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Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 06 1:46 pm Post subject:

I just can't wait to get started now

Thanks - they are all great tips. (Sometimes I wish I could just get a man in - but as mine has a bad back... to be fair he does tend to come over all macho when we finally accept we have to to do this job)

My sister had a wonderfull black eye after helping hold the post steady once - it was during the week she had to meet all her fiances important clients at a big agri show

creeper

Joined: 06 Feb 2006
Posts: 83
Location: Vale of Belvoir - Leicestershire

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 06 8:49 pm Post subject:
I wouldn't be without mine - but I have got carried away a couple of times and over lifted it and its caught the top of the post and fallen foward and knocked me on the head - at least I know my fillings are secure

Paddington Bear

Joined: 31 Jan 2005
Posts: 170
Location: Shropshire

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 06 8:00 pm Post subject:
Get the biggest you can (in width), we have two, one for stakes 3-4" as they are called here, an one for posts - 4"-6". There's nothing worse than using a sledgehammer for the final knock when the post splits from top to bottom!

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 06 8:01 pm Post subject:

Paddington Bear wrote:

Get the biggest you can (in width), we have two, one for stakes 3-4" as they are called here, an one for posts - 4"-6".
There's nothing worse than using a sledgehammer for the final knock when the post splits from top to bottom!

What do you use for 7"-8"?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46227
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 06 8:07 pm Post subject:
carried then ?

Paddington Bear

Joined: 31 Jan 2005
Posts: 170
Location: Shropshire

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 06 10:54 am Post subject:

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What do you use for 7"-8"?

Thinking about this one at present as we want to put up a couple of field gates sometime..probably back to a sledgehammer

and a bit of 4 by 2 to take the knock after digging a hole with a shoveholer.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 12:14 am Post subject:
You can hire them if you don't think you need to spend the forty odd quid - we got one for about seven.

Paddington Bear

Joined: 31 Jan 2005
Posts: 170
Location: Shropshire

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 10:34 am Post subject:
It's worth looking on ebay, we got one for around a tenner, as long as you can collect and save on the postage.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 12:40 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Paddington Bear wrote:

What do you use for 7"-8"?

I'll bet he gets a man in.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 7:38 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

...Remember to start the post off by whacking an iron bar into the ground where you want your post and wiggling it around to make a pilot hole (That's when the sledge comes into its own....).

An alternative starting technique involves the use of a hosepipe to soften/excavate at least the first few inches... (water permitting, of course), but even a watering can does help to loosen things initially...

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 7:57 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

An alternative starting technique involves the use of a hosepipe to

Steady on, old chap; you'll have those poor, desiccated southerners frothing at the mouth and in a frightful tizz, what with their hosepipe bans and all. What you've just suggested borders on pornography for the likes of Tahir!

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 7:59 pm Post subject:
...in fact I can see a market for a premium-rate phone number: "Dial 09XXX and let me talk moist to you..." Oh bum! I've probably set Northern Lad's treatment back by at least a month by mentioning that word.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 8:03 pm Post subject:
What; bum or moist?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 06 8:52 pm Post subject:

The 'M' word.
Apropos not a lot, that word once cost me a bottle of champage - I bet a friend she couldn't get the phrase "moist gusset" into the Daily Mail (where she was working at the time for Nigel Dempster - one of the truly nastiest pieces of work to walk the Earth, but that's another story).
And damn me if she didn't write a piece about some Z list polo-playing celebrity which mentioned, in about the seventh paragraph, "...and has been seen with the legendary Antibes playboy, Moi St Gusset...".
The cow!
What made the bet worth it, however, was how the name made it into the cuttings file, and the next time some inane profile in Femail mentioned said Z-list person, it also mentioned Moi St Gusset. For all I know, he's still lingering in the cuttings library like a nasty damp patch!
Oh, the shallowness of newspapers...

Sorry, I'm clearly rambling. This has naff-all to do with post knockers.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46227
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 06 9:31 pm Post subject:
i asked an unnamed sun sub editor "where do the stories come from ?" he said "we have a few hours in the pub with scum like you and then we go to work and make it up " i believe him

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