Metal Pipe Fence Leaning

[ChevyHDGert]

My metal fence is at the top of a slope of the roadside ditch with the pipe runners welded to the road side of the metal posts so the weight is pulling the fence toward the road.

I have several 10 foot sections doing this.

Here in Texas, the drought has caused the land to start cracking so now seems like a good time to pull the posts back straight.

Should I get several trucks/tractors together and have each one pull on a post at the same time and then fill the backside void with compacted sand?

Will this work?

Or any other solutions?

 

[RobJ]

Got a picture? Might have had to much pressure on it to begin with and needed a larger post to support the area around the rise.

 

[ChevyHDGert]

I don't have any pics of it's current state but I found some pictures from 3 years ago and it was straight.

 

[2manyrocks]

Even an old picture might help us figure out if there's something about the fence that caused it to lean and whether it can be pulled back straight without tearing it up. Or if the posts aren't in concrete, I guess you could always pull them and set them back straight again. But current pictures would be the best....

 

[ChevyHDGert]

See if this works..

This is looking down my fence (black painted one)

 

[ChevyHDGert]

More...

My fence in the background on the left....appears straight in these older pics

 

[Cat_Driver]

What you might want to try is using sand anchors that they use for Mobile homes and drive these in at a 45 degree angle every maybe 50 or 100 ft and pull and tie the fence off to these. You can pull either with a tractor and tie, or a come-a-long.

You can elect to leave these in or remove after the angle is set and fixed permanently.

But with three of four of these you could pull evenly and make the fence true and level.

 

[jayste]

I have to say that's one nice looking pipe fence! I'd say what you have in mind will work. I think I'd dig behind each post where you're going to pull and and try it. By digging some behind it (inside on your property) that will aleviate some of the strain on the post itself. You might consider a few places where you'd weld some pipe coming off a post at a 45 deg. angle or so and weld the lower end to a short piece of pipe that's anchored in the ground. I'm assuming you have horses in this area? I think once they got used to it most problems would go away At least as much as problems can go away with having horses. Of course I might be off base and you don't have any!

 

[BX Tex]

Cut the post near ground level leaving some to the inside to act as a hinge, pull the post level, and weld up

 

[GIJOE]

I think I would leave it alone until it cools off at the end of the year, to see if it straightens up on its own. If it does, you may need to cut in some slip joints every 100' or so to allow for expansion and contraction. I bet in this heat, the pipe has expanded causing it to bow.

Joe