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Fence Post "Doughnuts'
Paul Wheaton and Suzy Bean came up with an electric fencing idea that eliminates the need to try to drive lightweight fence posts into hard ground. They use homemade blobs of concrete that they call fence post “doughnuts”.
  “It’s an easy, quick way to set up temporary fence posts on hard ground,” they say.
  To make a doughnut, they first dig a shallow bowl in a patch of dirt. They grease the bottom end of the post and stick it in the middle of the bowl. Then they pour in some concrete, wait a few days, and pull out the post (the grease keeps the concrete from sticking to the post). The concrete blob is now ready to use. Because they’re flat on top, they pull them out of the hole and put them wherever they want to set up temporary electric fence, flat side down.
  Sometimes they make two holes in the doughnut so it can support two posts. “Some of our temporary fencing has a mesh fence already attached, so where the two ends join we need two fence posts,” they explain.
  They say portable fence doughnuts work so well that they’ve made dozens of them.  
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Paul Wheaton and Suzy Bean (susanna.bean gmail.com; www.richsoil.com).


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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #6