Carbide-tipped woodpecker

[bcp]

going after my steel posts.

Near the end of the rainy season today I was cleaning up some erosion behind a fence where I hadn't been all winter. This is a 2 3/8 galvanized steel chain link fence post. There is a crack about 1.5 inches long in the bottom of the dent.



No chance of machinery hitting it. There is a 30+ degree hillside that comes down to the post on that side. House is 15 ft the other way.

Ideas?

Bruce

 

[LD1]

Chuck a rock out of the mower?

 

[Baby Grand]

Is it at dog leg lifting height?

 

[LD1]

Explains the corrosion, but the fact that it is caved in makes me think something hit it

 

[dmccarty]

Looks like a rock hit the corroded posts. Looks like there might be some rock dust still on the post. Course, if it was a rock, the rock should still be there.

Maybe the Pallet Placers checked out your yard as a possible place for pallets and dented the post with their pallet plane. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[oosik]

Darn! If it is a woodpecker - better a galvy fence post than your house!! That "spot" on the pipe looks very much like where my T-posts corrode and eventually break off. There is a difference - your "spot" is a distance above the ground - my T-posts corrode right at or an inch or so below ground level. I have a 100' section on my property line barbed wire fence where it goes thru a water way connection - the moat - between two lakes. The water in the big lake is alkaline and very corrosive.

It looks to me like something seriously hit that post. And by the material around the "dent" it appears it may have been something made of cement. A serious impact will cause a galvanized post to crack.