Isle of Lewis Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 What kind of ground are you all on? we have no depth, on a good day a foot soil then into hard grey clay or soft peat, many stones some about a foot wide and maybe 3 ft down at times, I see youtube videos of petrol augers drilling out strainer holes! What a dream, I think they would break here! If we don't get down then postcrete is very often the only solution. Postcrete is very expensive here! Wait for it.... £8 a bag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbell Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 we have everything from peat to solid blue slate, it can just be the luck of the draw sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontrowfencing Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 We have a mixture of solid rounds us, depending where we are working, probably on the whole are quite lucky, but we have a seam of chalk running along the Lincolnshire wolds which is one of our worst areas and a few areas of ironstone. We do use post Crete but not really on the agricultural work, more on domestic and commercial if required. But I wouldn't like to be using it at the prices, we buy a pallet at a time from a quarry near us and we are £2.65 per bag + vat. Petrol augers we do have one, but not often we use it, but when we do its invaluable. We also have a kanga with an auger on it and that is a great bit of kit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 We have a mixture of grounds here, we have got patches of flint and chalk though. The biggest problem we got is tree roots...........lots and lots of tree roots, that's if you can get under the trees with a bumper, in the first place, the other problem is that it is quite hilly here, oh for some lovely flat root free ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAWYERFENCING Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 We have a mixture of ground here,from heavy clay to running sand and my least favorite solid sand stone for which we get a digger and breaker and concrete the posts in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffencing Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 we buy a pallet at a time from a quarry near us and we are £2.65 per bag + vat. How many bags of postcrete to a pallet? Seeing as I alaways seem to need two per post hole, its perhaps the way to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontrowfencing Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 The pallets we buy have 50 bags on them. In plastic shower proof bags not the paper ones that get ruined after one rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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