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(@mightymoe)
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The ground may be frozen 4-6' now, and it may be a pain to drive 24" rebar into it, and even more of a pain to pound fence posts alongside the monument, but it's still better to spend a day with a 12 lb sledge and a fence post driver than spend all day in the office.:-P

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 8:56 am
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> The ground may be frozen 4-6' now, and it may be a pain to drive 24" rebar into it, and even more of a pain to pound fence posts alongside the monument, but it's still better to spend a day with a 12 lb sledge and a fence post driver than spend all day in the office.

I'd think a hammer drill would work great for setting rebars in frozen ground. If you knock the fin off the bottom of a tee post, can you drive it into a 1-1/2" hole fairly easily?

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 9:09 am
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However, a day in the office beats being outside in blizzard conditions like today.

Fellow Northeasterners... Make sure you hoard all of the milk and bread!

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 9:42 am
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Having a 5 year old grand-daughter and having a 4 year old foster son,
my first thought at seeing this thread title.....

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 9:53 am
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Me too. Let it go.....

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 9:57 am
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Trust me on this one, not the way to proceed, the big hammer and driver is better. And it works up a good sweat too. 🙂

There is some give to frozen soil, more so than a frozen lake. And the odd thing is that one of my points was in a lava rock outcrop; no worse this time of year than other times, the big hammer drove it through. Couldn't flange the post on that one.

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 12:18 pm
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I've heard that is really popular, I seem to be without age appropriate relatives for that, it's Twilight and the hobbits now.

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 12:22 pm
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Let's go, let's go
Can't stand the office anymore
Let's go, let's go
CAD is such an f'in bore

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 12:56 pm
(@rankin_file)
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Actually- the line from the song-
"the cold never bothered me anyway"
is rather apropos...

 
Posted : January 26, 2015 5:54 pm