The Strangest Fence Advice I've Ever Heard

When it comes to building fence and setting fence posts: there's good advice, neutral advice, and downright bad advice.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Crazy Tip 1
04:07 - Inane Tip 2
05:21 - Kinda OK Tip 3

[@ethanmitchell1308]

Gonna start putting screws in t post now. 😂 I have 2 pole barns that all the posts were set with tamped gravel. They are about 5 feet in the ground. 3000ish sq.ft. of open roof on one, so there is a huge wind load with a lot of uplift. Been through 10 years of storms with basically no movement.

[@rogerbettencourt9654]

I think it’s common in all fence installations, but especially residential, to have a sump pump at the footing of every post that sends the water to the electrolysis separator which then pressurizes the hydrogen and oxygen for generating electricity to power the world. Yeah baby!!

[@SWiFence]

😆🤣 Love it!

[@Marcus1954s]

My Father taught me to set each post down at least a third of the height that will be above ground, sit it on a brick or hard rock, put 6 nails/screws around the bottom, use hard rocks or bricks as fill, and use pre mixed concrete that wets/covers all the wood under ground. Up to 40 years later his and my fence posts are still standing as they were, in a generally damp/wet area of Northern England, where as neighbours professionally installed posts fail in literally a few years.

[@berthongo8531]

The earth is spinning and applying centrifugal force to the post, which results in the post flying out of the hole. 😋

[@Casmige]

Please if you’re gonna talk about Earth spinning as well as centrifugal force? Please don’t forget the Coriolis effect upon those fence posts as well.

[@berthongo8531]

@@Casmige You are correct!

[@MsBrobox]

Your videos are fantastic. Thank you for all of the very helpful professional advise. Your KZbin University videos rock. I have learned so much, how to do everything the right way. After loosing my fence in Hurricane Ian, I did everything wrong on the last fence.....first thing was Lowe's material. Never again! That fence shattered, neighbors fences were able to be repaired.

[@Bacrenfencing]

I just use concrete and postsaver sleeves (come with 20 year guarantee against rot), and never had any issues, and also I'm yet to take a wood post out the ground that was rotted more than 2" beneath ground level. You need oxygen to facilitate wood rot and oxygen is minimal beneath ground level, hence why rot does not occur (at least here in the UK). Have you ever wandered why old wooden ships under the sea barely rot..............yep, zero oxygen.

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

Gentlemens… every Ozark farmer knows that using corn-crete and treated lumber is just wrong. First… a proper fence post grows in every fence row. It’s an Osage Orange tree trunk that’s sommers between 8” and 20” in diameter. The bottom is bigger than the top. Iffen it has a knot on it…. That’s a bonus! You dig its hole through our eroded mountaintop, soil three feet deep. Crowbars, clamshell diggers and, sometimes dynamite, insure you can get them that deep. After you spend an hour or two skinning the bark offen yer tree trunk with a drawknife and adz… you take a break to marvel at the bright yeller wooden beauty that you have transformed into a corner post.. and refill yer sweet tea jug. When you set the post into the ground, you twist it so’s the crook at the butt is facing the direction that yer bob-whar is gonna be pulling. That way the post above ground will be as close to plumb as a farmboy’s good eye can figure. (You never use yer lazy eye for post setting!) Then you parse out yer stones. A few big ones go at the bottom, tamped into place with yer spud bar. This will guarantee that Satan himself could use it like a popsicle stick handle to hold up the Earth without it pulling out. It is at this point that you refill yer jug of sweet tea and start chugging. (This will come in handy in just a bit.) Now, you start alternating shovels of clay and those stones you broke up with the crow bar (or Dynamite). After every four inches or so of eroded Ozark Mountaintop fill, you take that spud bar and whale away at it. Once the anthill beside the hole starts to cough up residents you know you’ve packed it well enough to add another layer. At each foot of fill, you make a layer of stones as big as you can fit around the post. Tamp them firm against the post and the sides of the hole. This guarantees that all the insulation and tin siding those Oklahoma Twisters throw at it will phase the post nary a bit. Atop the rock layer you throw in a 2” layer of clay… and as you’ve no doubt figured out…. This is where the sweet tee comes in handy. There is noting better than sweat powered, kidney strained sweet tea urine to wash the clay into all those crevices in the rock layer. So, you piss in the hole! Continue filling, tamping and pissing yer way up the post until you get four inches from the top. At that point, you grab the biggest stones you have and fill the rest of the hole. After tamping them down to ground level, you throw the last few shovels over the top of the hole. Pissing on this top layer is optional. But, iffen you’ve paid close attention and refilled yer tea jug enough times to have it in ya… go ahead and give it a final whizz! You are now ready to tie on yer Bob-whar. Because this post will be there for at least a hundred years, use some 12Ga - 4 pt High tensile whar. ‘Cause we all know that only amateurs and city slickers would dare to embarrass a genuine Ozark Grown Osage Orange monument with gaucho bob-whar!!! And now…. You can pull out that Mason jar of corn squeezings that Uncle Clem distilled last weekend…. You may not need to quench yer thirst. But, every joint and muscle in yer body is gonna thank you for taking a couple of swigs!

[@SWiFence]

That post is going nowhere! 😆😆

[@declanfarber]

I recently pulled a wooden fence, and every single one of those 4x4 posts came clean out of the concrete. So it does happen, and there is some validity to the “screw/nail” method. It might matter where you’re working, and how hard the surrounding soil/rock sucks onto the concrete.

[@s28278187]

Should have gotten the 20 year warranty screws, what an amateur

[@jackdad7411]

😂

[@iainhetherington4608]

MYTH BUSTERS love it ,so much crap info out there from inexperience, good show guys Cheers from Aus

[@denniswebb7802]

Adding screws , prolly not but nails is the easiest way to help post push . For people not digging to depth,below frost line.

[@Izzy-0911]

I’m going to build a fence but still can’t decide if I should go with round steel post or postmaster. Reviews on postmaster say after installed fence the fence is wobbly and feel flimsy

[@DJC995]

Nice one Good tips there 🤣 Thanks again

[@splanzza]

Whatever you do we know that the wood root first and foremost occurs 4 to 6 inches above and below the grade. My question for SWI is, would any sealer, paint, foundation membrane help in prolonging the wood-rot or even one of those postsaver sleeves if applied in that critical area? 👀 Thanks in a dang advance. 👊

[@SWiFence]

Those sleeves might work in slowing rot down some. We've never tried them. We should do a test. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5qvqaGFr9hnh8k

[@northwestgaming4049]

I oull alot of oost living in Southern oregon. Everything is cemented due to clay with bedrock a 1ft down, so your digging. Never had a problem leaving cement behind on post that are not rotted. Cement on wood is plenty sufficient.

[@blueline308]

Been doing it with screws for 50 years and has never failed me. Maybe it don't help, but it sure don't hurt. It takes less than a minute to do.

[@jackdad7411]

50 years adds up to a lot of screws and a lot of minutes 😂

[@blueline308]

@@jackdad7411 LOL. But, I don't put post in the ground everyday. I would hate to count how many I have put down though.

[@Casmige]

My father told me to go pound sand so often as a kid? That I simply prefer to pound my fence posts into the ground without a care about gravel, concrete or any other *Thing* other than bare-back & raw. Thoughts?.

[@jackdad7411]

Building tubes are just big toilet paper rolls, (they’re round and they’re paper) so after they break down where is the cohesion between the concrete and the earth? If you pour directly into a fresh dug hole the concrete conforms to the shape of the earth making the bond that much stronger

[@chrisschuett6510]

@jackdad7411 I think he was using them as a short form above the ground. He had the tube marked out to cut in small pieces.

[@justindavis1546]

Gravel at the bottom of the hole gives a nice place for the water to puddle up.

[@SWiFence]

Video on testing the gravel theory coming out soon.

[@AuburnElvis]

"I will judge you if you do these things" should be an SWI t-shirt.

[@markHolmes81274]

I try to get my guys to dig square holes for any square posts, wood and vinyl. They think I'm crazy but I feel like a square post needs a square hole.

[@markd9105]

I think I know that voice doing the screw idea. Joe?

[@beaushirley4668]

Is he going to show the screw warranty process in real time? 12 month long video of the process and then the lab costs to extract the screw then $50,000 engineering costs to demonstrate the failure of a $0.45 screw that might cost $10 in 10 years.

[@beaushirley4668]

Sponsored by Quik-Crete?

[@user-ug8jp4or6m]

This original video is what happens when an “engineer” creates content

[@bseant420]

whats worse is that he didnt really need to do any of this for his intended purpose which was just trellising for vegetable lol.i would have just pounded in a few galvy posts a few ft in the ground and called it great! lol he's a better gardener though. i think channel called millenial gardener or something like that.

[@FranciscoLinera]

Several decades ago, my first day in college, the first words out of the professor mouth....... so you people want to be mechanical engineer 's? Some of you may accomplish great things. The rest of you dont worry. Detroit will still hire you with a c grade....... So cut this guy a break! Next you time you hear from him might be from D.C.!

[@firelion1800]

Gravel does serve a purpose...you guys are wrong on that one.

[@finallyfriday.]

Yeah- makes a profit for the lumber yard. Test it- dig a hole fill with 6" of gravel, set a post on top and then pull it next year. All silted in.