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Old 24-07-2006, 03:00 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is offline
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Default Advice needed on odd problem - Need some kind of rustproof clips to grip about 3/8" steel rod tightly & neatly


"Willshak" wrote in message
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I Love Lucy wrote:

A Pepsi bottle seems a little small to me.


Yes, it is, but I'm trying to do some things without hiring them done,
and I can't handle a post hole digger. I will be doing well to get a
deep enough hole dug as it is, and it is on a hillside near steps
(partly excavated to pour new steps and not filled back in waiting for
completion of railing) and cement guy got a full-time job and I am tired
of waiting for him to finish the rest of that, patches need grinding, he
doesn't have a grinder; if I put them lining the front sidewalk (up to
the house), it is level and rototilled ready for the arbor and fall
planting. Also I want them surrounded with plants, possibly lilies, and
I don't want something so large it will mess up that plan although they
would adapt to concrete spaced out no doubt. I thought I would like
them better by the back steps opposite the new railing.

They are made to just poke in the ground. I don't have much invested in
them but time and work, but they are so pretty I don't want to lose them
if I can avoid it.

I would use a post hole
digger and just pour the concrete in the hole. A good thing to anchor


That's what I didn't want to do. If I want to move them, that requires
mega digging which I can't do. Otherwise that is the obvious and best
thing to do.

the post in the concrete is to get some grounding wire clamps at the
local hardware store and just attach them to the post end where it
will be buried in the concrete. No one will be able to pull the post
from the concrete. See type of clamps he
http://www.fciconnect.com/electrical...ound-clamp.htm


Please could you check your link? I got a power/utility station
schematic. I have two arbors sitting in my sunroom that need post hole
digging, been here two months, waiting for help for which I'm prepared
to pay and one a tree has to be dealt with, and they will need a post
hole digger. Too much for me.

It takes me a lot longer to get things done than other people partly
waiting for help and partly pacing myself, doing things a little at a
time.

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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