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Originally Posted by Xist
We set all of the posts in concrete and they have held up, although we had a strange problem with one of the gate posts--it actually bent under the weight of a gate that is only three and a half feet wide! The concrete rotated a bit, too, so I pulled it out, and used a pressure-treated 6x6 with four or five bags of concrete. I do not feel there is an alternative to concrete, dirt or gravel will give and the hole will expand. Wood will decay with direct contact to moisture.
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Some one has been climbing over the gate.
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