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Wouldn't the 2x4 boards (even if treated) eventually rot, so you would lose that brace effect after a few years?

U do need to have a PHD "POST HOLE DIGGER" 😂😂😂😂 good one

How is the post holding up now? 7 years later.

Gave doggy bag a new meaning

Haha Loved ur video!!!

P.H.D. LOL!! NICE VIDEO

Thank you for sharing your skills.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

What diameter post did you go with 6" or 8" and why did you only build a 5 foot tall fence for a garden when a deer can easily jump that. I am wanting to build a garden fence and it would be a lot cheaper to do a 5 foot so thought you might have a good reason.

Sweet trick, thanks

Diamond, finally a video that wasn't telling me to put costly and artificial, concrete or metal wings in.

Joke at 2:14 is solid.

One of my uncles worked for the local power company. When he retired, they were going to decommission his truck so he bought it and a bunch of old power poles that had been replaced with new ones. If someone was replacing a barbed wire fence, they would call him and he would bring out some power poles. For corner or end post, he would cut them 15 feet long and dig a ten foot hole, lower the post into the hole, and then use his hydraulic tamper to pack the dirt around the pole. For a fence crossing a creek or a mid-fence gate, he would install full length poles on ether side and then install a cable across the tops so they would not spread apart. You could tension a 5-wire fence and those poles would not shift even a fraction of an inch and since they still had the creosote they were treated with in them, those post lasted for decades.

squash the rooster and the music while talking!

This is exactly what I needed, thank you.

Thanks for reminding me how to do this. Simple and effective!

Thanks for the tip. The H system with wire would be no good around our horses. Cheers from the UK.

Tommy, thanks for this, great video! I am building a security fence for my home (in Hong Kong), this helped a lot!! I showed him your video to our local gentleman contractor, he'd never seen this method before, so we tried it..... He was so happy with the results he said he will recommend this method whenever he builds a fence for a client! Also, I have a small fox terrier who went blind and lame, I had to carry her around everywhere in a small orange bag, really miss that dog, thanks for the memory!

Great info, thank you. Is there a reason why you chose round posts instead of square? , and do you use a larger diameter for the corners? Thanks

That's an awesome idea, I have a hyperactive German shepherd puppy in a small suburban backyard and she has destroyed the back lawn by running around on it all day in just 6 months of getting her as a 8wk old pup it's 99.9% just bare dirt now I need to come up with some very strong but 'temporary' method of fencing off the lawn area so she can't run around on it and pee on it while we sew and grow a new lawn or let (more expensive) turf to get established The cheapest method I can find is using old pallets (the plain generic ones that many factories leave outside and give away free as firewood) as fence panels and using steel star/Y pickets to hold them up and then maybe using plain wire to run around to top of the pickets to give a bit more height But I don't have any way of getting the pallets home, plus old pallets like that look odd and ugly if not painted etc for a suburban garden, but I can get a bundle of star pickets and a roll of wire fencing mesh home, but everyone said it won't work because he corner posts will get pulled over when under tension if I their not concreted in (permanently)....your genius tip is the solution, a couple of lengths of 4x2 on each side of the picket and I can still pull the star pickets back out when I have to move at some stage in the future :) thanks for solution

Is the key as strong as an H brace?

Sadly for you, they do infact work.

RIP Lil Bit

Thank you, ive just put in seven small posts for my veggie plot, using your instructions - very pleased with myself :)

is that a little dog in a bag? hanging on the fence post??? why is there a little dog in a bag on a fence post???

finally! thank tyou

the only way that this will work correctly is if you want to throw rocks in with the dirt to keep the dirt from settling

hello friend. if my soil is soft, does it make sense to stabilize the "key" with deep driven stakes on both sides? thanks

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I have trouble with my shoulders so a post hole digger is impossible for me to use. Auger down.

Looks easy enough - so is that a 1/2 gallon jar you put the mix in ? I just may have to give this a shot !! Curious - the lard looks liquidy or was it just my eyes ? I've never used lard - would butter work just as well ?

What a great video. Just what I needed. Thank you very much.

A type of deadman. Nice, I seldom think of using them.

I like that trick! And I already have scrap pieces of wood that I can use. Thanks for the video.

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Tommy, Great video! I've been trying to figure out how to do this without concrete or H braces. I have one question. Say you have a corner post. 1 run will be 100' and the other 50' Does the key for the 100' run go the deepest or the one for the 50' run? Thanks to you and Mr. Stump for a great tip! Tony_V

Thanks for the great video.

Excellent, i used this method to put up my fence posts. Worked a charm. Thanks

Would this method be sufficient enough for a 5 ft game fence running almost 300 ft? Thanks for the video.

Very nice. I've just got one post left to put in, but since I didn't use concrete on the other I may just dig them up and do this to them!

Thankyou very much! I will be doing this all this weekend, because my dog keeps running off! Although i do not have a PHD, so i will just use a shovel. I'll dampen the ground to make things easier.

great job thank you

Bless you for the love and care you gave the little dog.

I have been looking for a method to anchor the four 4x4 posts of an elevated fort that I'm building for my son. Since he's not going to be 9 years old forever, I'm would rather not pour concrete. I want sturdy, but not permanent. Thanks for your video. Great work.

Tommy I have to ask, what's the deal with the little dog in the bag?

Things I didn't know I didn't know. Thanks

Digging that holes looks back breaking! Is there any easier method? I hit clay pretty quick - I don't think there is anyway I can use a PHD like that.

nice work thanks for your video it wil help to make my fence. thumbs up!!