Anyone tried this deck post hardware?
vanderpooch
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Hi,
Have any of you used these driven in post feet rather than a poured-in post. Seems like a cool set-up for mild climates. My brother and I are thinking of trying them on our current project.
Thoughts? Opinions? Experiencees?
http://www.hooverfence.com/catalog/hardware/oz-post/wood.htm
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I used them about 10 yrs ago for a short garden fence and an arbor.
Visited the house last month. The fence still looked true, the arbor had a post that had heaved a couple inches (or 3 sunk). This in NW Ohio.
Porch stoop maybe-don't know about a whole deck.
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Edited 3/25/2008 7:16 pm ET by calvin
Did I say deck? We intend to use them for a couple of short fence runs, nothing major. Gonna use the 4x6 size for one with a gate and the 4x4 size for he other straight run.Thanks for the input Calvin. Frost heaving and other seasonal problems should be minimal here in San Diego.- KitTechnique is proof of your seriousness. - Wallace Stevens
Here's hoping you have an enjoyable experience.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
I used a similar system for a 4 foot fence at my house. The ones I used were green and from Lowe's. It didn't have anything like the hammer in the Oz-post system. They just said to use a scrap block of 4x4 in the sleeve and to hit that with the sledge. Well, driving them in wasn't the hard part. The bottoms of the sleeve had a large X that would split the 4x4 being driven. Getting those scraps out was a big PITA. All in all I am happy with them. Use a trimmed down block for driving them if you don't use the hammer they sell.
Also, I got to buy a farm jack in the process of putting up the fence when I had to pull one of the sleeves up that had gotten off line.
If you are doing many of these save yourself the aggravation and get the hammer tool.
We're definitely buying the driving tool. They have an attachment that fits in a breaker hammer. Should take about a minute to put one in ;)- KitTechnique is proof of your seriousness. - Wallace Stevens
Edited 3/25/2008 9:38 pm by vanderpooch
My son says his buddy in Kansas uses something like this due to the high winds.