Locating Old Fences from Postholes

Kent McMillan · 2012-12-03T06:23:45Z

One thing I've discovered is how long fence post holes persist, even in sandy soils, after the posts are pulled out.In the photo below, the PVC pipes are in post holes that were found using a tile probe. The soil was quite sandy and the fence that once existed along the line of the post holes had been removed thirty-three years earlier. Thirty-three years later, the post holes had been filled in with loose soil, but hadn't disappeared. The tile probe could easily detect the difference in the loose fill soil and the undisturbed soil around the hold.Part of the technique to doing this efficiently is to get some idea of the fence post spacing. On this fence, the spacing was approximately 15 ft. They were stingy with how they used good cedar posts in that county. Around Central Texas, a spacing of 8 - 9 ft. is probably most common for cedar posts on wire fences. Note how the tracks of the pasture road barely visible in the grass still parallel the older fenceline. The point of this is that one shouldn't assume that just because a fence has been pulled up that it's not possible to determine from physical evidence where it had been.

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Posted : December 4, 2012 8:44 am

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> I noticed that you edited the pinot grigio to a pinot noir.

Yes, and might I add that Martin Ray makes a Pinot Noir that is a remarkable bargain at $14 a bottle?

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