Posted by Fred Werring on September 17, 2014 at 22:13:30 from (136.2.1.113):
Got a concrete feeding/sorting area behind the barn for cows. The posts that were set for the dividing board fences were set in concrete and have all rotted off, I need to rebuild. They did, however make it 30 years before rotting off.
Would you either (a)set the posts in concrete again, or (b)set the posts like a pole barn...concrete pad on the bottom, then tamped in crusher run around the posts for drainage?
Wondering if the the posts would be strong enough laterally for sorting gates and the stresses of cows pressing against them if crusher run was used.
Am inclined to set in concrete...I'm 55, they should last as long as I'm fooling with cows.
But not so sure the treated posts you get now will hold up like the old posts.
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