled them off. Before  After  |
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Post by Washkeeton on May 26, 2006 22:12:03 GMT -5
Really nice guys. How did you get the area so flat. looks almost like it was dozered. lol
Nice fence to keep out the critters.
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Post by Kristianna on May 27, 2006 21:07:13 GMT -5
Wow, that looks great! We really need to fence our garden in - we already have a cat traipsing through. ugh!
That must have been some hard work, though, to get the stumps out.
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Post by longrider on Jun 13, 2006 22:18:28 GMT -5
ya know chuck, you could move that thing and have a whole lot of fun using a half stick of dynamite- all with half the effort!
i hate moving stumps:)
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Post by Ted Clayton on Jul 18, 2006 0:34:28 GMT -5
Chuck, this might oughta be a separate topic, but I see in the 'after' pic that you are using local poles for fence posts (naturally..), and wonder if there is anything folks on remote homesteads can do to help preserve posts?
In Norway, they got wooden churches 900 years old! They're black, from painting them with 'creosote'. In the old days, it would have been something different from 'modern creosote' ... something they produced on the normal 'farm-scape'.
Heard/tried anything along these lines?
Ted Clayton
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Post by Chuck on Jul 19, 2006 20:26:18 GMT -5
ya know chuck, you could move that thing and have a whole lot of fun using a half stick of dynamite- all with half the effort! i hate moving stumps:) We have three boys under 4yrs. that's enough noise. |
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Post by Chuck on Jul 19, 2006 20:32:41 GMT -5
Chuck, this might oughta be a separate topic, but I see in the 'after' pic that you are using local poles for fence posts (naturally..), and wonder if there is anything folks on remote homesteads can do to help preserve posts? In Norway, they got wooden churches 900 years old! They're black, from painting them with 'creosote'. In the old days, it would have been something different from 'modern creosote' ... something they produced on the normal 'farm-scape'. Heard/tried anything along these lines? Ted Clayton We have to take the fence down every fall or the snow would crunch it. I figure the post are easy to get since most are taken from the tops of trees I clear from our land. When the bottoms rot the rest is firewood. Our buildings are set on wood post that are wrapped in poly and last for years. I know of houses that were done that way 30+ years and still doing good. |
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Post by ugashikrobert on Jul 20, 2006 9:23:18 GMT -5
Chuck: The method you described of wraping your treated posts in poly or visqueen is a well proven method widely used. We did ours that way over 20 years ago and they are still doing good. The only problem is whatever you use for fondation over tundra it will settle. There is a new guy on the block in our neighborhood and when he first showed me his method I was very skeptical but have become a believer after I got involved with him building it. Basically it is a modified auger that screws into the ground and the upper tip has an attachement fitting for your support beams to set on. It also has very long threads on the auger so WHEN your foundation settles you can easily adjust it. The augers are cheaper and lighter than pressure treated lumber and if you get lucky the auger ended up like theres setting on light gravel and rock at about 5' He also used blueboard around the entire base of the foundation for insulation. All in all a very well done job. Will be interesting to see how it works over time but it looks very promising to me.  |
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Post by Washkeeton on Jul 20, 2006 12:15:39 GMT -5
Chuck before you set the fence posts back in the ground again next year char the ends. Dont burn them just char them. See if they dont last longer. Charing is suppose to change the composition of the wood there by making the rotting process slower. Just a thought.
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Post by Chuck on Jul 20, 2006 12:44:38 GMT -5
HI, this is Jenny. Wash, we don't pull the posts out every year. We just remove the fence wire so the snow doesn't crush it. Chuck was planning on charring the ends before he set the posts, but he talked to our neighbor, Bud about it. Bud said he used to do that because he heard that it would make things last longer. But he has found that things don't last any longer one way or the other. Since we needed to get the fence up quick because of the goats, Chuck decided not to bother with it this time.
Bob, sounds very interesting!
Jenny
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