Rock Pile Corner Posts

Rock Pile Corner Posts FENCING Techniques 6-2-6 "These rock pile corner posts will outlast me!" exclaims John Hale about the large, round rock fence posts on his 2,000-acre Oaklahoma ranch. Such posts, anchoring up to a quarter mile of stretched-tight five-strand barbed wire fence, aren't uncommon in Oklahoma and the southwest, and fit anywhere there's an abundance of rocks. The corner posts are 52 in. high, 4 to 5 ft. in dia., weigh about two tons, and "just don't move! I place them a quarter mile apart, or at any fence direction change, and don't use any stretch posts between." Containing the rocks is a 52 in. x 16 ft. Armco Steel Panel Corral, formed into a round "basket" 4 to 5 ft. in dia. Hale first drives an ordinary steel line post into the ground, loops the panel, then ties its ends to the steel line post. As he fills, preferring rocks "about the size of your head," he forms the rock pile into a true circle. "Pile the rocks to make a good-looking post," suggests Hale, who has two of them as decorative sideguards for the cattleguard separating his lawn area and cattle lots. He says the rock corner posts are cheaper than buying and setting big round wood posts, take only about an hour to build if the rocks are fairly close by, and "you don't have to dig any postholes!" For further information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Hale, Hanna, Okl. 74845 (ph 918 657-2482).

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