Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Phil L
writes


Don't use metposts, apart from costing £20 each, they are garbage
unless you have heavy clay soil.
Why not just get 3X2 timbers from B&Q (it's called scant) and a few
litres of wood preservative? - give them a coat a day for a week and
then knock them in the ground with a large hammer, they'll easily
last 10 years before rotting.

Have you tried knocking in posts when there's flint in the soil? I
just can't do it in my garden in Amersham. Even the metposts need
starting off.

I live on sand! - all around this area is pure white sand 20 inches down (it
must have been a beach at some time in the long distant past), although the
hills around here seem to be a mixture of sandstone and clay.