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TIL my grandpa's trick of packing fence posts with dry gravel beats my $14 tube of quikrete any day
I used to dump 80lb of quikrete in every post hole around my place in Boise until my grandpa made me try his way last summer, dry gravel tamped in 6 inch lifts with a scrap 2x4, and after 2 winters none of his posts have budged while 3 of my concrete ones are already leaning, so has anyone else ditched the concrete bag for gravel and how deep are you going?
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michael_patel2d ago
Funny how the cheap old way keeps beating the fancy new way, same thing happened when I switched from store bought compost to just letting leaves rot in a pile. Gravel drains so it never frost heaves, I go 3 feet here in Idaho and tamp every lift hard.
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phoenix_singh2d ago
3 feet of gravel in Idaho, that's the whole answer right there.
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