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Do you get on with your neighbours? If no, then I’d be careful and stick to the regs. But as said earlier, just get five foot panels, sorted.

The adult sticks are about 60”, I use intermediate which are a bit shorter. They are much longer than field hockey sticks, because a player flexes the stick when shooting to get power, over 100 mph from a top player. Yes that’s a four foot fence, 3” by 3” posts. I’ll have six 6 by 6 foot...

Ice hockey sticks.

:LOL: Sorted. I’ll send you my address. :) A female friend grew up on a dairy farm in west Wales, and I’m sure she could carry a cow under each arm.

You don’t have to mess around with a post in wet concrete, just do it properly. The clamps and supports ensure that the post is perfectly aligned and at the perfect height: Notice the gutter round the workshop, and the missing downpipe! I reckon that water flowed down onto the base of the...

Indeed. The top of the concrete was pretty much flat and covered with a few inches of soil. Also I noticed my neighour has a gutter with a downpipe hole, but no downpipe. That hole is approximately above the first postpost, and the garden slopes downward. So it it is possible that there is an...

You’ve lost me. The new posts are set in fresh concrete which ends above ground level and slopes downwards away from the posts. So basically the post emerges from the top of a small mountain. I discovered Durapost recently, basically metal equivalents of concrete posts. But they are easier...

Are you saying the concrete absorbs water, or the water lies on top of the concrete? I assume the latter. The fence is nearly done now, six panels in, four to go, woodennposts in concrete, with the top of concrete exposed to the air, and domed to shed water.

They are manageable, but expensive and ugly.

How do you lift and adjust 45 kg?

I can’t lift the posts. 100mm by 100mm 2.4m long wooden posts are a struggle.

Turns out the rear panels were 5 foot high, hence 3 by 3 inch posts were okay. Over the last two weeks, I’ve put up five 6 by 6 foot panels with 4 by 4 inch posts, an easy job, one more 6 by 6 foot panel with a 4 by 4 inch post, and five 5 by 5 foot panels with 3 by 3 inch posts to go. I don’t...

The question was about why one set of posts set in heavy clay soil are still solid, whereas those partially in concrete are rotten. Concrete is out because I cannot lift 8 foot concrete posts, and I cannot lift into place 6 by 6 foot panels. Wood posts set in concrete are easy to set, look...

Last winter some of my rear side fence came down, and a few weeks ago I started replacing it. I’ve put up five panels, five to go. Six 3” by 3” wooden posts have been in place for 18 years or more, buried in heavy clay, and show no signs of rot. 18 years ago my neighbours replaced four panels...

Last year I replaced the front side fence between my neighbour’s house and my house, using 3” wooden posts and 4 foot overlap panels. It looks very neat. Early this year some panels and posts in the rear fence with the same neighbour came down in high winds. So I need to replace them, and I...

Thanks for the suggestions. In the end I used a long spirit level and a metal square. It wasn’t hard to do, it just required a bit of care. The outside edge of the finished wall is accurate to +/- 1 mm, and the greenhouse frame fitted perfectly.

Can’t you remove a brick length each side of the post, remove and replace the post, then repair the wall? Mixing mortar is easy enough. The tools you will need don’t cost much.

I can’t answer your questions. I’ll find out, a few minutes digging should suffice. Yes this would be a solution. A winch and rope would shift one once dug round. It looks like this might be fixable, albeit hard work. Probably best wait for the neighbour to croak, he’s old, and a reasonable...

Thank you. I’ve discovered that removing the posts from the holes would not be so hard, but they are too heavy to carry away. Oh well.

Thanks.